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Boys Life July, 1947. https://boyslife.org/scouts-in-action/sia-database/ LIfesaving MB pamphlet mentions that Boys Life started Scouting in Action in 1947. https://www.troop325.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lifesaving-c2019-p2019.pdf

I looked at Boys Life SCOUTS IN ACTION archive which starts from 2012, but did not find it. https://boyslife.org/scouts-in-action/ https://boyslife.org/more-scouts-in-action/ A little confusing as each above link shows a different comic for the given month,year.

But doesn't your "provider" have to be a FAA approved Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) for this online system?

...On Dec. 23, 1942, John W. Chew Jr. flew over Rehoboth Beach (DE) with Howard Carter aboard as an observer. On this particular flight, they were testing signal flares. As the CAP plane flew along the coast, Chew and Carter methodically dropped the flares and watched as the fiery signals descended to the water. Without warning, their plane also began to drop, and a few moments later, it crashed into the chilly water 100 yards from the beach. Chew and Carter were alive in the aircraft, but the men were stunned, injured and swamped by the icy water. On the beach, four Sea Scouts, William Massey, William Hamilton, Keith Coddington, and Frank Small, saw the aircraft plunge into the waves; and they reacted instantly. A crowd of spectators had gathered to watch as the two pilots struggled to free themselves from the damaged plane. Without hesitation, the four teenagers pushed their way through the spectators, shed their clothes, and sprinted toward the surf. Swimming through the rolling waves, the scouts reached the plane and pulled the two pilots from the wreckage. Neither Chew or Carter were in much condition to swim; but the four teenagers were able to ferry the two pilots ashore... More at source: Michael Morgan https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2020/09/12/sea-scouts-swim-rescue-world-war-ii-civil-air-patrol-pilots/5702394002/

...In his 94 years, Bill created a towering legacy as a lawyer, philanthropist, and activist. To his family, he was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather who was an example of what it means to be a model citizen and a profoundly decent man. To many in the community, he was an inspiring role model, trusted advisor, and loyal friend. His sincerity, humor, approach-ability, and thoughtfulness won him legions of admirers and made him highly effective in his work and his civic and philanthropic endeavors.Bill was born on November 30, 1925 and grew up in the Navy town of Bremerton. His father owned a furniture store and neither of his parents went to high school. Bill went to Bremerton High School and was active in Boy Scouts, where his troop spent three summers building a log cabin from the ground up, and he learned his first lesson about the power of people working toward a common goal... Source: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=william-henry-gates&pid=196816306

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Supplemental Order: Establishing deadlines for filing proof of claims Establishing the form and manner of notice thereof Approving procedures for providing notice of bar date and other important information to abuse survivors Approving confidentiality procedures for abuse survivors https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/849049_1331.pdf Ugh, apparently once again, rather than convert their created text document into a pdf, court officers decided to image scan it into a pdf, thus disabling cut and pasting text. So, I will quote document by snipping screen images.

Eagle Scout Bill Gates Sr. passes at age 94. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/william-gates-sr-a-guiding-hand-of-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-dies-at-94/2020/09/15/4715b8c8-9456-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/bill-gates-sr-civic-figure-and-father-of-microsoft-co-founder-dies-at-94/ Scout salute and farewell,

Update: MidAmerican Energy announced Friday it will donate $125,000 to build another two shelters at the reservation. Scout executive and CEO Matt Hill said since becoming CEO in 2018, one of his priorities has been adding shelters to the camp, but his attention diverted when the pandemic started. "When the weather event (derecho) happened, then that kind of re-sparked the momentum I guess for it," Hill said. "It's unfortunate that a weather event like that could have been a tragedy is what it takes to get this going. But at the same time, I guess it's a silver lining." As a result of the derecho, the Mid-Iowa Council needs to raise $1.2 million to cover the damages, spokesman Dan Gelis said. The building with the most damage was the Blank Dining Hall which had extensive roof damage, Gelis said. Source with storm damage photos: https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/2020/09/11/companies-donate-shelters-after-derecho-hits-boy-scout-camp-week-after-campers-leave/3469584001/

