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DECATUR — MacArthur High School freshman Lillian Renfro, 15, wanted the community to be a part of her quest to become an Eagle Scout. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America female Troop 911, Lillian decided her project would be to refurbish an area of Whitmore Park that has a nickname of the graffiti wall. She was aware of the wall located near Lake Decatur from walks with her family. “There’s a lot of graffiti on it. It’s not very appealing to the eye,” s...

Special to The Alliance Review Minerva First Christian Church has celebrated 55 young men as Eagle Scouts over the 83 years it has sponsored a troop. The year 2021 has been much different. The church’s Boy Scout Troop 150 this year has celebrated four Eagle Scouts. It is the most to receive the distinction in one year since the troop’s beginnings in 1938. “This is a remarkable achievement in a normal time, but with a year of COVID restrictions, it lifted the troop to a higher level of dif...

10 German World War I Aces As Feared As The Red Baron 10 Max Immelmann The legendary Max Immelmann was Germany’s first ever ace. He was also the first aviator to be decorated with the country’s highest military medal, the Pour le Merite, which became known as “The Blue Max” in his honor. Born in September 1890, Immelmann rejoined the German military as a pilot when the war began. He had previously enlisted as a 14-year-old cadet before leaving in 1912 to study. During his first assignme...

Millions of households will see a number of their bills increase dramatically on 1 April 2021 in the wake of the pandemic.  Council tax, the TV licence and NHS prescriptions are just some of the costs being hiked from April Fools Day.  A number of TV, broadband and mobile providers have also revealed they will be rising their prices, some in line with Retail Price Inflation.  Unfortunately, the increases come at an unwelcome time after a year of financial uncertainty for much of Britain.  ...

March 7, 1946 Fighting to save the lives of three Prineville residents stricken with botulism, state, county and U.S. Army officials cooperated this week to supply life-saving serum, and according to the attending physician, seemed to be winning their fight today. Prinevilles new grade school, the Ochoco school at the western city limits, was put into operation Monday morning with about 350 pupils moving from the temporary quarters at the overcrowded Prineville grade school. R.H. McAtee, prin...

5 Montana girls have reached the top. Becoming an Eagle Scout is something that only 6% of scouts will achieve., and just over 2 million scouts have achieved since 1912.

As this weekend marks one year since the first COVID-19 case was declared in Ireland, Extra.ie takes a look back at February 2020.

THE STANDARD By Mbugua Ng’ang’a | February 20th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Henry R. ole Kulet [Courtesy] Because the generations that grew up between the 1970s and 1990s had limited access to television, they had only four main sources of entertainment; outdoor games, radio, storytelling by the hearth and reading novels and storybooks depending on their age. Back then, there were many Kenyan and African writers who kept their readers captivated. Books changed hands routinely, with the mor...

For much of the HMCS Calgary crew, this will be their first deployment during the COVID-19 pandemic, which means significantly curtailed foreign port visits

Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, went to the gallows for his war crimes. Heres What You Need to Know:  At 10 am on Wednesday April 16, 1947, the former commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp, SS Oberstürm bannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Hoess, briskly walked under armed escort toward the small wooden gallows specifically built for him inside the camp grounds. Witnesses were surprised that a man facing imminent execution would set such a rapid pace. The 47-year-old Hoess had...