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The Golden Empire Council (GEC-BSA) is a California-based 501 (c) (3) nonprofit affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America and its Western Region, Area 4. The council serves a large section of Northern California, primarily the Sacramento Valley and the northern Sierra Nevada. Its boundaries range north to south from Redding to Elk Grove and ...
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Redwood Empire Council: Active: Located on the Noyo River in Mendocino County, CA. Currently Privately owned Camp Okihi: Active: Camp Oljato: Pacific Skyline Council: Lakeshore, CA: Active: Located at Huntington Lake in Lakeshore, CA, and was founded in 1941 as a Jewish boys' singing camp. Camp Pahatsi: Golden Empire Council: Soda Springs ...
The Golden Empire and prior councils offered summer camp at Camp Cole for many years. In 2015 the camp was open for three weeks from July 20 to August 8. The cost was $250. [5] When used as a Boy Scout summer camp, the program featured a six-day, 50 miles (80 km) trek through the nearby mountains known as the Cole Trek.
The Golden Empire Council (#047), first chartered in 1920, serves Scouts in a large section of Northern California, primarily the Sacramento Valley and the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. The council headquarters are located in Sacramento.
Camp Winton is a summer camp of the Boy Scouts of America, belonging to the Golden Empire Council. It is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range at an altitude of 5,800 feet, approximately 20 miles south of Lake Tahoe, close to the town of Pioneer, California in Amador County. It was founded in 1958, built in the El Dorado National Forest ...
The Council Service Territories are to successors of the Regions of the Boy Scouts of America. In June 2021, "National Service Territories" came into effect for the Boy Scouts of America. This affects how the BSA national office works with the local councils The transition from the four regions of the Boy Scouts of America to the sixteen ...
A Peter J. Shields Scholarship fund of $7500 was established in 1939. He raised a prize-winning herd of Jersey Cattle and won so many prizes at the California State Fair, he finally withdrew to give others a chance to win. During his career, many friends and peers urged him to run for Congress or a higher court, or even another higher political ...