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
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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