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Show WCt- - (earns Jaycee News BIKE SAFETY WORKSHOP Kearns Jaycees will conduct a Bike Safety Workshop on Saturday, August 12, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Plaza Theater Parking Lot, announces President Nathan Ridge. Jaycees, led by Chairman Jim Court-righ- t, will be on hand to make minor repairs to bicycles and will affix fluorescent sticker tape to bumpers or fenders to insufe greater safety. The Bike Safety Workshop will be conducted as a father-so- n type project, and Chairman Court-rigasks that fathers accompany their sons where posht sible. STEAK FRY Kearns Jaycees will honor their wives with a Steak Fry on August 11, 7:30 p.m. at Granger Park. Jerry Kalm is coordinator for the project. MAGNA AWARD Post 9322 To Hold Steak Fry Wood Badge Training Course Sponsored By Scouts Walker t p.m. Everyone who would like to attend are invited, along with the assistant scoutmasters, commissioners, professional scouters and others connected with council and district training programs. In addition to council representation 12 of the 13 districts of members. The cost is $2.00 per person. Advanced reservations may be made through Mrs. Tony Christensen . Staff members the council had members in attendance. conducted the training experience under the direction of Mr. Maurice Kruse, assistant council executive. ge VFW-Pos- 9322 and Auxiliary are holding a steak fry Saturday, August 19, in Copperton and pavillion at 6:30 Park The first Wood Badge Training course to be sponsored the Great Salt Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America, by was recently completed at the Boy Scout Campt, East Fork of the Bear, Evanston, Wyoming. Attending the eighth day training experience, in the field, were 30 adult leaders consisting of scoutmasters, One of the purposes of wood badge training is to get men to think about the practice of scouting, to meet together to exchange experiences and to live together in the spirit of the scout oath. Wood Badge training is now accepted throughout the scouting world. It is governed by the international training centre for scouting at Gilwell Park, England, in close cooperations with the boy scout world bureau. A team of selected scouters run Wood Badge courses in most scouting countries under the general supervision of the camp chief Wood Badge training forms an important at Gilwell park. unifying limb in world scouting. Scouters who take part in it are expressing, in a practical way, their belief in the brotherhood of scouting. These men are to be found in over 100 countries on every continent. The Wood Badge training experience was first devised and instituted by Baden Powell in England in 1919. In the year 1948 Wood Badge training was inaugurated in the United States and has become a motivating force in the training of volunteer leaders in the boy scouts of America. The program is administered in the United States by the volunteer training service of the National Council and sanctioned by the International Training Center, Gilwell Park, England. Final recognition as a wood badge man is given after completing three parts of the training program. 1. Practical. Eight day training experience consisting of living scouting. Learning by doing motivates all activities. 2. Correspondence consists of a series of questions and projects that require written reports from candidates, and 3. Application - 6 months service between practical experience and final certification. Leaders who successfully complete the entire experience are presented their Wood Badge which consists of two wooden beads worn on a leather thong around the neck. The Wood (two or more wooden beads on a leather thong), the Badge distinctive gray neckerchief with its patch of maclaren plaid on the back, and the Woggle (leather turks head neckerover as the mark of a world the are chief slide) recognized scouter who has completed this advanced training aimed at strengthening the scout program. The Immediate goal of Wood Badge training in the boy scouts of America is for more council and district leadership training committee members and instructors, and professional scouters to become wood badge trained men through and sectional national courses. The long-rannational for every scoutmaster, assistant scoutmaster, comgoal is missioners, and troop committeemen to earn the Wood Badge awards, through sectional local and local council courses, as evidence of thorough training to better help boys get the best possible scout program. Plans are presently underway for another Wood Badge course to be conducted in the Salt Lake Council in 1968. Neal Snyder . 