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At a ceremony on Dec. 14, 33 Boy Scouts were recognized for the community service projects they did in an effort to earn their Eagle Scout rank.
Photo: ProvidedAt a ceremony on Dec. 14, 33 Boy Scouts were recognized for the community service projects they did in an effort to earn their Eagle Scout rank.
At a ceremony on Dec. 14, 33 Boy Scouts were recognized for the community service projects they did in an effort to earn their Eagle Scout rank.
At a ceremony on Dec. 14, 33 Boy Scouts were recognized for the community service projects they did in an effort to earn their Eagle Scout rank.
Before a member of Boy Scouts of America can earn their Eagle Scout rank they must finish a community service project that benefits their community. Recently, local scouts were recognized for their Eagle Scout projects that gave back to the community in numerous ways.
At a Dec. 14 service at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Old Conroe Road, the scouts in troops sponsored by the church were given special recognition from local VFW Post 12024 for their community service projects.
This year, 33 scouts in The Woodlands went through the process to earn their Eagle Scout rank and finished their community service projects. Before the scouts could even get started on their projects their ideas had to be approved by their scoutmaster and the local roundtable of scout leaders that only holds meetings once a month.
Projects this year included: food drives for the Montgomery County Food Bank, a diaper drive for Interfaith of The Woodlands, refurbishing seven bus stops for the Thousand Oaks community, new walking bridges in the Lake Creek Preserve, and gathered used eyeglasses to donate to the Lion’s Club “Recycle for Sight” program, among many others.
For his project, CJ Sorensen chose to do a diaper and wipe drive because of his experience being in the NICU. He knew he wanted to organize a drive for his project because he believes it would have a larger impact on the community. There are already several Eagle Scouts in his family.
“It was important for me because I really look up to my older brother Josh and want to be like him,” Sorensen said.
Becoming an Eagle Scout is an accomplishment and experience he thinks he’ll be able to look back on and feel good about.
The thousands of people in the county who are considered food unstable inspired boy scout Tyler DeLange to run a food drive for the Montgomery County Food Bank. To collect the food he spread the word at his church looking for donations and stood outside local food markets asking people to think about donating when they went shopping.
“It takes a lot of work to put on a drive,” is the lesson DeLange is walking away with.
He ended up bringing in double the amount of food he had set as a goal.
This was Michael Bullock’s second attempt at doing his Eagle Scout project. The first time, the elementary school he wanted to work with to refurbish some local bus stops ended up not giving him permission. But when he moved to Montgomery and joined a troop in The Woodlands he decided to try again.
Bullock said he chose to refurbish the bus stops as his project because he likes a challenge, and it didn’t hurt that it would one-up his Eagle Scout older brother, all for a good cause.
“I didn’t really want to become an Eagle at first,” he said. “I really love serving people and I saw it as a great opportunity to do service, but in a way that I would like to do it.”
While coordinating volunteers out at the bus stops, Bullock said he saw other people inspired to give back. He decided to become an Eagle Scout because he knew the skills he would gain would be beneficial, and he had already gone through so many years of being a scout that it didn’t make sense not to.
“It takes a lot of leadership, but it takes even more so, willing people to help you,” Bullock said.
While the projects are finished, some scouts may still have some of the final paperwork to complete before officially earning their badge.
jamie.swinnerton@chron.com
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