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Thursday Dec. 16, 2004

Local Eagle Scout Receives Boy Scouting Medal of Merit

A group of boys were sitting down for the evening meal at a summer camp. One boy stood up, his food had gone down the wrong pipe. He was choking and struggling to breathe. One staff member responded to the struggling individual. He recognized that a piece of food was blocking the boy's windpipe and that if the blockage wasn't removed quickly the boy could die. He performed the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the food from the boy's windpipe.

The staff member at that camp was local Eagle Scout Michael Biggins. For his q...