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Local businessman Mike Leep of the Gurley Leep Automotive Family will be receiving the second-annual St. Joseph County Good Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America LaSalle Council next week. The award will be presented during a special luncheon on October 10th at Morris Inn, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

In an era when human interaction has been more online than ever, hundreds of teens throughout Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan are finding new ways to build camaraderie and confidence through Scouting programs. The Boy Scouts of America LaSalle Council is reporting that youths aged 11 through 17 are showing signs of outpacing their non-Scout peers during some of the most formative years of their lives.

Becoming a Scout is one of the surest pathways for a young female to grow into an empowered woman. Lately, Scouting enrollment among girls has been growing throughout Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan, creating a whole new generation of future leaders.

Right now, hundreds of future leaders are beginning their pathways to achievement by becoming Scouts. Fall enrollment has already begun strong throughout the territory of the BSA LaSalle Council, where boys and girls aged 5 through 17 are met with opportunities to learn, grow, have fun, and experience all kinds of unique activities. These moments will be the initial character-building steps that will create the next generation of upstanding citizens and influential people.

With scouting enrollment currently ramping up throughout more than 150 northern Indiana schools, thousands of young Hoosiers will soon gain access to unique and fun activities that will later become highly formative experiences for their futures. For both boys and girls, participating in scouting can lead to some of the most defining moments of their young lives. It’s where they’ll make new friendships, create fond memories with their peers, learn new skills, and most importantly learn new things about themselves.

Replica of the Statue of Liberty, Butler, Bates County, Missouri.Photographer: William Fischer, Jr. (Apr. 2016), HMdb.org. The above replica of the Statue of Liberty is in Butler, Missouri in front of Butler Elementary School. It was erected in 1951 by the Boy Scouts of America. There are others in Missouri including locations not far from where I live.

The Boy Scouts of America LaSalle Council elected and approved seven new business and community leaders to serve on its Board of Directors during its 2022 annual council meeting.