The Boy Scouts of America annually celebrates its founding on February 8, 1910. Scout Sunday is always the Sunday preceding February 8th, unless the 8th is a Sunday, in which case the 8th would be Scout Sunday. However, a chartered organization or local religious organization may choose to celebrate on another day.

The twelfth part of the Scout law is reverent. This means a Scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the beliefs of others. Scout Sunday is always a good time to reinforce to the boys that “a Scout is reverent.”

Yours in Scouting, Mac McLeod Chaplain

(See more pictures from Scout Sunday in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)

By: Curren Gentry

The Klondike Derby was not like most of the others in the past usually it rained or it was really muddy but not this time. This year’s Klondike Derby was super snowy so it was the perfect time for a snowball fight. My favorite activity there was the obstacle course because we had a really good time doing it. We did have some little snowball fights but it was no where like the biggest and last snowball fight with about 50 troops!

The older boys got third place out of all of those scout patrols in the challenge division! Isn’t that pretty good for 50 troops? No one else got an award though. My patrol did get third out of the 5 patrols and it is no surprise that the older boys patrol got first in our troop. But I did have a lot of fun at the Klondike Derby because all of the snowball fights brightened my mood.

(See more pictures of the Klondike Derby in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)