Jamboree

OYSTERBACK, Maryland -- As excitement over the annual Decoy Jamboree Weekend continues to mount, a prominent Eastern Shore judge, decoy Collector and Socialite prepares to judge an entirely different event that annually creates lots of excitement among downtown merchants and waterfowl decoy lovers everywhere who come to Watertown just for this annual excitement.The Decoy Jamboree Weekend Special Supplement caught up with Judge Findley F. Fish at his palatial and tasteful waterfront gracious home in order to interview him about his part in Decoy Jamboree Weekend this coming month in Watertown.

I inherited a collection of Boy Scout memorabilia. The oldest dated item is a jamboree neckerchief dated 1935. The first Boy Scout Jamboree was scheduled in Washington, D.C., in 1935. There was a polio epidemic that year, and the jamboree was canceled. Neckerchiefs, patches and other memorabilia had already been made. The first jamboree was held in 1937.Your rare neckerchief is worth more than $100.My chair has a painted mark on the bottom that says "Stephen Shorey." Where was it made?Stephen Shorey was a chair maker in Rochester, N.H. Shorey's Mills made 3,000 to 4,000 chairs a year in the 1850s.

Annie Oakley, the gal who became legend because of her sharpshooting skills, will be honored in Cambridge Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the first Annie Oakley Riverside Jamboree. The home that she built there in 1913 will be open for tours, and visitors will hear tales of her days with "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" when Sitting Bull dubbed her "Little Sure Shot."On Saturday, the festival will feature an American Indian Pow-Wow of the Nause Waiwash tribe at Sailwinds Park with Native American crafts, drums and dance, food and festivities along with a ceremony to honor Annie's relatives.

The Naval Academy won the first Navy Jamboree soccer tournament yesterday with a 4-0 victory over Monmouth in Annapolis.Towson State matched Navy's 2-0 tournament mark with a 4-3 win over The Citadel, but the Mids earned the title on their 8-0 goal differential compared to the Tigers' 6-3.Against Monmouth, the Mids scored three times in the first period as Aaron Swenson, John Watkins and Seth Walters knocked in goals. P. K. Kennedy scored his third goal of the year in the second half.For Towson, Todd Hicks scored one goal and had an assist.

Boy Scouts Deserve Better CoverageThe article "Illinois man charged in sale of fake Scouts' merit badges" (Aug. 13) is typical of The Sun -- as well as large city papers -- printing the negative, as opposed to the positive activities of youth in the United States.The paper should have noted the gathering at the National Boy Scout Jamboree of over 35,000 scouts and leaders from every state, including 500 foreign scouts from nearly 50 countries including Russia, Mongolia and Kuwait that has just concluded at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia.

DE KALB, Ill. -- If only there were a Boy Scout merit badge for counterfeiting through embroidery, Michael W. Welsh might be suspected as a candidate to receive one.He has other accomplishments for which more traditional civics badges would seem appropriate. He served on the De Kalb City Council for eight years. He got 43 percent of the vote in De Kalb's mayoral election in April.But now, how about a badge for seeing the FBI in action, up close, as they make an arrest? Michael W. Welsh has earned that one.At the 1993 Boy Scout Jamboree in Bowling Green, Va., Mr. Welsh, a Scouting volunteer, was arrested earlier this week on charges that he peddled bootleg versions of the badges Boy Scouts earned for attending the gathering, authorities said.

She's a first-place winner in the First Virginia Bank's Maryland Student Art Competition, current Maryland National Preteen Miss Personality, reigning Junior Miss Fire Prevention of Anne Arundel County, Girl Scout, member of the Pride of Maryland Majorettes, and an honor roll student.At 10 years old, Amber Lynn Coffman already has accrued an impressive resume of awards and activities. Her most recent endeavor is a program that addresses the problems of the homeless."Happy Helpers for the Homeless" is a project developed by Amber to involve area youth in the homeless problem.

Stiff competition was the rule, not the exception last weekend for the 64 contending crews in this year's Eastport Yacht Club J-Jamboree.After several years of holding the event on one course, the fleet was divided in two this year, with each portion sailing its own course in different areas of the bay on two beautifully sunny and pleasant days.The split fleet, which proved popular and manageable for racers and race committee alike, set the J/22s and J/24s on a northern course nearer to Annapolis, while the J/29s and J/30s sailed a course south of them.

With 73 boats on the starting line last weekend, the Eastport Yacht Club's third annual J Jamboree was the biggest ever and counted as a success despite the early lack of cooperation from the wind gods.Five classes, including J/35s, J/30s, J/29s, J/24s and J/22s, competed in the series, which consisted of three races sailed on Saturday and two on Sunday. And for the class winners, getting over the finish line of the first race in extremely difficult, fluky and light air before the time limit expired made all the difference.