Eagle Scout notes

• Architect and contractor Ted Jones has died in Sonoma.

Jones grew up during the Depression in New York, which did not stop him from becoming an Eagle Scout. In Nevada in the 1960s, he built homes all over the western part of the state during the terrific population growth then underway. He was honored by the Northern Nevada Builders and the Sertoma Club.

• Derek Nance, who became an Eagle Scout while growing up in Las Vegas and graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, has succeeded in getting some major performers—Train and Carly Rae Jepsen—to cancel their concert appearances at the Boy Scout national “Jamboree” this year in West Virginia to protest the ban on gay Scouting. Nance used an online petition and a U-Tube video to draw attention to the cause and some major media like ABC News picked up on the issue.