FREE tickets for Central Florida Boy Scouts, Friends & Families to attend NBC's America's Got Talent LIVE in Orlando! NBC’s America’s Got Talent is taping live in Orlando, Wednesday, April 7th & Thursday, April 8th, and we have been invited to be a part of the live television audience! We do have a limited number of tickets so first come first serve. Join host Nick Cannon and new judge Howie Mandel along with Sharon Osborne and Piers Morgan in a live T.V. special as the best performers in the Southeast compete to be finalists for the new season. The show is looking for quality groups to be a part of the studio audience.
Check out the upcoming media opportunities for the BSA NEWS UPDATE: BSA IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT!
TV, radio, and newspaper—the Boy Scouts is currently headlining the national media arena today and in the coming days! Coverage includes:
· Good Morning America Weekend this Sunday
· NPR Morning Edition this Friday (listen to the story at www.npr.org)
· CBS Radio next Monday
· Fox & Friends next Tuesday
· Christian Science Monitor next Monday
Boy Scouts gather food for local food banks
Updated: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 10:34 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 9:56 AM EST
Boy Scouts from Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties gather food door to door for local food banks
More than 20,000 Central Florida Boy Scouts will be sorting and packing food collected during their annual Scouting for Food campaign, the largest one day food drive in Central Florida. Scouts can earn a special patch for collecting 50 pounds of food or more on.
Boy Scouts and volunteers in seven Central Florida counties hung a plastic grocery bag on the front door of 700,000 homes throughout many neighborhoods. They will return to pick up the filled bags on Saturday, November 14th and take them to local Winn-Dixie stores that are serving as food collection sites. The food is then sorted by local volunteers and loaded onto trucks for distribution through Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and other area food pantries in local communities.
Scouting for Food is the largest service project conducted by the Boy Scouts of America in Central Florida. Scouting for Food collections will provide more than 430,000 meals for Central Florida families in need during the critical holiday season when many children and adults will go hungry. For some food pantries, Scouting for Food is the primary source of their food stock from November through March.
Start stash for Scouts' annual food drive
By Darryl E. Owens, Sentinel Columnist|October 10, 2009
On the first Saturday morning in November, my son and I will suit up in our Boy Scout best and join the army of Scouts landing in Greater Orlando neighborhoods on a mission of mercy.
That morning, Scouts in seven counties will hang more than 700,000 empty plastic sacks on doorknobs. And the following Saturday, we hope to haul away more than 600,000 pounds of food to help tide over struggling families this winter.
This mass mobilization of good-deeders is for Scouting for Food, the mother of Scouting service projects in Central Florida and the region's largest single-day food drive. Some area food pantries rely on the annual drive as their primary food source from November through March.
Nov 11th by Bo Terry Continue Reading
2009-2010 Scout Adventure Days
Experience the ultimate Scout adventure at the Orlando Science Center! Are you a Scout Leader with an incredibly busy schedule? Let Orlando Science Center facilitate a program to help your Scouts fulfill recognition requirements. All you have to do is organize the trip! Programs include a hands-on discovery-based workshop and admission to Orlando Science Center, and are available for Brownies and Juniors, as well as for Cubs and Webelos. (Continue Reading)
Oct 01st by Nicholas Durante Continue Reading
In the fall of 2008, the Central Florida Council invited BSA youth members of all ages to design a council strip patch in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Entries were judged on their creativity, connection to the anniversary themes, and general effect in a patch format.
The Central Florida Council will introduce 6 new Council Strip Patches to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. One patch is the winner of the Scout patch design contest and the remaining five will focus on the five themes of the 100th anniversary: Outdoors, Achievement, Character, Leadership, and Community Service.
Sep 04th by Nicholas Durante Continue ReadingMinnesota Tee
n Named 2 Millionth Eagle Scout
Anthony Thomas has been designated to Represent 97 Years of Scouting Tradition and Honor, Serve as Youth Representative at BSA 100th Anniversary Events MINNEAPOLIS – June 17, 2009 – To describe one Minnesota teenager as "one in a million" is an understatement – by half. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) today announced that Anthony Thomas, 16, of Lakeville, Minn., has been named the 2 millionth Eagle Scout since the first Eagle badge was awarded in 1912. (Continue Reading)
Posted: 1:18 pm EDT March 31, 2009
INVERNESS, Fla. — State wildlife officials say a bobcat attacked two people in Citrus County.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the bobcat first attacked 10-year-old Johnathon Knecht. The boy was hiking Saturday in the Withlacoochee State Forest with his Boy Scout troupe when the bobcat jumped on his back.
The animal ran back into the woods when the other scouts came to Knecht’s aid.
It then ran onto 71-year-old Frank Womack’s property and bit the man on the leg. Wildlife officials said Tuesday that Womack killed the bobcat in self defense.
Mar 31st by Bo Terry Continue ReadingWear your uniform and get your mom in for FREE Enjoy games, activities and prizes.
Sunday, May 10
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Scout Leaders join us for the FUN
and learn about our many
EXCITING badge programs
For more information call 407 323 4450 ext. 125
P.O. Box 470309
Lake Monroe, FL 32747-0309
Feb 27th by Bo Terry Continue ReadingFirst our troop would like to thank all the boys and adults who came out on Sat. Jan. 24th. to help us clear the cemetery. Next we would like to let everyone know we will have one last clean up date it is scheduled for Sat. Mar.14 the time will be 9 am till 3 pm.
We are hoping to finish clearing the center section totally.
If your troop or pack is interested in this clean up and restoring the cemetery please email me Tammy Swiderski troop leader at tammyscoutski@yahoo.com
The cemetery is off of 17 & 92 in Sanford. There is a BP gas station on the left and Walgreens at the right of the intersection of 17 & 92 and 46A. Make a left on 46A and go about 1 mile. The cemetery is very large and is located on both sides of the road.
We are cleaning the very back of the cemetery located on the left.
From 46A take the first enterance and follow it all the way to the back past All Soul and Page Jackson section. We will have signs and parking signs posted to help get you back to us. Please bring garden tools, hoes, racks, axes, plastic lawn bags, hedge clipper, loppers any non power tools.
Thank you for helping us with our project and restoring this section back to the honor it deserves.
Tammy
Jan 03rd by Bo Terry Continue Reading- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
2010 National Jamboree
- Create a video for a chance to win two AEDs for your troop! June 11, 2010
- 2010 Annual Meeting December 18, 2009
- Cub Scouts 2010 - Changing the delivery of the Cub Scout program. December 4, 2009
- 100th Anniversary Kick-off December 4, 2009
- 2010 Philmont Training Center Courses November 25, 2009
- Get the New Handbook on your iPhone August 25, 2009
- Scout Stuff August 25, 2009
- BSA Joins Nothing But Nets to Fight Malaria June 1, 2009
- SAT/ACT Software Available to Scouts April 28, 2009
