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Eight boys representing three Back Mountain Boy Scout Troops earned Ad Altare Dei religious medals from the Diocese of Scranton. The boys representing Troop 146, Jackson Township, Troop 281, Dallas, and Troop 444, Sweet Valley, completed the nine-month program by passing a Boy Scout Board of Review in May. Bishop Joseph C. Bambera presented the awards at the annual Diocesan Scout Mass on June 8 at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Scranton. The next level emblem, the Pope Pius XII Award, is a high-school level career and vocations study. All Catholic Boy Scouts entering ninth grade through age 18 years old from any troop or parish affiliation are eligible for the Pope Pius award. The program will begin on July 17. Contact Amy Huntington, 407-2673, or [email protected] to register. For more information, visit http://www.nccs-bsa.org/emblems/PopePiusXII.php. First row, from left, are Tommy Calpin, Troop 146, St. Therese Church, Shavertown; Collin Mac Mullen, Troop 146, St. Anthony/St. George’s Church, Wilkes-Barre; Drew Hutsko, Troop 444, Our Lady of Victory Church, Harveys Lake; Anthony Huntington and Ryan Marshall, both of Troop 146 and Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. Second row: Amy Huntington, program counselor; Andrew McCarroll, Troop 146, St. Robert Bellarmine Church, Wilkes-Barre; Matt Lyons, Troop 146, St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Kingston; John P. Murray, Troop 281, Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas; and the Rev. Daniel Toomey, program adviser and pastor of Gate of Heaven and Our Lady of Victory churches.