Briefs - Beltsville

Scout Troop 1033 Plans Lawn and Garden Fundraiser
By Gary Bauchan
Troop 1033 will have their
19th Annual Spring Lawn and
Garden Fundraiser on March 19.
The Scouts are selling top quality
mulch, fertilizer, manure and
topsoil. Again this year, Behnkeʼs
Nursery products will be sold.
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has been the director of the University
of Maryland's Plant Diagnostic
Laboratory for more than 24
years. She diagnoses diseases on
all crops, serving as lab backup for
Cooperative Extension programs.
In addition to the lab work, Ethel
trains master gardener volunteers,
growers and IPM (Integrated pest
management) scouts. Ms Dutky is
co-author of the book, "Pests and
Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials-the
Biological Approach." She
has done consulting for USAID in
West Africa and in Latin America.
Please join us to hear this informative
speaker. As always we have
plants for our door prize table and
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Patuxent Bird Club
By Eleanor C. Robins
At 7:30 p.m. on February 8,
David Curson explained what
"Important Bird Areas" are. We
need to try to save some. Remember
how Justice William O. Douglas
was able to save the hiking trail
beside the C&O Canal. The current
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Troop 1033 Scouts are ready to deliver lawn and garden products to your home.
Governor of Maryland is threatening
to give his development friends
even the forests and streams we
worked 30 years to save.
At 7:30 p.m. at the College
Park Airport Museum Annex, Walter
Ellison will report on our current
Breeding Bird Atlas Program.
When the pair of Ovenbirds flies
up from Central America to Stephens
Road, they will see that the
forest in which they nested last
year is replaced by a church.
The North Laurel Civic Association
meeting on February 17 was
packed and all members opposed
this unnecessary destructive expensive
road (ICC Connector).
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Scouts Demonstrate Duty to God
By Andrew Sillers, Troop Scribe
The Scouts celebrated
their faith and
promoted Scout
awareness during their
Scout Sunday Celebration
on February 13. Services
at both St. Joseph's Catholic
Parish and Emmanuel
United Methodist Church
were presented with a flag
ceremony given by Boy
Scout Troop 1033, Cub
Scout Pack 1031, Girl
Scout Troops 4129 and
750 and Brownie Troop
6064. At St. Joseph's, the
Scouts stayed after the
service to serve donuts
and juice and to assist
Gregory Bauchan in his
Eagle Project of sending
care packages to our overseas
forces. At the Methodist
Church, the Scouts
rose early to cook for their
annual Pancake Breakfast
before the church service,
making specialty pancakes with the patrons' choice of raspberries,
strawberries, blueberries, and chocolate chips.
On February 12, the Scouts developed their skills by participating
in a merit badge day at St. Mary of the Mills in Laurel,
MD. Mick Cotter, Eddie Mellott, and Taylor Good all received
the Family Life merit badge, and Gregory Bauchan, David Outland,
and Kris Smith earned the Personal Management merit
badge.
Finally, the Troop acknowledged the impressive accomplishments
of two of their own: Nathan Hopper and Josh Aplin were
awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in all of
Scouting, in their Eagle Court of Honor on February 4. In their
journeys to obtaining Eagle, Nathan worked with a group of
Scouts and others to plant trees outside of Martin Luther King Jr.
Middle School to replace those destroyed by the 2001 tornado,
and Josh led a group in cleaning a one and half mile tract of the
Little Paint Branch Creek. The two Scouts became the 64th and
65th members of Troop 1033 to achieve the honored position of
Eagle Scout. Boy Scout Troop 1033 has 37 boy scouts, with five
of the Scouts obtaining the rank of Eagle in the past two years, a
very active Troop Committee, and a group of involved Scouting
parents.
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Troop 1033 Scouts formed an
Honor Guard at St. Joseph Catholic
Church on Scout Sunday,
February 13.
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