The regional Boy Scout organization overseeing the Treasure Coast says it is in serious financial difficulties.

In the face of a 30 percent decline in financial support, the Gulf Stream Council cut staff and expenses earlier this year.

Still the administrative organization has “an urgent cash flow shortage that threatened our operations and program,” wrote John Marion, Gulf Stream Council Executive Board president, in a recent letter to local Scout groups.
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The United Way of Martin County’s White Doves Holiday Project still needs about 5,000 pounds of food to meet its goal of raising 18,000 pounds.

With the help of the Boy Scouts of America Sailfish District, the project collected about 13,000 pounds. But that won’t feed as many families as last year, said Carol Hodnett, director of Martin Volunteers, in a prepared statement. Martin Volunteers organizes the holiday project.

“We have given larger families two bags of food in years past, but so far this year it looks like we will struggle to give some families one bag,” she said. (more…)

STUART — After a long-fought battle, the Boy Scouts took an important step forward Tuesday in their efforts to renovate a half-century old camp next to Jonathan Dickinson State Park used by troupes throughout southeastern Florida. (more…)