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Governor Justice on the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia: transcript
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice speaks at a press conference about the 2017 National Scout Jamboree and its community service initiative. He recalls the 2013 Jamboree's volunteer hours and economic impact, praises the Boy Scouts, and commits the state's support.
Key points
- The previous Jamboree brought 40,000 scouts to West Virginia.
- In 2013 scouts and local residents worked in nine counties and gave 500,000 hours of volunteer service, with an estimated economic impact of five million dollars.
- This year the scouts pledge to do service in all 55 counties.
- Justice says no organization teaches young people better values than the Boy Scouts.
- He urges West Virginians to embrace and help the scouts and commits his support.
- He says he will attend the event and hopes to go several times.
Chapters
Full transcript
0:07What's that, Jack? I'm sorry. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 36th Governor of West Virginia.
0:50The honorable Jim Justice. Good to see you, sir. Thank you so much for being here. Okay, I've got some notes here somewhere. Only these are a few statistics, but let me just say this.
1:27We're right on the cusp, aren't we, of having an invasion of scouts and something that is beyond wonderful to the recognition of West Virginia. Now just think with me, just one second. Last time, last go-round, we had 40,000 scouts. In 2013, we went out to nine different counties and did all kinds of volunteer service did we not it it totaled 500 000 hours of volunteer service counting the p the scouts and our community people with them and look the economic impact of that to west virginia was they estimated at five million dollars this year out of the goodness of all their
2:29hearts they're pledging to go to all 55 counties which is unbelievable and think of just this in 2013 it was the biggest i think and i don't know who measures these things but the biggest volunteer service effort that had ever been done before. Now, let me just revert back and just say this. There can't be an organization any better for the value that they teach our young people.
3:10And you just think, all the very principles, the fabric that makes us become leaders and parents and do the right things in life come from foundations, don't they? And this is almost the last horizon in many areas. This is the real deal. And not only that, they chose West Virginia. So we need to embrace them, thank them, encourage them, and help in any and every way we possibly can to make this event and all the events to come and all the events that have been the greatest of all time.
4:04the greatest state of all time and I mean it when I say that from the bottom of my heart you have my commitment to everything and West Virginia is the same And God bless you for all you do. Thank you so much. So, I'm done. Unless somebody wants to ask these great people stuff, I'm done.
4:38But anyway, I'll be there. It will be an incredible event, and I hope I'm there multiple times. That's all there is to it. You have an opening, bud. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. God bless. I'm gone. Thank y'all. Thank you very much.
Source and licence
Recording: File:Governor Justice discusses 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree.webm by Governor Jim Justice (2017-03-17), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 3.0.
The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.