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Boy Scouts of California popcorn 2014
An estimated 250-300 people attended the 28th annual 4th of July celebration at Heritage Park in Bryan’s East Side Historic District. This event was sponsored by Boy Scouts of America Troop 383 St. Joseph Catholic Church, Dent Magic, Saint-Gobain NorPro, The Downtown Bryan Association, and The Farm Patch. Radio Station 98.3 KORA provided a live radio broadcast for the event…
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Vintage Boy Scouts California books
Ojai’s legendary “pink moment, ” when the setting sun casts a scarlet glow across the Topa Topa Mountains (pictured above), is pretty enough to plan a weekend getaway around. We sent writer Jess Chamberlain to this Ventura County village—80 miles northwest of L.A.—to explore. Here below, her five favorite Ojai finds. Happy road tripping! 1. Natural Highs For the best views…
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Boy Scouts of California Richmond VA
Veteran and amputee Eric Scott makes an impassioned plea to the group of designers and engineers at the McGuire Make-A-Thon Veteran s panel. He asked them to design a prosthetic that would enable him to return to riding motorcycles. The McGuire VA Medical Center hosted a grand finale Make-A-Thon event, July 28-29, inviting the country’s brightest engineering minds to work hand-in-hand…
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Sue Baden Powell Boy Scouts California
Feeling dispirited about today s youth? Try attending a Boy Scout meeting. You will find a parallel universe to today s vulgar, sexualized youth culture, filled with gestures of sometimes unbelievable delicacy and a code of conduct as anachronistic as sixteenth-century courtiership. Take Harlem s Troop 759. Six boys, from tall to small, sit expectantly around a card table in…
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Boy Scouts California Youth Protection Training online
FIND A LIST OF CURRENT TRAINING S OFFERED HERE A cornerstone of the Boy Scout programs is training. Some of these training courses are conducted by districts and some by the council; others are available through the MY.SCOUTING.ORG. (You must have/create an account to log in.) What makes a Trained Leader? Adult leaders in units are considered trained and eligible to wear the…
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Old Boy Scout California knives
Rising out of the snow-dusted fields like a gargantuan block of Post-it notes, the Buck Knives factory in the Idaho panhandle looks for all the world like a Northwest native. From the basalt columns adorning the driveway to the moose trophy gazing implacably down on the lobby and the spectacular chandelier built of antlers, the building feels like it belongs here, where the…
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Klondike Derby Boy Scouts California
During a Klondike Derby, Scout patrols visit stations (sometimes called towns ) along the route and compete in the various events (sometimes supervised by the town mayor ). It adds to the derby to give a Klondike flavour to each event. Scouters are each event could be in costume an tell scene-setting stories as patrols arrive. Some examples: You and your buddies were climbing…
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