Archive for December, 2009

Camping Trip to Camp Pouch, Martin Luther King’s Birthday Weekend

Place: Camp Pouch, Staten Island Date: Saturday, January 16-Mondsy January 18, 2010 Cost: $30 & Scouts should bring a bag lunch For more info contact  Tom Kramer - Scoutmaster. Remember to turn in your permission slip with your payment no later than the  January 4th Troop Meeting! Share on Facebook

Troop 23 at Shu Shu Gah Lodge Indian Seminar

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Make a ‘hide rack’ display By C. R. Mason Illustrations by David Strand From the February 2000 issue of Boys’ Life magazine

If you’re like a lot of Scouts, you’ve collected plenty of patches over the years. Unfortunately, many get tossed into plastic bags or shoeboxes where only dust mites see them. Don’t let that happen to yours. Use a hide rack patch display. Based on Native American “hide racks” that cured fur pelts, this display lets [...]

Sign Up for the 2010 Speak-Out for Scouting!

The 2010 Speak-Out for Scouting will be held on Friday, February 19th (school break week) in the GNYC office. Two sessions will be offered: 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Participants are asked to come in full uniform and prepared with a few written paragraphs about their Scouting experience. Scouts will receive guidance [...]

Get Involved in BSA 100th Anniversary Celebrations

2010 is just around the corner and the Greater New York Councils knows you want to celebrate Scouting’s rich heritage and exciting future with us. Please take a moment to read our one-page summary of 100th Anniversary major engagement activities.  Save the date for our citywide service day on April 24th, and New York City’s Scout [...]

Good sleeping bag at a good price

Q. Hey Gear Guy, I am going cold-weather camping later this month, and I need a good new sleeping bag at a good price that I can use for a long time. It needs to be: Synthetic, at most 15 degrees, at most 4 pounds, and compact enough for backpacking. We are low on cash [...]

GNYC Becomes Official Partner of MillionTrees NYC

The Greater New York Councils is an official partner of MillionTreesNYC, a citywide tree planting and stewardship initiative that establishes a goal of planting one million trees throughout the city’s five boroughs by 2017. As a partner, the Greater New York Councils participates in the advisory committee as well as planning tree planting, education and outreach [...]

An act of solidarity to save beloved Pouch Camp

In an attempt to prevent a beloved piece of Island history from falling into the clutches of private developers, approximately 1,500 Scouts and supporters of William H. Pouch Scout Camp braved the cold yesterday evening to rally against the potential sale of the Sea View site. Armed with candleholders reading “Scouting without Pouch… Ouch,” the [...]

Backpack buying guide

“Backpacking lets you get away from the city and go to places that are magical and special,” says Eagle Scout Jon Almquist, who works for national outdoors retailer REI. “Not everybody can see those places. In order to get there you have to pay your dues a little bit. But if you do it right, [...]

“CELEBRATE SCOUTING” STAMP TO COMMEMORATE SCOUTING’S 100th ANNIVERSARY

The U.S. Postal Service today gave scouting ‘a stamp of approval’ to honor 100 years of the U.S. scouting movement. The Celebrate Scouting stamp, which will be sold in the summer of 2010, coincides with the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th anniversary. The new stamp design was unveiled Thursday during an event at the Smithsonian [...]