February 25-28, 2009: Scout Community Service!

February 25th, we had Kelly drop us off on the way home from school at the start of the stretch of the Cheyenne Greenway that Nolan's Den is responsible to keep clean. If you don't know, Cheyenne is a very, very windy place so there is always a lot of junk (and tumbleweeds) blown up against fences, etc.

We walked most of our stretch for 1 1/2 hours and the boys collected the bag of trash they are holding in the photo above. They did a great job!

The following Saturday was the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet, which Nolan, Barrett and Scott attended.

Nolan was given an honorable mention with a few other kids for getting out and providing community service (participating in the food drive and picking up trash on the Greenway). He wanted to share the picture with Barrett. I believe the special patch he received was an old 75th Anniversary of Boy Scouts patch.

Finally, the kids from Nolan's Den that were present at the banquet were all given their Weather Belt Loops (for visiting Scott's office a few weeks earlier) and they also earned their Tiger Cub patches!!!! Nolan is on the left below in front of Scout Leader John (who is also their Den Leader).