Tolerance, compromise...thinking before you speak and slower to take offense might help. To some, Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut, made an offensive remark during a 2018 appearance before the Northern New Jersey Council, BSA. During a question-and-answer portion, Kelly was asked if he thought there would be a time in which Mars was colonized. Kelly said his brother Scott, also an astronaut, went aboard the space station for a year and that his DNA was altered from either radiation or zero-gravity. “I think the word hasn’t gotten out how bad it is for him,” Kelly said. “You know, it’s gotten so bad, that we recently had to release him back into the wild,” he continued to a laughing crowd. “He’s like halfway between an orangutan and a Howler Monkey. We’ve even changed his name to Rodrigo. He lives in the woods. He lives in Eagle Rock Reservation,” a reference to a New Jersey forest reserve and recreational park. ... “Shameful video of Mark Kelly making a racist joke to an all-white crowd,” responded Moses Sanchez, a Republican businessman and Navy veteran who unsuccessfully ran for Phoenix mayor in 2018. It is unclear if the crowd was all white. “He must think people named Rodrigo look like monkeys. Time to move past this type of racism & time for the media to scrutinize Mark Kelly more thoroughly like they would a Republican," Sanchez wrote. Kelly apologized for his remarks Thursday after The Arizona Republic asked about them. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/10/democratic-senate-candidate-mark-kelly-apologizes-offensive-joke/3457056001/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1239799#blogHeader Above link includes speech video, at 10:00 Mr. Kelly answers Mars question

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Update 9/8/20: Boy Scouts were also a part of commemorating history at the Geauga County Airport. The scouts delivered postcards to be included in the airmail and to be delivered to other scouts across the country, said Jarrod Blundy, program executive for the Lake Erie Council. "We are a national organization, so being able to connect with scouts from all over the country is pretty cool," Blundy said. "We enjoy exposing to a wide variety of backgrounds and something like this is pretty unique." ... The significance of the airmail route is it being passed on to the younger generation, Grof said. https://www.news-herald.com/news/geauga-county/volunteer-pilots-re-enact-1920-airmail-route-spend-time-at-geauga-county-airport/article_b34c106a-f1fc-11ea-a745-23f431c10c11.html

August 10,2020: derecho heavily damaged Camp Mitigwa (Mid-Iowa Council) just eight days after the last campers left. Sept 5, 2020: two construction companies Fareway and Dean Snyder Construction have each committed to fully fund ($40K) construction of a new storm shelter at Mitigwa. Each shelter will have a capacity of 40 campers. Mitigwa was the only Scout summer camp open in Iowa this year, hosting nearly 1,000 boys, girls and adult leaders without any COVID cases. An additional 10 storm shelters are needed to sustain campers when Mitigwa is at full capacity. https://www.businessrecord.com/Content/Culture/Culture/Article/Boy-Scouts-receive-storm-shelter-donations-from-Fareway-Dean-Snyder-Construction-/170/832/91199 I had thought building camp tornado shelters were a priority these past 12 years after the Little Sioux Scout Ranch tragedy which also occurred in Iowa. June 11, 2008: Four scouts died when a 165 mph tornado tore through the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in western Iowa. There was no basement or in-ground shelter at the camp when the tornado hit. 2009: Mid-America Council launched a major fundraising campaign to build emergency shelters at all of its camps. 2009: National acquires West Virginia property - Summit Bechtel Reserve 2013: two tornado shelters built at Little Sioux and a siren was added. The new structures have concrete walls, steel shutters and doors and emergency power backup, and were built to withstand an EF5 tornado. 2013: 18th National Scout Jamboree held at Summit Bechtel Be prepared.

FYI, according to last night's CBS Evening News, a report on a female Eagle Scout candidate is scheduled for tonight.

