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Show n'.jinjw'n 'W mm mlniumi i"' '. ' P I1 I"11 ' 1 1 . - Lee Hass, left, Den 6 and Mark Roberts, introduce their pine-wood racers to the track. The two local cub scouts participated in the annual Pinewood Dei by held last week. Boy Scout Fund Drive Set Here Saturday The Grand District of the Boy Scouts of America will hold their annual fund drive this Saturday March 16th according ac-cording to "district chairman Richard Barnes. Barnes said they hope to. complete the fund drive in just one day. Scout leaders will meet Saturday Sat-urday morning and then will go out to canvas-the area., .Each year the Utah National. Nation-al. Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America conducts a fund drive to obtain the monies mon-ies necessary for its oper4-tion oper4-tion during the year. According Accord-ing to chairman Barnes the Grand District is required to raise a share of this money. He said, our share is based on the number of boys in the district dis-trict who are registered scouts. This year it will cost about $8.00. per boy, to provide pro-vide r each registered boy with the scouting program. , Barnes said the $8.00 is spent during the year as follows: , $1.92 is spent by the council . on training and training aids. For example, the University of Scouting" training course recently held at the College of Eastern Utah, at which 22 adult Moab scouters attended, Filmstrips, recordings, 16mm films, training kits and other visual aid material is purchased pur-chased and maintained by the council and is sent postpaid . to adult scouters , upon request. re-quest. , )'), $1.44 is spent by the council on setting up the various programs pro-grams such as; summer camps, Courts of Honor, jamboree, jam-boree, advancement, camp orees, Scout-b-rees, etc. For example, at the recent Grand District Court of Honor, the camping patches presented to the scouts who participated in the fall camporee were purchased with this money. Various unit awards obtained through competition, such as the 22 rifle shoot held in Price in January, are purchased with this money. Program materials such as brochures, forms, advancement cards and other related materials are also purchased with this money. $2.56 is spent by the council coun-cil for professional field service. ser-vice. Last year, the professional profes-sional scouters drove 195,487 miles to assist 24,652 cub scouts, boy scouts, explorers and their 7554 volunteer leaders lead-ers in 1130 units in the Utah National Parks Council. Here in Grand District, we are serviced by Stephen Perry, District Executive, who lives in Price. Each month Steve spends no less than 2- days . in Jrand County providing training to den mothers, cub masters, scout masters, explorer ex-plorer advisors and their assistants. as-sistants. He attends and acts as secretary to the district committee. He replaces any and all district committee people who are failing to perform per-form their assignments, which in the not too distant past, has been the greater majority of the district committee. com-mittee. He is the vital link between our district and the council. He assists in camp- orees, Courts of Honor and ! 1 anywhere else he is needed. V, Last fall, he returned on a Friday evening, and assisted with a Camporee that lasted through Saturday evening. He is currently at work setting I up the contact cards and o- j th'er associated materials for our fund drive. I $.08 is forwarded to the Na- j tional Council for service. I $.80 is spent on office and j camp" upkeep for such items as heat, equipment, lights, postage, telephone, printing, supplies, forms, janitorial service ser-vice and insurance. $2.20 is spent on office ser- H vice for such items as issuing badges to cub scouts, boy scouts and explorer scouts; issuing and maintaining records re-cords on 32,206 registered cub scouts, boy scouts and explorers. ex-plorers. The district chairman has urged that businessmen and citizens of Moab join in the : support of the Boy Scout j Fund Drive Saturday March 16th. |