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While Scouts should not be expected to 'parade' their services, it would be helpful if Scout Leaders, parents, and others would encourage boys in the doing of Good Turns, and recognize the difference between normal household and other chores, and actual Good Turns. Selfishness is almost a universal evil. Certainly it is overcome by the Scout Program, which is based upon the development of service for others, and the Daily Good Turn is an important factor in the development of a habit of service and attitude of mind which offset a tendency to selfishness.James E. West, 1928 |
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Scouting for Food is a food collection effort carried out by Boy Scouts, Venturers, and Cub Scouts from our units to serve the communities in Nassau County. Scouts distribute food drive donation requests (flyers, notes, and/or bags) throughout their community and then return to collect plastic grocery bags filled with donated food. The bags are collected and carried to local food pantries, churches, shelters for the homeless, and other local agencies that feed the needy.
Go to Scouting for Food...March 8, 2008 |
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"It
is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have
done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because
there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a
worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of
high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he
fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." |
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Track your unit's community service, and help us
all promote the good deeds of Scouting in the community
The
volunteers at the
Interfaith Nutrition Network
in Hempstead who provide food and clothing for the
homeless cannot provide warmth on a bitter cold night as this. They
are pleading for sleeping bags for these unfortunate people as
protection from frost-bite or worse. 
The National Catholic Committee
on Scouting Good Turn
Service Project was instituted by the National Catholic Committee on
Scouting® Religious Activities standing committee to recognize
Catholic-chartered units for their service to the charter organization