We also earned all of the requirements for the Camping Merit Badge.
(Except for some of the newer boys.)

Keep in mind in order to be a scout in good standing with the Boy Scouts of America and for use at all campouts, activities and summer camp, an "Revised" Annual BSA Health Form must be kept on file for each registered scout.  Please print  out and complete.  This will require a visit to your family doctor.  Forms should be turned in ASAP! (April 30, 2012).

Here are the specifics:

Cost - $35 for scouts and $25 for adults (checks made out to Troop 228)

Where – Grimes Canoe Base                       When – June 22 - 24, 2012

Leave – Friday, June 22 at 4:00pm (LGBC – Front church parking lot).  Scouts will leave wearing their Class A uniform.  Bring money for dinner.

Return – Sunday @ 2-3pm

 Please fill out the attached permission slip and turn in on Friday afternoon. (This is a must to go camping).

 Drivers are needed to take scouts to destination and then pick up and return them home.  Please reply if you can assist.

 Mike - Troop 228 – Comm. Chairman

256-665-5966

 

Many Years Ago on the foggy streets of London, England an American Named William D. Boyce lost his way. A boy walked up an asked if he could be of assistance.

Mr. Boyce explained where he wanted to go. The boy led him to his destination  but when Mr. boyce offered to give him some money the boy said " No, thank you, sir. I am a scout. I wont take anything for helping" 

William Boyce was so impressed by the boy's kindness that he met with Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts in Great Britian. He liked what Braden-Powell told him, and he knew that boys in the United States would want to be scouts, too.

On Febuary 8, 1910, Mr. Boyce  and a group of businessmen, educators, and politcal leaders founded the Boy Scouts of America. Scouts celebrate Febuary 8 as the birthday of the BSA

No one knows what happened to the boy who guided Mr Boyce through the London fog, but he will never be forgotten. Like many acts of kindness, what was done proved to be far more significant than who did it. The boy's Good Turn helped bring Scouting to America