Harley Rustad is the author of Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees and the new book Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas. They say ...

The St. Helena High School Pool graciously hosted 12 members of Troop 1 scouts on Saturday, March 7, for Merit Badge requirement instruction and training. Becky Givens, swim instructor, and Nick ...

As adults, we’re better equipped with basic skills than a bunch of Boy Scouts, right? Prove it, could you pass the test to get a Swimming Merit Badge? In addition to these written questions, Scouts ...

Getting a swimming badge that ranked 6th on our list of easiest Eagle required merit badges to get, first will help you to get the Lifesaving one more easily. If you are a good swimmer, you won’t have ...

After serving tens of millions of Canadians, the swimming program will be shuttered by the end of 2022. So what becomes of those beautiful badges? If you’re a Canadian who remembers your childhood ...

LAVA HOT SPRINGS — For a young Boy Scout, the swimming merit badge can be one of the most challenging. Not only is it one of the required badges to advanced to the level of Eagle Scout, but the scouts ...

Jaime Gonek doesn’t remember what happened to the yellow jacket she had as a kid, the one adorned with sewed-on swimming badges she’d earned from years of lessons with the Canadian Red Cross. But the ...

After decades of teaching young kids and earning badges, the Canadian Red Cross swimming program is set to end in December 2022 and transitioning it to another organization.Canadian Red Cross The ...

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