Letters to the Editor for 11-28-12

Dear Friends,

We would like to take a few min­utes while we are cur­rently still an offi­cial Boy Scout Troop, to thank you for your sup­port in any way to the youth and the troop we serve. It comes with a heavy heart, that we must declare our dis­ap­point­ment in the Boy Scout Program.

This marks one of the most unheard of events in our pro­gram, where we have been refused the right to rechar­ter our Card­ing­ton Boy Scout Troop because we stood firm on our beliefs and rights as a reg­is­tered unit, and held our Merit Badge Day event to help raise money to help the scouts in our com­mu­ni­ties cur­rent Boy Scout Troop. There­fore, the paid offi­cials of the Heart of Ohio Coun­cil (Alex Tyms, Eric Clark, Chad Schnit­zler) and with the assis­tance of key com­mit­tee mem­bers (Jeff Youngs, and Steve Warnock) and with the sup­port from the National Boy Scouts of Amer­ica, have blocked and have cho­sen to not accept our char­ter renewal as a troop, or the lead­ers in any other posi­tion. They have revoked the cur­rent Card­ing­ton Rotary Club as the local Char­ter Orga­ni­za­tion because they stood by our side. Mean­ing, as of Jan­u­ary 1, 2013 your Card­ing­ton BSA Troop 30 as it stands, the young men and their lead­ers are being ousted as reg­is­tered BSA mem­bers and will no longer exist.

We as lead­ers stand firm on our deci­sion on our actions, and take great pride in our ser­vice with the young men we worked with and led toward and through the trail of Eagle. We are dis­ap­pointed that the lack of care and respect for these young men that have been expressed by the coun­cil and dis­trict mem­bers who are paid to help keep us strong, but instead forced these young men and their lead­ers to seek a new direc­tion away from the com­mu­nity they live in, and are proud to support.

It gave us great plea­sure to pro­vide you with our com­mu­nity ser­vice. We believe that a com­mu­nity who works together, stays strong. We appre­ci­ate your con­fi­dence in us to ask us to help when you needed, you give us pride. Thank you.

To our fel­low scouts, stand strong. A Scout is Trust­wor­thy, Loyal, Help­ful, Friendly, Cour­te­ous, Kind, Obe­di­ent, Cheer­ful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Rev­er­ent. To us, this means a lot. Why, because it is WE the scouts, and the vol­un­teers who keep it true today. We can all hope that some­day the core val­ues of the BSA pro­gram will some­day be again what it was intended, instead of what it has become. As they say, “money is the root of all evil” and so it is said.

To our fel­low lead­ers, thank you. Thank YOU for what you do for the sake of our youth, and with­out pay. It seems that when money becomes a fac­tor, things change and some­times as in this case, not always for the good. It is YOU who truly make the scout­ing pro­gram what it is to the youth we serve! Stand firm on what is right.

And last but not least, thank you to those who have sup­ported our troops Merit Badge event that ended in our troops demise. Please know that no mat­ter what you are told, Merit Badge Events ARE a suc­cess for scout­ing, held by Troops, Dis­tricts, Coun­cils, Churches and Col­leges held all over our great nation. Even stated by a rep­re­sen­ta­tive at the National Boy Scouts of Amer­ica in Texas, our coun­cil really should have sup­ported us with our event, and did (the first two years) long enough for us to estab­lish a suc­cess­ful event that they openly admit­ted, THEY will be hold­ing at a dis­trict level, and that we would be a com­pe­ti­tion to their event.

Respect­fully Yours in Scouting,

Card­ing­ton BSA Troop 30 Members

We had been ask to pro­vide key con­tact infor­ma­tion for any of you who want to express your opin­ion and or con­cerns with the Heart of Ohio Scout­ing Program.

Wayne Brock, Chief Scout Executive

BSA national Exec­u­tive Board

1325 Wal­nut Hill Lane, PO Box 152079

Irv­ing, Texas 75015–2079

Alex Tyms, Heart of Ohio Scout Executive

Heart of Ohio Coun­cil, BSA

471 US Route 250 E, Build­ing D P.O. Box 368

Ash­land, OH 44805 419–207-8300

Dale Hol­brook — BSA Regional Director

630–386-5030

We are includ­ing mem­ber con­tact infor­ma­tion for Card­ing­ton Troop 30 for any infor­ma­tion or ver­i­fi­ca­tion you may want. Your sup­port to our Boy Scout Troop 30 and our local Card­ing­ton Rotary Club is greatly appreciated.

