Tag: scouting
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May 16, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
Paws For Refreshment - James Fox -
During my tenure as a scoutmaster, each summer I would take my troop to scout camp. Early one morning at summer camp I . . .
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November 18, 2006 10:50 AM EST --
Camping
The Scoutmaster should never show the little angels how to make the hangman's noose.
It is important to use sturdy construction.
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January 14, 2007 12:21 AM EST --
I was 10 and one half years old when a friend of mine brought me to my first Boy Scout meeting. I was immediately hooked. I would love to say that the thing that most interested me . . .
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April 15, 2007 01:44 PM EDT --
Have any of you heard about the ongoing battles? I had not until I read about them today on another site. There seems to be a group that wants ALL people regardless of sexuality or religious beliefs (or . . .
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November 16, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
I'll warn you upfront. This is actually a repost. My first post has been hit by a certain fellow flagging as hate speech my request for help on expressing properly my husband's . . .
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February 10, 2007 03:20 PM EST --
(One of a series of stories I wrote for the 90th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and published to a set of small regional newspapers.)
Scout Week Saturday
Ever had one of those days whereby . . .
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April 07, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
A national insurance company is currently running an ad over cable and most of the network television stations. In this ad, people are seen doing what we in Scouting have been pledging since the start . . .
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December 14, 2006 11:46 AM EST --
[Today, the guy responsible for the "Girls Gone Wild" video series was convicted of crimes involving underage women -- 17 year olds -- in his videos. He was fined and given "community . . .
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November 14, 2008 08:11 PM EST --
My husband has been a Cubmaster for Cub Scouts and then a Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts for years. The principles of scouting and the camaraderie with parents, adult leaders and the kids involved . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:37 AM EDT --
(SECOND DRAFT; updated for format and distribution via GatherGroups; this article is in greater depth / at a length beyond what many expect for the Gather site...)
> 1. How much . . .
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December 11, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
Last night I had the privilege of taking part in an Eagle Court of Honor for a young man with whom I have worked in both Scouting and Church over the past year. During the Eagle ceremony there were . . .
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January 14, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
There's a degree of greed in Scouting, and I've bought into it.
Scouting has never been a place whereby those participating in it would get rich. If one was to ask a Scout leader about their scouting . . .
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December 22, 2006 02:01 PM EST --
I don't know how to start this out, except to explain what happened and then analzye it.
A few days ago, my boss' boss at work directed me to input some names into an ordering database. . . .
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January 20, 2007 02:04 AM EST --
I started this out five times already, and everytime I started it out, the computer that I am using would "hang" and I would lose the entire article. This posting is not about technology or the . . .
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September 19, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
(Go with me on this, okay...AFTN doesn't really exist, or else I'd be a rich young man and we would have some really great television to watch!)
You didn't get to see this...during the Emmy . . .
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October 07, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
She wanted me to call her Mary Kay. When she walked into the room, carrying documents under her left elbow, I stood and offered to take them.
"I'm fine. Thanks for offering. . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:05 AM EDT --
I remember saying to myself, "Here I am, sitting in Baghdad, the capitol of Iraq."
Four years ago, I was sitting in a white plastic chair on the floor in the grand ballroom at what . . .
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February 22, 2008 08:33 PM EST --
I got an email recently from a close friend that went something like this: "It's that time again! Megan (my friend's daughter) is ready to take orders for Girl Scout cookies. . . .
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December 09, 2008 02:49 PM EST --
"JUST A PIECE OF CLOTH"
I was with Colonel Parker and the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord to hear "The Shot Heard 'Round The World" that began . . .
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January 21, 2007 03:00 PM EST --
(from "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 1993 Settummanque!)
One of the highlights from my Scout Chaplain experience in Louisville, Kentucky many years ago was the presentation given by one . . .
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