Boy Scout Troop 232 Visits Rotary, Nick & Amy Taylor

Posted by John Hamilton on Jun 09, 2016

Boy Scout Troop 232 is one of the organizations proudly supported by the Rotary Club of Waxahachie. The club provides the log cabin meeting building on Brown Street and funding. The Boy Scouts take part in placing the American Flags and are paid for the service. In 1944 the Rotary Club got the charter for the troop and has been a sponsor ever since. The Rotary Club provides trailers, equipment, the cabin and financial support to the troop as one of the beneficiaries of the club’s American Flag Subscription Program and the Cow Creek Country Classic Bike Ride.

Nick Taylor, Troop Committee Chair of Boy Scout Troop 232, visited the Rotary Club to explain the program and its benefits and let the club know what is needed by the troop.

There are about forty five registered Scouts at this time and thirty adults registered to assist them. In the Scout program adults act as merit badge counselors, mentors and examples in addition to teaching the boys life skills, cooking, archery, canoeing, horseback riding and many more skills.

The Scout program has three main parts, the Outdoors Leadership Laboratory, Community Service and Life Skill Development. In the Outdoors Leadership Laboratory Scouts are taught outdoor skills but by learning those they also learn self confidence and leadership. Last year they spent about 300 nights camping.

Community Service included seventeen Scout projects in addition to several Eagle projects. The Scouts put in about 200 hours of community service during the year.

Life Skill Development includes learning to respect others, himself and the world around him. Leadership is taught by teaching the hierarchy of Scouts and how to achieve things as a unit that can not be done by one person alone. Confidence and life skills are included in the program. Armed with these values the Scout can live a productive life as an American citizen. This led to 128merit badges, 15 rank advancements and six Eagle scouts in the troop.

Boys have to have completed the fifth grade to begin scouting and leave when they are eighteen years old. After eighteen they can enter the Venturing program and many of them stay on as adult volunteers.

The program is available to any young man in the age range. If you know someone who has too much time on his hands, who needs positive role models or who needs to develop life skills, Troop 232 is in the business of building tomorrow’s community leaders. They meet Monday nights except holidays at 7 pm at the Scout Cabin on Brown Street. Visitors are welcome at every meeting.

In addition to needing Scouting candidates the Troop can use adult volunteers as merit badge instructors and committee volunteers. Occasional financial support is welcome too.

For more information contact Nick Taylor at nuclearnick@me.com or 972-921-6398.

For more information about the Rotary Club of Waxahachie where we believe in Service above Self and doing things as a club we cannot do alone, visit the club web site www.waxahachierotary.org . You can find your Flag Subscription applications there and bike ride registration there.