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SERVICE CENTERS Arlington Heights Service Center 617 E. Golf Road Suite 101 Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Des Plaines Valley Service Center 811 W. Hillgrove Avenue La Grange, IL 60525
Robert J. Welsh Service Center 8751 Calumet Avenue Munster, IN 46321
Steve Fossett Service Center 1218 W. Adams Street Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 421-8800 PathwayToAdventure.org
An investment in our children
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FRIENDS OF SCOUTING
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FRIENDS OF SCOUTING Friends of Scouting is an opportunity for families, alumni, businesses and community groups to support Scouting. Your investment will help ensure every child we serve receives the lifelong benefit Scouting provides. A solid investment plan is about growth, and an investment in a child’s future is guaranteed to grow.
YOUR DONATION SUPPORTS • Innovative programs for over 22,000 youth annually • 752 Scouting units • Training for more than 8,000 registered adult volunteers • Four council service centers • Summer and year-round camps • Cub Scout day camp • Recruitment activities • Liability and accident insurance for all registered participants at Scouting events
COMMUNITY Des Plaines Valley Community serves 42 communities in Chicago’s southwest suburbs that reach as far north as Franklin Park and as far south as Lemont. It is home to three districts and 160 Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Venturing, and Exploring units. The young people in these units enjoy events such as the Dip and Dog, Merit Badge Academy, Polar Prowl, Vulcan Quarry, Camperall, Klondike derbies, first-aid meets, summer camp, underwater robotics competitions and other STEM events.
service hours to veterans’ facilities, churches, schools, parks, retirement communities, food pantries and many other worthy causes. Your investment can be seen in these fine young men and the selfless commitment they have to our communities. service hours to veterans’ facilities, churches, schools, parks, retirement communities, food pantries and many other worthy causes. Your investment can be seen in these fine young men and the selfless commitment they
IMPACT
Pathway to Adventure Council Scouts contributed 145,000 service hours toward projects for veterans’ facilities, schools, religious institutions, retirement communities, parks, food pantries and many other worthy causes. Your investment in Scouting can be seen in these fine young people and in their contributions to our communities.
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Cub Scout Ricky Mercado saved his brother’s life by using the firstaid training he received in Scouting. Ricky, who was 8 years old at the time, saw his brother Joey choking and took swift action to dislodge the food stuck in Joey’s throat.
Northern Illinois Food Bank named Boy Scout Eugene Lim its Youth Volunteer of the Year. He logged more than 50 hours with the food bank but said that service isn’t about the numbers. “[It’s] about doing my part to make a difference in the area where I live,” Eugene said. “It’s just a small way to make the world a better place for everyone.”
To attain Scouting’s highest rank of Eagle, a young man must demonstrate caring for others and for his community, as well as leadership skills, selfsufficiency and the ability to overcome obstacles. Local Eagle Scouts Reece O’Connor (left) and Jacob Klein (right) did so while earning every merit badge available during their Scouting tenure.