Scouts Celebrate Golden Anniversary With Week Of Events
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts mark 70th and 50th anniversaries with Klondike Derby at Mears Park and Scout Sundays. Heart of America Council to honor Eagle Scouts at Independence dinner with William Hillcourt as guest. Pinewood Derbies, open houses, and recruiting drives planned. Boy Scout Show at Bartle Hall May 10.
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Twin Rivers
Mears Park
Heart of America Council
Latter Day Saints
Independence
William ‘Green
Bill” Hillcourt
Sige Hall
Oraft
Pinewood
Heart of Fa‘ Council
S Bay
Bartle Hall
Kansas City
Eugene Field
Klondike Derby Scouts Bring Eskimo Sledges To Park
One hundred Boy Scouts and leaders from Twin Rivers District will stage a Klondike Derby at Mears Park in Franklin County on Saturday. Teams race Eskimo-style sledges through a town-by-town obstacle course testing knot tying first aid lifesaving shelter building and firebuilding among other skills while earning gold nuggets for each completed town. The event runs 9 30 a m to about 4 p m with some groups camping overnight and sledges six feet long built of wood and rope.
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Alaska
Franklin County
Mears Park
Juneau
Fairbanks
Dawson
Twin Rivers
Heart of America Council
Franklin
Wappel
Omg
Census Good Turn Scouts distribute census fliers
Cub Scouts Boy Scouts and Explorers will hand out informational fliers on the 1980 Census this Saturday March 8 as part of a nationwide Good Turn by the Boy Scouts of America for the U S Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census. Scout officials say it is the largest effort of its kind since a 1950s get out the vote drive.
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Cub Scouts
Boy Scouts
Explorers
Boy Scouts of America
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census
Franklin County grows Scouts with 123 new members in 1979
Twin Rivers District Executive Mark Wappel announced 123 new Scouts in 1979, 52 Boy Scouts and 71 Cub Scouts, across six Boy Scout troops and eight Cub Scout packs. The district serves Franklin, Miami, Anderson and Linn counties, with growth continuing for three years. Heart of America Council reported 275 new Scouts, totaling over 30,000 in the council. Franklin hosts the largest group, including Troop 76 at Presbyterian Church Ottawa and several Ottawa packs, plus others in Pomona, Princeton, Wellsville.
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the Herald
Pat Maloney
Lincoln School
Mark Wappel
Twin Rivers
Mike Burrichter
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Wappel
Kansas City
Heart of America Council
Jay Bemis
Franklin County
Boy
Cub Scouts of America
Franklin
Miami
Anderson
Linn
Twin Rivers District
Missouri
Kansas
Robert Long
Heart of America
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