Community Service - Boy Scouts

By Suzanne Dean

You could make an argument that Scouting hasn’t fundamentally changed over the 100 years that the Boy Scouts of America have been in business.

But if you put a magnifying glass to the organization, you see that Scouting, like the nation it re-

That also applies to Scouting here in Sanpete County.

“It’s pretty much the same

as far as learning skills and going to camps,” says Norman Jensen of Centerfield, who has been involved for 40 years. “But a lot of things have improved and ex-panded.”

The Boy Scouts of America

was incorporated in Chicago in February, 1910. In 1913, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints allied with the Boy Scouts and agreed to sponsor Scout troops.

Sometime between 1913 and

1925, Boy Scouts got going in San-pete County. We aren’t sure exactly when. The Scouts, it seems, have been too busy doing things to keep a formal history.

We know that the Scouts were in operation in 1925 based on some clippings from the old Manti Messenger that a local Scout leader found recently. One article says that the Bryce Council, which covered towns along U.S. 89 from Fairview to Panguitch, was orga-nized that year.

The most captivating artifact we have from Scouting in Sanpete County in the 1920s is a photo-graph of seven Scouts from Manti Troop 1, taken in 1929.

The photo showed up last year

By Vicki Richmond

MT. PLEASANT—The Scout Expo, with the theme “100 Years of Doing a Good Turn,” will kick off Sanpete District celebrations commem-orating the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

Expo events are scheduled for Friday, April 30, and Satur-day, May 1, at the Mt. Pleasant City Park.

“This is our biggest dis-trict Scouting event,” said Ron Richmond, co-chairman of the Scout Expo. “In the past, troops have come from as far as Utah County to camp and participate in expo activities,” he said.

Boy Scout troops are wel-come to camp overnight in des-ignated camping areas next to the park. All other Scout Expo events are open to the public.

The traditional Parade of

Flags will take place Saturday morning at 10. Scouts from around the region will carry

Street in Mt. Pleasant from 200 North until they reach the city park. An honor guard spon-sored by the National Guard will lead the parade.

In keeping with the spirit of service, Scouts and the pub-lic will have the opportunity to participate in a humanitar-ian service project as part of Saturday’s activities. Keith and Linda Leavitt of Mt. Pleasant are organizing the project.

This year ’s expo will also feature some of the more popular events from the past, according to Bob Oliver, co-chairman of the Scout Expo. The National Guard plans to sponsor a climbing wall. A zip line, a rope-making booth, and other activities are planned.

Four BYU football play-

ers, Romney Fuga, Landon Jaussi, Matthew Relei and Tom Steele, will speak during the

Fuga is a defensive line player from Huntington Beach, Calif. He is currently a junior and earned letterman honors as a sophomore. He served a mis-sion for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Jaussi, a senior, is a defen-sive back from Wylie, Texas. He earned letterman honors as a sophomore and as a junior. Jaussi is an Eagle Scout and served a mission in Taichung, Taiwan.

Relei, also an Eagle Scout, is a freshman linebacker from Sonora, Calif. Steele is a fresh-man linebacker from Orem.

The campfire program will take place at 8 p.m. in the rodeo grounds at the city park, following a potluck Dutch oven dinner for the Scout troops.

A traditional feature of the Scout Expo is the Parade of Flags, a display of troop, patrol, Utah

Expo will recognize a century of ‘good turns’

Mt. Pleasant City Park

Friday (Please be dressed in your uniform and stay with your troop)

Troops set up “leave-no-trace” camps north of the cem-

around the park and to carry in the parade. Please mark them

,and share your food with everyone. Bring serving spoons andyour own utensils. Dinner begins at 7:15 p.m.

BYU varsity football players, west side rodeo grounds.Bring your own chairs.

This includes leaders.

Saturday (Please dress in your Scout uniform)

Eat breakfast, dismantle campsite and set up boothdisplays. Stay together!

Street. Remember that no one is to ride in the backs oftrucks.

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Booths and approved activities. The public is invited toparticipate.

Take down and clean up of Scout Expo area.

By Suzanne Dean

PROVO—One way the Utah National Parks Council will observe the centennial of Scouting is by holding what leaders are billing as the largest Eagle Scout court of honor in Boy Scout history.

One hundred boys from the National Parks Council, which takes in most of Utah from Utah County south, will receive their Eagle awards and recite the Eagle Scout

Charge on July 3 during the Stadium of Fire program.

The event will be witnessed by over 60,000 spectators who are expected to be in LaVell Edwards Stadium on the Brigham Young University campus for the annual Inde-

Boys selected to participate in the Cen-tennial Eagle Court of Honor will represent a much larger group of new Eagles from throughout the council. Selection will be

based on applications. Boys who complete their Eagle requirements between Jan. 1-June 1 are eligible to apply.

Boys chosen to participate will get free tickets to the Stadium of Fire and will sit together during the program.

