Scouting

Kim Minckler

WHEN HER ELDEST son, Noah, was in kindergarten, Kim Minckler signed him up to be a Cub Scout, thinking it would be a good activity for him and her husband, Chad, to do together. She didn’t know much about Scouting except that it involved the outdoors, something that was important to her.

Within a month, she had signed on as the Lion den leader and then as assistant Cubmaster for the pack of 55 boys.

“The more I

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