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By danimal508 · Posted
I am working with council to try and start a new troop in our area. The closest ones are a half hour from where we are, so not ideal for parents; and that is if they are lucky-- for some of the scouts in our pack, it would be closer to an hour! We have the CO on board, and are working to get some recruiting done so we have the scouts (and hopefully parent volunteers) ready. What else do I need to think of? I am also trying to create the calendar to at least have a few activities ready to go when the troop is approved, and now am wondering if I am getting ahead of myself!?! Our pack is currently mostly lions and tigers, with a couple of wolves and a single bear-- plus the AOL who just aged out, and a part of the reason we are working on this goal. The AOLs parents working with me to try and get this off the ground and running. We are planning on them being on committee/ committee chair and I am going to be scoutmaster due to me having been a scout when I was a youth. But setting up/ leading the entire program is a completely different ballgame than being a youth in the program, and I am trying to make sure I am prepared for everything as we get it up and running as it should be ran! TIA for any help/ tips/ tricks you can give! -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
"The scouts of Troop 51 recently took a backpacking trip on the Chattooga River and hit the trail near Licklog Falls in Oconee County. Twenty-one scouts and adults made it on the hike. The trip was called the “Bradley Hawkins Memorial Hike” in memory of one of their former scout leaders and Eagle Scouts, who died as a result of a skateboarding accident in November 2021 at the age of 21. When Hawkins was a scout, he showed the troop the Chattooga Trail." Scout Salute Troop photo at source: https://www.yourpickenscounty.com/troop-51-scouts-hike-chattooga-trail/ https://www.sctrails.net/trails/trail/chattooga -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
05/25/2025 Bellingham, WA: Troop 4027 scouts pitched their tents in Riverside Park to overnight guard the 400 Ski to Sea canoes. “You gotta stay alert,” said Ramsey Mitchell, 15. “It would be pretty obvious if someone’s taking something.” Scouts have been watching "overnight in Riverside Park the Saturday before Ski to Sea for the last 40 years. It’s the troop’s largest fundraiser — from requesting a suggested $5 donation for watching the canoes to selling hot dogs during Sunday’s race handoff between road bikers and canoeists. Last year, Troop 4027 raised more than $3,000, enough to send six boys and two adults to Scout summer camp in Oregon." This year they raised $5000! Scout Salute. More at source (good read): https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/may/27/boy-scouts-keep-ski-to-sea-canoes-safe-overnight-at-riverside-park/ https://skitosea.com/ -
By SouthernKudzu · Posted
Alabama. The attorney's office first said my settlement was above $500,000, this was back at the first of the year. Then they said to add 2.4% to that. I'd have to look back through all the emails as to why. Anyway, that put it well over the $500,000 mark. Then I got a form to electronically initial a lot of lines for the first check, the one for 1.5%, to be sent. OK, great. But, on a following page were all the deductions for attorneys, investigators, clerical, etc. and that took out 46% of the check. Wow! So, the over $8,000 check is now $4,500. I have not received it yet as of 05-27-25. If the same percentage applies to the rest of the check, it cuts it almost in half. Just to deal in round figures ... if the amount was $500,000 then 46% less is $270,000, deductions being $230,000. Now $270,000 is nothing to sneeze at, but it came as a shock when I was led to believe that all the ductions were already taken out. Initially, the total amount was $5.45 billion for 82,000 men. Then I was told that the amount to disperse was $2.6 billion. I assumed this was after the fees and such. (and yes, I know what happens when one assumes). Then they offered $3,500 for a payout to "make it go away" and 15,000 men opted for that. So, if 67,000 men were to share $2.6 billion, then that's $38.806 each. I was shocked to see over $500, 000 for my settlement. One of the lines I had to initial was that, "I may not receive the whole amount". That is pretty open ended. If I had been told that all the fees would come out and the final check would be $270,000, I would be thrilled. But, them showing the $500,000, well, I have mixed emotions. If I had not contacted them then I would get nothing, so I should be happy. I shouldn't say happy. If it was $10 million I will get, that does not take me back in time for a do-over, erase my memories or heal the emotional scars I still have all these years later. I have resolved myself to thinking I will get nothing. The attorneys will get rich and the victims will get little or nothing. What gets me is this has been on my mind for over 4 years, when I had not thought about it for over 50 years. I never told anyone, not my family and not even my wife of over 30 years. But I have dreams now, I think I see the abuser as we live in the same county (but it's not him). I almost wish I had never gotten involved in this class action lawsuit. Fortunately I, we, don't need the money. Whatever I receive, if any, will be added to our investments. But there are a lot of men out there who are far worse off than we are.
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