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White House Press Briefing May 4, 2022: (Note Philmont Scout Ranch is in Colfax County.) Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of New Mexico and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by wildfires and straight-line winds beginning on April 5, 2022, and continuing. The President’s action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, and Valencia. Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster. Federal funding also is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures (Category B), limited to direct federal assistance and reimbursement for mass care including evacuation and shelter support in the counties of Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, and Valencia. ... More at source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/04/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-new-mexico-disaster-declaration/

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Bachelor Degree Capstone/Thesis Project at Mahurin Honors College, Western Kentucky University May, 2022 Servant Leadership and Adult Volunteers in the Boy Scouts of America Andrew Koontz (check VITA, page v for Scouting experience) https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1976&context=stu_hon_theses His research references start at page 142.

Interesting listen (13min) Professor Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University School of Law, discusses the judge's decision to toss the Girl Scouts' trademark lawsuit. Prof Ocho at 9.25/13.03 speaks of trademark dilution and the judge's mistaken? use of 6 factor test of NY State law instead of the different 6 factor test in Federal law. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2022-04-18/judge-tosses-girl-scouts-suit-against-boy-scouts-podcast

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Update Deer Lake 05/01/2022: The other known bid on the property comes from Fortitude Capital LLC from New York City. Fortitude is reportedly interested in making a housing development on the property. The CEO of Fortitude is Margaret Streicker, who also sits on the Board of the Connecticut Yankee Boy Scout Council, the group that will ultimately choose the winning bid on the land. https://www.wfsb.com/2022/05/01/nonprofit-fights-save-deer-lake-camp/ From my search, Margaret Streicker joined the Connecticut Yankee Council Executive Board after 2019 as her name is not listed for the 2019 members. Ms. Streicker founded Fortitude Capital in Jan, 2020. Also, I found no mention of her involvement with Connecticut Yankee Council or Boy Scouts during her unsuccessful bid for Connecticut's 3rd U.S. Congressional seat in 2020. https://www.ctyankee.org/council/council-staff-and-leadership/board-of-directors/2019-council-board/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-streicker-porres-975a8513a

I wonder how many real estate developers joined LC Executive Boards after Feb 20, 2020.

Deer Lake (CT) Update 4/30/2022 Connecticut Yankee Council rejected Pathfinder's second offer on Friday (National Arbor Day?) which was supposedly a "superior offer" to the accepted $4.6 million bid made by private developer Margaret Streicker, who is a member of the Council Executive Board. Apparently Pathfinders' Friday offer was not "superior" enough. Council was asking for $5 million for the parcel, which included a $400,000 kill fee; they had agreed earlier to sell to a developer for $4.6 million. The fee is to break that contract. Saturday, Pathfinders then made a third offer, less than a day before the May 1, deadline. “The Pathfinders made a solid offer, it’s in the hands of the Yankee Council to accept that in keeping with the spirit of conservationism and move forward,” Killingworth First Selectman Nancy Gorski said. “I am hoping that the Yankee Council stops putting hurdles in the way of Pathfinders acquiring this property,” Gorski said. “I hope they will accept the offer.” “They adjusted their offer to meet the demands of Yankee Council and I am at my wit’s end with Yankee Council right now,” Gorski said. “The Yankee Council is putting up stipulations around how the offer will be put together, so I am hoping they accept it,” she said. Gorski said she does not know the final number Pathfinders offered. ... More details at source https://www.ctinsider.com/shoreline/article/Pathfinders-makes-offer-on-Deer-Lake-Scout-17139157.php

Someone contact Steve Hartman at CBS to report this story Christian Heiden was a 16-year-old student at Northwest Catholic High School in 2016 when he decided that he wanted to grow food in Haiti, a notorious food desert, through hydroponic technology, which enables farming without soil. “Social justice and service has been a fundamental part of my upbringing,” Heiden said. “The emphasis on social justice and creating systems that work for everyone and serving is really important throughout my childhood.” The Boy Scouts nixed the idea because, among other things, it wasn’t practical to send a teenager to Haiti to build hydroponic farming systems. (Heiden wound up building a hydroponic greenhouse at his high school for his Eagle Project.) But Scout Heiden could not let go of his original Eagle Project idea...the rest of the story at source https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-levo-vertical-farming-20220429-jwzh7rrhn5fflkkg6wqfzxpz2i-story.html P.S. “The overall maintenance of the system is less than five minutes,” Heiden said. “There’s no bending over, there’s no weeding. It’s compact.” 👍

Update: Community Stewardship of Stonehaven (NY) Some thoughtful considerations in this editorial, including Allow the Great Niagara Frontier Council Boy Scouts who have a tradition of hosting their Order of the Arrow events at Stonehaven, to continue to do so. Put alarms on the two main, modernized buildings. Make them available as environmental education space. Preserving Stonehaven as a natural public space is a huge step in the right direction. It is important to move forward with a plan that looks not just at immediate concerns but at a vision that includes what things will look like 100 years from now. More at source: https://www.niagara-gazette.com/editorial-scout-camp-needs-careful-plan/article_5f7d3318-1ceb-5ed3-884b-dde621e0c3e1.html

