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Boy Scouts Launch New, Improved Web Site Offering Expanded Information & Service to Youth and Families

Des Plaines Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America, has launched a new web site to provide area youth and families extensive information on Scouting programs and opportunities, as well as easy access to training and other administrative information. 

 

The new site is a colorful and highly interactive portal providing expanded access to Scouting for both prospective youth and existing Scouts and families.  It offers information on Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing, Exploring, and Learning for Life activities and programs.  Information is also provided on Council Scout camps in Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as a variety of national programs and facilities.

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For the first time, families and supporters in the community will be able to make donations and other contributions on-line.  The ability to register and pay for events and activities is in development and should be available later this year. 

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“Our new web site is just the first step in our efforts to improve our communications, outreach, and marketing to area youth, families, and the communities we serve,” said Council Interim Scout Executive Matthew Thornton.  “We also plan to make more effective use of our electronic newsletter and involvement with social media,” he said.

 

“Scouting has real opportunities to address the challenges our families and youth face in today’s world,” said George Krempel, President of the Des Plaines Valley Council.  “This new web site, and our planned social media activities, will help us respond to those challenges, and to offer information about Scouting in ways that respond to the demands of our times.”

 

“I’m convinced that we have a great program in Scouting, that can help our youth succeed and support the communities that Scouting serves by helping to develop productive citizens,” Krempel said.  “This has been true for more than a century, and I’m convinced, that it will continue into the future.”

 

The Council's former web site will remain active and available through a transition period through May 16.  The address for that site is www.boyscouts-dpvc.org

 

 

 

To explore the new web site, please visit:  www.boyscoutsdpvc.org

 

 

Also visit the new web site to sign up to receive Cybernews, the Council’s electronic newsletter, and other Scouting information.

 

To join the Council on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DPVC147

 

The Des Plaines Valley Council serves 42 communities in the western and southwestern suburbs of Chicago.  Its Service Center is located in La Grange, IL.  The Council is recognized as one of the oldest local Boy Scout organizations in the Nation, having offered the Scouting program to area youth for more than 100 years.

 

In Scouting’s next century the Des Plaines Valley Council is working to expand efforts to increase public understanding and support for Scouting and advance its program of service to youth in the communities it serves.

 

-BSA-

 

Note to editors:  If story credit is needed: Gary Pitchford, Des Plaines Valley Council. 

 

 

 




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