Execs at Catalina Island give scouts chance to set up camp.The Santa Catalina Island San·ta Cat·a·li·na Island or Catalina Island An island off southern California in the southern Santa Barbara Islands. Discovered in 1542, it has been a noted resort center since the 1920s. Co., in an apparent about-face, began meeting again last week with a coalition of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Boy Scout Councils to negotiate a five-year lease extension for the rustic scout camp at Emerald Bay Bodies of water
Under the tentative plan, the Boy Scouts would be allowed to remain at Emerald Bay for five more years, during which time they would build a new scout camp at Empire Landing, some three miles away. When that new camp is complete, the scouts would relocate there from Emerald Bay. Paxson Offield, president of the Santa Catalina Island Co., last week revealed his company also hopes to re-open talks with the Cousteau Society for development of an aquatic education and research center at Emerald Bay. That aquatic center would be built after the Boy Scouts vacate To annul, set aside, or render void; to surrender possession or occupancy. The term vacate has two common usages in the law. With respect to real property, to vacate the premises means to give up possession of the property and leave the area totally devoid of contents. in five years. The Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training has operated its camp at Emerald Bay since 1925. But last year the Santa Catalina Island Co. and Catalina Island Conservancy The Catalina Island Conservancy (CIC) [1] is a nonprofit organization established to protect and conserve Santa Catalina Island, California. CIC was established in 1972 through the efforts of the Wrigley and Offield families. , which jointly own the 76-square-mile island, announced they would evict the scouts from Emerald Bay on Dec. 31, 1991 to prevent further ecological damage. The island co-owners also announced at that time that the Cousteau Society was going to develop an aquatic education and research center at Emerald Bay after the Boy Scouts vacated. Heated public opposition ensued -- from scouting officials, parents and local politicians. Some critics charged the Santa Catalina Island Co. and Conservancy were being motivated by money, rather than by ecological concern. Island officials denied those charges. Shortly thereafter, the Cousteau Society suddenly pulled the plug on its planned aquatic center. Barbara Simpson Barbara Simpson is an American radio talk show host. She is most notable as the host of Coast to Coast AM on Saturday nights from about 2000 until about 2003, alternating with George Noory, but has also been a long-time host of her own show on KSFO (AM). , a Cousteau spokeswoman, said last week that the group is no longer interested in discussing the Emerald Bay aquatic center as originally planned. "That project is dead," she said. But Cousteau officials might be willing to discuss other possible projects on Catalina, Simpson added. |
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