Serving the Seniors June 16, 2010

Once a month the Senior Citizens Center in town has a nice low cost supper for the senior citizens in the community.  The director of the program called me the week before to see if the Scouts would be interested in serving the meal.  Every month they ask a different non-profit organization to help them serve the meal and clean up and then the organization can keep the tips the seniors leave at the tables.  Always looking for a fundraiser to help the scouts pay for activities and summer camp, I jumped at the chance and started calling.

We had 5 boys show up to help last Monday evening.  They started at 4:45 serving coffee and water to the guests as they were being seated.  Then they served a side salad, the meal, dessert and then more coffee.  They were done by 6pm and earned $62.00 in tips to split between the 5 of them for their scout accounts.  The boys got a lot of comments on how nice they looked in their uniforms and the director complimented them on what a good job they did and how well they stayed focused on the tasks and kept up.  The best part for them (besides the tips) was the opportunity to enjoy a piece of cake when they were done!

Restoring a Train Engine

Zach spent this last weekend at the fairgrounds working on the restoration of an old train engine there.  One of the Scouts in our troop, Blake, had chose this project for his Eagle Scout project.  The boys assembles at the fairgrounds at noon Saturday to start sanding the rust off and cleaning up the engine.  The skies had been dark all morning and we knew rain was coming, but they did get it sanded and prepped for painting the next day.  While they were there, the Dispatch stopped by and took pictures of them working on the engine, which made the front page of the paper.  The boys thought that was really cool and there were complaints from a few that were there but arrived after the photo op!

Sunday at noon it was back to the fairgrounds for the painting.  The engine looked really nice when they were done and even though this weekend they still have some detail work to finish up (like painting the white #8 on) I think the project went really well and kept on schedule despite the rain showers they had to deal with on both days.  I know the fairgoers will appreciate the effort they put into it.