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Adam Daggy - Issue - SandBagger Mag-e-zine - Volume 3 - Issue 5 - August 20,
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Adam
Daggy Embarks for
Slovakia
By Horace J. Digby
-- Editor in chief -- SandBagger News
This Thursday Adam Daggy
departs on a journey nearly half-way around the world,
to spend the next year, in Banská Bystrica, a city in
the middle of a nation now called the Slovak
Re-Public.
Longview Early Edition
Rotary Club has selected Daggy as its
"outbound"
exchange student for the 2003-2004
year. And for that year, Daggy will call Banská Bystrica, Slovakia,
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"home," or more likely, "domavina," at
least after he gets the hang of the Slovak
language.
Longview Early Edition Rotary,
a part of Rotary International District 5020, is in its
first year of ex-change with The Slovak Republic, so
Daggy will be their first representative
to travel to that relatively new nation,
which was until July 1, 1993, part of
Czechoslovakia.
Banská Bystrica is
located at center of
Slovakia and at
the geographical center of
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Europe.
Language will be the
biggest barrier for Daggy who claims to know only one
phrase in Slovak, "Hovorim trochu po
Japonsky," which he says means,
"I speak a little Japanese."
"So, if the Slovaks
don't speak Japanese, I'm in big trouble,"
Daggy said.
Learning Slovak
from a
tape recorder is
tough, but it has its humor. One
lang-uage tape is
recorded
by a
fellow who speaks in a thick British
accent.
"Welcome to Colloquial
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Slovak," Daggy says, sounding like a
character from the Monty Python Flying
Circus.
Planning and preparing
for the journey has been going on for nearly nine
months, but Daggy and his family still "have much
to
do." Last week they got
word of a glitch in the processing of the visa required
for Daggy to stay his year in Slovakia. This
meant a week of contacting Embassies here and in
Slovakia, talking to Rotary leaders in three different
countries, and even enlisting the help of Marion
Rasmussen who
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works in the
office of Congressman Brian Baird.
Rasmussen
went to bat at once, getting to the bottom of what
turned out to be a paperwork problem that won't be
completely
Adam picks
peppers
resolved until Daggy actually gets
to Banská Bystrica.
Meanwhile,
Daggy is trying mightily to
maintain
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some normality in these last
few days before the
journey begins, by visiting 
favorite haunts, playing
at
thumb wrestling with his
father, or picking peppers in the family garden; just
doing everyday things.
Not exactly
a
seasoned traveler, Daggy's
first solo airline trip
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just this summer to
attend classes in aeronautics and flight at
the University of North Dakota. Daggy
also considered an invitation to study at Cambridge
University, England this summer, but had to
decline because his passport would be
tied up at the Slovak
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Embassy.
Cambridge had contacted Daggy
because his Precollege Aptitude Test scores placed him
in the upper part of the first one percentile and because of his excellent
academic record. But Cambridge will have to
wait.
Daggy is still packing,
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selecting gifts
for host families, and bidding so long to family and
friends. On Thursday he becomes
a world traveler.
"Sharon and I really don't know what we'll do with Adam
away for a year," Daggy's father, Joe Daggy
said. "He is pretty much our best
friend."
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Adam
Daggy Faces Eagle
Board
By Lola Lane and Lana
Long --
SandBagger News
After six
years of working toward the rank of Eagle Scout, Adam
Daggy went before the District Board of Review last Tuesday
evening. The District Board of Review is the last
step a Scout takes on the journey to Eagle. It is
a considerable ordeal, with a panel of experienced adult
Scout leaders questioning the Scout about his
accomplishments and the work he has done to complete the
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ranks that precede Eagle Scout
qualification.
