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Show Emery County Progress Tuesday, November L 1988 7B Donated house goes to Scout aquatic camp ByARVA SMITH Staff writer A white, frame house donated by Boyd and Caleen Marsing to become headquarters for aquatic camp for the Utah National Parks Council Boy Scouts of America at Scofied was moved Sunday from a location in Carbonville. Duane Frandsen, chairman of the camp development committee for the council, said the 40 by 26 foot house, which is 21 feet high, was moved over the highway Sunday beginning at 8 a.m. The Utah Highway Patrol said there would probably be only a little traffic on the highway at that time. Three highway patrolmen including Sgt. Billy Hunt and one person from the department of transportation provided an two-bedroo- escort. Boy Scouts plan food project CHICAGO The largest appeal for food in the history of the nation will be undertaken by the Boy Scouts of America in November as it seeks to help alleviate hunger in a massive Good Turn. of the Announcement made was program recently by volunteer chairman Frank J. Morgan, president and chief operating officer of The Quaker Oats Co. The firm is providing Hie Scout organization with supportive resources on behalf of the drive. Several million Cub Scouts, Boys Scouts and Explorers will distribute collection bags door-to-do- or on Saturday, Nov. 12 with an appeal that they be food filled with most needed for nutrition. The non-perisha- following Saturday, Nov. 19, youth will collect the bags. Scouting officials said they hope at least 100 million canned goods will be donated. Foodstuffs will be sorted and boxed at collection centers throughout the country and then distributed to, or picked up by, existing food banks and other distribution agencies with the Scouts. These agencies will subsequently provide the food to the needy in their home communities at no cost. Hunger is a problem we can do something about by working together, observed Chief Scout Executive Ben H. Love, of Irving, Texas. Scouting for Food is a starting point. It is an cooperating example of Scoutings long- - CEU offers help The College of Eastern Utah job placement office has established a pool of capable CEU students who are offering their services as tutors to any students in the area from kindergarten to college. According to job placement director Kathy Painter, the tutors are nowledgeable in several fields and are flexible in scheduling. ; can find someone who can assist students in fields like reading, English, math, computers, business, Spanish and science classes. The student can arrange to study with the tutor every day, or just one or two We days a week; for an hour to two or three hours a day. Study sessions can be held just about anywhere too; like the CEU library or in the students home, she explained. Depending on the educational qualifications, wages for tutors vary from $3.35 to $8 an hour. The responsibility for wages, time and location will be determined by an agreement between the student and the tutor. Anyone needing to arrange tutoring services or wanting more information about the program at CEU should contact ext. 284 Painter at 637-212- 0, standing commitment community service. According to the BSA, . to 20 million Americans, including 4 million children, go hungry at some time every month. The organization also quotes studies which claim there is more hunger in America today than at any time in the past 25 years. One of Hie participants at todays program, Dr. J. Larry Brown, chairman of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America at the Harvard University School of Public Health, points to federal cutbacks for the recent rise in hunger in this country. By sheer numbers, as well as health risks posed, hunger is a problem of staggering asserts Brown. proportions, Its existence is all the more disturbing since hunger was virtually eliminated in the United States during the 1970s. Cooperating with the Scouts naUonwide will be the United Way and the National Guard. Many others, such as food chains, civic and religious groups, fire departments and various governmental agencies are cooperating on regional or local levels. The Scouting organization traces the Good Turn back to its founding. The first recognized national Good Turn was promotion of a safe and sane Fourth of July in 1912; its last, distribution two years ago of 14 million informational brochures regarding human organ and tissue donation. Officials said they would announce the results on Dec. 16. Paul Valgardson, Provo house mover, who donated part of the cost, said four of his employees helped with the move. During the time the house was in transit, flagmen in smaller vehicles in front and back of the large truck used radios to warn the driver about oncoming traffic and road conditions. He said the house was quite large but about average compared to the other houses his television microwave towers. Property for that camp was donated several years ago by said. The council is fast growing. Luthi said when he came to the council in 1976 there were only 21,000 registered Scouts and a staff of 14. Frandsen said he is also working on development of Camp Bristlecone, another Scout camp in Carbon County, located in the vicinity of the said a large tank to provide a water supply, not yet hooked up, was donated by Lee Jensen and Mike Keller . Frandsen. ras: Christmas Festival 9:00a. p.m. m.-5:- 00 Huntington Bros. Store (Boyd's Pharmacy) Main, Castle Dale 25 W. SANTA 11 : 00-- 00 Booths, Foods, Crafts, Demonstrations 2: company moves. The house will be the central structure in the camp located on the north side of the reservoir. Rene F. Luthi, director of properties for the council, said 900 Scouts, in addition to their Monleaders, spent a week day through Saturday at the camp during a five week period last summer. The camp features swimming, motorboating, sailing, rifle and archery shooting and has provisions for the handicapped. It is an ideal place to work on merit badges, Luthi said. Jeff Peterson, Provo, is the camp director. Luthi said 21 camp sites will surround the headquarters with a cement pad in the center of each of the smaller sites. Six pads have already been poured. On the cement pads a modified structure will be built. Scouts will pitch their tents around the center structure in each camp site. The Utah National Parks Council, with headquarters in Provo, includes the area in the state south of the Point of the Mountain. The council has 42,000 registered Scouts, a professional staff of 19 and many volunteer leaders, Luthi He Entertainments Jazz Band, Singing, Dancing, Clogging, Fashion Show, Raffles, Belly Dancing There will be boxes for Sub for Santa 4 or For more information call 381-267- 381-250- 4 OTS: 100 or20 ' REBATE! 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