Kome Ozomaro, 9, a member of Cub Scout Pack 202, leaves a flier on the front door of a house along the 400 block North Pettis Avenue Saturday morning. The flier, promoting the Scouting for Food campaign, asks residents to fill a bag with nonperishable food items to be left by their front door Saturday morning to be collected local Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.

Diversified Community Outreach and Cub Scout Pack 202 will host a chili luncheon beginning at noon Satruday at Ward Memorial Baptist Church at the corner of Pettis Street and Osage Avenue. The cost is $5.

Registration for girls and adults interested in becoming Girl Scouts will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Shelter House No. 1 at Liberty Park. Girls are invited to find out  about the experiences they can have in the Girl Scouts.

As we celebrate 100 years of building girls of courage, confidence, and character, I want to take a moment to thank all of our volunteers for their contributions to that important mission. Last year, Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland had a nearly 18 percent increase in its girl membership — an exciting change that could never have been realized without the help of our volunteers.

Boy Scout Troop, Team and Crew 150 will host a spring clean-up fundraiser from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 21.

Cub Scout Pack 65 will host a chili and soup dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church, 200 S. Limit Ave. The meal will include various soups, dessert and a drink. Carry-out is available.

Diversified Community Outreach and Cub Scout Pack 202 will host a chili luncheon beginning at noon Saturday at Ward Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, 412 N. Osage Ave. The meal costs $5.

Kearn McCullough, 13, a star badge Scout with Troop 61, center, shows two new Scouts, from left, Chandler Koetting and Dustin Belsha, how to raise the American flag Tuesday evening at Skyline Elementary School. The two new Scouts, along with Bailey Bardin, not pictured, were learning American flag etiquette, one of the requirements for earning a Tenderfoot badge.

Boy Scout Troop 50 will host a taco lunch fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Parkview Christian Church Family Life Center, 1405 E. 16th St. The all-you-can-eat meal costs $5 for adults and $3 for children 11 and younger.

Girl Scout Troop 290 will have a booth sale of Girl Scout cookies from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Forty Winks, 4009 S. U.S. 65.

My most memorable camping trip was at Windsor crossing. Our troop was there for a canoe trip. When Ben Terrell and I were rocking the boat in a motorboat’s wake, Ben became unbalanced and managed to tip the whole canoe all the way over. We literally had a fourth of a mile to swim back to the shore.

While Scoutmaster of Troop 54, the troop had decided that we needed to have a campout. We decided to go near Swan Lake in northern Missouri where Greg Bell, the father of our senior patrol leader, had some property. It was a rainy spring so the ground was pretty soggy, but we camped in all kinds of weather.

My son, Kinser, and I belong to Boy Scout Troop 61, which is sponsored by Christ and Trinity Lutheran Church in Sedalia. At Troop 61, we strive to take our Scouts camping at least once a month.

My name is Don Holbert, I was born and raised in Kansas City, but currently reside in Sedalia. I grew up in a Scouting family. My father was a Cubmaster and an assistant Scoutmaster for almost 20 years. My mother was a den mother for almost 14 years. Scouting was fun. You went to family functions and all the families there were scouting families.