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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, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Youth Organizations
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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: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Boy Scouts of America, Customs and Tradition, Lake Worth, Mormonism
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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: West Loop, CeaseFire, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Colleges and Universities
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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: Barack Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, Boy Scouts of America, Mormonism, Social Issues
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Girl Scouts Virginia Skyline Council hosting sale in honor of Earth Day
WDBJ 7 Anchor/ReporterThe Girl Scouts are celebrating 100 years of building leadership and citizenship skills in girls. Part of their service to our community is making the world better. In honor of Earth Day, the Girl Souts Virginia Skyline Council is hosting a community...Tags: Earth Day, Youth Organizations, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia)
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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: Google Inc., The Holocaust (1934-1945), Massacres, Youth Organizations, Turkey
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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: Protestant Convention, Boy Scouts of America, Lifestyle and Leisure, Youth Organizations, Minority Groups
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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, Youth Organizations, Gays and Lesbians
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Letters: Boy Scouts' decision doubted
Re "Scout officials endorse dual tack on gays," April 20 Aside from being annoying and insulting, the recommendation of top Boy Scouts of America officials to allow gay boys to become members while continuing to bar gay men from being leaders is...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Lifestyle and Leisure, Youth Organizations, Gays and Lesbians, Clubs and Associations
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Scouting's too-timid offer to gays
Americans are turning a corner on gay rights, and slowly but surely, they seem to be dragging the Boy Scouts along behind them. Leaders of the organization recently proposed dropping its ban on openly gay Scouts, while continuing to prohibit gay adults...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Boy Scouts of America, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure
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L.A. Boy Scouts propose admitting gay leaders as well as Scouts
A Boy Scouts of America proposal to admit gay boys as members while continuing to bar homosexual adults as leaders is not a good way to settle a longstanding controversy that has roiled the youth organization in recent months, a Los Angeles Scouts...Tags: Protestant Convention, Boy Scouts of America, Reese Witherspoon, Lifestyle and Leisure, Youth Organizations
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Girl Scouts provide balm for pediatric patients at Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center
Scents of cinnamon, strawberry and bubble gum will be the norm for pediatric patients at Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center after Girl Scouts from Troop 40172 donated more than 730 tubes of scented lip balm. Pediatric patients can use lip balm to mask the...
Tags: Procedural Sedation, Cinnamon, Hospitals and Clinics, Youth Organizations
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