According to Rick Christensen, Sanpete District chairman, the Sanpete District pro-duces 70-90 Eagles per year, so he expects several Sanpete Scouts to be among the honorees.

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Boy Scouts founded inEngland by Robert Ste-phenson Smyth Baden-Powell, also known asLord Baden-Powell.

W.D. Boyce and others incorporatethe Boy Scouts of America. A half-dozennational boys organizations merge underthe BSA umbrella.

pub-lished.

Baden-Powell tours United States.-

zine.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-

sponsor of Scouting and has continuedto sponsor more Scouts than any otherorganization.

Left hand shake and new uniformadopted after World Scout Jamboree,and World Organization of the Scout

Utah County Council, forerunner of

Scouts, was formed.

The Bryce Council of the Boy Scouts isorganized serving communities on U.S.

LDS church designates Scouting as its

Sanpete and Gunnison gather for a

Troop 1 wins the

B S A m e m -bership reaches

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h o l d a n n u a lcampouts at Jets

A history of the adventure

in Manti.

By Lyle Fletcher

Robert Baden-Powell, author and military hero, founded the Boy Scouts in England in 1907 after 50 years of full and joyful living. Scouting was an outgrowth of the happiness he felt within that he wanted to spread world-wide.

Born in 1857, “B-P,” as many referred to him, served in the British Army for nearly 35 years and wrote books on military scouting.

In 1907, he took a group of boys on a camping trip to test the applica-bility of some of his ideas to adven-tures with youth. In 1908, drawing on previous books and the camping experience, he wrote “Scouting for Boys.” It became an instant bestseller and ultimately sold 150 million copies, making it the fourth bestselling book of the 20th century.

Drawing on the concepts in the book, boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout troops, and the Scouting movement in Great Britain was born.

In 1909, W.D. Boyce, an Ameri-can newspaper publisher who was

passing through London, was im-pressed by a boy who helped him but refused a tip. The boy explained that he was doing his duty as a Scout. Boyce returned to America and with two other men incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.

At its core, Scouting in Britain,

the optimism and altruism of founder Lord Baden-Powell.

For one thing, “B-P” loved na-ture. “Life in the bush brings you in touch with the wonders and beauties of nature, the birds and the animals, the plants and the views, so that you become their comrade as being put there by God the Creator,” he wrote.

After visiting his childhood haunts 50 years later, he commented on snaring rabbits in the woods and cooking them secretly “over the di-

too, how to use an axe, how to walk across a gully on a felled tree trunk, how to move silently through the bush so that one became a comrade rather than an interloper among the birds and animals that lived there. … It was in

the copse [i.e., woods] that I gained most of what helped me on in after

B-P also had a well-developed sense of humor and performed on the

spot as an impromptu entertainer. He was also an artist, able to sketch with either hand. (Samples of his drawings can be found at www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-paintings.htm.)

In John Ruskin’s words, B-P could be said to be “a man of genius” who remained “in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder,” with “a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him.”

B-P’s view of what was required to achieve personal happiness. “The higher aims of Scouting, aims which bring you happiness, … are to do your duty to God, to your country, and to your fellow men by carrying out the Scout Law,” he wrote.

“In that way you will, each one of you, help to bring about God’s king-dom upon earth—the reign of peace and goodwill. … Will you do your best to make friends with others and peace in the world?”

(Some information in this article was drawn from B-P: The Story of His Life (1957) by E.E. Reynolds.)

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941)

Founder’s altruism, optimism at core of Scouting

at a swap meet in Fort Collins, Colo. A collector bought it and then contacted the Utah National Parks Council, the regional unit to which the Sanpete Dis-trict belongs. People from the council gave it to Ron Tuttle of Manti, a lifelong

of Scout memorabilia.The photo shows the boys seated

between two “First Awards,” one from a 1928 Scout jamboree and one from the same event in 1929. One of the boys in

Braithwaite, brother to legendary coach Wilbur Braithwaite who died recently. Another is Alex Nielson, uncle and one-time Scoutmaster of R. Lynn Nielson, 91, of Manti, one of the oldest Scouts in the county.

As of the late 1920s, the history of local Scouting is more alive because it resides in memories of people, still liv-ing, who participated in it.

Lynn Nielson became a Scout in 1929. The thing that stands out in his mind is the commitment Scouts, leaders and families in Depression-era Manti made to the program.

to buy gear and lead activities, he says.

Manti Scout. Nielson’s mother made it following instructions put out by the

saturating the outer layer with a mixture

gasoline to evaporate and ironing the

In his late teens or early 20s, Nielson moved from being a Scout to helping out with Scout outings. One memory that stands out was making plans to take some Explorer Scouts (15-17 year olds) cross-country skiing into his family’s cabin in Manti Canyon. At the last minute, Nielson got bursitis and couldn’t go. So he asked his older

brother to step in. His brother doubted the Scouts

were up to the rigors of the trek. He told them he would only take the ones who could get to the top of a slope in Ephraim Canyon on a rope tow that existed at the time. All the Scouts made it. Then he gave them a stern lecture about pair-ing up, staying with their buddies and preparing mentally for a tough experi-ence.

