Service - Bryan on Scouting

At SeaBreak, Arrowmen spend their spring break helping rebuild Florida camp

April 27, 2018 4

At SeaBreak, Arrowmen from as far away as Minnesota and Colorado traveled to the Florida Sea Base in March to complete a week of hurricane cleanup.

Leaders inject fun, education into clean-up service projects

April 24, 2018 0

How do you help ensure picking up trash doesn’t devolve into a way to simply fulfill service hour requirements? Pack 267 and Troop 267 in Fredonia, N.Y., have an answer.

Thanks to the Order of the Arrow, Puerto Rico’s hurricane-devastated Camp Guajataka is open for business

March 26, 2018 9

A hundred Scouts and Scouters from 28 different states traveled to Puerto Rico this month to help rebuild Camp Guajataka, the beloved camp owned by the BSA’s Puerto Rico Council. The camp was hit hard by Hurricane Maria in September.

When Troop 707 lost all of its gear in the California fires, other troops stepped up

January 22, 2018 13

Six Troop 707 families, including the Scoutmaster’s family, lost their homes. As luck would have it, all of Troop 707’s camping gear was stored at three homes that were completely burned.

Arrowmen: Spend spring break helping rebuild BSA camps in Florida, Puerto Rico

January 12, 2018 18

Arrowmen are invited to spend their spring break helping BSA camps in Florida and Puerto Rico rebuild after last year’s devastating hurricane season.

Eagle Scout builds buddy bench to fight bullying, promote autism awareness

November 22, 2017 0

Sometimes kids who are bullied don’t know where to go for help. Thanks to an Eagle Scout, that’s no longer the case at a Maryland elementary school.

Buy a patch to help rebuild Puerto Rico Council’s Guajataka Scout Reservation

November 8, 2017 26

While most of us won’t be able to make it down to help with relief efforts, we can assist the Puerto Rico Council by buying a commemorative patch.

Scouts clean a national park’s sticky situation

October 31, 2017 4

California Scouts scraped gum off sidewalks at the Cabrillo National Monument, putting in service hours for a Scout Ranger patch.

Eagle Scout’s service project solves city’s traffic problem

October 2, 2017 22

Skyler Chapman is barely old enough for a Utah learner’s permit. But for his Eagle Scout service project, he made a traffic problem disappear.

Puerto Rico Scouter shared this powerful message 2 days before Hurricane Maria hit

September 30, 2017 2

Two days before Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Maria Molinelli posted a message in Spanish on the council Facebook page.