Rocks Rock
Submitted by Den 8 Webelos - Ryan, Jonathan, Jakob and Ross

We went to Stony Creek Nature Center to earn our Geologist badge.  Ranger Mathew took us on a one and a half mile hike.  He showed us how glaciers moved through Michigan, where we stood was once covered by one mile thick of ice.  We saw igneous boulders along the way, which were pushed here by glaciers from Canada.  He told us how land is raising about one centimeter per 100 years.  He taught us how to identify granite, marble, quartz and pudding rock, which is a mixture of different rocks.  He told us about fossils.  He showed us shells from long ago that are now extinct.  We each got polished stones for figuring out rocks.  At the end of the day, we had one stone that no one knew, which we called the 'mystery rock'.  It turned out to be the baby powder rock, talc.

The Case of the Missing CD's
Submitted by Den 8 Webelos - Patrick, Ryan, Jonathan and Jakob

On a warm Saturday morning, we met at the Baptist Church to do the annual island clean-up.  Ryan and Jonathan's group picked up 11 bags of trash on Grays Drive.  Patrick helped even though he had a broken arm!  On the way there, we stopped to get water at the high school and at Jonathan's house on the way back.  We collected fast food wrappers from McD's, Wendy's, Subway, Hungry Howies, Burger King and Taco Bell.  We also found Mrs. Miller's two stolen CD's, but not Mr. Miller missing golf shoe!  Jakob's group was on Grosse Ile Parkway along the Detroit Edison Plant fence.  The group also found the above fast food wrappers, plus Blimpies, a railroad track, metal cross bars and pipes.  At the end of the morning, we met at the church to have pizza and pop.