“When they got back, they were so

bubbly excited,” Nielson says. “But they started to understand the harsh condi-tions.” One of the boys told his brother, “I’m glad you gave us that lecture.”

“I personally feel that was the beginning of the Klondike,” Nielson says.

In fact, for the past 22 of 25 years, Sanpete Scouts have participated in what is called the Klondike Derby. Most of the winter campouts have been at the top of Fairview Canyon in conditions as harsh as the 1930s Scouts experi-enced.

The 1940s were dominated by World War II. Lynn Nielson joined the Army and was assigned to a combat unit where he found that Scout achievements counted. When a new soldier joined the unit, the commander would ask, “Are you an Eagle Scout?” If the answer was yes, “that man was given a position of responsibility,” Nielson says.

The 1950s and 1960s were huge growth decades for the Scouts because of the post-war baby boom. In 1950, Boy Scouts had 2.8 million members. In 1972, membership peaked at 6.5 million.

Norman Jensen was part of that baby boom group. He became a Scout in 1967.

At that time, local leaders ran their own week-long camps, often at Crawley Creek in Twelve Mile Canyon. They dammed off part of the creek with rocks

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Doing a “good turn” (the Boy Scout slogan), or as the Scout Oath puts it, “help[ing] other people at all times,” is the epitome of Scouting.

No wonder Scout leaders in the Utah National Parks Council are making service the main focus of the Boy Scout centennial celebration.

In the Sanpete District, leaders have set a goal of getting each of the county’s 3,800 Scouts and leaders to perform 20 hours of service during 2010-2011. That’s 76,000 hours. A website has been set up where Scout leaders will enter their boys’ service hours (www.utahscouts.org).

Letters went out a couple of months ago to may-ors and county commissioners asking for projects. Among respondents so far, the county commission-ers have asked for help later in the year painting and sprucing up the fairgrounds.

“The hope is to match projects for whatever’s needed with Scouts who can do that kind of a job,” says Beverly Armstrong of Manti, a member of the Sanpete District’s Centennial Committee.

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prepared if parades are occurring in two locations at the same time.)

earn service hours.The service effort kicked off on the “Day of

Difference,” April 17. Tracking of hours began that day and will continue until April 17, 2011. On April 17, Scouts from all councils in Utah were encour-aged to engage in service projects.

Locally, Sanpete Scouts and leaders gathered April 16 at the South Hollow Campground in May-

The plan was to camp out and have fun the night before—and to clean up the campground the next morning. The campground needed it.

“Some of it looks like it’s been here for three

generations,” said Dale Peel, Camporee chairman.Demonstrating principles of “leave no trace,” and “pack

-lected bag after bag of abandoned items and litter.

A large pickup belonging to District Chairman Rick Christensen pulled away from the campground packed with trash.

Scouts aren’t limiting service to their own or-ganization. They want to inspire everyone to make a special commitment to service in the coming year.

“The idea is to get everyone in the community to do a good turn,” says Armstrong. If the whole community is thinking about service, “hopefully it will start here and spread.”

Armstrong has contacted all four high schools in the county to ask them to put the slogan, “Do a good turn,” on their marquis.

Service is “the essence behind Scouting,” says Allan Wrubell of Ephraim, chairman of the Centennial Committee. “We are encouraging all Scouting units to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime experience” of

mounting a huge community service effort.If any organization or individual has a project

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Scouts to focus on serviceSanpete District leaders hope to log 76,000 hours helping others this year

By Lyle Fletcher

Scouting for Food brought in over 20,000 pounds of food for the Sanpete County food bank earlier this year.

Cub Scouts from the six stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the county delivered bags on March 20 and the Boy Scouts collected the food on March 27.

The 20,225 pounds of food collected was down from last year’s record-breaking 24,000 pounds but was still a generous ef-fort by so many in the county to help those in need.

The Heavyweight Award—the traveling trophy for the stake that collects the most each year—was again awarded to the Gun-nison Stake. The Heavyweight Award is now in its fourth year.

Nearly 300 boys and leaders put in approx-imately 600 total hours collecting the food. And that doesn’t count the time Cub Scouts donated distributing the bags, notes Rick Christensen, chairman of the Sanpete district.

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STERLING—For Arla Otten, service is second na-ture. That’s why she’s always jumped in with both feet to help out the Boy Scouts.

“It’s a fun program that helps Scouts to do their best and build character,” she says.

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young boy and helps him to become a better person and to serve those around him. What better program could a child be involved in than that? she asks.

“Parents can and should take advantage of this mar-velous program [that is] right in their hands,” Arla says. “Not only can, but should.

I encourage them to do just that.”

Otten started out as a den leader and has held the positions of Wolf leader, Bear leader, Webelos leader, and Cubmaster.

