Local Kids Trade Patches at Boy Scout Jamboree

Some entrepreneurial teen-agers from the Montgomery County suburbs are among the thousands of boy scouts taking part in the national jamboree in Virginia the past couple of days; their mission -- patch trading.

KYW's Mark Abrams reports leave it to 13-year-old boys to pick up the basics of wheeling and dealing when it comes to trading for the most attractive, colorful or sought-after patches here at the Boy Scout jamboree on the grounds of Fort AP Hill, just outside of Bowling Green, Virginia.

Ray Fazio is from the Boyertown area and part of Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council contingent:

"The international ones are better because they only made a little of bit of them. So all the kids want them and I got some of them from Puerto Rico, and I got some from Maui and like Aloha Council which is from Hawaii."

His buddy, 13-year-old Ethan Templeton of Collegeville, says it's a trading market unlike anything he's ever seen, especially in the evenings:

"There's tons of people and they're just trading patches. People come up to them, say, 'What do you want for that patch?' And they give them their patches."

Fazio and Templeton are trading their home council patches featuring designs of helicopters built by Boeing in Delaware County.

(Photo by KYW's Mark Abrams)