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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIII • NO 38
FIA Volunteers Travel To West Africa
Boy Scout Troop 97 members (standing, from left) Jacob Dunkleberger, Colin Buggy, Jesse Reigle, Leo Nissley and (seated) Daniel Orris prepare their sled team for the Klondike Derby race.
Troop 97 Enjoys Interactive Experiences embers of Boy Scout Troop 97 of Middletown recently participated in the Boy Scout Klondike Derby and earned the Traffic Safety Merit Badge on a separate occasion. The Klondike Derby took place at Hidden Valley Scout Reservation. In a Klondike Derby, Scout patrols acting as huskies pull specially designed homemade sleds around a course featuring several stations. At each station, the Scouts encounter a practical problem involving basic Scouting skills that requires teamwork to solve. The teams are awarded gold nuggets based on their level of competency. The objective of a Klondike Derby, which is usually held in January or February, is to make Scouts use their heads, to put their Scouting skills to work in the field, to demonstrate teamwork and Scout spirit, and to have fun outdoors on winter days.
Another recent Scouting activity was earning the Traffic Safety Merit Badge. Scouts met on a snowy Saturday morning to fulfill the requirements for this merit badge. Topics included distracted and fatigued driving, safety features of a vehicle and their purpose, and checking tire tread and windshield wiper blades for optimal vehicle safety. The leaders reviewed the significance of different colors and shapes used in road signs as well as the nighttime reflectivity of different materials. In the parking area of the Londonderry Scouting Complex, the Scouts used a distance measuring wheel to walk the braking distance necessary to stop a car traveling 30, 50, and 70 miles per hour on ideal road conditions. Following this time of learning, the Troop went to Slick Willy’s Go-Karts in Wyomissing.
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Medical Student Collects CDs, Records For Senior Resident BY FRANCINE FULTON
Although he is partway on the long educational journey to becoming a doctor, medical student Garrett Thompson has already learned an important lesson about providing individualized care to patients. Thompson, who attends Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, recently collected donations of CDs and record albums from the 1980s to give to a patient in senior care, who is a former rock musician.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Twins Recognized For Good Deeds . . . . . . . .3 Church To Host “Hunt For Easter” . . . . . . .3 LDFF Plans Charity Golf Outing . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Summer Theater Camps Scheduled . . . . . .4 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .10
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“Almost two weeks before the derby, the Scouts receive a list of the stations. Scouts work together to find items that may be needed to successfully complete each station and secure it to their sled,” said Scoutmaster Bill Lee. “Such items include ropes to tie knots, a first aid kit, and tarps to build a shelter.” Scout Adrian Komanski said that his favorite station was the Dawson City Lumberyard. First Class Scout Isaac Dunkleberger explained that the team building challenge was for each sled team to use a cross-cut saw to cut a log four times. Scout Logan Nissley said that his favorite challenge was making a tripod to hold a pot, building a fire under it, and then boiling water in the pot. “I liked the Prospector Gold Rush Obstacle Course,” said Scout Daniel Orris. “We had to hold a pan of gold nuggets like a waiter and race through the snow around the cones.”
Friends In Action Intl. (FIA), a local nonprofit headquartered in Middletown, has provided volunteers with opportunities to utilize their trade skills in remote, off-the-grid regions of the world. Currently at work on 10 projects in six countries, FIA uses construction projects as a Tradesmen traveled to a remote platform to assist missionaries location in West Africa to help who want to share the Gospel develop a base camp of operations for FIA’s Water of Life ministry. with unreached people groups. Although COVID-19 travel restrictions resulted in many restrictions preventing us from mincanceled trips in 2020, FIA volun- istering away from the city,” said teers were able to travel to West Jeremy (last name withheld), FIA’s Africa in February of this year. The field leader on the project. “We reloteam consisted of three mechanics, cated to a region that provides three welders, a team leader, and a access to those with the highest field host. They met up with in- degree of need both physically and country missionaries to develop a spiritually.” base camp of operations for FIA’s Jeremy and his family relocated Water of Life ministry, which drills to this field in October 2020 to be wells to provide thousands of on-site representatives and fullAfricans with clean drinking water. time workers on the project. FIA had recently completed Hosting the volunteer team drilling efforts in Burkina Faso and recently and facilitating its work relocated this ministry to a different helped to accelerate FIA’s readiregion in West Africa. “Jihadist activ- ness to deliver wells and serve its ity in Burkina created governmental ministry partners.
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