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Stuff for Cubs: Boys' Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. Animated knot tying for scouts How Toons, a very cool cartoon for kids The Microbe Zoo
Local links: Some of our Cubs go on to join Boy Scout Troop 945, which meets Monday nights at the Damascus Izaak Walton League. Others join Boy Scout Troop 445, which meets Thursday nights at the Damascus thrift shop. Still others join Boy Scout Troop 1397, which meets Tuesday nights at the Damascus American Legion hall. Our neighbors, packs 1438 (Woodfield Elementary) and 945 (Rockwell Elementary), need to update their web sites more often. Another neighboring pack is 1199, in Germantown, Md. Most of our boys attend Damascus Elementary School An overview of Damascus, Maryland The annual Celebrate Damascus parade is in July The annual Damascus Fair is in September Some of our boys also learn karate at Ruyter's Academy of Martial Arts in Damascus. The best thing about Damascus is the Jimmie Cone! The second best is New York J&P Pizza. We live about twenty minutes' drive from the Monocacy National Battlefield
Links for parents & leaders: Scouting Magazine, the Boy Scouts' journal for adults. Baloo's Bugle is a great online magazine for Cub Scout leaders The U.S. Scouting Service Project is a great online source for Scouting information. Scouter.com is another great online resource. Scouting the Net is yet another Scouting portal. The BSA's Guide to Safe Scouting Take the BSA's Youth Protection Guidelines training online. All the requirements for the Cub Scouts Academics & Sports program (belt loops & pins!) The Virtual Cub Scout Leaders Handbook Scout Stuff is the BSA's online store for uniforms and so forth The council's Scout Shop in Bethesda sells uniforms, badges, etc. Sunny's Surplus in Frederick also sells scout uniforms The BSA Fieldbook is a little advanced for the kind of camping we do Scouting Art is a collection of classic Normal Rockwell paintings of Boy Scouts "Why the Boy Scouts Work" City Journal, Winter 2000 | |
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