- September 7, 2024
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Maison Leonard and Steven Rumph
Juliana Selic, 11; Breia Forwood, 16; Ariel Curtis, Scoutmaster for BSA Girls Troop 428; Braxton Prince, 8; and Rowan Curtis, 15
Jaci Phillips and her son, Vincent, equipped themselves with battery-powered fans for the cleanup. Photos by Brian McMillan
Jaxon Narrington, Orion Travell and Braden Fulghum
Logan Milbrandt
Senior Patrol Leader Colin Milbrandt, Suzanna Milbrandt and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Andrew Wheeler
Jason Wheeler has been a scouting volunteer for 12-15 years. This is his first year as scoutmaster of Troop 281.
Former Senior Patrol Leader Tyler Grady and Assistant Senior Patrol Seth Harding
Jason Wheeler designed the troop's T-shirt, adding a face mask onto Robert Baden-Powell, who founded Boy Scouts about 100 years ago.
Shawn Cox, Vanessa Fulghum and Ed Narrington
With the sun streaming through the Spanish moss at Herschel King Park on Sept. 12, volunteers filled black plastic bags with trash — including shoes, headlights and a rusty, unopened beer bottle — as part of the city of Palm Coast’s annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup.
“If we don’t keep it clean, nobody else will."
ARIEL CURTIS, BSA Girls Troop 4281 Scoutmaster
“This is our city,” said Ariel Curtis, scoutmaster for BSA Girls Troop 4281. “If we don’t keep it clean, nobody else will. We all have to pitch in.”
Curtis, in her sixth year as a leader, has four girls in her troop and hopes to eventually have 10-15 as younger girls advance. Visit beascout.org and look up Girls Troop 4281 to join.
Also at Herschel King Park was BSA Troop 281 Scoutmaster Jason Wheeler, who was pleased with the scouts' positive attitude.
“They’ve been cooped up for so long they’re just happy to be outside,” he said.
Wheeler was pleased that 28 boys have remained involved in the troop through unusual times; in-person meetings resumed two weeks ago after a spring and summer of Zoom meetings. Twelve also went to summer camp this year.
“We have great parents,” Wheeler said. “They’re the ones who make this thing go.”