your community service hours

August 10th, 2009

Keeping track of your community service hours.
So, beyond the obvious benefit of fulfilling your rank requirement, why bother to actually keep track of your hours? Isn’t it about giving, anyway?
Absolutely!
However, there are good reasons to keep track.
*First: Of course, your rank requirement.
*Second: Several of the merit badges require volunteer hours. If you [...]

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Kitsap County Government

July 30th, 2009

The government of Kitsap County maintains a list of volunteer programs here.
Many of these are for adults, or require long-term commitments. However, if you’re looking for something shorter, try their single day events. This may be adopting-a-park for a day, or providing volunteer hours for a special event. Note: events will not [...]

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Painting

June 22nd, 2009

Painting can be a camp badge where all you do is paint rocks. While that may fulfill the letter of the law, don’t settle for mediocrity. Dive in! Paint your room, your porch, or something that mom has been wanting done. Or, merge it with community service and paint with one [...]

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