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Whittier teen gains leadership experience in Eagle Scout
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Nicholas Roque was 4 years
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We’re Looking
for 10,000 Scoutmasters!
- Scout Executive's Corner
(Summer Issue 2009) |
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Commissioner’s Corner
- Scouters' News (Summer Issue 2009) |
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Whittier
boy receives Eagle Scout award |
Lucas Andrew Kinney, 17, of
Whittier, has earned the highest
advancement award the Boy Scouts
of America offers to Scouts, the
Eagle Scout Award. He was
recognized at a ceremony on
April 25 at the Parnell Park
Activities Center.
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Dean Helps
Students See The Green |
Bill
Vanderberg, L.A. School Official,
Makes Nature Come Alive With
Environmental Club For Inner-City
Students. Growing up in Crenshaw in
South Los Angeles, children don't
always have the chance to go outside
and play
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Taylor Wood
rushed out of the car with his first aid kit. |
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"I always have my first aid kit."
Taylor said. "Some people keep them in the back of their car
or in their packs, but I keep mine with me." He immediately
began to clean the motorcyclist’s open wounds and made sure
to stabilize him to avoid making any internal injuries
worse. |
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Peer-to-Peer:
The OA Sout Reach Mentoring Program |
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Some young boys grasp basic
Scouting skills within a short time of joining a troop.
Others need more time and someone to look up to. The Order
of the Arrow’s Scout reach Mentoring program tries to fill
that gap. |
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Eagle Scout, Zack Gourley,
Lead's Harbor Community in Tree Planting |
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Zack led 75
members of his community in an event at San Pedro's Peck
Park to plant 27 trees. He faced many obstacles... |
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In a region
plagued by gangs, we could use more Boy Scouts |
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The kid who lives in my house is
an Eagle Scout, which fills his mother and me with both
pride and astonishment. Is this the same lump of carbon that
spent his tadpole years Velcroed to the sofa with a Game Boy
controller in his paw? |
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Eagle Scout aids Iraqi children with
school-supply drive
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Derek
Sisson directs
fellow members of
Boy Scout Troup 948
as they assemble
school-supply kits
for the nonprofit
Operation Iraqi
Children. The drive,
which raised more
than $1,300, was
Derek s Eagle Scout
project.
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Scout finds
helping is in his nature
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Service is in Liam Cordero's DNA.
The San Pedro teenager led an effort to supply and ship more
than 100 boxes of toiletries to American soldiers stationed
in Iraq and Afghanistan last summer. It was his Eagle Scout
project - the last step toward achieving the highest rank in
the Boy Scouts. Liam will attain the rank officially during
a ceremony today Feb. 8. "I've always been inspired by the
military," said the 15-year-old Liam. "For the project - I
thought, 'What can I do for them?'" |
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REPAIRING A POND FOR CHUBS
Kevin Anderson, Troop 985, Whittier, Calif. |
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The Mojave River
flows through the
Camp Cady Wildlife
Area in Southern
California, and it
formed ponds that
held freshwater
species, including
the endangered
Mojave tui chub.
Before Kevin
Anderson was born, a
leak formed in one
of those ponds,
drying it
completely. The
13-year-old eighth
grader led a project
with his troop and
the help of the area
caretaker to restore
the pond and will
restock it with the
tui chub and other
species. “These
chubs are only found
in three other
ponds, so now this
can be the fourth,”
says Anderson, a fly
fisherman and duck
hunter. He became an
Eagle Scout last
November. |
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"Someone to
look up to"
- Scout Executive's Corner |
On my office wall, there’s an old
photo of a young boy and a man, both in Scout uniform (see
cover). The boy is gazing up at the man with admiration and
trust. That photo was taken 52 years ago; the man is my now
93-year old Dad and the new Scout
is me at age eleven. I describe it as “Someone to look up
to.” |
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