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Merit badges? He's got 'em all
Last week, Harold Kast earned a Boy Scout merit badge in game design. To achieve this, the 17-year-old junior assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 509 played and studied games and designed his own math-based card game. In doing so, the La Cañada High School...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Youth Organizations, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
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Tony Plakas: Boy Scouts' new proposition just provides a distraction
Last week, the executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America made a proposition: Yes to gay youth and no to gay leaders. After "the most comprehensive listening exercise in its history," the BSA's executive committee conceded gay boys interested in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, Customs and Tradition, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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READER SUBMITTED: Two West Hartford Seniors To Receive Highest Honor In Girl Scouting
West HartfordMargaret Czepiel and Anastasia Konefal will be the first Girl Scouts from West Hartford to receive the Gold Award in ten years. A ceremony and reception was on Friday, April 19, at Atria Hamilton Heights in West Hartford. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the...Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, West Hartford, Abusive Behavior, Youth Organizations
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Chicago center brings meditative mindset to combating youth violence
Most of the CeaseFire interrupters sat up in their chairs and closed their eyes, following the quiet direction of the small man in yellow and orange robes at the head of the conference table. "Allow your mind to feel the way you feel," Sakyong Mipham...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Religious Conflicts, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Buddhism
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Man sues Boy Scouts over alleged abuse from 1970s
A Pennsylvania man on Friday sued the Boy Scouts of America, alleging that the youth organization failed to protect him from sexual abuse by a Scoutmaster nearly 37 ago and then covered it up. Carl Maxwell Jr. was one of five boys, ages 13 and 14, who...
Tags: Pittsburgh, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Sex Crimes
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Letters to the Editor - May 4
Business Person of the Year thanks friends, family To the editor: Hard-working, passionate people create success. I want to thank my family, friends and the Tuscarora Area Chamber of Commerce for awarding me the “Business Person of the Year.&...Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Trips and Vacations, Boy Scouts of America, Youth Organizations, FirstEnergy Corp.
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Somerset County church news for May 4
Middlecreek COB The Rev. Linda Stoner will share the message "Claiming A Holy Inheritance" this Sunday at the Middlecreek Church of the Brethren as they celebrate Youth Sunday. The Rev. John Stoner will lead the worship assisted by the youth. The...Tags: Mother's Day, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music
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Mormon Church OK with gay Boy Scouts proposal
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a message for the Boy Scouts of America's plan to allow gay Scouts: We're fine with it. The Mormon Church, which has historically opposed same-sex marriage, said Thursday that it supported the Scouts'...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal Recognizes Avon Cub Scouts
Local Cub Scouts were recognized by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal during a recent ceremony to mark their transition to becoming Boy Scouts, local scout leaders have announced. Avon Cub Scouts Pack 122 celebrated a successful year of scouting and...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Youth Organizations
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Genocide victims remembered at Burbank City Hall
More than 100 people gathered at Burbank City Hall Tuesday to commemorate the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, which together claimed the lives of 7.5 million people. Descendants of Holocaust victims and survivors lit seven candles at the City...
Tags: Turkey, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Google Inc., Human Interest, Youth Organizations
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Boy Scouts proposal on gays makes everybody unhappy
Adelle M. Banks writes for the Religion News Service that boths sides are unhappy with a proposal by the Boy Scouts to accept gay scouts, but not gay leaders: Conservative and liberal religious leaders may not agree on much, but both are expressing...
Tags: Minority Groups, Boy Scouts of America, Religious Events, Protestant Convention, Youth Organizations
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Boy Scouts make split decision on gays | Editorial
Some observers might interpret the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to admit openly gay scouts while barring gay scout leaders as a softening of their anachronistic homophobic policy, but in reality it is nothing of the sort. For it perpetuates...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Gays and Lesbians, Youth Organizations
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