{"id":12151,"date":"2019-08-12T00:13:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12151"},"modified":"2019-08-12T00:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:13:47","slug":"father-duncan-receives-scouting-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12151","title":{"rendered":"Father Duncan receives Scouting accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> On Saturday June 8, Reverend Duncan MacMaster received Scouting\u2019s Certificate for 55 years of service to the Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  was presented during a retirement party for Father Duncan held by Saint  Rose of Lima Parish and attended by over 300 parishioners. Many from  parishes he had served during his Priesthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Winter, Pack Scouter for 1st Sackville and Paul Savoie, Group Commissioner for 1st Sackville made the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scouting has been a great interest of Father MacMaster as noted by his active involvement and his many accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\n has been assistant Scout Master, Scout Master, District Venture \nAdvisor, Rover Leader, and Group Committee Chair. Father Duncan has \nserved on Organization and Expansion Committee of the Province of Nova \nScotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has served on Honors and Awards Committee of Province \nand Chair Committee for five years and on National Honors and Awards \nCommittee and played a role in restructuring requirements for Honors and\n Awards. He was also Chair Chaplain for five National Jamborees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\n has been Troop Scouter with four different groups and has been leader \nin various Jamborees and helped with Spiritual Exercises for 25 \nOperational Alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above Father has found time to work with youth, driving, picking up supplies and recruiting leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father\n MacMaster was involved behind the scenes in formation of 1st Clayton \nPark Scout Troop. As there was a group of graduated Cubs\/Beavers who did\n not have a troop to attend Father MacMaster called parents together to \nform a pack and gave each one a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He currently belongs to the \nBaden-Powell Guild of Halifax, and continues to volunteer when available\n for Jamborees and Scout Alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Camp Lone Cloud in Fall \nRiver and attending Sunday Mass at Saint Rose of Lima Father would not \nhave thought that 60 years later he would be retiring as a Priest from \nSaint Rose of Lima in Fall River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: On Saturday June 8, Reverend Duncan MacMaster received Scouting\u2019s Certificate for 55 years of service to the Movement. This was presented during a retirement party for Father Duncan held by Saint Rose of Lima Parish and attended by over 300 parishioners. Many from parishes he had served during his Priesthood. David Winter, Pack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,668,669],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-fall-river","tag-father-duncan","tag-scouting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}