While Scouts throughout Penn’s Woods Council, Boy Scouts of America, are just getting 2009 under way, they also will be spending large parts of this year focusing on 2010.
That’s because the Boy Scouts of America looks at Feb. 8, 1910, as the day the Boy Scout movement officially began in the United States, said Cletus J. McConville Jr., Penn’s Woods Scout executive.
Penn’s Woods Council takes in Cambria, Somerset, Bedford, Blair and Indiana counties and parts of Westmoreland, Armstrong and Huntingdon counties.
Its service center is at 201 W. High St., Ebensburg.
McConville said Feb. 8 through Feb. 14, 2010, has been designated as Boy Scouts of America Anniversary Week.
The day before the start of that week – Feb. 7 – Scouting’s Keystone District (Cambria County), Forbes Trail District (Somerset County) and Fort Bedford District (Bedford County) each will hold a Klondike Derby, he noted.
A Klondike Derby is a Scouting skills contest in which participants move from station to station with a sled loaded with the gear they will need to participate in the various contests.
The Keystone District derby will be held at Duman Lake Park between Belsano and Nicktown; the Forbes Trail District derby at Listie Grove near Somerset; and the Fort Bedford District derby at the Bedford County Sportsmen’s Club near Bedford.
Cub Scout packs hold Pinewood Derbies in the winter.
Pack members – with help from parents or other adults – build a small car to run on a wooden or aluminum track, with the dens and packs racing their vehicles.
A councilwide camporee will be held April 24-26 at Camp Seph Mack at Yellow Creek State Park in Indiana County.
The camporee will include skills competitions and exhibitions and a major campfire show featuring skits and songs performed by Scouts, fireworks and professional entertainment.
“The camporee will get Penn’s Woods Council’s party started for Scouting’s 100th anniversary,” McConville said.
“We will be announcing some major activities to take place in 2010,” he added.
One event, McConville said, will take place on Feb. 8, 2010.
At noon that day, he said, Scouting rededication ceremonies will be held in Ebensburg, Somerset, Bedford, Hollidaysburg and Indiana as well as in Johnstown and Altoona.
Each ceremony will be planned to last for about a half hour and will be designed primarily for adults, he said, noting that the Scouts themselves will be in schools.
He said that troops and packs have been asked to schedule their February 2010 meetings for the week beginning Feb. 8 as well.
The troops and packs will be asked to hold rededication ceremonies as part of their meetings that week, McConville said.
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