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Scouts prepare to Scout Out Hunger
This Saturday, scouts of all ages from two counties will be coming together for a single cause.  

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Bill Gates receives Scouts’ Silver Buffalo Award
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday received the highest award that the Boy Scouts of America bestows on adults for distinguished service to youth.

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Saluting Scouting’s 100th
If you think being a Boy Scout is limited to the old cliché of assisting elderly ladies across the street, you particularly need to check out the display in honor of the Centennial of the Boy Scouts of America now on exhibit in the lobby of the…

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Local News
The Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad responded to an Aberdeen business Tuesday after an employee discovered a piece of drug paraphernalia that resembled a pipe bomb. Aberdeen Sgt. Art Laur said officers responded at about 2:30 p.m. to the 1900 block of Sumner Avenue where the device had been…

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Heath News: Get out, about tonight for Mopar Super Cruise
Are you ready to see some classic cars? If you weren’t able to get out to see them Friday night, tonight is your final opportunity. This evening is the much anticipated Mopar Super Cruise.

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Eastbourne scout movement marks 100th year
EASTBOURNE scouts recently celebrated their centenary year with a massive camp at Bushy Wood. (06/08/2010 11:10:50)

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Shirley Scout hopes to spruce up town’s Avenue of Flags
SHIRLEY — For Kenneth Swain, the journey to becoming an Eagle Scout started in the first grade, when he became a Tiger Cub.

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Oklahoma man’s death at Scout Jamboree revealed
Bill Warde, 67, a statistics professor since 1972, was found unresponsive in his bed Tuesday and later declared dead by Boy Scouts of America medical staff, according to a joint statement by the BSA and the military joint task force that supported the event.

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Scouts mark 100th year
There will be no chance to earn the Boredom Merit Badge at this week’s Boy Scout 2010 Centennial Jamboree at the Churchill County Fairgrounds in Fallon.

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Memorial Day Parade steps off today through Saratoga Springs
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Local veterans, officials, Cub Scouts and STAR 101.3 FM’s Twinkle the Bear will make their way down Broadway tonight for the Spa City’s annual Memorial Day parade.

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Scouts make clean sweep
Den 5 from Cub Scout Pack 366 recently did a cleanup at Baldwin Park in Howell. The seven boys raked, swept, and picked up garbage at the park to get it ready for spring and summer visitors.

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Area Boy Scouts celebrate organization’s 100th year – Sat, 22 May 2010 PST
Dakota Smith had no idea welding had anything to do with the Boy Scouts. “I thought it was all outdoors and stuff,” the 10-year-old from Spokane said. There was the outdoors stuff, too, as Smith and the other members of Cub Scout Pack 117 watched Cub Master David Mayfield eat a grub on behalf of his pack, as part of a survival demonstration. Grub eating and welding were but two of the more than …

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Scouting rules a sign of times
There are things I don’t like about the Boy Scouts of America – the strict regimen, the conservative religious overtone, the daft notion that a gay man can’t teach family and community values. The uniforms are goofy, too.

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Boy Scouts celebrate 100 years with Scout Fair
MERIDIAN — This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.  This weekend troops held a Scout Fair at Sawtooth Middle School in Meridian. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts showed off the great things they get to learn when they participate in scouting. Law enforcement officers showed their weapons and firefighters put hoses right into the hands of children. “What we have here is …

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Thousands of Boy Scouts to attend Bonelli Park Jamboree honoring organization’s 100th anniversary
SAN DIMAS – To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in the United States, the San Gabriel Valley Council and Verdugo Hills Council will jointly host a Centennial Council Jamboree at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park next weekend.

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