Audrey Mesaros-Gale, Card­ing­ton Troop 30 Com­mit­tee Chairman

Mike Gale — Card­ing­ton Troop 30 Com­mit­tee Treasurer

4414 Co. Rd. 124

Card­ing­ton, Ohio 43315 419–946-2597

Dear Edi­tor,

I have a happy story that I would like to share and just maybe have in posted in the paper to put some smiles on oth­ers and that there are still many won­der­ful peo­ple out there who will help.

Just this last Sat­ur­day Nov. 17th I was dri­ving to Colum­bus and my Son who is sta­tioned in Ft. Lenard, Mis­souri was catch­ing a flight out from St.Louis to head to the Mil­i­tary base in Col­orado to be with some friends for Thanksgiving.

He called me as I was headed to Colum­bus and said Mom I have good news and some bad news. Well the bad news he missed his first flight out from St. Louis to Col­orado but was catch­ing the next flight out 2 hours later and was going to have a 30 min. lay over in Colum­bus. So as a Mom I said I will be there to see you. Not know­ing what the air­port would look like with being busy for the Hol­i­day trav­el­ers I was there at 11:20a.m. I had called one of my Daughter’s to try and make it so she to could see him. but when I was there the line of peo­ple check­ing in and I counted and there was 110 peo­ple wait­ing to go pass secu­rity and I was sit­ting there think­ing I”m not going to see my Son. So as a Mom my eyes started to tear up and I thought the only thing I might get to do is have him stand where he can stand before com­ing out and just wave at him. because I knew he wasn’t going to make it out and go back pass secu­rity. So I thought Deb­bie just go for it and ask so I waited my turn inline with tears and excite­ment I was going to see my son. I went up to the counter and ask the gen­tle­man Is there any human pos­si­ble way I would go threw secu­rity and go see my Son. I just wanted to give him a kiss and put my arms around him and say I Love You. The man asked me what his name was and could see his plane landed at 11:40 and he had to be on the next plane at 12:10p.m.. I couldn’t believe it he asked for my ID and printed me off a pass right there and rushed me threw security.

My head was spin­ning with so much excite­ment and it was going so fast that I had to explain my daugh­ter was on her way as well and when I looked back she was com­ing in and I told the man there she is and he said you go on and I’ll get her passed. we both got passed and as we walked to My son’s gate he was get­ting off the plane and they were already load­ing up for his next flight out. But the best of all was I got the best gift of 3 min. with my Son Jonathan and was able to hug him and give the Mom kiss on the cheek and tell him I love you and I stood there as he loaded up say­ing that”s one fan­tas­tic miti­tary sol­dier and he’s my Son. as my daugh­ter and I left the air­port we went up to the man at the south­west counter and shook his hand and said Thank You. If it wasn’t for him this wouldn’t have happened.

The rea­son I wrote this is I read the papers and don”t seem to read about very many happy sto­ries and with the hol­i­days com­ing I wanted to share a happy moment and share a Mom’s Trea­sure when it comes to her children.

Deb­bie Snell, Mt.Gilead

Dear Sir or Madam:

I would never have believed that Amer­i­cans would opt out of being thank­ful for every­thing that God has given them in favor of get­ting up at four a.m. in order to save a few bucks on the lat­est I-Phone. Now it would seem that the money chang­ers have even done the unthink­able of start­ing their sales on this day of THANKSGIVING.

How many of you read­ing this feel any sense of shame for allow­ing your­selves to be suck­ered into this con­spir­acy to com­pletely remove God and any­thing asso­ci­ated with Him from the Amer­i­can way of life? Mark my words, it will only be a mat­ter of time until Christ­mas will be just another day much like the one before it and after it, with no thought as to why we cel­e­brate it. It already is pretty much just another oppor­tu­nity for the money chang­ers to increase their bot­tom line.

The Money Chang­ers should be as ashamed, if not more so, in that not only are they con­tribut­ing to the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of this most mar­velous cel­e­bra­tion, not to men­tion that they are tak­ing their employ­ees away from their fam­i­lies. Thanks­giv­ing has, until recently been a spe­cial time for Fam­i­lies and for them to remem­ber and reflect on good and bad times and enjoy each other’s com­pany and, by open­ing their stores to the Madding Crowds on Thanks­giv­ing, they are deny­ing their employ­ees this fam­ily time.

I know I am from the Juras­sic Era, liv­ing in the ‘What’s in it for me?’ era but that’s ok, because not being grate­ful is not one of my fail­ings, because I am con­stantly being grate­ful, because I know, that as sure as God has given me every­thing I have, as lit­tle as I may think it is some­times, He can take it away just as fast.

If you do feel any sense of shame, I have only one thing to say, YOU SHOULD!

Thank you,

Darl Mills, Mt. Gilead

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