Good News for a Change

[SSScout]

Five Eagle Scouts, five neat projects:

 

http://www.heraldstaronline.com/page/content.detail/id/571903/One-troop--five-Eagle-Scouts.html

[GKlose]

We don't really go out of our way to seek publicity for our guys' Eagle projects, but we had a nice moment this last year. A member of our CO is also the town's conservation committee chair. So quite a few times he has given us suggestions for projects that our guys have picked up. It has been a nice arrangement, especially because some of them are funded by the town.

 

Our town also started including a quarterly report in with our property tax bills -- we might get department updates from a number of different departments any given quarter. This last year, one of those updates from the town conservation committee called out specifically some of the trails renovations, footbridges, etc. that were produced by Eagle Scouts. It was a very nice shout-out.

 

But the payback was actually here -- a few weeks back, we were hosting some Webelos at a troop meeting, and I had pulled aside parents to talk to them about the troop. They were all wondering about our calendar -- we only meet two or three times per month (I know, we're working on that) -- but I pointed out that we had 14 one or two-night outings, two summer camp weeks, one 5-day canoe trek, two parades, and six service projects, not including the seven Eagle projects that our Eagle candidates did. Then I held up a copy of the quarterly report and said "you might have read about four of them in here...". A mom said, "that was YOU guys?". :-)

 

Guy

[SSScout]

That's just the point. Who knows about your Scout thing, and how did they find out? I guess we need a.....