298-329- A prize of $15 was presented to the Kearns Jaycees by Glen Wahlqulst, Chairman of the Magna Parade, sponsored by the LDS Oquirrh Stake on July 24. The award was given to the Jaycees for their float, Blossom 'Like a Rose, which won first place for civic and commercial entries. The float also took a third in the Days of 47 Parade and Grand Sweepstakes in the Kearns Parade on July 29. Chris Schenck was Chairman, assisted by Dale McRae, and Jaycees and wives. BOARD MEETING board meeting of the Kearns Jaycees is scheduled for tonight August 10 at 8 p.m. at the home of Dale McRae, 4246 Benview A Drive. 0. Donna Eastman New Field Representative MIA Maids of the Kearns 8th Ward Site Set For Alia Maids Held Rose Evening MIA Maids of the Kearns 8th Ward held the annual Rose Evening on July 26 during graduation ceremonies at the Kearns Stake House from first and sec- ond year classes. The gradu- ation was conducted by teachers Beulah Carr and Ruth Cranney. Opening prayre was given by Debra Carr, followed by a song from the MIA Maids -- Oh Rose." The symbolism of the rose was presented by Pat Cranney, and Mrs. Carr explained the MIA Joy program which seeks to develop young ladies to have high Ideals, skills, good health and good grooming. The Rose Tying ceremony and song were a feature of the Each girl brought a evening. rose to the bouquet, telling what its significance was to her. The bouquet was then presented to President Noreen Munro of the Mutual Improvement Association. Receiving MIA Joy Awards were: First year: Beulah Carr, teacher, Jean Anderson, Debra Carr, CathleenCastillo, Shelley Harker, Shawna Nielson, Gayle Stoddard, Gay Wood and Patsy Hansen. Second year: Marge Wood, Ann Glngell, Karen Winn, Vickie Caldwell and Pat Cranney. Youth Bible Comp Kearns Croon Thumbors To Xleet Friday Kearns Green Thumbers will meet Friday evening, August 4 at 7:30 p.m. to hold a business meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs . Glen (Betty) Sarbo, 720 East Three Fountains Drive, Murray. After the meeting a Progressive Dinner Party will be enjoyed by the group at the homes of the Sarbos, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Poe and Kay Speaks. Chairman of the affair is Mrs. Poe assisted by Kay Speaks. four carloads of Recently Kearns Green Thumbers attended a tour of the Burnham home In Bountiful and to the Experimental Gardens, also a park in Ogden , Utah. This was climaxed by a smorgasboard dinner at the Chuck-A-Rain camp ground in a lovely pine setting overlooking the beautiful Palisades Reservoir near Alpine, Wyoming, will be the site for a Youth Summer Bible Camp, which is a combined of several effort Baptist Churches in Utah and Idaho. This is the 2 year that the Anchor Baptist Church, 1880 East 5600 South has participated in this program with these churches. The program schedule consists of Bible classes in the morning, recreation, such as hiking, swimming, ball games, etc., in the afternoon, and a service in the evening. Rev. Bill Anderson, a missionary of Ogden. furlough will be the main speaker. Pastors from the participating churches will teach the Bible classes. Rev. T. Fatig, Registration For Blackfoot, Idaho, will be program chairman. Rev. Thomas H. Miller, Anchor Baptist Kindergarten Begins Salt Lake City, will Church, be registrar, and Rev. David Registration for kindergartMcNew, Pocatello, Idaho, will be en, first and second grades camp director. Other Pastors participating at St. Francis Xavier Elemenbe are Rev. Chester Whittaker, tary School in Kearns will 9 17 a.m. from on held August Rev. E. Wood, Rev. G. Martin at the schools 3 p.m. and Rev. W. Higgins. Each until announces multi room, purpose church will provide counselors Meersman. Thomas J. Reverend for the young people. A health certificate and bapThe group from Anchor Baptismal record are necessary for tist Church will leave the church and first grade Monday, August 14, about 9 a.m. kindergarten students. and return Saturday August 19. A Mrs. Donna M. Eastman, of 5391 S. 4620 West, Kearns is a field representative for the Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society. The announcement was made by Boyce L. Greene, of Salt Lake City, Woodmen area manager for Utah. Mrs. Eastman is a native of Boise, Idaho, and was educated in schools in Idaho and California. She is a member of Woodmen Court 1 Utah. Mrs. Eastman has three children. Her hobbies are dancing and bowling. Swim Party For Poppy Workers Youngsters who helped sell popples on VFW Poppy Day were rewarded with a delightful swimming party Friday evening August 4th at 5:30 In the Kearns Pool. After the swim hot dogs and watermelon were enjoyed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Strickland in Magna. Along with pony rids everyone reveled In looking at the animals around the Strickland place. Hosts and hostesses for the event were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mr. R. (Tony) Christensen, and Mrs. Irvin Simons, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Porter, Mrs. Wilma Frank, and Mr. Walter also the Stricklands. Banks, VFW Post 9322 and the Auxiliary participated In the Poppy Day program, held on May 27. The youngsters selling popples were age 6 years on up to 14 or 15. |