City converts Boy Scout cabin temporarily to emergency shelter

[RememberSchiff]

Lawrenceburg, IN  "is converting its Boy Scout cabin into an emergency shelter equipped with blankets, cots and water for any person or family in need... All Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and organizational meetings held between Tuesday and Feb. 16 are suspended during the week that the cabin will be used as an emergency shelter."

https://www.wlwt.com/article/city-of-lawrenceburg-to-convert-boy-scout-cabin-into-emergency-shelter-during-cold-weather/35452978

[fred8033]

Not sure how I feel about this story.

I'm probably reading too much into this.

Positive

• A scout is helpful.  It's nice that people in need can benefit
• Scouts probably won't lose out much because of covid.

Concern

• Precedent. 
  • Will city expect similar in future years such that scout's can't depend on using the property in the future?  
  • Why not another city property?  Maybe an administration hall with large cardboard dividers?  
• Perception 
  • Is scouting viewed as a low priority that should yield?  

Then again, there is not enough details to understand who owns the property (city or scouts) or if the local council gets a donation from the city for use of the property. 

  Generally a nice story.

[RememberSchiff]

Some history

http://www.bsa604.org/Cabin.htm

The "Boy Scout Cabin" as it is still referred to was erected through the efforts of Mr. Frank Hutchinson, inspired by this devotion to his Son and the Scout Movement, during the 1932 Depression years. In the Flood of 1937 the cabin floated off its foundation and landed upon the Ohio River Levee, Mr. Hutchinson and the Church Trustees had it replaced upon its original foundation where it served 20 years many young men of Lawrenceburg. In 1957 as a part of the Church's greatest building and remodeling program Mr. Jack Anderson, building committee chairman, prevailed upon the City of Lawrenceburg to vacate New Street to allow more room to build the new Church School building and relocate the Cabin. New footers, foundations, concrete floor, fireplace, water, gas heat, and a new roof was installed.

 

https://troop.bsa604.org/history/

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Due to “progress”, the (old) cabin is gone forever.  It was demolished in 2012 to make room for an alley to access the city’s new event center.

The new Scout Cabin is located at the end of High Street by the tunnel.

The cabin is really available to non-sport related groups, but has a dedicated scout room that is behind the rustic cabin facade