Boy Scouts plan multiple events at Wood Badge Breakfast

The course highlights
personal and unit-level
leadership development.

CANFIELD — The Greater Western Council, Boy Scouts of America, will host its annual Wood Badge Breakfast 7:30 to 11 a.m, Saturday at Camp Stambaugh, 3712 Leffingwell Road.

The program consists of registration and fellowship, breakfast, an introduction of the 2008 Wood Badge course, a Chinese auction, and a live auction of scouting memorabilia.

The Wood Badge training program is the advanced leader training, open to all registered Scouters in the Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity and Venturing Programs.

It highlights personal and unit level leadership development with team building and other useful skills.

The course is held in outdoor settings.

The featured speaker will be Jim Rapone of Warren, who has been a Scoutmaster and now serves as the Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner of the Arrowhead District of the Greater Western Reserve Boy Scout Council.

Rapone will speak on how the Wood Badge program has changed over the years since its inception in 1919 by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.

The Greater Western Reserve Council will host its own Wood Badge training course on two weekends in August at Camp Stigwandish in Madison.   For more information on the GWRC Wood Badge course, go to http://www.bsa-gwrc.org/woodbadge.

For more information about Wood Badge or any of the Adult Leader Training programs of the Boy Scouts of America, contact Sarah Marino, Whispering Pines District Executive at (330) 898-8474, ext. 15, (800) 234-7268, ext. 15 or e-mail at s.marino@bsa-gwrc.org.