Service Project Examples
Examples of Service Projects that other Boy Scout Troops have done are:

Built
o         Picnic tables for the town beach       
o         Sign post for the local church      
o         Newspaper recycling boxes for an elementary school
o         Camp chuck boxes for Girl Scout Troop
o         Floating goose nest platforms for forest preserve pond
o         Conservation education display for nature center
o         Bridge in local wetlands forest preserve
o         Installed glass display case & bulletin board for church
o         Installed flag holders for city light poles
o         Foot bridge in a city park
o         Nature trail and erosion dams in a city park
o         Janitor closet in the church Fellowship Hall
o         Storage cabinets for Sunday school rooms
o         Historical display for local museum

Landscaping projects
o         Nursing home
o         Church
o         Church grounds, including shrubs, ground cover, and edging local VFW property

Did spring cleanup for
o         10 acre museum grounds
o         Church
o         Campaign of city parking lots

Painted
o         Mural on the wall of his Synagogue depicting Jewish life
o         Church garage
o         100 picnic tables for local park district
o         Basement and classrooms for inner city youth church
o         And refurbished light booth for high school auditorium
o         House and garage for an elderly women
o         Memorial army tank on display in downtown area

Repaired
o         And painted the playground at the church
o         Fencing and outdoor facilities at a church
o         Church sign and re-landscape around it
o         A local troubled youth facility, inside and out, including woodwork, painting, carpeting
o         Reset headstones for county cemetery

Collected
o         Pairs of used eye glasses for the Lions Club program for the needy
o         Children’s books and toys and setup a play area at a public hospital neighborhood clinic

More...
o         Re-roof and painted gazebo at church
o         Modify church’s storage building, adding double door for tractor  access, shelves, permanent window
covering
o         Mapped college pond, restocked fish & aquatic plans, reshaped shoreline
o         Cleared 1 mile of vegetation for new nature/bicycle trail
o         Planted trees and placed boulders in a local park to stop off-roading vehicles from damaging the grounds.
o         Rebuilt and greatly improved a patio at a local troubled youth home.
o         Organized emergency response team for local Red Cross chapter
o         Bond Braille books for church program
o         Produced and delivered church service audio tapes to shut-ins
o         Recycled old bicycles for need children
o         Sifted sand at local children’s playground and improved site








Conducted
o         Book fair for a church run bookstore
o         Community food pick up for local food pantry
o         Program for kindergarten children about dangers of abduction and fingerprinted them for their parents

Removed
o         Underbrush and restored oak savannah at forest preserve
o         Unwanted trees from nursery to forest preserve

Installed
o         Braille stations on blind hiking trail at forest preserve
o         Erosion control bars and reshaped ground contours at park
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