An Hour A Week? Podcast

Salt Lake Tribune - Community council backs effort to name street after fallen soldier
A Boy Scout’s push to honor Adam Galvez by adding the fallen Marine’s name to a Salt Lake City street is moving forward.

Eagle Scout hopeful restores fading totem on Olympia span - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
OLYMPIA - A fading 32-year-old totem pole standing at the base of the Fifth Avenue bridge captured the imagination of Eagle Scout hopeful Erik Hegge.
The Capital High School sophomore had been looking for an idea that would fulfill the culminating project requirement to become an Eagle Scout. When someone at an Olympia Boy Scout Troop No. 266 meeting a year ago suggested restoring the totem pole, Erik, 15, volunteered.

A group of Eagle Scouts erected the pole in 1974 and dedicated it to people who are blind. Beyond that, little is known.

Worlds merge on the race track where Scouts share skills, hopes
Back in the 1950s, the Boy Scouts had a plan: build gravity-powered model cars and launch them down a track. They called it the Pinewood Derby, and the idea was to bring boys together.

Good ideas stick around, and last week the derby reached a bunch of boys who live with what professionals describe as “profound disabilities or complex medical needs.”

Many cannot speak or walk. Yet because of their efforts and those of fellow Scouts, two dozen boys from Northeast Portland’s Providence Center for Medically Fragile Children competed in a run that ended with a special kind of grace: Two sets of boys learned a little about each other.

Eagle Scout candidate to collect books for school
NOBLESVILLE — Daniel Latini is coordinating a book drive to benefit Hazel Dell Elementary School.

After learning the school is about 165 students over capacity, the Noblesville High School senior decided to start the book drive to help new teachers find books for their classrooms. The books also will be used for the school library and other teachers.

Latini, who is doing the book drive as his Eagle Scout project, said the books can be reference, novels or storybooks, so long as the subject is school appropriate.

WWAY NewsChannel 3, Wilmington, NC: Eagle Scouts help at-risk kids
WILMINGTON — At-risk kids are kids who need help, some need guidance and maybe a place to call home. The workers at the Coastal Horizon Center in Wilmington often provide that help.

Saturday the center received some help from some kids in the community who are trying to make a difference.

Thanks to DL Bob for this submission.

LA Daily News - Reluctant Scout gets hero’s medal
Some things you never forget, Barbara Wright says, smiling. Like the day six years ago that she drove her 9-year-old son, William, to his first Boy Scout meeting.

“He cried all the way, didn’t want to go.”

A month later, her son led 40 of his fellow Scouts from Troop 104 in Mission Hills in the Pledge of Allegiance.

A month after that he was teaching his mom CPR.

“His confidence just blossomed,” Barbara said.

A few years later, when Will was 11, he balked at Barbara’s idea to sign him up for Junior Lifeguard training. The kid wasn’t crazy about getting up at dawn, running five miles, and spending hours in the ocean every day to earn his certification, but he did it.

Good thing. There’s a young woman in Japan right now who owes her life to the boy who cried on his way to his first Boy Scout meeting and hated all those cold morning swims in the ocean.

Prepping for my September Pack Meeting took longer than I thought it would, so I am cancelling the show for this week. I’ll be back October 1st with a great show about popcorn and whatever else is on your mind.

Happy Scouting!