Tag: scouting
member name: Mike Walton
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December 14, 2006 11:46 AM EST --
[Today, the guy responsible for the "Girls Gone Wild" video series was convicted of crimes involving underage women -- 17 year olds -- in his videos. He was fined and given "community . . .
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February 10, 2007 03:20 PM EST --
(One of a series of stories I wrote for the 90th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and published to a set of small regional newspapers.)
Scout Week Saturday
Ever had one of those days whereby . . .
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April 07, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
A national insurance company is currently running an ad over cable and most of the network television stations. In this ad, people are seen doing what we in Scouting have been pledging since the start . . .
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December 22, 2006 02:01 PM EST --
I don't know how to start this out, except to explain what happened and then analzye it.
A few days ago, my boss' boss at work directed me to input some names into an ordering database. . . .
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January 20, 2007 02:04 AM EST --
I started this out five times already, and everytime I started it out, the computer that I am using would "hang" and I would lose the entire article. This posting is not about technology or the . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
(The issue was that a group of Scouts cleaned a yard and did some home sprucing for a family that was really bad-off, . . .
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January 14, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
There's a degree of greed in Scouting, and I've bought into it.
Scouting has never been a place whereby those participating in it would get rich. If one was to ask a Scout leader about their scouting . . .
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September 19, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
(Go with me on this, okay...AFTN doesn't really exist, or else I'd be a rich young man and we would have some really great television to watch!)
You didn't get to see this...during the Emmy . . .
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October 07, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
She wanted me to call her Mary Kay. When she walked into the room, carrying documents under her left elbow, I stood and offered to take them.
"I'm fine. Thanks for offering. . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:05 AM EDT --
I remember saying to myself, "Here I am, sitting in Baghdad, the capitol of Iraq."
Four years ago, I was sitting in a white plastic chair on the floor in the grand ballroom at what . . .
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January 21, 2007 03:00 PM EST --
(from "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 1993 Settummanque!)
One of the highlights from my Scout Chaplain experience in Louisville, Kentucky many years ago was the presentation given by one . . .
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February 11, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
Seeing how Scout Sunday (the day closest to the Anniversary Day) this year is on this coming Sunday, and since the poster provided me the best opportunity to post my reflections, I'm forwarding this . . .
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February 12, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
Have you seen our Supermen lately? Those boys dressed in tan shirts with olive pants. They wear red shoulder loops as a symbol of their passion: to help other people at all times. To be an example of . . .
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February 13, 2007 02:31 PM EST --
On Feburary 8th in Washington ninety (now ninety-seven) years ago, officials of a new youth-service organization filed paperwork to incorporate and federally charter something called the Boy . . .
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February 14, 2007 01:40 PM EST --
Like many of my peers, and as a visible example to youth whom I would come in contact with today, I wore my Scout uniform instead of my normal "street clothing".
The current Scout field uniform, . . .
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September 20, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
In 2004, I attended my high school's reunion. Everyone asked me two
questions: "Where are you now and are you working with Scouting?" and "What ever happened to Brenda and you?? . . .
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November 18, 2006 05:01 PM EST --
(Originally this was included in "Eagle Feathers" but the first wife objected to having anything in the book which related to her. So I removed it but kept it as a wonderful memory of a time . . .
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January 14, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
(extracted from "Patches and Pins (or "The quest for Silver Animals...")", written by Mike L. Walton © 1988 )
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Mary Foster, wherever you are, I owe you $126.00 with . . .
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January 15, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
(extracted from "Patches and Pins (or "The quest for Silver Animals...")", written by Mike L. Walton © 1988 )
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It should say that "A Scout is a Gentleman instead . . .
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January 15, 2007 08:19 AM EST --
(extracted from "Patches and Pins (or "The quest for Silver Animals... ")", written by Mike L. Walton © 1988 ) <hr>
A Scout is Friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother . . .
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