Scouts attend national jamboree

Sunday, September 29, 2013

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For 10 days this summer, five local Boy Scouts traded the comforts of home and their own bed for a chance to "Go Big, Get Wild" at the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree. See the story at http://www.t-g.com/story/2008454.html

Four members of local Boy Scout Troop 390 had the experience of a lifetime when they attended the 2013 National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia this summer. From left are Jonathan Moore, Ryan House, Lee Stallings and Bryan Loyd.
Troop 390 member Connor Hintze loads his gear onto a bus at the National Boy Scout Jamboree. Connor, a junior at Shelbyville Central High School, had the distinction of working on the staff of the Jamboree.
An overview of one campsite shows how the Boy Scouts slept for 10 days -- in sleeping bags in tents that were pitched side-by-side. A dining hall is pictured in the foreground.
Boy Scouts stood in the rain to take in one of two shows held during the National Jamboree. Teenage recording artist Sarah Centeno and country group Taylor Made were highlights of the first show. Keynote speaker and Eagle Scout Mike Rowe (of the Discovery Channel series "Dirty Jobs" fame), and rock band Three Doors Down were featured in the second show.

A lengthy, zigzag line of Boy Scouts gives some indication of the magnitude of the 10-day National Jamboree event.
Lee Stallings, left, and Bryan Loyd of Shelbyville were two of over 36,000 Boy Scouts who attended the National Jamboree in West Virginia this summer.