Court of Honor • Monday, 6:30-8:00pm • MUMC
We will be holding our quarterly Court of Honor on Monday. Scouts will be recognized for their achievements over the summer. Scouts should be dressed in their best uniforms and bring a dessert to share.
Families highly encouraged to attend.
FALL CAMPOREE
Where: Stearns Scout Camp
When: September 27, 28, 29
Activities: A series of challenges to test your worthiness of the Grail
Registration Due Monday Sept 23, 10pm - No exceptions
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Upcoming Schedule
HIGH ADVENTURE 2020
Submission are due by our Oct 7 Meeting. Will we be backpacking Isle Royale or on the Superior Hiking Trail?
Will we be whitewater rafting in Colorado? Will we be Dog Sledding in winter the BWCA? Will we be riding bicycles to St. Louis? What's your idea? Each idea needs some roughed out details/plan and a Scout to "sponsor" further research.
Will we be whitewater rafting in Colorado? Will we be Dog Sledding in winter the BWCA? Will we be riding bicycles to St. Louis? What's your idea? Each idea needs some roughed out details/plan and a Scout to "sponsor" further research.
FYI - The current plan is to put in for a Philmont 2021 high-adventure.
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Scoutmaster Minute: Planting Acorns is a Mighty Idea
Founded in 1379, New College, Oxford is one of the oldest Oxford colleges. It has, like other colleges, hosts a great dining hall with a vaulted roof supported by huge beams fashioned from old-growth oak (think Hogwarts Dining Hall). These huge oak beams span across the top, as large as two feet square, and forty-five feet long each.
Six hundred years later, about a century ago, some busy entomologist went up into the roof of the dining hall with a penknife and poked at the beams and found that they were full of beetles. This was reported to the College Council, which met the news with some dismay, beams this large were now very hard, if not impossible to come by. “Where would they get beams of that caliber?” they worried. The beams had so deteriorated that the roof was in danger of collapsing. The beams needed to be replaced. But where, in that time, could those repairing the building find giant oak trees of such an age and quality as had been available to the original builders?
It's important to realize these colleges are endowed with pieces of land scattered across the country which are run by a college Forester. They called in the College Forester, who of course had not been near the college itself for some years, and asked him if there were any oaks for possible use.
Fortunately, the answer lay right outside the chapel door. When the College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall when they became beetly, because oak beams always eventually become beetly. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over six hundred years saying "Don’t cut the oaks. They're for the College Hall.”
The original builders of the chapel had known that at some point far in the future, the structure would need new oak beams, and so they had planted acorns in the churchyard. Over the centuries, a grove of oak trees had grown to full maturity. New acorns have been planted.
What kind of acorns are you going to plant this year?