She is now the Scout

leader over the 11-year-olds in her ward, the Webelos,

She also plays a huge role at the county level as We-belos Woods director, Round Table commissioner, and Cub Scout Day Camp director.

And at the Utah National Parks Council level, she runs the Family Council Camp at the TIFIE Scout Ranch, is on the Powwow Know-How Committee and is on Akela’s Council this year.

During her years of serv-ing in Scouting, Arla has received the 2007 Reflec-tion of Excellence Award, the Council Award from the Utah National Parks Council, the District Award of Merit, and the 1999 Chief Sowiett Award. She also has earned the Silver Beaver, Wood

Badge and the 2nd Miler.She says another reason

she’s so impressed with the Scouting program is because of her son, Dexter, who has disabilities.

“I have a special son,” she says. “He’s way older than Scouting age, but he’ll still sit in on meetings with me. Everyone is so nice to him. It encompasses him and allows him to be someone. It means a lot to him to be a part of that and be accepted.”

Arla says that all the people she’s worked with in Scouting are very friendly. “All of my very best friends are Scouters,” she comment-ed.

People, she says, are the key to Scouting. “To do Cub Scout Day Camp, Webe-

los Woods, Round Table or anything without wonderful volunteers—you couldn’t do it. It’s all about working to-gether. You need volunteers. I couldn’t say thanks enough to those willing to get up and help. It takes everyone working together to make it all work.”

Even those who don’t have a position can help. “My husband doesn’t go to Scouting things, but he’s a big support. He allows me to do what I do and doesn’t complain about it.”

Arla Otten is a great example of getting involved. She has made large contribu-tions to the Scouting program and encourages everyone to follow her example and get involved—even immersed.

Service is second nature to Sterling Scout leader

By Christian Probasco

MT. PLEASANT—Lynn and Pat Olson don’t quite know where to start in talking about their 40-plus years of service to Boy Scouts, and the best way to get across their experiences, they decide, is to show rather than tell.

Lynn preps his latest Scout proj-ect: a deceptively simple-looking, air-powered PVC-pipe rocket launcher. He starts up the air compressor in his garage and pours a few ounces of wa-ter into the rocket, which consists of a two-liter pop bottle with cardboard

and duct tape. Then he mounts the projectile

on the launcher and connects the air hose to its valve. After pressure builds inside the launcher for about four seconds, the rocket shoots about 300 feet into the sky. Then it pitches straight over and slams into the al-leyway behind the Olson house.

Lynn and Pat both break into grins. “You wouldn’t expect it to go that high, would you?” asks Lynn. Pat discovered the rocket design on the Boy Scout website, and Lynn put it together. The two will be hosting a competition during the next evening between about a dozen Scouts who have built their own rockets. The rock-et that stays aloft the longest wins.

Of course, the novelty and fun projects aren’t the only reason the Ol-sons have stuck with Scouting. They agree that one of the most important aspects for them is the difference they’ve made in the lives of their Scouts, many of whom have grown up and raised Cub and Boy Scouts of their own.

“When someone comes up to you

afterward and thanks you for what you taught them,” says Lynn, “that’s better than any award.”

Lynn and Pat were called by the LDS Church to serve as Scout leaders in the mid-1960s, when they were living in South Jordan. Lynn says the local troop just wanted to use his two-seat four-wheeler, but he eventually got pulled into the whole rigmarole and ended up loving it. Pat was originally called as a Blazer Leader for 11-year-old Scouts.

Since then, the two have com-pleted their Wood Badge training, which is the highest adult level available in Scouting. Both have also earned the prestigious Silver Beaver Award, which Scout literature de-scribes as being “given to those who implement the Scouting program and perform community service through

and many years of service. It is given to those who do not actively seek it.”

Their three boys have all been involved in Scouting. One achieved Eagle Scout status.

Pat has run merit badge pow-wows where ambitious Scouts could collect up to three badges each, for a total of about 300 possible badges for all involved. She had to coordinate the work of perhaps two dozen adults to ensure all of the Scouts got a chance at all the badges. Pat says the Scouts have helped her learn leadership skills.

Pat estimates that Lynn has prob-ably helped “between 200 and 300” Boy Scouts earn their Eagle badge. Over the years, while they were living in West Jordan and after their move to Mt. Pleasant in 1979, when Lynn took a job here building sheep-camp trailers, he has taken his troops on

trips and horse rides. And he has slept in snow caves many times.

The couple has a “Scout room”

their many camping trips, powwows, jamborals (which are like the huge, national Scout jamboree get-togeth-ers on a smaller scale) and camporees (think even smaller).

Lynn and Pat both say there’s no way to get involved with the Scout-ing experience without being changed and enriched by it. But that process of growth applies far more to the Scouts themselves. The way Lynn sees it, the purpose of the Scouting Program, and

Scout, is to prepare boys for man-hood.