North Platte Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts help commemorate transcontinental airmail centennial On September 8, 1920, a DH-4 biplane lifted off in the early morning from a grass air strip east of New York City on Long Island, beginning a grand experiment to carry mail from the East Coast to the West in a series of hops across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and points west. Regional air mail service had commenced two years earlier linking New York and Washington, D.C. By 1919, 400 HP deHavillands where regularly carrying mail sacks between Omaha and Chicago, but the September flight that now pointed its nose towards the distant Hudson would link an entire continent, but not without financial cost and human sacrifice. Those first pilots called themselves "The Suicide Club." Air Mail 100 will commemorate that historic event, which led within the decade to the commencement of commercial passenger air service. With the encouragement of several of the nation's leading general aviation organizations, we have organized a series of volunteer flights linking the sixteen original transfer points, only seven of which continue today as active airports. The other nine have been "lost" to sands of progress, hidden under golf courses, urban shopping centers, hospital parking lots, and poetically, wind-swept grass fields again. Twenty-three pilots will take turns handing off a mailbag, picking up special postcards along the way, starting Tuesday on Long Island near New York City and ending Friday near San Francisco. Using their own, more modern planes, they’ll cover the same days, stops and territory — albeit at a somewhat faster pace — as the DeHavilland DH-4 biplane that first flew the route Sept. 8-11, 1920. The relay is scheduled to land about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday at the North Platte Regional Airport — itself just a year old in 1920 — and take off 30 minutes later for Cheyenne, Wyoming. Aviation buffs can follow the relay’s progress and read about the original flight and its airports at airmail100.com. Only one serviceable DH-4 survives in the United States , he said, making it necessary for the pilots to use their own Cessnas, Beeches, Pipers and other private aircraft. But “some of them are classic in that they’re dating back to the 1940s era,” Moore said. Sam Seafeldt, Lee Bird Field’s airport manager, thanked Bill Moore and the pilots for seeing to it that the transcontinental airmail centennial won’t pass unremarked. When the relay reaches North Platte, some members of Cub Scout Pack 292 and affiliated Boy Scout Troop 292 will hand off some 300 postcards to join others from previous stops. “I told them to write grandpas, grandmas, whoever they want, friends,” said Cubmaster Sean Condon. His pack and the Boy Scout troop are affiliated with St. Patrick Catholic Church in North Platte. Once the mailbag reaches San Francisco, Moore said, the postcards will be put in the regular U.S. mail for delivery. Air Mail 100’s mailbag by then should weigh about 50 pounds, he said, compared with a whopping 400 pounds of mail on the original 1920 relay. Condon said he and his fellow Scouting committee leaders were excited about the chance for their members to learn about transcontinental airmail and North Platte’s historical role in it. “There’s so much awesome history in North Platte that goes unnoticed,” he said. Seafeldt said the public is invited Wednesday to see the commemorative relay’s arrival and departure. https://nptelegraph.com/news/local/north-platte-cub-scouts-and-boy-scouts-help-commemorate-transcontinental-airmail-centennial/article_e84347c6-eeef-11ea-aba8-b7c0fd8ab33c.html http://airmail100.com/ http://www.antiqueairfield.com/features/us_airmail.html

