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Scouts come together at MetraPark
Black Otter District Boy Scouts Show took place on Saturday
and last updated 2021-05-23 13:15:16-04
The Boy Scout show came back this year, providing kids with the chance to showcase their skills.
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Pinewood Derby was one of the featured events at the Black Otter District s show at the MetraPark Montana Pavilion on Saturday.
Pinewood Derby at the Black Otter District Scout Show.
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About 20 of the district s 36 packs and troops participated after COVID canceled last year s event.
But even without in-person activities, the Scouts kept programs going through virtual meetings.
Kyle Lantz, Boy Scouts Montana Council field representative.
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Larson repays Urban Youth Racing School with virtual visit
“It’s good to be back racing again in NASCAR,” he told the class.
Larson’s road back to NASCAR after he was suspended last season for using a slur during an iRacing event can be traced in large part back to his heavy involvement with UYRS. The Philly-based program that creates opportunities in racing for minorities extended an olive branch last year to Larson and a fast friendship was formed with program founders Anthony and Michelle Martin.
In a sport in which minorities are scarce at all levels, the Martins made it their mission to introduce inner-city youngsters, most of them Black, to the motorsports world with the school. The school has served more than 7,500 students from ages 8 to 18 over the last 22 years and teaches all aspects of auto racing, including driving and Black racing history. UYRS uses a science, technology, engineering and math curriculum and students are quizzed and graded and compe
May 13, 2021
The Pinewood Derby is a piece of Americana that hearkens back to a treasured time when parents taught children about working with their hands and with tools to create something of value.
That tradition has grown to involve mothers and sons and daughters, brothers and nephews or nieces or uncles and aunts and nephews or nieces or whoever, but the concept remains the same: To teach a young boy or girl about using the skills of his or her own handiwork to enter a competition that is all about fun and sportsmanship.
The concept dates back to 1953 and the work of an enterprising Boy Scouts of America Cubmaster in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Donald Murphy was looking for what he said was a “wholesome, constructive activity that would foster a closer father-son relationship and promote craftsmanship and good sportsmanship through competition.”