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CHA-11 MIXED · THE BSA INDEX AND THE GIRL SCOUT RECORD
Walkerton's troops and packs belong to councils seated elsewhere, and the succession of those councils is the item. For the boys: the BSA's local council index carries Council No. 165, South Bend, as LaSalle Council — the modern council of record for St. Joseph County — succeeding the St. Joseph Valley council of the early decades; the exact merger and name-change dates of the boys' line stand as residue, with the council's own history and the Order of the Arrow lodge record named as settlers. For the girls: the predecessor of record is the Singing Sands Council of South Bend — ten counties, headquartered at 3620 Deahl Court, serving some 9,000 girls and 2,000 adults by 2001 under executive director Mary Lauck, grown from 5,000 girls in 1998 — and the modern council is Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana, headquartered at Fort Wayne, an Indiana nonprofit whose bylaws stand amended as of April 2024, formed in the 2008–09 national realignment that folded Singing Sands into the larger council.
Principal sources: BSA Local Council Index, 2006–2008 (Council No. 165, LaSalle); South Bend Tribune, 2001 (Singing Sands Council — scale and leadership); Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana (bylaws, amended April 2024; the council's own record).