Scoutrees is a local and national fundraising and conservation effort by Scouts Canada. Each year, hundreds of thousands of trees are planted coast to coast by members of the scouting movement.

Please send news of upcoming Scouting events and reports of activities to Alvin Ashfield, email ashphoto@nbnet.nb.ca or phone 450-2949. Items of general Scouting interest are welcome. Thanks to the Daily Gleaner for making the Trailways column possible.

KIRKLAND LAKE -Scouting has come back to Kirkland Lake. Over the past while Scouts Canada has been conducting a number of registrations for Beavers, Wolves and Scouts and to date the results have been extremely positive.

Leadership is a focus during the heaping handful of activities offered throughout the Chinook Council Scouts Canada Summer Camp sessions. By Samara Cygman.

The Scouts Canada mission statement says, "to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential as individuals, as responsible citizens, and as members of their local, national...

Remember when scouting was about building a fire, constructing a bird feeder and hanging out in the woods?

In 1907, founder Robert Baden-Powell took a troop of boys camping on Brownsea Island in England. That initial group of 22 lads has now become 28 million Scouting members in 155 countries. By Sabine Boersch.

Wearing a scouting uniform is a badge of honour, if you ask Nick Fry. "It's a treasure that not everyone gets a chance to wear, " said Fry, a long-time local volunteer with Scouts Canada.

A cardiologist was recently threading a probe into a man's heart and chatting with the conscious patient as he worked. He knew the man on the table was a former pilot, and said his father, too, had flown in the Second World War. The Battle of Britain ...

At a ceremony held at Government House, His Honour, Lieutenant Governor John Harvard, presented Bob Chochinov and Jennifer Thorsteinsson the Scouts Canada Medal of Merit.