by Vanguard Contributor | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Forming a Legacy Troop: In the last half of 2019, as the end approached for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to charter units of the Boy Scouts of America, more than two dozen dedicated Church-member Scouters gathered in “North County,” San Diego,...
by Vanguard Contributor | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last month, I was invited to do a Mormon Battalion Association neckerchief slide and certificate presentation at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor. Since I had not done one of these presentations before, I asked past president Jerome Gourley and Executive Staff member Tom...
by Vanguard Contributor | Oct 17, 2023 | News From The Field, Uncategorized
Carson Lowder recently completed his Eagle Scout Award. Carson has been very active in his Ward and Scouting units his entire youth. Carson’s Eagle project was building Mount Bluebird houses for his local Fish and Game Department. His team built about 30 of them...
by Vanguard Contributor | Sep 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
This past June, Vanguard Scouting member Wes Newman of the Great Alaska Council, organized the 2023 “Walk of Faith” for his council. It was an opportunity to teach Scouts of all ages about the faith communities in Alaska and work toward requirements for...
by Vanguard Contributor | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Richard Winsor As Rulon Skinner, my 1981 Jamboree Scoutmaster told me, “There are three reasons Scouts attend a Jamboree—fun, adventure, and romance. Fun – something you enjoy doing; adventure – doing something for the first time; and romance –...
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