BSA News {News for Scouts}

Scoutmaster Steve of Troop 68 in Melrose, Minnesota has released another video featuring Buttons and Michael. Steve posted in the rec.scouting.usa:
The latest of the videos featuring Buttons, the radical Boy Scout, has
been posted.
He is still trying to learn the Cub Scout Promise from Michael, the
radical Cub Scout. Unfortunately, Buttons is not the brightest Cub in
the Pack. I am sure you will get a chuckle or two from this, the
second video of this series.

You can see it at:
http://melrosetroop68.org/videobuttonsCub2.html
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCTPDokPBnw
(If you watch it on youtube be sure to leave a comment and rate it,
and add it to your favorites.)

Thank you to everyone who has watched the first of the Cub Scout
Promise videos. It has become one of the most popular videos I have
made. Between the two sites it has been watched over 1000 times during
the last 2 1/2 weeks.

BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan has donated $1,000 to Hiawathaland Boy Scout Council and Girl Scouts of Peninsula Waters Council in support of their upcoming Scouting Centennial Celebration.

From the article:

The fun and fitness themed family event will be presented May 18 – 20 at the U.P. State Fairgrounds in Escanaba. Activities will include Pinewood Derby and Rope Runner competitions, Brownsea Games, Fun and Fit activities, Scouting Around the World displays, tours of the Pocket Park and Gas and Steam Engine Village, and a day-long art project presented by the Bonifas Center.

The full article can be found here: http://www.dailypress.net/stories/articles.asp?articleID=8208

BSA President Rick Cronk has announced that Chief Scout Executive (CSE) Roy Williams will retire September 1st. Cronk has appointed a CSE Selection Committee to have a new CSE in place by June 1st. This committee consists of John Gottschalk, James Turley, Rex Tillerson, Aubrey Harwell, Wayne Perry, Tico Perez and Roy Roberts. Cronk will serve as chairman.