Thank you to the Livingston Community Involvement and Diversity committee for organizing a fun and meaningful Martin Luther King Day of service. Our group chose to write a stack of thank-you cards to Sanitation Workers in Livingston, Maplewood, Montclair, and Jersey City. Sanitation workers are essential workers and we would be less healthy and more vulnerable without them! Also, Martin Luther King was fighting for the rights of sanitation workers who were on strike in Memphis when he was assassinated in 1968.

 Recently at our end of program year picnic at The New Weis Center for Education, Arts & Recreation two of our new scouts completed the requirements for their first badge. L, a new Pathfinder finished his Tenderfoot requirements by laying a trail using trail signs and demonstrating the Tenderfoot knots. His sister, H learned about Otters and the Baden-Powells and demonstrated she knew the Otter motto, promise & law. She also demonstrated not two but three knots!

Other scouts created friendship bracelets and learned about trail signs as we were surprised by a rainshower. When the rain paused they made their own trails and enjoyed a picnic.

After the Pathfinders had chopped some kindling (they had just worked on their Woods Tools Awards) all enjoyed a campfire with songs and s'mores. 

Stay tuned for our next calendar of events! If you want to help work on the program calendar, get in touch with Jen.