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Girl Scouts Sue Boy Scouts - 2018

Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over program's name change

Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over program's name change Girl Scouts file trademark infringement lawsuit against Boy Scouts for dropping word "boy" from flagship program

Changes to OA

On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, the National Order of the Arrow Committee approved some exciting updates to the Order of the Arrow program!

Beginning February 1, 2019, unit elections will be permitted in Scouts BSA, Venturing and Sea Scout units. The new Order of the Arrow membership requirements are as follows:

• Be a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America.

• Have experienced 15 nights of camping while registered with a troop, crew, or ship within the two years immediately prior to the election. The 15 nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of at least five consecutive nights of overnight camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the Boy Scouts of America. Only five nights of the long-term camp may be credited toward the 15-night camping requirement; the balance of the camping (10 nights) must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps of, at most, three nights each. Ship nights may be counted as camping for Sea Scouts.

• At the time of their election, youth must be under the age of 21, hold the Scouts BSA First Class rank, the Venturing Discovery Award, or the Sea Scout Ordinary rank or higher, and following approval by the Scoutmaster, Crew Advisor or Sea Scout Skipper, be elected by the youth members of their unit.

• Adults (age 21 or older) who meet the camping requirements may be selected following nomination to and approval by the lodge adult selection committee.

Read more about the election requirements and FAQs at https://oa-bsa.org/about/membership

Ceremony held for Webelos

Webelos from Cub Scout Pack 417 made the transition from Cub Scout to Boy Scout recently in a ceremony held at Hawn State Park.

Jacob Voyles, Aiden Govro, and Benjamin Reeves all completed the requirements for their Arrow of Light award, the highest rank in Cub Scouting, and were presented their rank patches by their Webelos den leader prior to members of Boy Scout Troop 417 welcomed the newest recruits.

Cub Scout Pack 417 has been chartered to First United Methodist Church in Park Hills since the 1940s along with their fellow Boy Scout Troop, which traces its origins back to 1926 as the first scout troop in Flat River.

Cubmaster Preston Jones was unavailable for the ceremony, but Webelos Leader Isaac Stephenson was in attendance along with Tiger Cub Leader Tiffany Gutierrez. Scoutmaster Gene Bannister, Assistant Scoutmasters Scott Comfort, and John Barrington were on hand along with the following Boy Scouts; Bobby Hambrick, Alek Barrington, Clinton Barrington, Noah Towles, Wyatt Pettus, and Tayor Roesch.

Ceremonies were held at dusk on April 28 as part of the Cub Scout Pack's annual April Camp Out, typically held in conjunction with Earth Day. Camping reservations moved the camp out a week, but members of the Pack still encouraged conservation by holding their Raingutter Recycle Regatta at camp out with Cub Scouts making boats out of recycled materials and competing in a race. The remaining dens within the Pack will celebrate their graduation next month in a camp out at S-Bar-F Scout Ranch in Knob Lick.

If anyone is interested in learning more about Boy Scouts or joining a local Pack, Troop, Crew or Team, contact the Greater St. Louis Area Council at 314-335-3346 or search your neighborhood online at BeAScout.org to find a Scouting unit near your hometown.

https://dailyjournalonline.com/news/local/ceremony-held-for-webelos/article_1d7c0122-9925-5e80-be6c-cdc898d594e4.html

BSA Launches Historic ‘Scout Me In’ Campaign

The BSA Launches Historic 'Scout Me In' Campaign Inviting Girls and Boys to Experience Adventures Through a Cub Scout's Point of View

https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releases/scout-me-in/

Girls Finally Can Join Cub Scouts in 2018

After almost 100 years of being one of very few nations in the world where Cub Scouts does NOT allow Girls into their ranks, the United States Boy Scouts of America movement will FINALLY allow Girls to finally be recognized for their service and participation.  For the entirety of the Cub Scouts of America, sisters have tagged along to den meetings, making projects alongside their brothers, along for Family Camp Outs but Girls were forbidden to earn rank, wear the uniform, to attend the resident camps...to be a FULL member of the Cub Scouts.  

Where Cub Scouts has long been open to both Boys and Girls in Japan, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and parts of the Middle East even, the Boy Scouts of America's Executive Board decided to finally listen to their volunteers after a survey looking at what families want from their Scouting opportunities going into the 21st Century and open membership up to all with the understanding that units will operate separate dens for boys and girls, who knows have friendly competitions to see who can learn the Scout skills first and demonstrate their understanding by having a Scout Skills Competition.  See Who will Build the better Pinewood Derby Car?  Are you Ready?  Can you #ScoutLikeAGirl  -- Starting now, if you contact Pack 3417, Chartered to the Park Hills First United Methodist Church, we will take your application and membership fee and hold you a place to be part of the inaugural group of girls to join our Cub Scouts on August 28th, 2018.  Pack 3417 is the Cub Scout Pack working with Boy Scout Troop 417 at the same Church since 1945 and has been active in the area since 1926.  

For more information follow us on Facebook @CubScoutPack417 or message that page and we will return you message as soon as possible.