(adapted from "Woods Wisdom - Scoutmaster's Minutes")
You can't watch TV or read a newspaper today without hearing the word "community." There's talk about the black community, the Hispanic community, the business community, and the scientific community. Wherever there are people with the same interests, they're a community.
You're part of a community too. It's your neighborhood (or town). As a resident of this community, you have some common interests with everybody else who lives here. You want it to be clean and safe with pleasant streets, good schools, and friendly people - a place of which you can be proud.
Well, there's something you can do about that. You could do a Good Turn with our troop. But you can do more.
You can avoid littering, for example, and it won't hurt you to pick up other people's litter either. You can be a good citizen in school and thus make your school a better place.
Be proud of your community. And let's all do our part to make it a place of which to be proud.
Last Revised 01/31/02