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By Lloyd Call

MT. PLEASANT—Chief among Scout leaders honored at the annual Boy Scout of America Leader Rec-ognition Banquet earlier this month was veterinarian Tom Anderson of Gunnison, who received the Chief Sowiett Award.

The award, the top adult recog-nition award in the Sanpete District, was presented by Clint Buttars of Moroni, last year’s Chief Sowiett winner.

“I feel very privileged, and I’m among good company,” Anderson said. “The ideals and morals we teach the boys are important, and we have a lot of fun doing it. I’ve done a lot of good things as a Scout leader I would otherwise probably never have done.”

Hal Miller, president of the Utah National Parks Council based in Orem, spoke of Lord Baden-Powell’s life and the legacy he left the world by launching the Scouting movement.

“Scouting today,” he said, “looks forward to our 100th anni-versary this year. We are committed to helping provide leadership for boys as far into the future as we can see.”

“Scouting takes hold of us and fills our hearts, if we give it a chance,” Miller said.

Sanpete Scout officials gave special supporter awards to the me-dia who help provide communities with Scouting news: Sanpete Mes-senger, Pyramid, Gunnison Gazette and KMTI Radio. Levi Jones, a national guardsman representing the 145th Field Artillery Battery, also received an award for the guard’s help in supporting the Scouting program.

Many other Scout leaders were recognized during the banquet. A special presentation was given to Jilene Roberts, wife of Kent Rob-erts, a Scout leader in Fairview who passed away 10 days earlier.

Kent Roberts was a lifetime Scout, had been a Cubmaster and had helped his sons earn the Eagles. The recognition “was our way of saying ‘thanks’ and expressing con-dolences,” says Rick Christensen, district leader.

The James E. West Award was given to Beverly Armstrong of Manti.

Leadership training awards were given to Stephanie Nuttall,

Steven Brandt, Doug Wendel, Arla Otten and Mary Emerson.

Key Scouters Awards were received by Jene Beal, Stephen Brandt, Norman Jensen, Arlene Christensen, Mary Emerson, Arla Otten, Beverly Armstrong, Gayle

Jensen, Gary Jensen, Steve Johnson, Natalie Zabriskie, Chris Mullins, Herb Steet, Gene Jacobson and Rick Christensen.

Receiving Second Miler awards for “going the extra mile” were Eva Thompson, Spencer Cook and

Chuck McCullock from Moroni; Mike Frischknecht, Wayne Jones and John Palmer from Manti; Gary and Debora Black, Kent Lemon, Mi-

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By Kimberly Wayman

Family Odyssey is offering a unique opportunity for adults seeking to complete the Wood Badge course: The whole family can join in the campout. While one parent attends the weeklong training program, the rest of the family gets to have their own Scouting experience at the new TIFIE Scout Camp near Mt. Pleasant from Aug. 9-14.

The premier adult training program for the Boy Scouts of America, the Wood Badge pro-gram, is available to all registered adults who have successfully completed the basic training re-quirements for their primary po-sition in Scouting. Wood Badge focuses on advancing leadership skills and developing bonds through teamwork.

The program consists of two parts: practical training and application. The Scouters are kept on an organized schedule

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The other family members not involved in Wood Badge are invited to participate in activities

conducted by the volunteer staff, from swimming to horseback riding, rock climbing and more. The children are assigned to age groups, which determines the activities they will do.

Older children have the option of signing up for youth leadership training instead, which includes Timberline for 12- to 13-year-old Boy Scouts, All-Stars for 14- to15-year-old Varsity Scouts, and the Kodiak adventure course for 16- to 18-year-olds (a co-ed venturing program).

Each campsite at TIFIE Camp has a covered pavilion and picnic table with a concrete

shower facilities. All meals are provided with Family Odyssey from Monday breakfast through Saturday lunch.

In the evening, all family members except for the Wood Badge participant gather for a family dinner and games. Wednesday evening is reserved for a family night activity, which the Wood Badge parent may also attend.

Register soon, as spots are

visit bit.ly/FamilyOdyssey or contact Doug and Becky Barlow at 801-361-7721 or [email protected].

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chael Ence and Jessica Howard from Mt. Pleasant; Mel Jacob-sen, Jason Stevens and Clarene Brenchley from Ephraim; and Jay Yardley, Mark Watters and Tony Hancock from Gunnison.

District Awards of Merit were also presented to Roger Clegg, Michael Frischknecht and Shelley Dettinger of Manti, Sylvia Wendel of Ephraim, Carl Larsen and Clyde Johnson of

Mt. Pleasant, and Matt Cook and Gene Jacobson of Moroni.

Sanpitch Arrow Awards were awarded to Pack 1646 led by Sylvia Wendel, new Scout patrol of Troop 554 led by Thayne Bower, Troop 542 led by Michael Frischknecht, Team 554 led by Nathan Mitchell, and Crew 1640 President Sarah Simmons and advisor Nathan Thomas.

