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Showing posts with label Scouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scouts. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

TSGS Hall of Shame

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Cemetery in Lawrence near Boston, MA



There is no excuse for the community to let this problem continue [click on link above!]. Watch the video about the cemetery. The Superintendent may have his hands tied with lack of funds, but recruiting volunteers should not be that hard. A fund raiser would be a good way to generate enough money to hire someone to weed-eat around the markers. Where are the Boy Scouts or 4-H members who are great volunteers for this type of "Good Citizenship!" When I was Superintendent of the Evansville (Indiana) 2 city-owned cemeteries almost 20 years ago. We had "work release" prisoners help maintain the cemeteries, along with people with minor legal infractions that needed to complete a couple hundred hours of "Community Service" as ordered by a judge. A civilized community can be judged by how well they respect their dead. Lawrence is proving to have very little respect for their dead. Sad, indeed!

- Compiled by JGWest [Link & story was posted on FaceBook by Bill West]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

From the FIRST MATE's
PHOTO ALBUM...

Oak Hill Cemetery
Evansville, Indiana
Civil War Union Soldiers Section
Eagle Scout Project
Ohio Valley SAR Chapter ~
Community Service Project

My Sons of the American Revolution chapter volunteered to help with this Eagle Scout Project to clean these Civil War Markers. Wearing a tie-dye shirt, cap & googles is Christopher Myers, to his right is me (John G. West). Becky West & J.D. Strouth helped us. April 2006.

- Submitted by JGWest