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Scout helping foster teens with Eagle project

Havre Boy Scout Ammon Lines is a few packed duffel bags away from having an Eagle Scout badge.

For his Eagle Scout project, Ammon says he has decided to assemble duffel bags for foster teenagers on their way to their new foster home.

The bags, he said, will be stuffed with toiletries, necessities and add-ons such as blankets and maybe some clothes.

The idea is personal, he said.

"We have friends who had foster kids and when they came into their homes they had nothing but a trash bag with barely any supplies ... so I took the idea of 'Why can't these kids be ready to go?'"

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