VOL 6 ·ISSUE 28
WALKER COUNTY
PRESS
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Thursday May 19 , 2022
Josey Scout Lodge
Scout leaders understand the importance of providing a fun-filled Scouting experience for the youth we serve, and the best way to know how we’re doing is to ask a Scout. Josey Lodge asked Troop 98’s Scout David Beaty II; here’s what he told us. “I first started scouting
about five years ago as a tiger in Cub Scouts. Cub scouting was awesome! We went camping a lot! Camping was full of fun, fort building, and den activities with my Pack. I always looked forward to the campfire where we sang songs, roasted marshmallows, and per-
formed hilarious skits. Our cub den met together with our Den Leader every week to discuss plans, work on adventures, and be silly together! Cub scouts took trips to really cool places like the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas where we dug for diamonds and the SHSU planetarium where we explored space! We even got to camp overnight in the middle of the Houston Zoo! (Just so you know, lions grunt at night!) At cub camp every summer, I shot BB guns, sling shots and bows and arrows while meeting cubs from all over! Swim time, hike time, any time is scout time! Cub scouts was an epic experience. “Just recently, I crossed over into a troop! I’m (contd on page 10)
PBR Provides Plenty of Action
Daylon Swearingen posted a monstrous 93 point ride aboard “Riding Solo” on Saturday night during the PBR World Championship. Photo courtesy of Andy Watson/ Bull Stock Media.
By Wade Thibodeaux The PBR(Professional Bull Riders) provided plenty of action for those who thrive on bull riding as the “Unleash the Beast” World Finals got underway last weekend in Ft Worth, Texas. This was the first time the event was held in Ft. Worth(Dickies Arena) and it was also a switch from a Fall Championship to a (contd on page 10)
City Hosts Drainage Meeting
Citizens broke out into City quadrants to visit with engineers about drainage issues in their neighborhood. An engineer from LJA(Light Blue shirt) points to an area where a particular drainage problem potentially exists. By Wade Thibodeaux every chair in the place drainage within the City. The City of Huntsville taken and several stand- After a preliminary period hosted a Community ing around the perimeter of about two months, the Engagement Meeting of the room. The purpose firm will filter all of the last Thursday, May 12, of the meeting was for information into a drain2022 at 5:30 pm. at the the engineering firm that age study that will hopeWilliam Hodges Educa- the City of Huntsville has fully tell the City where tion Building at the Sam engaged, LJA Engineer- the drainage problems are Houston Statue Visitor ing, to begin the process located and perhaps how Center. The meeting was of gathering information to go about fixing them. well attended with almost on the problem areas of (contd on page 10)
City of Huntsville citizens listened to a presentation from LJA Engineering about the efforts to produce a drainage study for the City.