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By Jon Woodard

MANTI—In line with their focus to enjoy learning new skills in the outdoors, youth in the Manti Medical Clinic Venturing Crew are experimenting with a historic form of communication: mirror signaling.

The practice of using mirrors to direct sunlight is called heliography. The U.S. Forest Service and early surveyors used heliography to communicate across long distances.

Mt. Nebo is the historic location of a heliograph station, according to unit leader Robert Armstrong. The venturing crew will climb Mt. Nebo to participate in an interstate mirror signaling activity, called On Target, on July 17.

Over 80 Scouting units are signed up to participate in the On Target activity. The sig-naling will go from mountain peak to peak. It is expected the light signals will create a chain that will go across Utah, and parts of Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona.

The Venture crew’s position on top of Mt. Nebo will put the crew members in position to see mirror light signals coming from throughout the Sanpete area and from Salt Lake City. If conditions are right, they will be able to see signals from Ogden, and possibly even as far as the Uinta Mountains, says Armstrong.

The unit will climb to the Mt. Nebo summit, nearly 12,000 feet, on July 16. They will camp there overnight.

In addition to their camping equipment, the Scouts will pack in large mirrors and radio equipment for the On Target activity. The size of the mirrors is important because the larger the mirror, the further the light signal will travel. A good rule of thumb is the signal can be seen for about eight miles for every square inch of mirror, Armstrong says. The Scouts use ham radios and cellular phones to coordinate the signaling.

The On Target activity is just one of many actions being used to strengthen the Venturing program in Sanpete, District Chairman Rick Christensen says. Armstrong

is at the forefront of building the Venture program in Sanpete.

One of the main reasons leaders are working to strengthen the Venture program is that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses the resources of Venture Scouts to help protect youth.

The Boy Scouts of America requires all leaders to pass training on youth protection and to pass a criminal background check. The BSA also provides leadership training for youth leaders and provides insurance. By requiring young men leaders to be trained, the organization helps ensure the safety of LDS youth.

Another reason for the emphasis on the Venture Scouts is to support religious, sporting, school and other youth programs. LDS Church member Brad Harris helped develop the Venture program 12 years ago, Armstrong says. It replaced the Explorer Scouts, which was designed to help youth explore career options. The Venture program, in contrast, has a broader focus of supporting programs for boys and girls ages 14-20.

In Sanpete, the Venturing program is used by the True and Living Church to facilitate their youth program for youth ages 14 and up. The LDS Church uses the Venture Scouts for boys ages 16-18. Outside Sanpete, the Venture program is used to facilitate literacy groups, cheerleading groups, ethics forums, and extracurricular groups for schools.

Armstrong is working to expand the

in the LDS Church in two main ways. First, he is promoting a program called

-cers meet to coordinate activities with groups of other Venture units. For wards that have limited numbers of youth ages 16-18, this could make activities more exhilarating for all involved.

Second, he is the adult leader of the Manti Medical Clinic Venturing Crew. This unit is set up to be a model that illustrates the capabilities of a Venture unit.

The unit meets twice a month. One of those meetings is a monthly roundtable, where the Venture Scout unit has a forum to model unit leadership activities Venture Scouts could be involved in. For the April roundtable, they facilitated a discussion about a hypothetical ethical issue involving what to do with extra school funds.

The Manti Medical Clinic Venturing Crew is open to boys and girls ages 14-20 who would like to participate in the unit.

Other Scout units are invited to join the Manti unit July 16-17 for the On Target activity at Mt. Nebo. However, if other units would like to attend, they must have unit leaders who can participate. For more information, contact Robert Armstrong of Manti at 835-1271.

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to create a pool where boys could get cold drinking water. Then they built a tower by tying together lodge pole pine logs and putting a platform near the top. Boys could climb the tower and look over the scenery.

During the 1970s, troops in the county started to be a little less autonomous. The Gunnison and Sanpete districts, once separate, were merged. The district started developing more activities.

In 1978, Norman Jensen moved up from Scout to Scout-master, a post he held for more than 20 years.

About that time, he took his Scouts to his first district-level Camporee. “It was a new expe-rience to go on a campout like that with troops throughout the county. … It kind of spurred me on and inspired me as I looked at other Scoutmasters and how they prepared.”

Camporees continue to be an annual Sanpete District activity.

The memory about the 1970s that stands out for Arlo Jensen of

was taking 50 or 60 Scouts every -

rado River from Yampa, Colo., to Green River in Emery County.

During the decade of the 1980s, the biggest change was elimination of the Explorer Scout

program, in which many LDS youth had participated over the years.

Initially, Exploring was re-placed by Varsity Teams. A boy didn’t have to be a former Scout to join. Varsity members, whether former Scouts or not, could work on merit badges and earn Eagle awards.

In the 1990s, the Scouts set up another outdoor-oriented program called Venturing for older teens. In many areas, including Sanpete County, the program is coeduca-tional.

