Ryan Forseille and Dirk Greenlees have been named to an exclusive club in the Scouts Canada movement.
The two became only the fourth and fifth from Prince George in at least 10 years to earn the Queen Venturer Scout Award.
"Only four youth from the Cascadia Council [all of Yukon and B.C. north of the Fraser Valley] received the award this year," said spokesman Eric Charest. "These two young men join three recipients from the same company last year, being the only five recipients of the award from Prince George in the last decade."
It took them three years of activities to earn the citation, the highest award Scouts Canada offers. It was recently presented to them at Government House in Victoria by Lieutenant Governor Steven Point.
Forseille and Greenlees are members of the 13th Prince George Venturer Company. To complete the tasks worthy of the award they had to demonstrate high qualities of character and significant help to other people, plus 50 hours of community service, outdoor survival excursions, and a number of other leadership- and fitness-developing challenges.
They each accomplished all of the following, among other contributory activites:
- graduated from the RCMP youth academy;
- hiked a section of the Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail;
- building a raft from logs, twine and inner tubes;
- hiked the Grizzly Den/Raven Lake loop;
- padded down the Euchinico River and Willow River;
- acted as leaders to junior members of Scouts Canada.
"Throughout the past three years," said Charest, "Dirk and Ryan have constantly met and surpassed the challenges of Scouts and life, and are well-deserving of the accolades."
