Paul Tikalsky Shares Enthusiasm for Scouting

TODAY IN ROTARY, Annaliese Isom was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow by her husband Richard Isom and Greg Zemp received his PHF+5 … amazing and generous support for the Rotary Foundation.

Our own Paul Tikalsky, a scout executive – one of 3800 professional scouters nationwide - for more than 33 years and the father of five Eagle scout recipients, spoke about scouting in the local community noting “Eagle candidates complete approximately $250,000 in projects in the local community and generate about 60,000 pounds of canned goods for the Utah Food Bank.”

Paul’s territory covers “Beaver to Mesquite with 10 support staff, a national scout store, 15,000 scouts and 2500 volunteers.”

As the Field Officer for the Utah National Parks District – the largest council in the USA with more than 40,000 volunteers - Paul has been heavily involved in the construction of the Marion D. Hanks scout camp at Quail Creek with a price tag of $600,000.  With fundraising support and donated labor provided by such Washington County companies and non-profits as SUHBA and Tuacahn, $80,000 in other improvements have made this a 1^st class facility. 

 

Other upcoming projects include a capitol campaign for a re-do of the 1700-acre Thunder Ridge Scout Camp with Hyrum Smith heading up the fundraising efforts.

The Beaver High Adventure Camp has less infrastructure but also needs an upgrade.

“The local community often takes scouting for granted,” noted Paul, “but scouting prepares boys for life by teaching them to do tough things!”