In the early 1990s, Dwight Inouye, a Scout leader from Gun-nison at the time, observed a Scout competition in Millard County. It became the inspiration for the Sanpete Challenge, another district event, which has been running for more than 15 years. Typically, 100-150 Scouts participate.

Teams traverse a wide-rang-ing course, completing a dozen or more “challenges” along the way, including a Frisbee throw, archery,

saw and canoe row. Norman Jensen says the

biggest changes he’s observed in Scouting in the past 20 years have been the emphasis on safety and training.

Scout leaders who direct riskier activities such as rappel-

ling and marksmanship must take specialized training. For instance, leaders in charge of all shooting

There’s also a bigger empha-sis on boy-led activities. After a boy has been a Scout for a while, chances are he will become a patrol leader, or junior assistant Scout-master, or even attend a Timberline camp to receive formal leadership training.

Since 2000, one of the biggest achievements for the Sanpete Dis-trict and the Utah National Parks Council has been opening of the Mountain Dell Scout Ranch east of Mt. Pleasant.

In the late 1990s, the owner of Mountain Dell Ranch, a huge cattle ranch that had been estab-lished in the 1880s, donated most of the property, about 500 acres, to the Boy Scouts.

For the next several years, Scout groups from Sanpete and other districts did volunteer work to carve a few roads and build a few small structures.

But the effort didn’t get off the ground until the TIFIE Foundation, a Utah County charity, donated $2 million. That triggered work on 57 log structures, a swimming pool,

Scouts and Scout families from Sanpete County, Utah Coun-

ty and much of Southern Utah are now using the facility. Develop-ment is continuing.

Over the 80-90 years Scouting has been going in Sanpete County, our area has often stood out com-pared to other Scout districts.

Arlo Jensen says that over the decades he was involved in the program, “we produced a large number of Eagle Scouts, far more than other areas.”

In 2003, the Sanpete District won a national District Award of Merit. The award was based on indices such as percentage of boys in the county who were registered in Scouting and Friends of Scouting donations per capita, along with the quality of district programs such as the Klondike Derby.

Through growth and change, the constant has been the Boy Scout emphasis on the values expressed in the Scout oath, law, motto and slogan, ideas like serv-ing God and county, being honest and doing a good turn daily.

The Boy Scouts view out-door recreation and earning merit badges as vehicles for developing the character and skills described in those precepts.

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By Lyle Fletcher

OREM, Utah—Four Sanpete County individu-als received one of the Boy Scouts of America’s highest recognitions.

The Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America honored Earlene Chistensen

with the Silver Beaver Award on Sept. 12, 2009, for their distinguished service to Scouts—a collective 98 years of service to Scouting.

Established in 1931, the Silver Beaver Award is the highest award a local council can bestow on a volunteer. Those receiving the award are nominated by their peers and usually have been involved with

Scouting for more than a decade. Silver Beaver Award recipients represent only

the top one quarter of 1 percent of current volunteer adults in the Utah National Parks Council, the coun-cil serving the largest number of Scouting youth in the country.

In short, these are the best of the best. Following are some of the comments people

have made about these four recipients. About Christensen, who has 17 years in Scout-

ing service, a fellow Scouter said, “Earlene is a very creative and organized person. She always had fun things prepared for the boys to do.”

Another person said she “always went all out for the Blue and Gold Banquet. She always found a special way to present awards to the boys.” Also,

dedication to the Scouting movement.” About Emerson, with 25 years in Scouting

service, one person said, “In recent years Mary has had serious health issues which would likely cause most people to feel they could no longer serve in Scouting. She has continued to be the Cub powwow chair and keeps pushing on. Those who know her situation are in awe of her tenacity and courage in overcoming adversity.”

Regarding Willden, who has 23 years in Scout-ing service, one person said, “He has been the one who stays in the shadows and see things get done. I can’t think of a person in town who has had a

a positive example he has been.”

And one Scout said of him, “This man has forever changed my life. His hard work and determination encourage me to do better. If I can become half the man Doug Willden is, I will have lived a great life.”

Concerning Mullins, with 33 years in Scouting service, one person said, “I have been impressed by his attitude and willingness to do whatever he is requested to do.”

A Scout wrote of him as “the funnest and best Scout leader I ever had. His greatness is unspeakable. … He wants us to learn to be good people in our com-munities. He teaches us this by being a good person himself. I always feel like I am a good person when I’m around him. He helps me be my best self.” (This article was condensed from the original article in the 23 September 2009 Messenger.)

Four Sanpete leaders honored with Silver Beaver Award

By Lyle Fletcher

EPHRAIM—Jayson Cole, 15, of Ephraim is an Eagle Scout with a gold palm. But last year, he received an even higher distinction from the Boy Scouts of America.

As his parents, Gary and Shawna Cole, proudly looked on, Jayson was presented a Medal of Merit for saving the lives of his sister and cousin during a kayaking trip on the Snake River near Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Rick Christensen, district chair-man in Sanpete County, presented the award at the district roundtable Oct. 8, 2009, at Ephraim Middle School.

