Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the process of earning their highest badges for scouting play a very important role as volunteers in the York County Parks. In 2009, they completed projects ranging from building benches, bridges, trails and created landscape gardens.

     Scouts are required to do the planning and designing, and oversee the construction of their project to earn an Eagle badge. Most Eagle/Golden Scout service projects completed within the parks average from 150 to 300 volunteer hours. In 2009, scouts completing their Eagle/Golden awards volunteered over 2,700 hours! Shown below are some scout projects that were completed in 2009.

Alicia Vandermark—(Gold) Designed and built two canopy tables in William H. Kain County Park. Rohan Agarwal—(Eagle) Designed and built a stone headwall at a culvert in William H. Kain County Park. Henry Rost—(Eagle) Designed and rebuilt the Herb Garden in Richard M. Nixon County Park. Drew Redding, Steven Patterson, Matt Grove, and Jared Hartman —(Eagle) Designed and set brick pavers around pavilions in John Rudy County Park.

 For more information on volunteering, please call the Parks at (717) 840-7440.