Make Up Your Mind
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Make up your mind that you will get to Second Class rank within a month or two months’ time, and then go right ahead.
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The Scout Slogan
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The Scout slogan is “Do a Good Turn Daily.” It is part of the third point of the Scout Law - “A Scout is helpful.” And it is part of your Scout Oath - “… to help other people at all times.”
Read MoreLeave No Trace, In Town
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On your next walk around the block, or when you take an “in-town” hike with your scouts, make sure to bring along a few trash bags.
Read More17 years after
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Seventeen years ago, I can still remember where I was and what I was doing.
Read MoreHow the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy Was Formed
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According to the tribal history, the Iroquois Confederacy was first suggested in about 1570 (possibly earlier), when inter tribal warfare threatened to destroy the Iroquois.
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Help Other People At All Times
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Would you choose the apple or the seeds? Here is a wonderful Scoutmaster’s Minute from 1958 about Johnny Appleseed.
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Three Swimming Ability Groups
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All persons participating in BSA Aquatic activities or summer camps are classified according to swimming ability. The classification tests and test procedures have been developed and structured to demonstrate a skill level consistent with the circumstances.
Read MoreYour Neckerchief
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There are countless variations of the neckerchief throughout all the packs, troop, and crews that are out there. From the 1976 Bear Handbook
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You Lichen Rocks?
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This last week we were on the troop summer week long scout camp up in the High Uintas of Utah. As we were hiking along between Trident and Beth Lake, I noticed that there was a ton of lichen on all the rocks. I realized that I did not know anything about lichen, except that it is usually found growing on the rocks. So, here is a few thing that I have found from my research.
Read MoreA Boy and His Mother
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As a trim British frigate anchored in a Virginia harbor on bright spring morning back in 1746, its officers and crew hurried ashore on a variety of missions.
Read MoreBearmuda Triangle
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In preparation for our troop's summer scout camp up in the High Uintas, we have been teaching the scouts to be bear aware and bear smart. Bears can smell your food from 2-3 miles away.
Read MoreCaulk A Window
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One of the solutions to fixing a leaking window is to apply silicone caulk within all gaps and cracks of where the window meets the house. This will satisfy requirement 2b. of the Home Repairs Merit Badge.
Read MoreLiving The Scout Law
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Each Thursday I enjoy opening up one of the vintage books in my library and seeing what was taught in prior years. This excerpt, even though it is from half a century ago, made me ponder on how I'm living my life in conjunction with the Scout Law.
Read MoreCub Scout Sign
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One of the very first things your scout will learn in Cub Scouts is the Cub Scout Sign.
Read MoreUsing Your Axe
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Found in the Woodsman's Tools section of the 1949 edition of the Handbook For Boys, these axe skills still hold true.
Read MoreMossy Cave
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Mossy Cave is a fun little day hike that will get the kids, and yourself, out of the car for half an hour and stretch your legs if traveling the scenic Highway 12 route. Located just outside of Tropic, UT. The Mossy Cave hike offers magnificent hoodoos, a waterfall (depending on the time of year), and a natural spring grotto.
Read MoreGreat Big Moose
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This is a fun repeat after me song that you can do with either your Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts. If wanted, you can even make it into a do as I do song. There are multiple renditions of this song online, but here is ours:
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Make up your mind that you will get to Second Class rank within a month or two months’ time, and then go right ahead.