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  1. Members of Baton Rouge EMS Explorer Post 912 attended Winterfest last Jan, 2023. From the Baton Rouge The Advocate They got to showcase what they know as part of a four-member team from Baton Rouge that competed last January (2023) in Winterfest. The Explorers program is an offshoot of the Boy Scouts of America, but members don’t have to be scouts to participate. Winterfest is an annual competition sponsored by BSA that attracts teams from across the country, going head-to-head in a variety of disciplines. It was the first time in the post’s 40-year history that i
  2. Winterfest is an exciting, fun-filled, and competitive event for Explorers, Venturers, Sea Scouts & older Scouts BSA troops. Winterfest is an action-packed 2-day event filled with competitions, aquatic and STEM events, shooting sports, climbing, sports tournaments and more! Many events are related to various career fields such as Fire Service, Law Enforcement, and EMS. Participants can also enjoy snow skiing, shopping, and sightseeing in the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee. Winterfest is open to all currently registered Venturers, Explorers, Sea S
  3. 1/8/2024(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In one of his first official visits, BSA CEO Roger Krone met with Derrick Driscoll, Chief Operating Officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) at their headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. He was accompanied by the BSA’s Youth Protection Executive, Glen Pounder, Chief Marketing Officer Michael Ramsey, and the BSA’s General Counsel, Joseph Zirkman. In addition to Driscoll, the team met with NCMEC’s Stacy Garrett, Vice President of Content and Community Engagement, Staca Shehan, Vice President of Analytical Services and John Sheha
  4. From the Scouting Settlement Trust website: Fourth Town Hall – January 10, 2024: As I have noted during prior Town Halls, the Scouting Settlement Trust is committed to transparency and open dialogue – including periodic Town Halls. Please join Claims Administrator Randi Ilyse Roth and me for our next Town Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. EDT / 5 p.m. PDT. During this hourlong online session, we plan to cover the following: · Update on claims processing; · Upcoming deadlines; · How to avoid common issues with Trust Matrix Claims; · Q&a
  5. Thanks for the kind comments. Moderating is a group effort by a team of moderators and thoughtful members. ~RS P.S. Moderators cannot Schiff votes from one member to another.
  6. @Scouter1962 welcome to scouter.com
  7. @Maboot38 welcome to scouter.com.
  8. Another example "Julia Totora, a 12 year old from Pitman,NJ keeps a passion for environmentalism behind her shy smile and soft-spoken voice. Most recently, Julia became the youngest recipient of New Jersey's James J. Florio Emerging Environmental Leader award. The James J. Florio Emerging Environmental Leader Award, which was introduced last year, recognizes a New Jersey resident currently in high school or college who demonstrates exceptional leadership and has experience coordinating environmental sustainability events. At only 12, she'd already successfully ran a petitio
  9. Parents who sign up their daughters to sell Girl Scout cookies are on the hook to pay for them, according to recent lawsuits aimed to collect arrears. One set of parents named as defendants deny the claims of GSHPA and are fighting back in court. A GSHPA lawsuit filed Sept. 26, 2023 against George and Kristen Sweder of Avoca claims that in 2022 Kristen ordered 352 boxes of Girl Scout cookies totaling $1,760, by signing the agreement form. The lawsuit seeks to recoup $1,760 plus $522 in collection fees incurred by the GSHPA, for a total sought of $2,282.
  10. "At the beginning of 1943, a scout group from the city of Perpignan (southern France), including the guide Jo Tasias, undertook a crazy initiative: to erect a cross on the summit of Mount Canigou, which towers 2,783 m (9,134 ft) above the French Catalonian countryside. The idea was to make a pilgrimage to pray for occupied France and for the return of prisoners. To build the cross, the scouts enlisted the help of a friend of their chaplain, Georges Margouet, a blacksmith. He completed the cross in July 1943. (Cross weighed 247 pounds) Under cloudy skies, the scouts climbed the more
  11. The New Zealand Scouts Jamboree is underway in Waikato with over 4000 scouts setting up camp. The spacious surrounds of the Mystery Creek Events Centre have been transformed into a vast "tent city" for the duration of the nine-day event which has attracted scouting enthusiasts from as far away as the United States and United Kingdom. Most of the scouts are aged between 11 and 14, but a group of 14 and a half, and 15 and a half-year-olds were also invited because the last Jamboree was disrupted by the pandemic. ... The range of activities on offer includes water s
  12. Dec 11, 2023 Carter Lodge conference center/library at Hidden Valley (part of 3500 acre Griswold Scout Reservation in NH) was damaged by a two alarm fire. "The cause appears to be accidental, electrical in nature. No one was in the building. There were no injuries to report," Gilmanton Fire Chief Paul Hempel said. Some may recall Carter Lodge was previously the dining hall at Hidden Valley. From Daniel Webster Council Scout Executive Jay Garee: With deep thanks to the many Scouters and friends who have reached out to support the Daniel Webster
  13. I saw no mention of milling boards on site for building said new cabins. IMHO, that could be an interesting program area.
