[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 7384]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF THE SIX SCOUTS OF PACK 98 WHO ARE RECIPIENTS OF THE 
                     ARROW OF LIGHT SCOUTING AWARD

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                        HON. LEONARD L. BOSWELL

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 5, 2010

  Mr. BOSWELL. Madam Speaker, on the hundredth anniversary of the 
founding of the Boy Scouts of America, I rise to recognize six 
exceptional young men in my district who are involved in the Cub 
Scouting program from Johnston, Iowa. Carter Lundgren, Hunter Norris, 
Liam Sullivan, Jordan Kirkman, Jarred Dannels, and Jonah Blondino are 
Webelos Scouts in Pack 98, chartered to the Urban Heights Evangelical 
Church in Urbandale, IA. Later this month, they will cross over into 
Boy Scouting as newly minted scouts and recipients of Cub Scouting's 
highest honor, the Arrow of Light award. The Boy Scouting program, 
incorporated in America in 1910, and Chartered by Act of Congress in 
1916, aims to encourage boys' growth of moral strength and character, 
participatory citizenship, and mental and physical fitness. I had the 
honor of working with these boys this fall to help install several 
flower beds that they donated to their home school, Horizon Elementary 
School, located in Johnston, Iowa.
  These young men are active in their community; Carter Lundgren has 
performed with the Des Moines Metro Opera, is a Qualifier for the Iowa 
Games in bowling, and a Member of the Kingdom Hoops Basketball Team. 
Hunter Norris has been very active in the Des Moines area youth bowling 
league as well as a participant in the Johnston Little League. Jordan 
Kirkman is an accomplished coronet player in the Horizon Elementary 
school band. Liam Sullivan has been an ELP (Extended Learning Program) 
student in math and reading, as well as a participant in Horizon 
Elementary's Math Olympiads team. He is an avid ice hockey player in 
the Des Moines Youth Hockey Association, and was a member of a bronze 
medalist team in youth hockey for the Iowa Games in 2007. Mr. Sullivan 
is also a relative of Bertrand Hollis Snell, a Representative from New 
York who honorably served in this body from the 64th through 75th 
Congress, and who supported the original charter of the Boy Scouts of 
America. Jared Dannels is a member of the Horizon Elementary band as 
trombonist and was invited into the ELP (Extended Learning Program) for 
math and the Math Olympiads team. He also has participated in Johnston 
Little League. Jonah Blondino plays the saxophone in the Timber Ridge 
Elementary school band, and is an avid Little League player in the Des 
Moines area.
  I extend my hearty congratulations to these young men as fine 
examples of their community and wish them the best in their future 
endeavors.

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