There are discussions throughout Austin surrounding the criminalization of homeless encampments. Recently, Save Austin Now garnered enough signatures to get reinstating a camping ban on the May ballot. I not only agree with them – despite legal precedent that camping bans are in violation of the Bill of Rights amendment protecting citizens from cruel and unusual punishment – but I believe that we can take it further.
The most important goal is to keep our city family-friendly, and therefore visually pleasing, but the result is a dull board game, with neighborhoods pushing pieces back and forth. Yes, it engages the whole city: Nobody can say frustration with the homeless isn t a bonding experience. The fact remains, however, that, as a game, it s rather boring and, even worse, it never ends.
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The Camp Bomazeen entrance on Horse Point Road in Belgrade on July 17, 2020. A day earlier, the board of the Pine Tree Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to sell the 75-year-old property along Great Pond.
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A landmark Belgrade camp that is being sold to save the regional scouting organization from going broke may go to a new owner who will allow Scouts to continue to use at least some of the Great Pond property.
Officials of the Pine Tree Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which oversees groups in southern and central Maine, voted last July to sell the 76-year-old Camp Bomazeen in Belgrade. Generations have learned about Boy Scouts and life in the outdoors at the camp. The council’s vote came after an emergency task force recommended the property sale as a way to raise money to help address the council’s dire financial situation.
‘Dedicated’ central Pa. teen earns all 137 Boy Scout badges, a rare feat
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
Eagle Scout Alexander LaVerdiere poses with all 137 Boy Scout merit badges. LaVerdiere joins the ranks of less than 400 confirmed Boy Scouts who have earned every badge since the organization was founded in 1910.
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“I’ve been called that by some of the guys in my troop,” he said.
The 17-year-old graduated from Commonwealth Charter Academy a year early, for one thing. For another, he’s reached the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. And over the past six years, he has managed to earn every single merit badge offered by the organization.