By a vote of 41 to 1 this past Thursday, board members of the Great Sauk Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) voted to recommend that its constituent groups approve measures to disband our council effective Jan. 1, 2012.
The effort to save and rebuild the Rutherford Pool took another significant step forward Tuesday night. The Ypsilanti City Council approved a memorandum of understanding between it and the Friends of the Rutherford Pool. The memorandum will allow the group to establish an Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation fund for ...
This Thursday, your local Huron Trails District for the Boy Scouts of America will once again offer its annual training to prepare registered adult leaders to support the transition for our lads from Cub Scouts into Boy Scouts.Before talking mechanics here, I’d like us to imagine looking back on this ...
It almost seems wrong to have the Boy Scout Handbook on my iPhone 4 now. Maybe it’s some visceral mental bias that insists on the tactile sensations of turning pages, scribbling handwritten notes in the margins. Or fear that I’ll get campfire soot on the smart phone screen with each ...
A beautifully designed “Celebrate Scouting” stamp was released almost three weeks ago at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. During the official release ceremony on July 27, United States Army Fort A.P. Hill Commander Lieutenant Colonel John Haefner encouraged this as an opportunity for Scouts of all ranks to write letters ...
Cub Scout Pack leaders will be getting together tomorrow evening in Ann Arbor to help them prepare to welcome the next group of young boys into the Boy Scouts of America. Today I’m here to give you a sneak preview of an exciting new program that’s been developed to make ...
Among the many rites of passage (and choices) for young boys returning to school next month: Joining your local Cub Scout Pack. But it’s a significant point of change for their parents, too. Most youth come into the program with the start of first-grade classes. Their initial experience after “Round-Up” ...
It was early that Sunday morning when our Boy Scout unit gathered at the usual parking lot to confirm head count, load remaining personal gear into the Troop trailer, and reallocate folks from the cars dropping them off into the fewer number of vehicles that were heading on to camp. ...
Last month was summer camp for my son’s local Boy Scout Troop. Summer camp is in image and experience a highlight of the Scouting program. A week in the woods, campfires and skill development. I was there throughout, too, as one of the registered adults with Number One Son’s Unit. ...
Washtenaw County’s social service agencies hope that donors in this season of giving will fulfill the holiday wishes of the increasing number of families seeking gifts for their children. Requests for holiday assistance are up, officials said, leaving some groups unable to promise their clients that they’ll get help in ...
Last month, Ann Arbor Pack 5 invited me back for a brief ceremony that briefly recognized my “retirement” as its cubmaster earlier this year. Now based out of Bach and Eberwhite Elementary Schools, the pack was officially Chartered by the Boy Scouts of America in 1936. My service came between ...
This coming February, the Boy Scouts of America will be 100 years old. As a boy, I started out as a “Wolf” (the first rank you could earn in the early 1970s), with Cub Scout Pack 141. As a parent, I came along side my son when he joined a ...
A first-time entrepreneur is blending standard operations with a community-service mission as he tries to turn around the fortunes of a struggling Ann Arbor car wash. Ross Carey took over the former Big Daddy’s Full Service Auto Wash on South Industrial in February. He’s since invested more than $100,000 in ...
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