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July 17, 2008

President Bush Presents Award to ArrowCorps5 Shasta-Trinity Project Participants.

President Bush presented the President’s Volunteer Service Award to Mark Hendricks, Western Region Chief of the Order of the Arrow; Jake Wellman, national chief of the Order of the Arrow; and Alex Braden, deputy youth incident commander of the Shasta-Trinity Project.

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July 10, 2008

History Detectives on PBS

HISTORY DETECTIVES host Gwen Wright explores New York City's 1930s high society and illuminates a connection between FDR and the Boy Scouts that inspired one of the most popular and effective pieces of the President's New Deal program.

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June 23, 2008

Boy Scouts of America Plans Largest National Service Project Since World War II

The largest, most complex, most challenging conservation project ever conceived by the Order of the Arrow and the Boy Scouts of America.

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June 09, 2008

Boy Scouts Look for $100M Jamboree Site

By John McCloud, GlobeSt.com

The Boy Scouts of America is expanding its search to find a site of at least 5,000 acres to build a permanent home for the Boy Scouts National Scout Jamboree.

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June 05, 2008

Suburban Living: To build a man of integrity, character, start with Eagle Scout

By Ruth Ann Dailey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I was going back over some of these stories the other day when it struck me that a great many of the charitable projects had a single thing in common: Eagle Scouts.

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June 5, 2008

Boy Scouts hires Greenville firm to find a home for Jamboree

By Rudolph Bell, The Greenville News

The Boy Scouts of America has hired McCallum Sweeney Consulting, the Greenville site consultant, to find a permanent home for its National Scout Jamboree, the quadrennial campout that draws more than 35,000 scouts from across the country.

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