28 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, August I - August 7, 1997
Scouts Brian Ventre and Dan Bowser of Newark, Scout
Leader Phil Bowman of Dover, scouts Dan Callahan of Per-
ryville, Md., Taylor Keen of Earlville, Md., David Anderson
and Phil Mursch of Newark, and Scout Leader Kevin Conlon
of'Rehoboth Beach at the pre-jamboree campout at Rodney
Scout Reservation. They are in front of the Squirrel patrol
storage box for eating utensil&
Area Boy Scorns attend
National Jamboree
There were 144 scouts from
ages 12 to 18 representing 43 dif-
ferent troops across the Delmarva
Peninsula at the 1997 Boy Scout
Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Vir-
ginia on July 28.
The scouts were accompanied
by 16 adult leaders during the
Jamboree, whose theme this year
was "Be Prepared For The 21st
Century."
While at the Jamboree, the
scouts focOsed on activities fea-
turing physical fitness, conserva-
tion, ecology and the universal
spirit of brotherhood. The scouts
participated as individuals, in pa-
trols and as a troop. The various
activities helped to foster team-
work, comistent with the overall
theme of molding the citizens of
tomorrow.
The Jamboree was a temporary
city, housing more than 30,000
boy scouts and their leaders, and
many normal city amenities were
available the week of the event.
Amid the thousands of colorful
tents that serve as residences,
community services including a
bus system, telephones, a hospital
and first aid stations, a postal ser-
vice, food warehouses, daily
newspapers and trading posts
were offered.
Scouts practiced and demon-
strated such skills as archery, ori-
enteering, obstacle courses, shot-
gun shooting, boating, canoeing
and hunter safety, as well as tak-
ing part in traditional handicapped
awareness trails, competitive
events, merit badge midway, and
an arts and science fair.
There were scouts and leaders
from the following Delaware
communities: Bear, Brandywine
Hundred, Centreville, ClaymonL
Clayton, Delmar, Dover, Eismere,
Frankford, Georgetown, Harbe-
son, Hartly, Hockessin, Lewes,
Middletown, Milford, Newark,
New Castle, Ocean View, Re-
hoboth, Smyrna, Townsend,
Wilmington, Woodside,
wy6ming.
CHEER presents basket to winner
Ray D'Amour, winner of CHEER '97 collector's basket No. 1,
receives his drawing prize from Charlene Hubert, CHEER
Capital Campaign Coordinator. Between them is a photo of
the multi-purpose community and adult day care center that
will be built in Georgetown. Sussex County Senior Services,
Inc. (CHEER) is taking orders for the second edition of the
popular hardwood collector's baskets it brought to Sussex
County in 1996. The baskets, handmade in the USA out of na-
tive American hardwoods, are five inches in diameter and
four and a half inches tall. Each costs $26. Proceeds from the
sale of the baskets will go to the CHEER Building Fund.
Rehoboth Boy Scouts return from summer camp
The Boy Scouts of Rehoboth
Beach Troop 85, sponsored by the
Kiwanis, just returned from a fun-
filled week of summer camp. This
year the scouts chose to go to
Treasure Island. Treasure Island is
one of the oldest scout camps in
America and is located about 30
miles north of Philadelphia in the
center of the Delaware River.
Nine scouts - Joe Gallagher (se-
nior Patrol Leader), Steve Conlon,
Danny Thompson, Joe Byrd, Zach
Plummer, Chris Holdridge, Shane
Fleming, Marten Elder, and
Christopher Breeding accompa-
nies by scout leaders Mark
Thompson, Ed Fleming and Greg
Plummer, had a very successful
week, The scouts earned a total of
12 complete merit badges, 10 par-
tial merit badges, one tenderfoot
badge, two first class adventure
certificates and two totem chip
awards. Two leaders and five
scouts also earned the Polar Bear
Award by getting up at 7 a.m. and
taking a dip in the pool for three
days. Leaders Thompson and
Fleming also participated in the
BSA Lifeguard certification pro-
gram with one completion and
one partial. The theme this year
was "Medieval Adventure," with
sponge catapults, bicycle jousting,
archery demonstrations, knights
in armor, games of skill (crossing
the moat) and luck. Monday was
the day of the catapult challenge,
and Tuesday the group floated
down the Delaware in tubes. On
Wednesday, there was a campfire
with skits, songs, and cheers, and
on Thursday the group biked up
the old towpath and canoed down
the Delaware. The Crusades were
held, featuring games and skill
based on medieval games. One
such activity, 'Climbing Rapun-
zel's Hair," gave a champion from
each team the opportunity to
climb Rapunzel's hair, a 15-ft
long rope. Troop 85 will resume
Monday meetings in September.
Thanks,
customers.
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on Thursday and Friday the 17th and 18th of July,
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You turned down your air conditioners, washed and dried
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