Newspaper article and photographs of bicentennial jamboree held by girl and boy scouting groups, 1976

              PAGE 14 - THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1976

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Scouts Bi- Cent Jamboree

Last weekend at 107th and

Lombard, Chicago Ridge

Girl and Boy Scouting groups

braved miserable weather to

put on their Bicentennial

Jamboree. ' The scouts

pitched their tents on Fri-day

evening and camped out

through Sunday.

All of the scouting organ-izations

in the area display-ed

and demonstrated their

scouting skills and crafts.

Highlighting the Jamboree

was the demonstration pro-vided

by the Kings Royal

Eighth Regiment, an authen-tic

American Revolutionary

War British Unit, that has

adopted Chicago Ridge as

their base for drill and

practice meetings. Resi-dents

not attending the event

may have wondered what the

gun and cannon fire was all

about. This was part of the

regiment's demonstration,

which included their en-campment

with wives and

children dressed revolu-tionary-

day garb.

Scouting organizations

participating were Boy Scout

Troop 351, Boy Scout Troop

665, Cub Pack 3665, Neigh-borhoods

Council of the Girl

Scouts of America consist-ing

of Ridge and Worth Cad-ettes,

Girl Scouts and Brow-nie

Troops.

The Bicentennial Com-mittee

extends their thanks

to the Chicago Ridge Police

Department, who did an ex-cellent

job; the Chicago

Ridge Fire Department, who

were standing by in case of

an emergency, and most of

all to James Dolan, Park

District Superintendent for

his help and cooperation

during the entire Jamboree.