Greater Hershey Area ALSO SERVING HUMMELSTOWN AND MIDDLETOWN
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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIII • NO 39
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Club Announces Contest Winners
Boy Scout Troop 97 members (standing, from left) Jacob Dunkle- Troop 97 members (from left) Life Scout Luke Spanberger, Colin Buggy, Jesse Reigle, Leo Nissley and (seated) Daniel genberg, Scout Austin Whitman, Scout Logan Nissley, Orris prepare their sled team for the Klondike Derby race. and Scoutmaster Bill Lee measured the braking distance necessary to stop a car on ideal road conditions.
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
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.” 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. A few days later, Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Robert Bemis was a guest speaker for Troop 97. Bemis told the troop of his service in the United States Marine Corps and with Marine One under two presidents. After being discharged from the Marines, he fulfilled his boyhood dream of becoming a Pennsylvania State Police trooper. His presentation to the Scouts included
See Contest Winners pg 9
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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. “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
The Hershey Rotary Club has announced the winners of its 2021 Four-Way Essay Contest, which was open to students in ninth grade at Middletown Area High School, Hershey High School and Milton Hershey School. Students were asked to prepare an essay of up to 1,500 words on the topic of “Truth.” They were asked to address questions such as “ What is truth?” and “Where is truth found?” and “Is truth even important?” and “Is truth absolute or relative to a person’s experiences in life?”
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