Boy Scouts Update the Lions

“Leadership, Character, Community Service, Achievement, and the Outdoors. These are the five core values of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA),” said Jeff Wickerham to the Cambridge Lions Club. “We are getting ready to celebrate Scouting’s one hundredth year.”

Wickerham is the Senior District Executive of the Muskingum Valley Council of the BSA. He was accompanied by Doug Devor, district paraprofessional of the council.

“We are proud of our history of helping others in our community,” Wickerham said. BSA was started in the United States in February of 1910. Boys can become members of the Cub Scouts at the age of six, Boy Scouts at the age of eleven, and Varsity or Venturing Scouts at age fourteen.

BSA promotes the values exemplified in the Scout Oath that reads in part, “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law.” The Scout Law states that “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.”

“The Scout Motto is Be Prepared,” Wickerham said. “We are starting our planning early. We will have an Eagle Scout gathering to honor those who have achieved scouting’s highest rank. We will have 100th Anniversary Banners, a patch program for Scouts and scouting alumni, and a Ten Commandments Walk organized by multiple churches in the community.”

“We have over fifty adult volunteers in Guernsey County and over one hundred scouts,” said Devor. “We have four Cub Scout packs, and three troops (of Boy Scouts) and a Venture Crew.”

“We have an Explorer post in Lore City, Cub Scout packs at Cambridge North and South Schools, and Boy Scout troops at Beckett United Methodist Church, the Knight of Columbus, and First Christian Church. We also have scouts in Old Washington, Antrim, and Kimbolton. We would like to start programs in Cumberland and Quaker City.”
For more information about scouting programs visit the web site at www.muskingumvalleycouncil.com