GROUP GIVES BOY SCOUTS $100,000 FUND BOOST.Byline: - Grace Lee Friends of the Ventura Ventura (vĕnt  `rə), city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. County Scouts has raised more than $100,000 for the county's Boy Scouts Boy Scouts, organization of boys 11 to 17 years old, founded (1907) in Great Britain by Sir Robert (later Lord) Baden-Powell. It was incorporated in 1910 in the United States, where its appearance was connected with earlier organizations—the Sons of Daniel to make up for money the agency will lose from the United Way over its disagreement with an anti-discrimination policy that extends to gay members. Friends of the Ventura County Scouts raised the money among its 80 volunteers to match donations that are made to the Boy Scouts, said Denny Denny may refer to:
The campaign has raised an additional $20,000 since it started running newspaper and radio ads this month. ``(The campaign) is resonating res·o·nate v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates v.intr. 1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects. 2. with an awful lot of people from Ventura County,'' Weinberg said. ``I think people don't like others to tell them how to act. That's for consumers, but for a third agency to say we're going to force you to have certain policies and beliefs - that's what they're reacting to.'' In June 2001, the Ventura County United Way implemented an inclusiveness policy that extends to gay members and volunteers. The Boy Scouts, which received more than $50,000 from the United Way for this fiscal year, will lose its funding beginning in July 2003. ``Because our mission is to serve everyone, we could not do our role properly if our agencies discriminated,'' said Samuel Vernallis, board chairman for the Ventura County United Way. |
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