April 1999 Pollution Solution

ADVANCEMENT - POLLUTION SOLUTION

This month our Cub Scouts have been learning about their environment and how to be part of the solution to pollution rather than contributors to the problem. They have learned to re-use,reduce, and recycle products in their home. They have participated in service projects to help fix existing problems in their neighborhoods and parks. Tonight we honor some of those service minded Scouts who have completed requirements for their rank advancements.

The Bobcat Trail is the beginning of the Cub Scout adventure. The boys attaining this rank have just begun to learn the meaning of service to others as they learned the Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack. (Call boys and parents forward.)

In attaining the rank of Wolf, boys learn about our "Living World" and how to protect it. They have made observations about how their neighborhoods get dirty, then gone into action to help be part of the solution to the problem. (Call boys and parents forward

The Big Bear Trail is full of choices, and some of those choices deal with "Taking Care of Your Planet" and "Sharing Your World With Wildlife." Boys attaining this rank have learned something of the interdependence of life on Planet Earth, that all living things need each other. (Call boys and parents forward.)

Learning the Outdoor Code is one of the requirements for attaining the Webelos Rank. In preparing for Boy Scouts, these boys will be spending more and more time outdoors, and their conduct toward the environment could impact generations to come. (Call boys and parents forward.)

The outdoor program is an important part of the Scouting movement. Be a leader in your school, your home, and your neighborhood to preserve this precious environment for our future.

CONSERVE

Cub Scouts hold cutouts of cars made from poster board, with letters printed on back of each one to spell out the word: CONSERVE.

C - Cars and buses and such were invented by men.

O - Oil fields were discovered also by them.

N - Nobody really worried about the amount of fuel this would take.

S - So on no transportation did they put the brake.

E - Eventually the amount of fuel used grew astonishingly.

R - Raising on everyone's mind a great big doubt.

V - Very soon the world's traffic was put to the test.

E - Everybody to conserve fuel must now do their best!