by Neal Robison | Jan 16, 2022 | History Highlights, Uncategorized
History Highlights: Saving A Child’s Life Welcome to the first article of A Look Back – an ongoing series that highlights a moment in the rich history of Latter-day Saint Scouting. Before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received their...
by Neal Robison | Nov 14, 2021 | News From The Field, Uncategorized
News From the Field:4 Generations of Eagles Troop 702 in the San Diego Imperial Council recently awarded the rank of Eagle Scout to Zach Bishop. What made the evening even more interesting was the fact that Zach was another in a long line of Eagle Scouts in his...
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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