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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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Local Cub Scouts win with speed and shine
A pair of Bogalusa Cub Scouts swept the competition at the 2010 Bogue Tuchenna District pinewood derby in Covington recently.

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Scout festival blends old, new
Jambo100, held at Kutztown University, celebrates a century of Scouting with activities including marshmallow-shooting crossbows and tomahawk hurling The marshmallows were flying over the weekend in Kutztown, as hundreds of eager Cub Scouts lined up to take their turns firing off plastic, confection-launching toy crossbows at the Jambo100 Boy Scout festival and campout.

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Local Boy Scouts celebrate 100 years
SOUTH BEND — In the century that the Boy Scouts of America have been in existence, some aspects of the organization have changed.

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Scout Plans to Clean Up Goodleburg
Long rumored to be a haunted burial ground, the historic Goodleburg Cemetery in the Town of Wales, dating back to the early 19th century, will be given a do-over and spruced up if one local Boy Scout has anything to say and do about it.

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Bush earns Eagle Scout award
Kaegan Bush, the son of Duane ands Karla Bush of Saline and a member of Boy Scout Troop 416 in Saline, was given the Eagle Scout award in a ceremony April 26.

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Scout-A-Rama will help celebrate 100 years
WOODSTOCK — More than 1,000 Boy Scouts will become showmen this weekend. As part of the 100th anniversary of Scouting in the United States, the Shenandoah Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America is hosting a Scout-A-Rama at the Shenandoah County Fairgrounds, beginning Friday and lasting through Sunday morning.

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Rescue Training: Area scouts participate in disaster training exercise
Ionia County’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) held a training session at the Ionia County Hunting and Fishing Lodge at Bertha Brock Park Monday night.

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People of El Mirage raises funds for Cub Scouts
The following item was submitted by Lana Mook of People of El Mirage.

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Boy Scouts Help Celebrate Anniversary with New Merit Badge
Youngsters can get involved starting at age seven in the Tiger Cub Program.

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Cub Scouts’ garage sale scheduled for this weekend
Cub Scout Pack 122 will hold a multifamily garage sale 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the gymnasium at Judson Baptist Church, 525 Idylwood Drive SE.

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Five from Centerville Troop 516
 achieve rank of Eagle Scout
Five Boy Scouts — Brian L. Berger, Devin T. Burke, William F. Irwin, Brandon W. Letcher and Robert D. Peterson — from Troop 516 in Centerville achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in November at Southminster Presbyterian Church.began his Scouting career as a first-grade Tiger Cub in Pack 299 at Driscoll Elementary School.

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Scouts celebrate centennial
Lakeland-based Boy Scouts of America Cub Pack 455 celebrated 100 years of Scouting by planting BSA Centennial Trees at the City of Lakeland’s Arboretum at Zadie E. Kuehl Memorial Park on April 3.

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