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Connor Guest tries on some Army equipment at the Boy Scout Camporee May 3. This year's camporee had roughly 7,000 participants with 283 cadet volunteers.
Boy Scouts: Georgia trip - 11/6/72
Front row, Left to Right
Danny Mounce, David Eads, Mike Holt, ?, Dan Stein, Fred Salutsky, Ben Stein, ?
Second Row, Left to Right
Larry Stokes, Bernard Burton, ?, ?, Shand Ard, ?, John Stein, ?, James Gibson, Twig Weigel
3rd Row Left to Right
Parker Locke, ?, (?) Cox, (?) Cox, Freddy Vaughn, Alan Strunk, Donnie Burdine, Steve Ledford, Rippy VanHook, Jimmy Sowder
Back Row Left to Right
Charlie Guffey,B.J. Burdine, Doug Holsomback, Denny Vaughn, Tom Ed Garner, ?, David Slaughter
Photograph taken by Jim Slaughter.
Local Kids & The Girls Scouts of North East Texas "Lend A Hand" to Help Us Launch Our Community Wall Art Project! **Let us know if your Children or Kids Organizations would like to be a part of this fun ongoing Art Project!
Sgt. Tyson Husk, a scout with Bulldog Troop, White Platoon, discusses a bounding movement with his platoon leader while on a reconnaissance patrol near Combat Outpost Delorean, Bala Murghab, Baghdis Province, Afghanistan Jan. 9. (Photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace)
‘Lempaute’ as her rescuers have named her after the area she was found, is just two weeks old and absolutely tiny. The scouts of The West Gate Conservancy were on a routine foot patrol when they came across this tiny calf walking all alone down a road. The moment she became aware of their presence she ran off into the bush screaming, but then later emerged from the undergrowth and began to follow them. She followed them as they walked for about an hour until such time as the patrol vehicle which was summoned by radio from the Head Quarters of the Conservancy was able to collect them and rescue the elephant. There were no elephants anywhere in the area, and her ears were very sun burnt which would indicate that she had been without her mother for at least 24 hours. She was rescued on the migration route the elephants use in the wet season as they transit through from Laikipia to the Mathews Range and it is suspected she was left behind simply because she could not keep up with the herd. It is not unusual for these northern elephants to streak under the cover of darkness in order to avoid hostile humans, but we can never be sure what the real reason is, just that she was found, a tiny little elephant in a vast landscape without another adult elephant for miles around. How fortunate it was that the West Gate Conservancy scouts found her and were able to rescue her, as an elephant this age without her mother would be terribly vulnerable to predators, and without her mothers milk would certainly not last long.
A tiny newborn elephant is orphaned, often its mother and family gunned down to serve the Ivory trade, its life support gone; any survivors fleeing in terror; its fate now suffering and death in hopeless and lonely isolation it cannot understand. For an elephant, the family is all important; its very existence dependent upon its mother's milk for the first two years of life and a life that should span three score years and ten, equivalent to that of man. In a perfect world that elephant life would be filled with fun and joy through the companionship of friends and a close-knit and loving family, whose love is pure and unconditional all the days of its life.
In one country in Africa, Kenya, an Elephant Nursery situated in Nairobi under the auspices of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, overseen by Dr. Daphne Sheldrick, whose elephant experience spans a lifetime, and with the cooperation of the Kenya Wildlife Service, for the first time ever now offers hope for any orphaned elephant fortunate enough to be found alive. It took Daphne Sheldrick 28 years of trial and error during the years that her husband was Warden of Kenya's largest and most important elephant Sanctuary, Tsavo East National Park, to perfect the milk formula and complex husbandry necessary to rear the orphaned infant African elephants.
Newspaper 7-16-1969
Members of local Boy Scout troops are getting merit badge credit by helping Bernard Shelton, left, spruce up the Little League facilities. Scouts involved, from left, are Bill Shelton, Bob Caplin and Bruce Wilson.
James Slaughter Photography Collection