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Helping Towards Eagle

David Thuis — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:58:26 +0000

“Helping Jacob H work on his Eagle Project.” From Helping towards Eagle, posted by David Thuis on 4/20/2013 (15 items) Eagle project workin Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher 2

BSA membership policy resolution released, will be voted on in May

David Thuis — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:15:30 +0000

The Boy Scouts of America’s Executive Committee today released its membership policy resolution, which proposes removing the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone and maintaining the current membership policy for all adult leaders of the Boy Scouts of America. The resolution, if passed, would be effective Jan. 1, 2014. …

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Can Tiger Cubs attend resident camps?

David Thuis — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:40:49 +0000

That’s a trick question. Yes, they can. Effectively immediately, the policy forbidding Tiger Cubs from attending resident camp has been reversed. As Scout Wire first reported yesterday, the change allows Tiger Cubs to go to resident camp with their adult partner or guardian. What’s a resident camp? The BSA defines it, at least for Tiger …

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Scouts represent Pikes Peak Council at the Report to the State!

David Thuis — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:49:15 +0000

Pikes Peak Council sent 12 Scout delegates to represent the Pikes Peak region at the Report to the State on Friday, February 8th in Denver. Eagle Scout Andrew from Troop 220 served as the Scout delegate that read a portion of the report in front of Mayor Hancock and other congressional and city leaders. The …

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“To The Cloud”

David Thuis — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:20:09 +0000

The Internet has changed so much over the last few years. There are now so many applications to help you do what you need to do without ever downloading a single piece of software to your computer. I recently did a search for the Top applications available, and I found very few lists, so I …

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Working on Eagle

David Thuis — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:44:00 +0000

The whole fam went to Yoder, Co this morning to help a fine young man work on his Eagle Scout project by building a “fitness trial” for Edison School. Lot’s of work, but it was fun. “Edison School, Yoder, Colorado” From Will S Eagle Project, posted by David Thuis on 10/23/2010 (45 items) Generated by …

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Scouts can score free SAT and ACT test prep software

David Thuis — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:51:07 +0000

Another school year is here, meaning it’s time for a fresh batch of high school students to start worrying about standardized tests. But thanks to an alliance between the BSA and eKnowledge, some of the financial worry about getting ready for those tests is gone. That’s because the test prep company eKnowledge recently announced that …

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BSA announces important changes to its Youth Protection policies

David Thuis — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:24:57 +0000

From the U.S. Scouting Service Project website Recently, the Boy Scouts of America announced important changes to its Youth Protection policies. The purpose of these changes is to increase awareness of this societal problem and to create even greater barriers to abuse than already exist today in Scouting.Effective June 1, 2010:Youth Protection training is …

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New insignia recognizes a unit’s founding members

David Thuis — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:19:57 +0000

Shared by David I might be a nerd, but I think is a great idea… I might start up a new unit just so I can wear this. Beginning in 1910, the founders of the Boy Scouts of America set out to create a program to enrich the lives of young people. It was no …

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Now Playing

David Thuis — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:00:21 +0000

Wife took the boy to the dentist. Yeah no Disney Channel for me this morning! In the mean time I am studying for my Security+ certification and listening to: 10:53am – Cubcast – Boy Scouts of America – Power Up- audio.mp3 11:00am – Cubcast – Boy Scouts of America – 100th Anniversary- audio.mp3