Category: Council President Updates

Council President’s Message, May 2023

May 25, 2023 Greetings, Pine Tree Council will be adding a council membership fee. It costs over $400 per Scout for us to operate Pine Tree Council. Like most Scout councils, we must raise our budget every year. Pine Tree Council has a small endowment, but in the current stock market we are unable to […]

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Council President’s Message, February 2022

February 4, 2022 Greetings, Pine Tree Council is trying to sell Camp Bomazeen. At the Pine Tree Council Annual Meeting, a leader from Kennebec Valley District presented the members of the Executive Board a packet of letters that he had collected in support of Camp Bomazeen. There were 29 letters, including his own. The letters […]

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Council President’s Message, November 2021

November 12, 2021 Greetings, I hope that you have been having a nice fall. What is Pine Tree Council? As a Scout and a unit leader I didn’t clearly understand what council did. The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes […]

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