by Neal Robison | Sep 9, 2021 | News From The Field, Uncategorized
This summer, Troop 149 of the Mountain West Council enjoyed what Scoutmaster Matthew Garnette called an “epic Scout camp” at Camp Morrison. The troop earned several awards while having an incredible time. They earned the “Bull of the Woods”...
by Neal Robison | Sep 4, 2021 | News From The Field, Uncategorized
Stronger Together: A Refugee Scout Troop for Girls [Originally published in the Summer 2021 Issue of “Y Magazine”] “At first so many of the girls were terrified to even float on their backs,” remembers L. Sarah Shumway, a volunteer leader of a Salt Lake...
by Neal Robison | Feb 4, 2021 | Vanguard Beacon Newsletter
About 70 years ago, in the final days of the second world war, the U.S. marines and Japanese Imperial army soldiers were fighting in an area of the southern Pacific Ocean. On One of the small islands of the Pacific, the marines, among them one from Salt Lake City,...
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