By Scoutmaster, on April 10th, 2012 Campership applications are due this Wednesday. If you do not apply for a Council campership then you are not eligible for a troop campership. Please get in your paperwork Wednesday.
Form is downloadable here:
http://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.aspx?id=107428
By Scoutmaster, on March 8th, 2012 I would like to invite everyone to attend our meeting this Wednesday March 14th to get information about summer camp. We will have all necessary forms & important dates. I hope to see everyone there.
See you all Wednesday!
By Scoutmaster, on February 29th, 2012 Due to heavy snow in the evening, tonight’s meeting is canceled. See you all next week!
By Scoutmaster, on February 23rd, 2012
By Trevor, on February 21st, 2012 The Drive will be at the Tatnuck Legion Post , it will be ran by the Moose Patrol. Saturday we will see you there..
By Scoutmaster, on February 20th, 2012 Check out the merit badge university. The deadline for registration is February 26.
MBU flyer
By Scoutmaster, on February 17th, 2012 We will be meeting at Boynton Park at 10:00AM Saturday and departing from Boynton Park Sunday at 9:00AM.
Please bring a signed permission slip with $10. Be sure to wear boots & warm clothes. Any scout wearing sneakers will be sent home to get boots.
Permission Slip
By Scoutmaster, on February 13th, 2012 What do you guys think?
ACTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – A Middlesex Superior Court Judge is expected to issue a written decision on a controversial case involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
Judge Jane Heggarty heard arguments on Monday in the case of an Action family who has filed suit against the Acton-Boxborough School District to take the words “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Plaintiffs are named as Jane and John Doe out of concern for what they call “public hostility.” Their children are listed as ages 13, 11, and 9.
David Niose, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, describes the family as atheists and humanists. They say the children don’t have a problem reciting the pledge, just the phrase, “under God.”
Niose told FOX 25’s Sharman Sacchetti, “Every day these kids go to school and the pledge is recited declaring that the nation is in fact under God. That marginalizes them and suggests that people who don’t believe in God are less patriotic.”
The school district argues the pledge is entirely voluntary.
Attorney Geoffrey Bok argued, “The school system has to respect that at some point parents and children can in fact opt out of things they find for their own reason not appropriate and the school system respects that.”
Superintendent Stephen Mills says the district has spent $10,000 on the case so far, money he says he’d “rather spend on textbooks.” He hopes the judge dismisses the case.
“This business that they’re marginalizing students. They’re absolutely no recriminations; no negative consequences against a child that chooses not to say the pledge or in this particular case the words ‘under God.’”
Back in 1954, under then President Eisenhower, Congress added the words “under God” to the pledge in response to Communism and the Cold War. The Washington, D.C.- based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty argues not saying the words “under God” is discriminatory.
“What they’re asking for would silence other people,” said Attorney Eric Rassbach. “They’re not asking for the right to opt out. They have that right. They admit that they’re trying to get other people to shut up.”
Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/acton-family-remove-under-god-from-pledge-of-allegiance-20120213#.Tzk7XkabI3I.reddit#ixzz1mJe1u24b
By Scoutmaster, on February 10th, 2012 We had to cancel the camping trip to the Cooks’ Pond island however we have something just as cool in the works. Stay tuned and when I get the final details I’ll let you all know!
By Trevor, on February 9th, 2012 The can and bottle drive is cancelled and postponed due to the snow. The rescheduled date is march 10th so get ready.
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