Good question, seems we are being encouraged to look elsewhere for a BSA camp rather than leaseback a former camp. Would the NCAP still apply to a leased back camp? I doubt Council would get anywhere asking a owner to make changes if the camp was already ACA or state approved. My $0.02

Small empowered teams with names (even photos) and contact info readily available on their website. No google search of tax or Chapter 11 documents required. https://www.scouts.org.uk/about-us/our-people/

IMHO, hard to argue with success, we and the court could use their counsel in reorganizing the BSA. My $0.02,

Camp Barton, Baden-Powell Council, NY Three local towns Covert, Ulysses and Trumansburg are working together with state to acquire and manage property. ...the council must contribute over $1 million to a national trust fund being set up for a settlement. Public response to the idea of turning the camp into a park has been, by and large, very positive, said Deborah Nottke, Town of Covert deputy supervisor. What do most members of the public say they want from a new public park? “Kayaking, lake access, to picnic, go for walk, hiking, and just going someplace to enjoy the lake because a lot of people don’t have the money to buy lakeside property, but this way they will always have access to Cayuga Lake,” Nottke said. When local officials heard about the sale, they came up with a plan to preserve the scenic green space as a public park and went to local and state lawmakers for help raising awareness about the camp’s precarious future. Eventually word reached Erik Kulleseid, the New York State commissioner of parks. More at source: https://www.ithaca.com/news/regional_news/plans-to-turn-boy-scout-camp-into-park-progressing/article_5ba87464-c65a-11ec-8550-47f1c17b5e92.html

...UK Scouting Association "New figures released on Thursday show that youth membership – those aged between four and 18 – has grown from 362,668 to 421,852 between January 2021 and January 2022." Rest of story is behind paywall at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scouts-bear-grylls-cub-scouts-volunteering-covid-b2067142.html Compare Scouting Association transparency and feedback receptiveness with the BSA. There is even a Scout Experience survey form for@Eagle94-A1to review. https://www.scouts.org.uk/about-us/our-impacts-and-reports/

Deer Lake (CT) Update 4/26/2022: As the Connecticut Yankee Council imposed bid deadline of May 1, approaches... David Stephenson, an avid birder and supporter of the preservation of Deer Lake ...is seeking a declaratory judgment from the Middlesex Superior Court that any sale of Deer Lake must include a conservation restriction prohibiting any changes to the property inconsistent with its use as a bird sanctuary. According to the suit, the council received donations from New Haven ornithologist and philanthropist Richard English in 1985 to establish an eponymous bird sanctuary on the 255-acre property located at 101 Paper Mill Road in Killingworth. According to the suit, after the founder’s death in 2011, the Richard L. English Fund continued to make donations to the council amounting to approximately $100,000 annually. More at source: https://ctexaminer.com/2022/04/26/lawsuit-against-boy-scouts-says-bird-refuge-at-deer-lake-must-be-preserved/

Thank you. I edited some of those posts. ~RS

My daughter-in-law speaks highly of the results of the Patrol Method.

IMHO, the Patrol Method is not that everyone has a specific job rather everyone helps get the whole job done. My $0.02,

Related: Earth Day, Boy Scouts Helping to Regrow Florida's Vunerable Coral Reefs ...Florida’s coral reefs are under serious threat. “It is dying to be quite frank and that’s due to a number of factors, changes in water temp, quality, human interaction,” said Sea Base General Manager Mike Johnson. Johnson thought Scouts could be part of the solution. Using a technique called fragmentation, they cut corals into tiny pieces that regrow 50 times faster than they would in nature. The Scouts then plant them underwater to rebuild the reef. When asked if he thinks there might be a coral restoration merit badge on the horizon, Johnson said, “I hope so.” ... Since launching in 2018, the Sea Base nursery has grown 10,000 corals and is part of a two-decade project to restore millions of square feet of reef. 15-year-old Ryan Emmons says they’re helping the sea and future Scouts. More at Sources: https://miami.cbslocal.com/2022/04/19/earth-day-boy-scouts-regrow-florida-coral-reefs/ https://patch.com/florida/miami/earth-day-boy-scouts-helping-regrow-floridas-vunerable-coral-reefs

In this case, I will judge a book by its cover before reading it. 👍 He had me with "Adventures" in the title. Back in the day, we often rode in the back of the camp ranger's truck...great times... now prohibited by GTSS. For more background of this book by Robert Kellogg, who served as Troop 323 Scoutmaster from 1983 to 1995 see review below https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/life/2022/04/18/three-rivers-man-relives-12-year-scoutmaster-tenure-humor/7288902001/

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That would be some price increase. I still see both 30in and 36in sash at $11.99 https://www.scoutshop.org/scouts-bsa-merit-badge-sash-36-62001.html