Last July, Jayson was river rafting with Scouts, their leaders and some of

kayak carrying his brother, Bryson Cole, 12; his sister, Britanny Cole, 18; and a cousin, Heather Ripplinger, also 18, capsized.

About 15 people witnessed the incident at about 3 p.m.

Some adults in the party quickly rescued Bryson and took him to shore, but the two girls were carried away by the rapid current toward a whirlpool. One of the girls got back onto the kayak, but it capsized again within a minute.

The water was 15-20 feet deep, about 45 degrees, and the current was running about 12-15 miles per hour.

By the time Jayson got involved, the girls had been in the water more than 20 minutes. Britanny wore a wet-suit and a lifejacket, while Ripplinger had a swimsuit and a lifejacket on, yet both girls had “panicked” and were “exhausted” and “disoriented.”

Jayson “saw they were strug-gling,” so he “grabbed his kayak and went after the girls,” according to the Coles’ written account. Jayson had on a wetsuit, water shoes and a life jacket.

After making sure Britanny was okay, Jayson “towed his kayak to where Heather was and pushed her up onto it. He pulled himself up behind Heather and paddled to shore.”

“The girls were in shock and un-able to walk along the shore to a safe area. Jayson and an adult then towed the girls to the boat ramp,” approxi-mately 350-400 feet away.

Jayson’s mother watched the whole scene. As she watched her

very helpless, not having the strength to paddle a kayak or lift deadweight into a kayak.” And then she saw Jayson head to the rescue. She said, “Jayson didn’t hesitate at all. Once he saw what was happening, he took off in his kayak after them.”

She said, “He showed extreme courage and control of the situation and made decisions quickly in how to save them.”

She also said, “I know his physical strength is amazing, and I thought if anyone can do it he can do it.” Playing football helped Jayson be in condition to save the two girls’ lives.

Gary watched his children in dan-ger and later said of the experience, “I was on a raft further upstream and saw them go beyond the point of no return. I felt completely powerless. I tried to get on a canoe, but I was too far back. There was nothing I could do.”

Heather later wrote of the experi-ence: “Waves poured over my body, and I swallowed more and more water. Like a piece of wood drifting through the river, I helplessly went under wa-ter again.”

“I soon realized Britanny’s head was bobbing up and down. Her mouth was filled with water as she went down,” Heather wrote. “Though our legs paddled and exerted every ounce of energy they had left, our efforts were

useless.” “With energy completely spent,

Britanny and I were gasping for air,” she wrote.

“Just then, I heard Jayson’s voice. He was yelling something to Britanny. By the time he pulled me in the kayak, my body was trembling, my lungs felt as though they would explode, and I

was in a cold sweat.” Jayson was able to use skills he

had learned in Scouting—swimming, leadership and lifesaving, and he was also taught not to panic in such situa-tions.

awarded to someone in Sanpete County in at least over a decade, said Debbie

Robert, Eagle and lifesaving and meri-torious awards secretary for the Utah National Parks Council.

When asked if he had anything to say about receiving the Medal of Merit, Jayson said, “No. I’m just glad that my sister and my cousin are all right.” (Condensed from the original article in the 14 October 2009 Messenger.)

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Jensen, a Scouter herself, says Scouting for Food has been going all 14 years she’s been involved with the food bank.

In October and November, schools in the county gather food for the food bank, she said, and are the second highest con-tributor, bringing in over 10,000 pounds of food.

In April or May, mail carriers gather food, and Snow College has many food drives during the

year. This year’s regional youth activity for LDS youth on March 13 also involved gathering food for the food bank.

To understand the great needs in the county, Jensen calculated the number of pounds of food given out in March— 20,778, just slightly above what the Scouts

collected during the drive.Between 300-350 families

per month come to the food bank. The amount of food distributed translates to about 20 pounds of food per month per individual receiving food.

Jensen says Wal-Mart helps

foods twice weekly that are near-ing their expiration dates.

“I want to thank all those that helped donate food to the food bank, for without their help and support we’d be lost,” she says.

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Nathan Peterson, 13, son of Kelly and Jody Peterson of Axtell, is a member of Troop 573. Nathan helped re-vegetate a trail in Twelve Mile Canyon and painted a sign in Maple Canyon. He helped landscape the Axtell

and supplies for Haiti. Also, he does yard work for the elderly.

other people at all times; To keep myself

will do my best To do my duty to God an

mes; To keep myself physically strong, m

my duty to God and my country and to ob

ally strong, mentally awake and morally

other people at all times; To keep myself

will do my best To do my duty to God an

mes; To keep myself physically strong, m

my duty to God and my country and to ob

ally strong, mentally awake and morally

Dylan Petersen, 14, son of Dylan and Stacy Petersen of

569. Dylan helps provide coal and wood for the homebound during the winter and shovels snow for the elderly. He also helps with cleanup and

Cemetery.

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Community Service - Boy Scouts