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High praise for the Boy Scouts
Where would you be if an emcee said, "Let's give Johnny a round of applause," and an audience of gangly, boisterous boys began to holler and vigorously clap their hands in a circular motion? At a Scout meeting, of course! And, as a worldwide program, and with its 100th year anniversary in the...
Helping less active Scouts with Faith in God awards
I arrived at the home of a Cub Scout on Friday afternoon with a Faith in God pamphlet in hand ready to do what I could to help the boy be at church on Sunday, only to find the family packing a camp trailer for a weekend in the woods. "Sis. Duce, Sis. Duce look at my new fishing pole I got for my...
From the Archives: My Love Letter to Boy Scouts
Utah’s Boy Scouts have had a rough couple of years with forest fires, massive searches for lost Scouts, and the untimely deaths of beloved sons. Although recent tolls have been heavy, the rewards, over time, have been priceless. Tessie Dalebout turned six in the spring of 1912. On May Day of that...
Cub Scout Chronicles: Water play makes any Cub's day
We recently enjoyed a quarterly Primary activity with another ward on the grounds of our town's historic mansion and arboretum. Under the shade of hundreds of trees, leaders in the Primary led groups of mingled kids on scripture-theme adventures. The obvious challenge with such events is engaging...
Mormon man doesn't have to have sons to be a Scouter
You know you're dating a real Scouter when your first date together is a Scouting event. After 26 years of marriage, Sharie Bollwinkel can only remember one year that her husband, John, didn't do any Scouting. Needless to say, John Bollwinkel of Park City, Utah, is a Scouter through and...
100 years of Scouting
"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight." — Scout Oath Around the time our pioneer ancestors were building the Salt Lake Temple in 1875,...
Eagle Scout rank awarded to 35-year-old from Utah
The vast majority of Boy Scouts receive their Eagle Scout award by age 17. But because the paperwork never got sent in, Derick Duncan didn't receive his award until two decades later, at age 35. Duncan knew he had earned the award at age 17 in Mesa, Ariz., but between confusion over who was...
Stadium of Fire to host world's largest-ever Eagle Scout Court of Honor
The 30th annual Stadium of Fire at America's Freedom Festival at Provo is boasting more than just five-time Grammy Award-winning superstar Carrie Underwood this summer. It is also poised to have the world's largest-ever Eagle Scout Court of Honor. The Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts...
Boy Scouts announce new award for playing video games
Mormon Life says: Um...really?
You knew it had to be coming — recognition in the U.S. Scouting program for playing video games. The Boy Scouts of America have recently introduced a new belt loop and academic pin available to Cub...
Scouting reaches its centennial anniversary
As the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its 100th anniversary, the storied organization's first institutional sponsor — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — can certainly claim a prominent place at the birthday table. It was a century ago this month that the BSA was organized on a...
Utah is 'Eagle Scout State'
The headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America may be in Texas, but the "capital" of the BSA is in Utah. That's what Utah Lt. Gov. Greg Bell said at what was believed to be the largest gathering of Scouts and leaders in the nation to celebrate American Scouting's centennial. Some 2,500 Scouters...
From Great Britain to Great Basin: A brief look at history of Scouting
Scouting in America, 100 years old this month, really has two founders: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell and William D. Boyce. Baden-Powell, a British military hero during the Boer War in Africa and an avid outdoorsman, wrote Scouting for Boys in 1908 after finding English boys reading...
Stadium of Fire to honor Eagle Scouts
This year's Stadium of Fire will have more than 100 special guests, all under the age of 18. In honor of the Boy Scouts of America's 100th anniversary, America's Freedom Festival at Provo and Stadium of Fire will host a Centennial Eagle Court of Honor during its July 4 festivities. "We're trying...
Scouting emphasizes spirituality; various faiths have awards
A Boy Scout is reverent. That's the 12th point of the Scout Law, emphasizing how important spirituality and religion are in the Scouting program. And with the annual Scout Sunday observance coming on Feb. 7, Scouting and faith are especially relevant topics. As an emblem of spiritual endeavors,...
Skeptical mom converted to Cub Scouts
I may be a new Cub Scout den leader, but I haven't bought a yellow uniformed shirt yet -- I'm not sure I'm fully converted. The relationship between the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts of America has, admittedly, always been curious to me. Growing up, I had three brothers who donned scout...
