While Boy Scouts of Americaâs Blue Ridge Mountain Council packs up to hike its offices across Roanoke this summer, local leadership prepares to revamp its message of outdoor exploration toward families emerging from a year cooped away indoors.
âAs an organization that gathers people together to socialize and learn, this past year has been very difficult,â said Scout Executive George Clay during a phone call. âIt was a huge adjustment.â
A local Boy Scouts headquarters was built at 2131 Valley View Blvd NW shortly after the land was donated in 1987, according to city documents. Investors purchased the brown brick building in February for $1.2 million, and a real estate sign on the front lawn says it is now available to lease as 11,000 square feet of office or medical space.
All Talk
This feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox.
IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza during the military incursion known as Operation Protective Edge, Salma Faysal, a 17-year-old from Ramallah, was at sleepaway camp in rural Maine. Faysal was a second-year camper at Seeds of Peace Camp, a coexistence initiative that brings Israeli and Palestinian teenagers together each summer on the shores of Pleasant Lake, an hour northwest of Portland. Every day for a little under two hours, in facilitated dialogue sessions squeezed between regular camp activities like basketball and sailing, participants discuss their experiences on opposing sides of a geopolitical conflict; beyond those sessions, staffers discourage political conversation. But in 2014, as Palestinian campers struggled to reach family members back home cell phones are prohibited at camp something gave way.
Obituary: Robert Stevens “Steve” Link
SOUTH PORTLAND - Devoted Husband, Father and Grandfather Robert Stevens Steve Link, 82, of 17 Mildred St., South Portland, passed away Jan. .
Share
Robert Stevens “Steve” Link
SOUTH PORTLAND – Devoted Husband, Father and Grandfather -Robert Stevens “Steve” Link, 82, of 17 Mildred St., South Portland, passed away Jan. 1, 2021. Born in St. Louis, Mo., April 11, 1938, the second son of Emerson Blaine and Nancy (Smith) Link, both deceased of Tenants Harbor.
Steve was a twelfth generation descendent of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He graduated from Webster High School in Webster Groves, Mo. in 1956. He lettered in wrestling and golf. He served in the U.S. Army for three years, graduating from postal operations school and serving two years in Japan. He graduated from Washington State Teachers College in Machias in 1963. He earned a Master of Science degree in Education from Gorham State College in 1968. He had earned over 60