Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <KMEYER.92Jul29141210@solarium.aero.org> kmeyer@aero.org (Kraig R. Meyer) writes:
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>On Wed, 29 Jul 92 20:00:18 GMT, jmcc@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com (John McCollum) said:> Some of the Eagle projects in our troop have included painting and repair
>> of playground equipment for local schools or churches and voter registration
>> drives at retirement homes. The latter was suggested by a local state
>> representative because a lot of the elderly people at these places couldn't
>> get out to register or vote. Several years ago I heard of an Eagle who
>> organized the effort to glue the blue reflectors in the streets next to
>> the fire hydrants for easy location by the Fire Dept.
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>My Eagle project, and several that followed in my troop, was in a city
>park. I spoke to the head of the Dept of Parks and Recreation of my
>city (Ann Arbor at the time). He gave me the following suggestion:
This is what most people in my troop do: the egale canidate himself
must go out and contact the organizeation. In my area, many of the
parks have a list of projects. These are usually things they want
done, and normally would either contract out or do themselves. I
think all you should do is suggest some places to call, and the them
get the ideas from the place they are helping. Once they get started,
I don't see they will have too much trouble finding a project ("please,
please, please, give me an idea so that I can help you!") Good
organizeations would be Local Dept. of Recreation and Parks, Churches,
Hospitals, etc. If the boys start out on the right track, they will
