From scoutstuff.org and Scouting Magazine -

Along with the Year of Celebration marking Scouting’s 100th anniversary comes a real collector’s item: The centennial edition of The Boy Scout Handbook, which carries several rank requirement changes that go into effect Jan. 1, 2010:

Tenderfoot

A Scout must teach another person how to tie a square knot using the EDGE model (explain, demonstrate, guide, and enable). He also must be able to discuss four specific examples of how he lived the points of the Scout Law in his daily life.

Second Class


Do your boys know their way around a campsite? How are they in a canoe, on a horse, or climbing a mountain? If their outdoor skills have been heightened through the Scouting program, they'll soon have a new award to show for it: the National Outdoor Award badges.

The program, conceived by the volunteer-led National Camping Task Force of the BSA, includes a series of five badges designed to recognize a Boy Scout or Varsity Scout who has demonstrated knowledge and experience in performing high-level outdoor activities.

The five categories are:

Any Scout who recruits a friends into Scouting between October 5-December 4 will be entered into a Council-wide drawing for the following great prizes:

1. GPX 2GB Digital Media Player
2. Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder
3. Audiovox 8" Portable DVD Player

Three lucky Scouts in our Council will win one of these items!

Write a one-page report titled “The Best Book I Read This Year” and enter it in the Boys’ Life 2009 “Say Yes to Reading!” contest.

The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the report has to be in your own words — 500 words tops. Enter in one of these three age categories:

Each year, every Scout unit recharters with the National BSA.  Registered Scouts' rank advancement can be recorded and leaders' backgrounds checked. Unregistered people fall through the cracks. A proper and timely reregistration process validates our membership, an important process.

The Cherokee Area Council is developing a color guard to present colors at events in our area. If you are a Scout or know a Scout that would be interested in participating in this activity, please contact Blaine Tornow.

October 28, 2009

Dear Friend:

Don't miss out on this once in a life-time opportunity to celebrate 100 years of Scouting in America.
When: January 22nd-23rd 2010, 9:30 PM – 7:00 AM
Where: Hamilton YMCA, 7430 Shallowford Road
Who: all Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturers, Explorers, Leaders, and Parents

The Order of the Arrow Lodge Banquet is Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Union Fork Baptist Church. The banquet is open to all Scouts. Pricing and other address information is available in the attached PDF.

Here are the directions to the church.