Troop 1912 will be representing the
Central Georgia Council at the
Historic 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
Click the patch for more information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 2010 CENTRAL GEORGIA COUNCIL CSP

ORDER YOUR CGC 2010 PATCH NOW!

Call the Council Office to make orders.  Patches are $10 each and we have a limited quanity.  Patches are avaliable now!

Is your Unit on the Map?

To help interested youth and parents find a Unit to join please follow the link and put your unit on the map. 

BSA 100TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORIC MERIT BADGES

(click on the badges for more information and requirements)

In honor of BSA’s 100th Anniversary four of the original 1910 /1911 merit badges have been released for scouts to earn during our Centennial Year. The merit badges are Carpentry, Pathfinding, Signaller and Tracking. The Historical Merit Badges were officially released by national today. Work on these badges may now be started and must be completed by December 31, 2010. The requirements for these badges are posted above by clicking the badges.

With the Historical Merit Badge program, we hope to capitalize on the excitement of the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary year. The goal of this program is to help stimulate Boy Scout advancement by adding a limited advancement opportunity; to help today’s Scouts understand what the world might have been like for Scouts in 1910; to make advancement more fun and exciting, and popular to earn; and, to provide unique program opportunities for council and district activities that go beyond traditional program themes.

The BSA Web site will have detailed information about the program for volunteers. Materials include a program announcement/flier, program overview, implementation guide, scans of the original merit badge pamphlets, and supplemental fliers that give the original requirements more meaning and relevancy.

See www.scouting.org/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/MeritBadges.aspx.

These merit badges, like all others, must be earned from an approved merit badge counselor. There will not be any merit badge books released for these badges by national and there are no provisions for counselors to be approved specifically for these badges. Merit badge counselors approved for the following merit badges are approved by the Advancement Committees as counselors for the Historical Merit Badges.

Notice from Bo Stewart - Chairman of Properties Committee

Currently, a timber harvesting operation is being conducted on portions of Camp Benjamin Hawkins "Lake Side" area.  The timber removal operation is being conducted pursuant to a Timber Lease Agreement between the Central Georgia Council and what was once Georgia Kraft Company.  The Central Georgia Council entered into a thirty year Timber Lease Agreement with Kraft in May of 1982.  Unless terminated sooner, our agreement will end on May 5, 2012.

Under the terms of the agreement, the Council sold the standing timber in 1982 to Kraft.  After they removed the timber, they replanted the tract in pine trees and paid the Council an annual fee for thirty years.  The Lease Agreement gives the current owner of the Lease the right to come onto the property and remove trees that were planted in the eighties.  The Lake Side camp sites were excluded from the terms of our Lease.

 

      

WHATS NEW

Scouting Safely -

The Boy Scouts of America places the greatest importance on creating the most secure environment possible for our youth members. To maintain such an environment, the BSA developed numerous procedural and leadership selection policies and provides parents and leaders with resources for all our programs.

www.scouting.org/healthandsafety.aspx

Merit Badge Counselor Application

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