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  • Ex-Boy Scout helps troops with $2 million

    12/15/2004 5:39:33 AM PST · by Arrowhead1952 · 26 replies · 635+ views
    AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ^ | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 | By Laura Heinauer
    By Laura Heinauer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, December 15, 2004 A former Boy Scout from Burnet has donated $2 million toward a new Boy Scouts of America regional headquarters, the organization announced Tuesday. Frank Fickett, an 83-year-old real estate developer who sits on the Scouts' Capitol Area Council executive board, made the lead donation for the planned $3.9 million, 25,000-square-foot facility, which will be named in his honor. "It serves so many children throughout the entire area, and, after all, they are our future," Fickett said Tuesday. A former Burnet City Council member, Fickett has lived in the Hill Country town...