Janette Maring's blog

ATTENTION:   Unit Leaders
RE:   A Message From The Catholic Committee On Scouting

Leaders, please share the information below with as many of your Catholic Scouting Family members as possible.  This is not just for Catholic Sponsored Units.

SUBJECT:    Religious Award program for Catholic youth and adults The Catholic Committee on Scouting is having a information/training for Catholic religious medals on September 17, 08 at   6:30.  The meeting will be held at St. Patrick's in Grand Haven,  Family Center Rm # 5&6.    The Church is located on US 31, about ∏ mile south of the Grand River Bridge on your left hand side heading south.  You cannot miss the church.  Look for a left hand turn to cross north bound 31 prior to reaching Washington Street. Deacon Leo Ferguson is facilitating.  The medals that can be earned for Cubs: "Light of Christ" and "Parvuli Dei".  The medals for Boy Scouts are: "Ad Altari Dei" and "Pope Pius XII".  There is a Unit Medal criteria.  These medals are presented from the home parish in your diocese.  But training is universal.  

If you have anyone interested, please contact me.   
Rhonda Boersma        
encore31837 [at] yahoo [dot] com
616-837-8395
Web site for Grand Rapids Catholic Committee on Scouting is:   www.grccscouting.org  

PS:  This is a Council wide meeting - the location of Grand Haven was picked as a central distance from Allegan to Ludington.  If you are not able to make the meeting because of location of date, get in contact with Rhonda to see what if any options there might be.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.  

Wreath Laying at the Gravesite of President Ford

On Monday July 14th (in honor of the 95th anniversary of his birth) there will be a Wreath Laying at the gravesite of President Gerald R. Ford and the public is invited.

This event will be held at 10:00 AM and will last approximately one hour. Three wreaths; from President Bush, from Mrs. Ford, and from the Ford Children will be placed by Major General Thomas Cutler and Ford Children.

I am sure that the family would love to see some Scouts in uniform there!!

Further information can be found at http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/

The Crossroads of America Scout Band of Indianapolis, Indiana

On Saturday July 12th the Crossroads Scout Band will be in Grand Rapids as a start to their 2008 Performance Tour. It is our privilege to have set up a concert with these talented Scouts at the Michigan Home for Veterans and YOU are invited to join them. For over 91 years they have been entertaining the masses and you will REALLY ENJOY their program. To see more about them please go to http://www.scoutband.com/

For many years all Scout Councils had a Scout Band (yes, WE DID!) and they spent time at camp together practicing and then did concerts.

The event will be held at the Veterans Facility at 3000 Monroe NW, north of Ann Street at their pavilion and will start at 5:30 and last for about one hour!

I am pleased to announce that a new day camp location has been secured for the Hopkins area.

Day camp will operate July 28-30, 8:30-3:15 PM, at the Wise Farm Preserve in Hopkins, MI. The Wise Farm Preserve is located east of Hopkins on the main road which goes thru Hopkins. It is 1 mile West of the highway or about 4 miles east of Hopkins. The entrance is off 15th street going south from 128th.

Wise Farm Preserve
2652 15th St. Hopkins, MI 49328

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Janette Maring

Please note the following changes for this year's day camp and if you would be so kind as to forward this information to your units, I would be very appreciative of it.

• For the Central Park site: Day camp will run from Monday-Wednesday, July 21-23 (instead of July 22-24).
• For Beechwood Hills site: This location is no longer available. New site to be announced very soon.

As a friendly reminder, Scouts will need to provide their own lunches and coolers each day at camp.