Valley Boy Scout Council to receive Peace Light

Staff report

WARREN

Greater Western Reserve Council, Boy Scouts of America, in the Youngstown-Warren area is one of the stops for the Bethlehem Peace Light. The tentative arrival is between 2 and 3 p.m. Monday at the council office, 4930 Enterprise Blvd. NW.

The light will stay lit until Dec. 22 at the GWRC.

For more than 25 years, the Peace Light from Bethlehem has been brought to America through the cooperation of the Austrian Broadcasting Co., ORF (Linz) and Austrian Airlines and Austrian Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.

The Peace Light was to arrive Saturday at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

Individuals and organizations of all faiths and/or denominations are invited to bring a wind-proof container or lamp to the council office and to take the flame to their places of worship to help celebrate the Christmas season. The Peace Light also may be taken to individual homes.

The Peace Light originates in the grotto where the Christ child was born in Bethlehem.

It is delivered by an Austrian child to Austrian Airlines where it is placed in two blast-proof miners’ lamps and flown from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Vienna, Austria.

The light is distributed throughout 20 European countries and North America.

The U.S. sponsor is Brooklyn Catholic Committee on Scouting.

The group will receive the Peace Light in New York and provide for its distribution throughout North America.

All Peace Lights will originate from this American location as couriers deliver the Peace Light to various locations on the continent.

Visit www.peacelight.org or www.scout.org/peacelight.