Scouting in the News
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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