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Ottawa - Scouts to assist with southeast Asia relief effort
“As an organization that teaches its youth to help others, it is important that we provide our members with the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the relief effort,” explained Mike Scott, Scouts Canada’s Chief Commissioner. “I have therefore challenged each Beaver, Cub, Scout, Venturer [...]

ic Liverpool - Lennon’s Scout group benefits from trust
JOHN LENNON’S former Scout group is among the beneficiaries of a trust set up to benefit the people of one of Merseyside’s most popular suburbs.

Scout collects $1,800 in donations for tsunami relief (Omaha World-Herald).
Gus Winner, the 11-year-old Cub Scout who responded to news of the Asian tsunami by going door-to-door in his Omaha neighborhood collecting donations, surprised even himself.

Scouts to buy Melita Island (Daily Inter Lake).
Today is the deadline for a Boy Scout campaign to raise $1.5 million for the purchase of an island on Flathead Lake, and it appears that target will be met “by the skin of our teeth,” the campaign chairman said Thursday afternoon.