Chief Cornplanter Council celebrates 95th anniversary as oldest council in the United States
Scouts from the Chief Cornplanter Council at Irvine in 1917
It’s not often that a local organization reaches a notable milestone on the national stage. The Chief Cornplanter Council of the Boy Scouts of America will do just that this summer when it celebrates its 95th anniversary. The significance? Those 95 years makes Warren County’s Boy Scout council the oldest Scouting council in the United States. The Chief Cornplanter Council traces its roots back to a pre-Scouting movement that took place in the county in 1910. On a national level, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was founded that same year. Three years later, the county received an official charter from the Boy Scouts, creating the Warren County Council. In the fall of 1910, two local men, Bob MacKay and Norman Davis, organized a hike for a group of YMCA boys through Oakland Cemetery and down Ott Run. This hike formed the nucleus for the founding of an officially sanctioned BSA council in Warren County. Enter a young Latin teacher named W. LeRoy MacGowan. MacGowan expressed
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National Scout executive to visit Warren
Robert “Bob” Mazzuca, the Chief Scout Executive (CSE) of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), headquartered in Irving, Texas, will be in Warren July 25.
A native of San Juan Bautista, Calif., and a graduate of Cali
Eagle Scouts sought for special event
The Chief Cornplanter Council, in conjunction with the Warren Elks Lodge, will host a “Gathering of Eagles” and Eagle Scout Recognition event on Friday, July 25, from noon to 4 p.m. in Clemons Park, across from the Betts Scout Service Center on Four
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The 95th anniversary celebration of the Chief Cornplanter Council, Boy Scouts of America, will culminate with a torch run from the eternal flame at Warren State Hospital to light the closing campfire at Camp Olmsted in Scandia on Friday, July 18. Ma
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The Chief Cornplanter Council Boy Scouts report that their recent Treats For the Troops campaign fell a little short of last year’s effort. The council sells popcorn and peanuts around the county to send to active-duty military in Iraq and Afghanis
» Full StoryFinancial stability achieved with local council
By DEAN WELLS
dwells@timesobserver
Financial stability.
For any organization to pass the test of time, it must find its way to financial stability. The Chief Cornplanter Council did just that recently, revamping
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