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A Boy Scout foiled an attempted assassination of the President… of The Maldives:

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Boy Scout intervened to stop a man from stabbing Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with a kitchen knife on Tuesday, a move the leader’s spokesman said saved him from assassination…

You can read the rest of the article at Yahoo! News.

President Gayoom also holds the honorary title of Chief Scout of the Maldives.

For many years, the members of the Lodge Executive Committee of O-Shot-Caw 265 have been the recipients of a special flap patch made on their behalf.  This year’s version has been released, and tentatively identified as S-122.  Continue Reading »

David Cody, current lodge adviser for Esawu Huppeday lodge, recently sent me an image of the item pictured here.  Several of these were made and recently distributed in recognition of exceptional service to the lodge over the past year.   It’s certainly creative and a visually attractive piece of lodge memorabilia.

This piece is about 3.75″ across and made of wood.  I don’t expect to see it listed in Blue Book as I don’t believe it would be considered a “patch”.  

We jokingly thought about creating a new category for this item, just to play with some of my friends’ minds.   I had suggested “T” for timber as “W” (for wood?) is already used for another category.