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RPV Scout Education Center and Campground
The City of Rancho Palos Verdes has embarked on a Coastal Vision Plan that provides a long-term plan on how the city wants to develop and use its parklands along the southern part of the Palos Verdes Peninsula . We would like to use this historic opportunity to include a Scout Educational Center and Campground in this area, and we need your support to make this a reality. This would be used by Scouts from all over, including those from Pack 759.
This facility would include a:
- Scout house for meetings, training sessions, kitchen, craft rooms and a learning center.
- Group campsite for 150 people with bathroom facilities, outdoor amphitheater and fire ring.
- Low impact outdoor recreation activities such as an archery range
We envision this multipurpose center as a place where Scout troops can gather to explore the spaces and places on the Peninsula away from the city lights and suburban development. It would ideally be situated near or on the nature preserve so that youth could extend their experience onto the trails and hikes in the area. A camp where Scouts and family members can stay in tents would provide facilities for enjoying nature with the lowest possible impact on the environment.
The facility would also provide the hands-on experience that Scouts need to develop their character and community service. Groups staying at the camp would be encouraged to do service projects during their stay, such as maintaining trails and installing native plants, working in a reciprocal relationship with the Land Conservancy and the City. As well, those working on their Boy Scout Eagle projects and Girl Scout Gold Award projects in the area would be encouraged to hold their community service projects at the center, helping to enhance the facilities and surrounding parks.
Scouts would also be able to earn merit badges at the facility, from the Cub Scout Outdoorsman Activity Award to the Boy Scout merit badges for astronomy, archery, camping, emergency preparedness, geology, hiking, nature, and oceanography. Girl Scouts could participate in Try Its for Camping, Earth is our Home, Earth and Sky, Eco-Explorer, Outdoor Adventurer, Camping, and Water Everywhere.
What You Need to Do:
We ask that you sign our online vision plan and petition. We need as many signatures as possible if we want to show strong community support for this project.
Finally, if you would like to read more about the City's project, you can go here.
Thanks for your support and feel free to pass this information on to others that will support this project. Again, please sign the petition now and we hope you can make the meeting on Saturday.
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