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Kudos and Around Town

Written by PI Web

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Kudos:
Local Boy Scout leader Jaime Reyna honored
Royal Rangers take home awards
Gillaspy honored by Nikken

Around Town:
PHS Winter Homecoming Night Rally

KUDOS

Reyna honored in Scout ceremony
Local Boy Scout leader Jaime Reyna was honored at a Woodbadge Beading ceremony Jan. 24 at Boy Scout Troop 81’s annual parent potluck at the Federated Methodist-Presbyterian Church.

Woodbadge participants work in teams of eight patrols that are named for animals. Reyna, who took the six-day course in 2006, was in the Antelope Patrol. Patrol members work together to learn skills such as communication, leadership and decision-making. They work on classroom and outdoor events and put together a project, also known as a “ticket.”

Reyna received a neckerchief and beads from retired Scoutmaster Ron Swift during last week’s ceremony, as Paul Waddell, woodbadge course director, explained the significance of the award. Reyna also received a Woodbadge certificate in recognition of completing the scouting training program.

Reyna, who has been in Scouting for 11 years, served as an assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 81 for 10 years. He is now Cubmaster of Pack 79 in Grayson, where he grew up. Reyna founded the pack as part of the Woodbadge program.

Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouting, created the Woodbadge program in 1919.

Gillaspy honored by Nikken
Brinda Gillaspy of Patterson recently received the Nikken Wellness Home Certification.

Gillaspy, who has been a Nikken consultant for eight years, created a Nikken Wellness Home for her family by incorporating areas of wellness in her home through proper attention to rest and relaxation, nutrition, environment and fitness. She used the Nikken technology to do so — employing, for example, the sleep system and Pi Mag water system.

Nikken, a health and wellness company, focuses on fitness, nutrition, rest and relaxation and environment with products for fitness and the home, as well as nutritional supplements.

The Irvine-based company was founded in 1975.

Royal Rangers take home derby awards
The Royal Rangers Sectional Pinewood Derby took place at the Assembly of God Tabernacle in Keyes on Jan. 26. Local Rangers took home a number of awards.

Ranger Kids, kindergarten through second grade: Manny Brown, second place; Jordan Rickerson, fourth place; and Caleb Smith, sixth place.
Discovery Rangers, third to fifth grade: Eldridge Brown Jr., fourth place.
Adventure Rangers, sixth to eighth grade: Chance Ledford, fifth place.
Expedition Rangers, high school: David Bailey, first place.
Commanders (adult leaders): Clark Bailey, first place.

Parents work with their children to build small cars to race down a track during a Pinewood Derby competition.
The Division Pinewood Derby races will be Feb. 16 at Neighborhood at River Ranch Church in Modesto.

AROUND TOWN

A night to party at PHS
Patterson High students had a grand old time at the Winter Homecoming Night Rally,where danceroutines and skits ruled the evening.