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Fall Creek Scouts build shade structure for nursing home
Sara Nemec Cub Scout Lane Westphal, 7, left, helped Eagle Scout hopeful Benjamin Messerschmidt, 17, both of Fall Creek, build a pergola Saturday for residents of Fall Creek Valley Care Center.

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6:30 pm Join Scouting night
Come check out Cub Scouts. Cub Scouts is a family Program for boys in Grades 1st-4th. We are holding our anual Join Scouting night at 6:30pm. We will also have boy Scouts on hand for boys 5th grade and up.

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Bill Gates To Receive Boy Scouts’ Highest Honor
SEATTLE — On Tuesday, Bill Gates will receive the Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor. The Chief Seattle Council is giving the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist the Silver Buffalo, which recognizes individuals for extraordinary community service.

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Local Scouts march in Grand Centennial Parade
Boy Scouts from the Frederick Moose Troop 371 battled the heat as they marched in the Boy Scouts of America Grand Centennial Parade in Washington

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Michael Winship: The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts
Michael Winship I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout. Pack 30, First Congregational Church. I rose through the ranks:…

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Local Scouts will gather at Landmark Park Sunday to honor BSA
February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was born. Sunday, from 2-4 p.m., Wiregrass participants in BSA, along with their families and friends, will gather at Landmark Park to celebrate this organization’s milestone of service – 100 years.

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Leader for life: Dick Hall becomes region’s longest-running Cub Scout leader | By Magdalena Wegrzyn © …
HYGIENE – After nearly 40 years as Cubmaster of Hygiene’s Cub Scout Pack 281, Richard Dick Hall still hasn’t lost his passion for mentoring young boys.

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Campgrounds vandalized
Vandals did more than $500 damage to the Boy Scout campgrounds at 6610 Iron Bridge Road, according to a police report.

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INTO THE MIKE: Duty and honor
The Boy Scouts of Troop 7 have helped keep the Scoutmaster of the Year physically strong. This spring, Ernie Guy was named Scoutmaster of the Year for the Seven Rivers District, which consists of 24 troops from 11 area towns.

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Scout lessons
BUSH – Tyler Byrd, 8, of Bogalusa couldn’t wait to return to the popular zip lines at the Bogue Tuchenna Cub Scout Day Camp onWednesday afternoon.

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Condors in the Community: Colonel Claw’D to Entertain Cub Scouts
A group of local students from the Norris School Districtwill visit Condorstown for a tour of Rabobank Arena from 9-10 a.m. Colonel Claw’dwill stop in during the tour as a surprise.

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Boy Scouts honor Pekin man
Rich Kriesgman is a man that any Boy Scout could — and should — emulate. According to Jessica McCloud, Learning for Life/Exploring Executive with the W.D. Boyce Council, Boy Scouts of America, Kriegsman was presented with the 2010 Good Scout Recipient award for his “extraordinary leadership and community service in and around the Pekin area.”  

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Area Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts honored with national awards
Area Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts have received awards from the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. Cub Scout Pack 3283 and Boy Scout Troop 283 recently earned the Catholic Quality Unit Award.

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Scouts help give old soles new life
Almost anything can be recycled, a local Cub Scout den is trying to prove. Scouts of the Den 2 of Pack 716 from Travis Ranch and Woodsboro Elementary schools recently collected more than 300 used tennis shoes as part of their community service…

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Cub Scout pack will honor deceased den leader
VERNON — The Wolf Scouts of Vernon’s Cub Scout Pack 283 remember their late den leader, Michael Raso, for his enthusiasm, dedication and most of all, his message which ended each meeting with an inspirational shout by every Scout: “Do your best.”

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