Boy Scouts of America - Chattanooga (Cherokee Area Council)

Happy Thanksgiving from the Cherokee Area Council!

Cub Scout Pack 3172 worked with Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors in helping to protect our Riverwalk trees from the industrious beaver. Scouts applied a fresh coat of paint to deter the beaver from taking our trees for his dam. The paint is a secret concoction of paint, sand, and pepper - deterring, but not harming, the beaver, yet protecting the trees from damage and destruction.

NEW EPISODE of our monthly Scouting podcast, Scout On Chattanooga! ?? This month, we sit down with JED MESCON from 102.3 Talk Radio in Chattanooga. Jed is all about relationships and teaching others how to stand out in a crowd. Join us! Jared Pickens Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NvWWi5 Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2ZT50fo

Giving Tuesday?is a prime opportunity for?Scouts?and Scouting families to unite, embody the Scout Law, and leave a positive mark on the world for Scouting.?On Tuesday, December 3rd, we ask our Scouting community to promote and share these special ways to make a strong positive impact for young people! Local Scouting would be?honored?for you to consider giving to us on this special day!?Please participate with us. 1. Make a direct donation?using this link! (PayPal:?https://lnkd.in/dWTcfVDW) 2. Set up?matching gifts, contact Aurora Wells at?[email protected].? 3. Asking your company to become a?corporate sponsor, contact Aurora Wells at?[email protected].? 4. Volunteering with a local unit, contact?[email protected]. 5. To offer?gifts of service, contact Brent Baker at?[email protected]. Please share this post with your community, and thank you for your efforts and support!

During our annual fundraising event, Shoot for the Moon, we raise funds through selling delicious MoonPies. As a part of that event, we also donate boxes to the non-profit Friends Of The Troops so that everyone can enjoy a MoonPie! Here's what they had to say after receiving their treats. "Friends Of The Troops would like to send out a huge THANK YOU to Cherokee Area Council BSA for donating over 13,300 mini MoonPies to our military! We'd also like to thank MoonPie for facilitating the freight and delivery of the pallets to our location. These sweet treats will be sent to troops serving all over the globe! Thank you for supporting our military!"

On this Veteran’s Day, Troop 82 helped to honor Veterans from The Lantern at Morning Point on Shallowford Rd. Bill Carlton served as a mechanic in the Airforce. Charlie Dotson served in the National Guard. John Fischer served in the Navy. Larry Bates served as a Corporal in the Army. Bob Campbell served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Army. James Garner served as a mechanic in the Army. Scouts participating were Zane Kick, Josh Oliver and Micah Huskey. Thank you to all of our Veterans for serving in our military. And, thank you to our Scouts for honoring them.

Lovely day on the ranges this past weekend at Skymont for our Scouts BSA Range Day!

A Scout is helpful and friendly. We are proud of the ways several of our scouts from Troop 1070 led and served at the Spooky Holiday Cub-O-Ree!

Congratulations to Brock of Boy Scout Troop 20 for completing his Eagle Project of refurbishing the JROTC Raiders course at Soddy Daisy High School. It got a proper testing as Soddy High hosted the District competition this past weekend. We love seeing our Scouts making a difference in their community.

Local Scouts helped collect and load more than 121,000 pounds of emergency supplies which are now on the way to hurricane-ravaged Western North Carolina.??Cherokee Area Council Scouts were honored to serve alongside US-101, the Audacy, Inc. family of stations, Local 3 News, Food City / KVAT Foods Inc., Tranco Logistics, the Hamilton County and Catoosa County Sheriff's Departments, and the Cleveland City Police during Operation Good Neighbor.?Many Scouting groups worked collecting emergency supplies and loading them onto trucks in Hixson, Ringgold, and Cleveland.?Our community’s generosity was on full display completely filling four and half semi-truckloads with items for communities around Asheville, North Carolina. We are extremely proud of our Scouts for honoring their oath to “help other people at all times,” especially in times of need.