Gala's keynote speakers credit organization for giving them expertise as well as confidence. By Caroline Phillips.

Every year, Geoffrey Ellis has a choice to either stay home with a mug of hot chocolate and watch TV or plod through snow-covered roads in the blustery weather to deliver Star boxes. For 10 consecutive years, he has chosen the latter.

David Fry's 17-year involvement in local Scouting has earned him national honours. The 23-year-old Plainfield resident is the first recipient in the Algonquinte Scouting area of a new national award, the Medal of the Maple for Distinguished Youth Service.

She's a worthy recipient of an award. Scout's honour. Scouting groups in Mississauga will honour Mayor Hazel McCallion with a Centennial Medal in a ceremony today at the Logos Baptist Church in Meadowvale.

Area Cub leaders receive awards for saving life of ailing colleague. By Roger Collier.

Francis Martens-Poole, a Scouts Canada Commemorative Centennial Medal recipient, was in the Scouting movement even as a baby.

Last year, about 75 scouts aged five to 17 collected 1, 000 pounds of food and brought it in backpacks, sleds and wagons from Tecumseh Park to the Inn of the Good Shepherd.

Late in the afternoon of Friday, June 8, the winds whipped trees, branches fell and rain pounded the Serpent Mounds as Scouters were beginning to arrive to set up for the first all-section camp the Kawartha Waterways had ever attempted in the same pla...

An unique local program that grooms potential recruits for a career in policing graduated more Humber College students last month. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Deputy Chief Kim Derry inducted a new group of Toronto Police Service (TPS) 22 Divis...

Seven youth. Three days. Forty-five kilometre hike. And that was the warmup for the next six days... Seven youth aged 14 to 17 went out to the bush for nine days to fend for themselves on the Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail/Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail.