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Show i Boy Scout Skill-O-Ree Saturday Features Interesting Skills and Exciting Contests A Boy Scout Skill-ORee will be staged at the Livestock Pavilion Pavil-ion on North Main Street, Staur-day, Staur-day, March 27 from 4 to 9 p. m. Participating in the event will be all troops of the Cedar Breaks District of the Boy Scouts of America. The skill-o-ree, which is open to the public, will feature booths to demonstrate scout skills, competitive events and prizes. Booths will be established around the large front area of the Pravilion. Each booth will be sponsored by a seperate troop and they will perform various skills and conduct various demonstrations de-monstrations throughout the day. Periodically throughout the day the various competive events will be staged that are designed to develope skills and display use of Scout knowledge. A chariot race is the first competive com-petive event slated for the afternoon after-noon of scouting fun. It will be held at 4:30 p. m. Each of the participants In the contest will have prepared a series of poles and pieces of rope. The equipment equip-ment will be placed at the East end of the building and the boys will start at a starting line at the West end. At the gun the boys will run to the equipment, lash the chariot together and carry-one carry-one boy back to the starting line. Points will be awarded and winners win-ners declared. At 5:30 p. m. a fire by friction contest will be held. Each of the troops has been informed of the equipment necessary and winners win-ners will be declared on the ability abil-ity to produce fire using a bow, softwood dowel, softwood base, finely shaved wood or bark, small rock or hardwood for hand or upper plate. Three scouts will make up a team. The third competitive event will be an obstacle course race including a wall scale, rope climb, ladder walk, rail walk, tire run, hurdles, duck walk, pipe crawl, hand walk rope and double dou-ble rail hand. This will be a race aganist the clock and four scouts will form a team. The final competitive com-petitive event at 7:30 p. m. will be a pancake flip. The boys must mix the batter, fry a pancake run to a string at the other end of the hall, flip the pancake over the 8 foot high string, catch the pancake, run back to the orginal point, eat the pancake, cook another pancake, the other boy will run to the string, flip It over, bring it back. Both boys eat it and whistle. The individual booths will also al-so provide some interesting entertainment en-tertainment for parents and friends of the scouting program. They will include such things as knot tying and lashing, judging and match striking, plant identification, identi-fication, first aid, flag display, bird identification, map and com-I com-I pass, signalling and judging or-dors. |
