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Pack 340 Does the Fox 5 Weather
I took three of my Webelos II scouts out to the National Weather Service’s Sterling Virginia office for a tour of the facility. They are having a public open house tomorrow and Sunday and today they invited a few scouts out to get a look at the facility. In addition, they had the local Fox 5 weather man, Tony Perkins, out on location doing his reports for the morning news live every 15 minutes.
During one of the reports, he let my son Jacob and his fellow scouts, Paul Sesay and Josi Echeverria, present the weather during his report. It was a real thrill for them and something they will remember for a long time. I remember my first time on TV in Baltimore in some sort of Romper Room show. Anyway, here is the video.
All Scouts Caught a Fish!
When you take a group of scouts fishing, it rather vaguely resembles the sport. They don’t really want to touch the worms (yuk!), they are constantly within 1/1000th of an inch of getting the hook lodged in their arm (or worse!), and they are screaming at each other throughout the process (which can be heard by the fish of course).
But on this warm April afternoon, I took 7 scouts fishing at the little pond near the school and everyone caught at least one fish! They were really biting. There’s something about catching your first fish, that is really exciting.
