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Executive - Roger Stewart
rstewart
(914) 773-1135 ext 237

SCOUTING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD- an urban emphasis program
LEARNING FOR LIFE, INC.- a school and career based program for elementary, middle, high school, and special needs students.
COMMUNITIES SERVED: Portchester, Mt Vernon, White Plains, Yonkers


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District Calendar
Mondays: Ferris Community Center, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesdays: Slater Community Center, 4:00 p.m.
Wednesdays: Yonkers Children Excel at DiChario, 4:30 p.m.
Thursdays: DeKalb Community Center, 5:00 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE: Meetings are held on school days only.

 


Learning for Life
As we approach the new year of 2008, Learning for Life, a subsidiary of Westchester-Putnam Council, Boy Scouts of America, will be concentrating on strong program intensity for our 1,000 participants. We will continue to offer the Champions program for special needs children in our “at-risk” schools, and in addition to the Champions program we will promote the LFL curriculum enhancement programs for general education programs throughout the two counties.

We are planning to pilot a Speakers Bureau; speakers will be recruited from the Executive Board and from the local communities of our Council to visit schools and make presentations regarding different careers and opportunities.

An outdoor program is being developed at the Durland Scout Reservation with a “Low COPE Course” for use by middle and high schools. The Low COPE Course is a team building and challenging outdoor personal experience where programming emphasizes learning by doing. We will open this to schools, the general public, and Scouts and Scouters of all sizes and abilities. Through initiative problems, we will offer low course challenges to help develop, among other things, leadership and communication skills.

It will be challenging, rewarding, demanding, and fun, in an outdoor setting of woods, wilderness, rolling hills, lakeside scenery, and natural wildlife! Many details will be forthcoming, but I anticipate the need for volunteers and a paid staff to help out. If you would like to be part of the Learning for Life Committee please call Roger Stewart at 914-773-1135 ext. 237.

 


DE REGRESO A LOS BOY SCOUTS
Septiembre ha comenzado y con el los Cub Scouts vuelven a sus reuniones semanales para seguir con sus diferentes actividades.

En este pasado mes de Octubre los Boy Scouts de nuestra area, (Westchester y Putnam) tuvieron una valiosa oportunidad para mostrar una vez mas el espiritu de colaboracion con los mas necesitados. El programa “Scouting for Food” se dedico a recolectar comida en paquetada para ser distribuida a los diferentes grupos que suplen alimentos en el area. El resultado final, de todo este esfuerzo que los niņos y muchachos puesieron, fue 22,000 libras de caminada. Es una cantidad minima, si se piensa en las proporciones que son necesarias para sufragar la alimentacion de todas aquellas personas que estan en necesidad. Pero es tambien un gran esfuerzo realizado por los niņos y jovenes Boy Scouts. Sobre todo por el aprendizaje que estos niņos y jovenes estas realizando. Se estan solidarizando con la comunidad, estan aprendiendo el valor de la colaboracion y sobre todo el ayudar a los menos favorecidos en la sociedad.

Como decia al principio del articulo, los niņos y jovenes Boy Scouts regresan a sus reuniones semanales. En ellas aprenden valores y respeto necesarios en el desenvolvimiento social; asi tambien muchas actividades sanas y devertidas que los ayudan en su sano crecimeitno fisico y mental.

Scouting in the Neighborhood program vuelve con mucha fuerza invitanto a los ninos a que participen en nuestro programa. Si desea que su hijo participle en uno de nuestros diferentes Packs (Yonkers, Port Chester, White Plains, New Rochelle, Mt. Vernon) por favor llamenos con toda confianza. Y si usted, padre de familia desea colaborar como adulto voluntario lo puede hacer. Llamenos al: (914) 773-1135 X. 228. Gerardo Calderon.

 

 

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