The World Scout Bureau has released a report titled “Scouting’s Gifts for Peace“. The Gifts for Peace report contains truly inspirational projects from over 110 National Scout Organizations, as well as beautiful photos of many of the projects. In case you have no idea what the Scouting’s Gift for Peace Project is, here you go:

Scouts worldwide [...]

For the 12 young adventurers were taking part in the Lookwide Uganda expedition – a three-week working trip to the country, dubbed “the pearl of Africa” by Winston Churchill. The trip was named after the first official camp staged near Humshaugh by Baden Powell in 1908, and involved over 40 Explorer Scouts drawn from across [...]

Savannah, Ga., has a long and involved history and this history is honored through the many statues, markers, and named thoroughfares throughout the city. From the grave and marker to “Tomo-chi-chi” of the Creek Indian Nation who helped Oglethorpe negotiate a treaty that led to the development of Savannah and Georgia as a colony of [...]

A group of teenage Boy Scouts came to the rescue on Mount Shasta after coming across a woman who was injured and crawling down the mountain for the last two days. Olga Teslenko, a 35-year-old climber from Oakland was on her first summit bid of Mount Shasta. She was climbing by herself when she fell [...]

CUYAHOGA FALLS: The 1,000 Girl Scouts are long grown now, scattered into lives as wives and mothers, educators and businesswomen.
The tiny seedlings they tucked into the dark earth at Hampton Hills Metro Park 40 years ago are grown, too — a woods of pine trees stretching 60 feet skyward.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, several of [...]

When Army Maj. Tina Schweiss arrived in Baghdad in January for a six-month tour, she found an unexpected piece of home. She had just left her son, Duncan, 9, and daughter, Caitlyn, 7, behind in Chesapeake, as well as the 11 girls in the Brownie troop she leads. She has been involved with Scouting her [...]

Aidan and I spent the day campaigning for my election to the World Scout Committee, ably supported by the rest of the UK delegation. This evening I made my 3 minute election speech to the conference. 1,000 delegates heard me say the following:
“I can still remember my first hike as a Scout. I was eleven [...]

A HAMILTON man this week spoke of his delight after meeting his German pen pal for the first time in over 50 years. William Mackie (68), of Avonbank Crescent, and Manfred Erdenkäufer struck up a friendship at a Boy Scout Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, in the summer of 1957.

It was an event [...]

HUNTINGTON — About 24 area Boy Scouts, fathers and staff started a 75-mile, 10-day hike over the weekend called the Philmont Expedition at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M.

It is a treacherous hike that takes campers between elevations of 6,500 feet to more than 12,000 feet, all while carrying up to 50 pounds of [...]

Every photo sparked a memory, and every memento led to a story when a group of women gathered over the weekend to reminisce about an extraordinary trip they made to Europe as girls.
The 12 remaining members of Girl Scout Troop 60 from Lufkin had a reunion in the Bentwater home of Barbara Kott to celebrate [...]