Working with Kids

Scouting's success is inversely proportional to how much scouting is like school.

"The Port of Los Angeles is terminating Scouting’s lease at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro so that the site can be repurposed as a training center for national and international sailing teams in the 2028 Olympics, the Port said.... In 1982, the Scouts entered into a 30-year lease with the Port to construct and manage a youth camp facility, said Robert Scoular, a member of the board of directors and vice president of Greater LA Scouting. Scoular said the Scouts raised more than $3.6 million, including from filmmaker Steven Spielberg, to construct the Cabrillo Beach Youth Center, which spans over 12 acres and includes waterfront access, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, campgrounds, an archery range, a crafts center, an amphitheater and a kitchen.  Once the lease expired, the Scouts remained on a month-to-month agreement for more than a decade, Phillip Sanfield, a spokesperson for the Port, said. The terms of the lease said that if occupancy ended, the Scouts forfeited ownership to the Port, Scoular said. "   More at Source: https://lbpost.com/news/cabrillo-beach-scout-camp-evicted-boy-scouts-olympics-sailing/  

Welcome to scouter.com*. Please tell us about the development of this book's story. Did you both having previous experience in Scouting? Thanks for bringing back a mainstream Scout adventure story.   * We are an unofficial scouting forum of scouters and scouts. 

Thank you so much for sharing this! We are the writers of this book, and we are happy to chat with Scouts and volunteers about this new series. You're the real heroes of our story! 

In a CBS segment "A Note to Self",  John Driskell "Hop" Hopkins reflects on Scouting, his music career, and living with ALS. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/note-to-self-john-driskell-hopkins-reflects-on-music-career-and-living-with-als/