  14. Inland Northwest Council SE Anthony Escobar said logging is taking place to cull diseased trees for the health and safety of the forest. "Diseased trees were identified and tagged for removal," Escobar told The Press via email Thursday. "We plan to plant saplings to replace culled trees," he said. "We also needed to create access roads, where none previously existed, in the event of fire. Reducing the deadwood throughout the camp also helps reduce the risk of potential fires." Bev Twillman belongs to the grassroots Neighbors for Responsible Growth, an organization of more than 400 pe
  15. A related Eagle Scout project which caught my attention. Cooper first entered Scouting as a first-grader in Cub Scout of Pack 173 and is now a part of Boy Scout Troop 245 out of Memphis. “My dad was a Boy Scout when he was a teenager, so he knew the program and decided to put me and my brother in as Cub Scouts so we could get the full experience,” Cooper said. Cooper said his brother Gabriel, age 14, is also still in Scouting and is working on an Eagle Scout project of his own. Cooper said what made him stick with Scouting through his teenage years was the support of his family
  16. "In 1924, the Wachusett Council BSA purchased 12 acres of what had been the Bullard Farm on picturesque Thorndike Pond in Dublin, N.H. to create a new Boy Scout summer camp. Since then, the camp has grown to encompass more than 220 acres, and tens of thousands of young people have spent a week or more of their summers at the camp hiking (Mt. Monadnock ), swimming, fishing, canoeing, sailing, singing songs and building friendships." Sources: https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2023/12/12/camp-wanocksett-to-mark-100-years-of-leading-scouts/ https://hnebsa.org/Camping/Camp-Wanock
  17. @Navchop Welcome to scouter.com. sending signal to @mashmaster
  18. @NeedleandThread welcome to our campfire which IMHO could use some wood.
  19. Peace on Earth and Goodwill. Topic locked for holidays. Update 01/02/2024: Kind and courteous please. Topic unlocked. Thank you.
  20. Update Dec 18, 2023: Coalition submits appeal to "Each and every part of the Order Denying Motion, dated December 5, 2023" by Judge Silverstein which soundly rejected their $20M billing. Source: https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/f40851ae-4416-4ace-9667-083fe0aba97e_11681.pdf
  21. Update Dec 20, 2023 CANTON, New York (WWNY) - New York state’s sex offender registry is being challenged in court by a former Boy Scout assistant scoutmaster and convicted sex offender Michael Kelsey. “He’s challenging the constitutionality of the Sex Offenders Registry Act itself, indicating that the act as constructed deprived individuals of constitutional rights,” said St. Lawrence County Attorney Stephen Button. Kelsey, convicted in 2016 of sexually abusing Boy Scouts at Camp Massawepie in the town of Piercefield, claims the sex offender registry infringes o
  22. "If you have suggestions for improvements of the requirements or pamphlet content, please email your comments to merit.badge@scouting.org. " Source: Page 5, A Guide to Merit Badge Counseling 2022 printing https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-065.pdf
  23. Dec 19, 2023 from NBC news: I wish they had reused the name Civilian Conservation Corps and had a bipartisan Congressional committee propose it. I fear this will become another political football. "After facing setbacks in Congress, the Biden administration has unlocked funding to launch its American Climate Corps, a new federal program that looks to employ thousands of young Americans in the clean energy, conservation and climate resilience sectors.... The new corps will be led across a partnership of federal agencies: the departments of Commerce, Interior, Agriculture, Labor and E
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