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Scouts to serve up spaghetti and more December 2, 2007 Troop 194 will host its 35th annual Spaghetti Dinner. The event will be held at the Babylon Junior/Senior High School from 2 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Debbie Bonventre at 631-422-3840. Boy Scouting is an organization where boys become young men. Troop 194 of Babylon Village has followed that thought for 39 years. These former Troop 194 boys from Babylon Village area have now grown into mature men. Many of the Troop 194 alumni are active leaders in our community. Some volunteer for our Village fire department, three fire department chiefs were in Troop 194, one is a teacher at Babylon HS, one teaches in Lindenhurst, several work for the village. One of the troop alumni graduated from West Point and is now an officer in the U.S. Army. Another alumnus is serving in Iraq today as a non-commissioned officer. Two other alumni served as noncommissioned officers in the U.S. Marines. I could go on and on forever about the virtues of Boy Scouting. Troop 194 uses a boy leadership, hands on technique to instill the virtues of Scouting in its members. One of the most effective ways for the boys to learn Leadership is participating in the troops one and only annual fundraiser. The fundraiser is a spaghetti dinner. The boys are in on every level of planning and participation. The scouts number the tables and the senior patrol members assign guests and scouts to the tables. With the help of a table location chart the scouts track which tables are available and which table requires cleaning. Dinner is served by the scouts and the tables are maintained by the scouts. The benefits of scout participation are many. They learn leadership, responsibility, team work, and social interfacing. What is more the scouts learn that fundraising requires more than asking for donations, it requires that the scouts give their guests good service.
The troop spaghetti dinner has evolved into more then a fundraiser, it has become a Village social event. Local area residents, some of who were troop members decades ago have come to the dinner for more than 30 years.
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