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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL February 18, 2015
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Pack & Troop 140
Cottage Grove
Boy Scout History
1910
The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated
February 8, 1910
Under the laws of the District of Columbia
Thirty-four national representatives of boys’ work agencies
met, June 21
Met in a temporary national headquarters in a YMCA
offi ce in New York
Developed organization plans
Founders of Scouting
William D. Boyce, incorporator
Colin H. Livingstone, president
Daniel Carter Beard, national Scout commissioner
Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout
James E. West, Chief Scout Executive
President William Howard Taft, honorary president
Former President Theodore Roosevelt, honorary vice
president and Chief Scout Citizen
Looking back to 1912
First Eagle Scout, August 12
Arthur Eldred
First national civic Good Turns were performed
Promotion of a safe and sane Fourth of July
Sea Scouting began
Boys’ Life became the offi cial BSA magazine
Mission
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to
prepare young people to make ethical and moral
choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them
the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Pack & Troop 140 Volunteering efforts include:
Volunteering: Food for Lane County, Memorial Day Parade,
Veteran’s Day Parade, American Legion Hall Pancake
Breakfast, and Spagetti Feeds. Our Troop has produced 5 Eagle
Scouts in the last 2 years.
Activities include:
National Youth Leadership Training, Camp Baker Summer
camp, Camp Melakwa Sisters Mtns, Camp Baker-Coast, Camp
Meriweather-Coast, Camp Baldwin at Mt Hood, and Camporee
in the spring are all functions our Pack and Troop attend.
For More Information to join Pack 140:
Contact Karen Zeller 942-4413
or Troop 140: Stuart Swearengin 767-3952
The American Legion Hall is our Sponsor, we place and remove
fl ags on Main St. for them for every major holiday.
SCOUT OATH
Proud Sponsors:
Matt Bjornn; Eagle Scout,
State Farm Insurance
Middlefi eld Golf Course
Cottage Grove Public Library
Starfi re Lumber Company
Pacifi c Power
South Lane Fire & Rescue
Mt. View Texas Long Horns
Cascade Home Center
Brad’s Cottage Grove Chevrolet
Affordable Auto Sales
Homestead Furniture
Cetera
Brent Bitner D.D.S.
Timberline Dental
PayneWest
Cottage Grove Sentinel
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God
and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other
people at all times; to keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous,
kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
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