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| By Vernon Robison Moapa Valley Progress Published February 4, 2009 The LDS Logandale Stake held a scouting leadership conference last weekend at the Clark County Fairgrounds. The conference provided intensive training for adult leaders of LDS Boy Scout Troops and Cub Scout packs. Over 100 leaders attended the event, many bringing their families to participate in event activities as well. The two-day conference was styled after the week-long Philmont Ranch |
 President Monty Bledsoe, of the LDS Logandale Stake Presidency, instructs LDS Scout Leaders at a special training seminar held on Friday and Saturday at the Fairgrounds |
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| camp held in New Mexico. This camp, put on each year by the LDS church leadership, provides training on how the Scouting program can be harmonized with church programs to properly guide teenage boys through challenging adolescent years.
The goals for the Logandale conference were similar. “We wanted to give our leaders the big picture on how the Scouting programs fit together with and complement our church programs,” said Logandale Stake Young Men’s President, Corey Dalley. “We have based this event very closely on the Philmont camp,” said Willie Frehner, Secretary in the Logandale Stake Young Men’s Presidency. “A lot of the course materials we are using comes straight from Philmont. Of course, we are doing in just two days what they do there in a week. So we have had to condense it way down. But the material is the same.” |
 Local youth McKay and Travis Winzenried along with Travis ‘Trigger” Smith perform a service project at the Logandale Cemetery as part of the Little Philmont Scout Leadership training held at the Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday. |
Participants began to set up camp at the Fairground on Friday evening and then had dinner together in the Fine Arts Building. After this, Key note speaker, Todd L. Moody spoke to the group. Moody is the LDS – Boy Scouts of America Relations Chairman for the region. His address was followed by a brief evening program involving some of the families in attendance. Many of the participants then camped the night at the Fairgrounds.
Stake Young Men leaders emphasized that the event was a collaboration with many different organizations in the LDS Stake. While the Scouting leaders attended various training |
| classes and seminars throughout the day, many other activities were going on involving a great deal of volunteer efforts. About 20 teenage youth from the stake assembled at the Logandale cemetery on Saturday morning to perform a service project doing. In addition, over 50 children at the event participated in a host of games and activities supervised by adult volunteers from the Stake. The food for dinner, breakfast and luncheon meals was prepared by the Logandale Second Ward Elders quorum. “This has truly been a stake-wide effort involving nearly all of the church auxiliaries,” said Frehner.
Logandale Stake President, Ace Robison, commented on the importance of Scouting in the church young men’s programs. He pointed out that the partnership between Scouting and the LDS church has existed for 96 years. “Scouting will continue to be the activity arm of the Aaronic Priesthood (young men’s) program of the church,” Robison said. “It is essential as any other element of the church programs. It is important that our youth are as well served in Scouting as possible. Our leaders need to be well trained.” |
