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12 volunteer bloggers wrote 143 posts in 2007. December was the busiest month.
Joel Cochran at JustOneHourAWeek has asked what other troops Court of Honor's are like. It seems he was a little let down by the Court of Honor at his son's new troop. I have to say, and this is not a dig at the troop, but I remember the Court of Honor being a bigger…
I almost forgot to write about Steve T's Eagle Court of honor on July 20th. It was a joint ECOH with his brother, Michael. What was different about it was the fact that they were in different Troops! Steve is a member of Troop 11 and Michael is in Troop 94.
EXPANDING WHICH TENT, EXACTLY? An article about Scouting “expanding the tent” to include immigrant youths prompted discussion on the Boy-Scout-Talk list yesterday. In the article, they state that the Boy Scout council in Framingham has 150 immigrants in their soccer program.
Our Troop paddles the Delaware river every other year, and we just finished this summer's trip. The trip was fun -- as usual, but it was also quite challenging early on. Monday and Tuesday it rained and was cool. We stopped at Dingman's Ferry on Tuesday at noon, which has public rest rooms.
John Kennaugh in a discussion from uk.rec.scoutin g makes the case for essential Scouting Skills; The skills Baden Powell (BP) instinctively identified as Scouting skills were based on the skills of our ancestors, making camp, putting up a shelter, cooking over a fire, exploring our surroundings without getting lost, learning about the natural world and…
Complete these requirements: Talk with someone who grew up in a different country than you did. Find out what it was like and how it is different from your experience. Learn 10 words that are in a different language than your own.
It's been awhile. Things just kept coming up. I so apologize to all those who wait religiously each week for the Opportunity Knocks to come out. And for those who worry that I have died or become incapacitated, that hasn't happened yet.
As 2007 closes, time to look back at the year. Only positive and good things I think, there’s too much doom and gloom around already! 2007 has seen a number of centenaries both personal to me and personal to everyone else.
