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Hello All, I started my scouting journey back in 1974 when my family moved from the Irvington/Newark boarder to Edison. I joined troop 70 Metuchen which was then in the Thomas Edison Council. My mother took a job at National when it was in North Brunswick at the US 1/130 Circle. I stayed in scouting until our troop folded in 1978/79 and did nto get back involved until my son was a Tiger. I am involved in a Troop, Pack and Crew. My mission is provide a sound scouting environment for all who wish to join and participate. I do hold very strong views on a number of issue and I am unfortunately

I did notice very much that many units just stopped and refused to adapt during the pandemic. Our Ship was able to adapt and grow over the last year. We did lots of things different from the past and we try to be open with the youth and parents for creative solutions. All units are as strong as the amount of volunteers they have. We are constantly in the situation of having to get enough adults to go camping and sailing. It is a heavy burden on a few people, that I fear will stop being able to help out. We have had to cancel events because of not enough adults. That hurts the youth

Grain of salt....in the case of some assets, like Philmont, there is significant debt attached. Others, like the Summit, have less value according to recent appraisals than the amount spent/contributed in development ($45 Mil versus $400 Mil). So, the non-liquid assets aren't always what they appear.

Dumas sees the TCJC issue as unique vs other non-debtor releases and judge stated she agreed. I thought that was a bit of an interesting point. I'll be surprised if it holds to this week ... I expect it will spill into next week but we will see. The judge has been willing to go very late (near 7PM eastern) in non stop hearings with little time for breaks. Court with definitely patient with Pro Se claimants. However, I expect it will be a bit of cat hurding to keep it to 1.5 hours. The judge will have a difficult job of keeping Pro Se claimants on track. I'm sure many if not mos

Wednesday and Thursday on the schedule. Pro Se objections on Thursday 11-12:30. Debtor is concerned that Pro Se involvement will address their individual claims. Judge is going to allow comments but not get into claims. Could be an interesting 90 minutes. Overall theme is one of doubt that this is going to get wrapped up over two days. Debtor reminded court that fee issues (Coalition, Pfau/Zalking, Catholics) are a part of seperate court actions outside of this. Judge nodded in agreement. One pro se claimant, Cutler, was very involved but his comments were all over the place and includ

US DOJ is going to make significant argument about 9019 issues & 3rd part releases.

During covid we also did a few zoom meetings, but as soon as we were able to meet outside, we did. While we did not camp as much as we usually do, 9 weekends a year plus summer camp, we switched to day trips for a bit, and then when able to camp, we did some camping within a 1 hour drive. Summer camp was touch and go for a bit, but the local camp did open up and we did our own 5 day camp.

Seems promising ... https://wnyscouting.doubleknot.com/camping/summer-camp-at-camp-scouthaven/67048 Update: 04/02/2022: Lewiston Supervisor Steve Broderick said the Town Board voted Monday to sign a sale contract to buy Camp Stonehaven for $665,000. Broderick said Lewiston plans to turn Camp Stonehaven into a nature preserve. "We may even coordinate with the Western New York Land Conservancy for some protection of some of that land," Broderick said. "It would be open to the public. There's one pavilion out there that we might keep. We're probably

The life of all Scout units is bound up more in the adult volunteers and parents than in the youth... I'm not sure BSA really gets this... That is, it seems the marketing is to try to appeal to youth primarily. They see all the adventure advertising and say, "Hey, I'd like to do that!" Parents sign them up and are then told, "Hey, you have to help plan, organize, train, and support that!" Classic bait and switch? With our prospective parents/youth who visit our unit, we tell them we recruit parents first. We expect parents to participate on some level in the program.