Tree Recycling

Tree Recycling

Tree Recycling Fundraiser The calendar year ended with our important fundraising tradition: collecting christmas trees for recycling. In early December scouts hung fliers on doors in communites around the SW Portland metro area. Families could sign up to have scouts come pick up their trees after the holiday season concluded, or they could drop them off for us to haul away. The troop, in turn, asks for donations to fund annual expenses and our big summer camp each year. We were successful once again in raising significant funds this year. Scouts worked through cold and wet conditions to hang f ...

Campsgiving

Campsgiving

Campsgiving If you were to go anywhere that is an hour away from Portland, Oregon, where would you go? Well we went to Camp Meriwether for Campsgiving. Campsgiving is like Thanksgiving but it's with your scout troop. We launched pumpkins at the beach, but almost no one was actually able to get them ...

Summer Camp

Summer Camp

Pre-camp Pre-camp this year was a memorable one. We drove eight hours to Round Lake State Park. But on the way one of the wheels on our closed trailer blew out. That delayed our trip by about an hour. Everyone was ready to get to the campsite, and thankfully we didn't face any more challenges. On th ...