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- Lone Star Tour of Texas to be Featured on Scouting Magazine Website
September 9, 16, and 23, 2009 (about 400K bytes, PDF file)Scouting Magazine, the official magazine for adult volunteers and professionals of the Boy Scouts of America, will feature a 3-part story of the Lone Star Tour of Texas taken by our local Boy Scout Troop 229. The story, complete with many pictures of the troop, will appear on their official website (with reference to it in the magazine). The three parts are planned to go online on September 9, 16, and 23. The website for the story is http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/.
- Opportunities Galore for Our Children
August 26, 2009 (about 1M bytes, web page)Our local Boy Scout Troop 229 is starting the school year with Space Day in Pulaski County, NASA, and World Space Week (sponsored by the United Nations). This adventure exploits many opportunities available for children throughout the United States through corporate and government sponsorship.
- Reports from the Lone Star Tour of Texas
July 29 - August 19, 2009 (about 500K bytes, web page)Scout Master Steve McKinney authored these articles, most submitted during the Lone Star Tour of Texas. They provide an excellent description of the major events of the trip. They were published in The Pulaski County Journal. An associated photo gallery shows many photographs from the trip, ordered by Activity - CLICK HERE to view the Photo Gallery Section of the Lone Star Tour of Texas. The tour took place from July 23 to August 2, 2009.
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BSA 229 to Visit Texas
September 30, 2009 (500K bytes)After weeks of planning by the scout leaders, on Monday, September 15, Boy Scouts from Troop 229 and their parents gathered at the First United Methodist Church in Winamac to be briefed by Scout Master Steve McKinney, Scout Leader Dan Murphy, and others on their adventure to Texas in the summer of 2009 (July 23-August 2). Scouting is an adventure in itself, but this adventure will involve sleeping overnight aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, sleeping overnight at the NASA Johnson Space Center and exploring life-size models of a space shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring the mile-long assembly line of the F-35 stealth fighter jet at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Headquarters, searching for diamonds at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, and a lot more. This is an adventure into some of the most advanced science and technology centers in the world splashed with a touch of history, bringing into focus many things they might only hear about otherwise.