A Scout facing the
Eagle Board
expects to be grilled about his
understanding of Scouting from the basics through the
complexities of Scout craft, the Scout Oath and Boy
Scout Law. Before petitioning to become an Eagle,
a Scout must complete a significant
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 community
service project. Daggy's project was repainting
the downstairs library and reading room area of the
Kelso Public Library. The Eagle project must be
entirely organized and managed by the Scout. The
project must also demonstrate the Scout's ability to
motivate and work as a leader in cooperation with a team
of volunteers he has recruited.
After Daggy completed
his Board, he |
was ushered to an outer
room to await the decision. Then he was called
back into the examination
room.
Pictured from right to left: Ken
Hash, Lee Harper and Susy Halverson congratulate Adam
Daggy on successful completion of his Eagle Scout Board
of Review, as Scoutmaster Darrell Halverson looks
on.
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"Congratulations. You are now an Official
Eagle Scout Candidate," Board
Chairperson Ken
Hash told Adam
Daggy as he offered
Daggy his left hand(Boy Scouts shake with
the left hand because it is closer to the
heart).
Successful
completion of the District Board of Review means that
the Board endorses Daggy's petition to be admitted to
Scouting's highest rank. The petition
is then sent on to the National Boy Scout Headquarters
to be again reviewed prior to the rank being
"officially" granted. The District Eagle
Board of Review is the
last local step a
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takes on his trail to Eagle
Scout.
Adam Daggy with proud parents Sharon and
Joe.
A Scout
does not achieve the rank of Eagle alone. Much of
the credit goes to the adult leaders who give their
time to
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provide a
Scouting program and the opportunity for young
men to follow the
Eagle Trail.
Daggy's
troop, 516 is a "boy led troop," but that doesn't
de-minish the need for serious adult
guidance. Darrell and Susy Halverson
provide the backbone of adult leadership for
Daggy's troop. They, along with a number of other
adults, including Dr. David Black pictur-ed here
with Daggy, give their time to provide the
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young men like
Adam.
What is their reward?
Sometimes it is simply the opportunity to
know that they 
Susy
Halverson, Adam Daggy, Ken Hash and Lee
Harper.
are
doing something positive about our future, helping boys
grow into men and then, from time to time, they get to
witness the birth of an
Eagle.
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SandBagger E-Mag Prints
Truth
By Jayson Glass --
SandBagger News
Some loyal
readers may have noticed that this issue of
SandBagger Mag-e-zine contains "True
News Stories."
There are
times when SandBagger Mag-e-zine will publish actual
news stories. This rare occurrence is usually the
result of an error on our part.
"For the
most part, we try to avoid actual
news, because it requires investi-gation and
checking facts," SandBagger Mag-e-zine
editor, Horace J. Digby said. "Or sometimes
we make up a story and then it actually happens, or the
Publisher may want us to run an article or
two—or perhaps an entire
issue—about his truly
amazing son Adam
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Then, who
are we to disagree." 
Above, Adam Daggy,
after singing Louie Louie on stage with Pulitzer Prize
wining Humor Writer Dave Barry, at Tacoma's Pantages
Theater - (Also a true story published
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"But as
Editor-in-Chief of Sand-Bagger
Mag-e-zine, I give my promise that our next issue
will be full of the normal drivel you have come to
enjoy, or at least, to expect from SandBagger
Mag-e-zine, or my name isn't Horace J. Digby."
"And, in
case you were
wondering:
THIS IS AN
ENTIRELY TRUE ISSUE. Except, of course, the names
of the writers which are all fictional (well at least,
Lola Lane and Lana Long are fictional. And then of
course my own name, Horace J. Digby, is fictional,"
Digby said.
"Jayson Glass and
Stephen Blair are parts of two real names but when we
use them they are fictional and the names and
bylines solely used as satirical "fair comment" on the
rising star reporters, fired from the New York
Times and The New Republic for submitting
made-up un-true news stories—although none of us
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here can see
anything actually wrong with that—nevertheless, except
for the names of the reporters this entire issue is
true," digby said.
Asked why
SandBagger mag-e-zine chooses to make up stories rather
than reporting actual news, Digby listed three main
reasons:
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