Burnside, KY Mayor Robert Lawson and other city leaders were on hand at the Thursday board meeting for the Somerset-Pulaski Economic Development Authority (SPEDA) to present their plans for creating a Boy Scout heritage museum and Merit Badge Training Academy on what used to be Burnside's old high school property. No mention of the Blue Grass Council involvement? “This is going to happen. I don’t know how long it’s going to take,” Lawson told SPEDA members as he and Deco Architects President Derek Phillips showed off plans to create a multi-building complex that would, hopefully, become a regional Boy Scout training hub. ... The plan is to offer an area with a circular outdoor design, offering a possible amphitheater, a building to house a Boy Scouts museum and a Burnside historical museum, two buildings that would serve as classrooms offering educational instruction for scouts to earn merit badges, and a parking area that would be shared with the Masonic Lodge. Phillips said he felt that with the resources offered by Burnside, the lake and area attractions, along with short field trips to places like McCreary County and Cumberland Falls, a Boy Scout training center could offer classes on almost all of the approximate 135 badges that scouts have the potential to earn. ... Phillips said that the city’s connection of having the first Boy Scout troop in America made it instantly marketable today. “There’s one disclaimer, and that is that we failed to claim this history,” Phillips said. “So now, 100-some-odd years have passed. The Boy Scouts have written their history in a different way, although we have proof. So we have to be a little careful with our wording, but regardless, it’s indisputable that Burnside is the Birthplace of Scouting.” Burnside,KY is about 300 miles west of Summit Bechtel National Scout Reservation. ~RS https://www.somerset-kentucky.com/news/local_news/burnside-plans-boy-scout-training-academy-to-jump-start-tourism/article_007f90a5-31bd-5336-8ee2-ca44e369c2d0.html Burnside is one of several places that lay claim to be home to the first Boy Scout troop in the United States. In 1908, two years before the Boy Scouts of America was officially organized, Mrs. Myra Greeno Bass organized a local troop of 15 boys, using official Boy Scout materials she had acquired from England. A sign at the edge of town declares Burnside "Birthplace of Boy Scouts in America", and an official state historical society marker commemorates the troop.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside,_Kentucky I can understand with some oversight, a museum offering scouting programs to increase revenue, but a town? And shouldn't the local council be the driving force or at least involved? I must be missing some information? As far as I know, I have only visited one disputed birthplace and that was Riverside, Iowa which was tourism marketed as the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. The museum was in a local's garage. Not a money-maker.

Clint Buxton said he was at a high point Thursday, figuratively and literally. “It is drop-dead gorgeous,” Buxton said, speaking by phone from the top of Bromley Mountain. “I can look to the top and see where I came from yesterday.” The 61-year-old is hiking the Long Trail, partly to fulfill a longtime ambition and partly to raise money to help maintain Boy Scouts of American properties in Vermont. He set out from North Adams, Mass., on Saturday and expects to be on the trail for 27 days, covering 272 miles. People can track his progress and donate at scoutingvermont.org. Buxton normally spends his summer as the camp director at Mt. Norris Scout Reservation in Eden. When the camps was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Buxton said he decided it was time. He started training in July and set off shortly after his granddaughter’s birthday. He got pledges from various sponsors, with his own family donating $1 per mile of his hike to the Scouts. He said he has raised in the neighborhood of $10,000 so far. “Although this is a personal goal for me, I wanted to do something impactful for scouting, maybe do something to produce a multiplying factor,” he said. “Our society needs scouts more than ever. ... There’s some very strong national headwinds we’re dealing with, but I still believe in the program. More at sources: https://www.timesargus.com/scout-camp-director-hikes-long-trail/article_9c8e49a5-c891-5eed-919f-4cbe25079082.html https://www.scoutingvermont.org/buxtonhikeslt.html Scout Salute,

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I found the full quote as reported by NBC news. IMHO, it speaks to a BSA position more recognizable to us which I had hoped this topic was "moving forward' towards - a well-considered BSA policy regarding good character and citizenship - the Scout Oath and Law for these troubled times. Currently, we moderators are discussing the suitability of topics unrelated to Scouting even in I&P, after all, this is scouter.com not anothernews.com. @MattR @John-in-KC

...topic and Scouting related... A Gilroy man was back in court Tuesday after being accused of violent threats against Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody. The Santa Clara County sheriff also believes Alan Viarengo is part of the "Boogaloo Movement," a loosely organized, right-wing, anti-government group that advocates extreme violence and civil war. The 55-year-old Viarengo is also a professor at Gavilan College in Gilroy involved in Boy Scouts of America. The organization issued a statement saying in part, “This individual has been removed from Scouting and is prohibited from any future participation in our programs.” https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/detectives-seize-138-guns-explosives-owned-by-alleged-boogaloo-boy/2356051/ sorry for incomplete quote. If someone finds Council's full quote, please post. Thanks ~ RS