Several local Boy Scouts have earned the highest honor in scouting and a local Girl Scout troop has protected animals from the Johnson County Animal Shelter.
Here is a look at some local projects scouts have done lately:
Clearing a cemetery
An Indian Creek Middle School student helped clear a cemetery with hundreds of hours of work.
Tyler Rodgers celebrated becoming Troop No. 222’s youngest Eagle Scout.
Rodgers cleared Friendship Cemetery of downed tree limbs, clusters of grapevines and thorn bushes.
Friends, family and volunteers put 211 hours of work into the project.
Senior at Franklin builds bat houses
A senior at Franklin Community High School has become an Eagle Scout by building bat houses at Province Park.
Andrew Finley mounted five bat houses in trees to earn the Boy Scouts’ highest designation.
The idea is that bats will live in the houses and will eat mosquitoes, which will help clear mosquitoes in the well-used Franklin park, Finley said.
He raised $550 for the materials and worked for about three months on the project, he said.
Girl Scout troop helps animal shelter
A local girl scout troop built bat houses at the animal shelter to help protect animals from mosquitoes.
Girl Scout Troop No. 736 worked to build bat houses on the property, said Michael Delp, director of the animal shelter.
Troop members learned about bats and researched how to build the bat houses. They chose their project after hearing of a body of water behind the shelter that could attract mosquitoes, Delp said.
