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Without the Boy Scouts, Band-Aids might not have stuck around

January 18, 2018 5

Sales of Band-Aids were flagging until Johnson & Johnson incorporated them into Boy Scout first-aid kits. This helped families become more comfortable with the product, which became a household name.

Pennsylvania borough renames street after Eagle Scouts

January 16, 2018 32

Three boys in the Lennon family all earned the Eagle rank. So did the three boys in the Smith family, who live behind the Lennons. Two families with six Eagle Scouts living within a block of each other in Bridgeville, Penn. — a borough of 5,300 people near Pittsburgh. What are the odds of that happening?

Steve Cansler, beloved captain who helmed Sea Base’s Bahamas program, dies at 65

January 12, 2018 5

Sea Base Capt. Steve Cansler, who ran the Bahamas-based sailing adventures at the BSA’s Florida Sea Base, died Dec. 24, 2017. He was 65.

Arrowmen: Spend spring break helping rebuild BSA camps in Florida, Puerto Rico

January 12, 2018 18

Arrowmen are invited to spend their spring break helping BSA camps in Florida and Puerto Rico rebuild after last year’s devastating hurricane season.

Was this quote attributed to Groucho Marx actually published in Boys’ Life first?

January 11, 2018 4

A popular quote commonly attributed to comedian Groucho Marx might have appeared first in the popular “Think and Grin” jokes section of Boys’ Life magazine two decades earlier.

2018 Order of the Arrow national officers elected; here’s who represents your region

January 10, 2018 14

As national chief, Anthony Peluso represents nearly 200,000 Arrowmen — youth and adult members of the OA — throughout the 2018 calendar year.

Polish Boy Scout who escaped Auschwitz dies at age 98

January 9, 2018 10

When he was a young man, Kazimierz Piechowski, a Polish Boy Scout, embodied the “A Scout is Brave” point of the Scout Law while facing imminent death at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Alabama or Georgia? Here’s the Scouting-related reason for my pick

January 8, 2018 7

Yes, you can be a successful student, top-tier athlete and Eagle Scout. The latest in a lengthy list of examples: Jackson Harris, a junior tight end for the University of Georgia. Georgia will face Alabama tonight in

Like this: Vote Boys’ Life as your favorite magazine cover of 2017

January 5, 2018 3

The February 2017 cover of Boys’ Life, featuring an image by W. Garth Dowling, has been selected as a finalist in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best Cover Contest.

Emergency preparedness runs in the family

January 4, 2018 6

We caught up with Daniel Konzelman and discovered that the Washington trail derailment tragedy wasn’t the first emergency he or his four brothers — all of whom are Eagle Scouts — have responded to.

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