4B COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL February 18, 2015

Scout Anniversary 20 Boy 15 Pack & Troop 140 Cottage Grove

Boy Scout History 1910 Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated James E. West, Chief Scout Executive Mission February 8, 1910 President William Howard Taft, honorary president The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to Under the laws of the District of Columbia Former President Theodore Roosevelt, honorary vice Thirty-four national representatives of boys’ work agencies president and Chief Scout Citizen prepare young people to make ethical and moral met, June 21 Looking back to 1912 choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them Met in a temporary national headquarters in a YMCA First Eagle Scout, August 12 offi ce in New York Arthur Eldred the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Developed organization plans First national civic Good Turns were performed Founders of Scouting Promotion of a safe and sane Fourth of July William D. Boyce, incorporator Sea Scouting began Colin H. Livingstone, president Boys’ Life became the offi cial BSA magazine Daniel Carter Beard, national Scout commissioner

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 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 Proud Sponsors: people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. Matt Bjornn; Eagle Scout, State Farm Insurance SCOUT LAW Middlefi eld Golf Course A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, Cottage Grove Public Library kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. 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 Send us to Northern Tier by Cottage Grove Sentinel purchasing from Pack/Troop 140