Welcome back everyone to another great year of scouting!  As a Bear your scouts will be building on the lessons we learned as Wolves while embarking on an exciting new adventure with our new scout program.  Our rewards system will differ this year.  No more beads or arrow points.  No more extra belt loops.  All of our rank advancements will come from our Bear Handbook and all are now a belt loop based system.  There are still some opportunities for additional awards that we will explore as the year goes on.  Thank you all for returning to scouts and we hope to have another successful year together!