Tag: Community Service
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Wreaths Across America 2025
This year, National Wreaths Across America Day will be held on Saturday, December 13, 2025. Troop 8 joins the more than two million volunteers and supporters who will gather to Remember, Honor and Teach at more than 5,200 participating locations. Our local cemetery is the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana. This is a wonderful…
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Scouting for Food 2025
This year, we enjoyed another successful year of Scouting for Food! Scouts distributed bags on November 1st, 2025, and picked them up on November 8th. All food collected goes directly to the Food Bank of Central Louisiana. Thank you to those in the community who participated!
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Love the Boot Week 2025
Love the Boot Week is Louisiana’s largest litter removal and beautification effort, with events in all 64 parishes. This year, Troop 8 has been invited to participate in Love the Boot Week at Forts Randolph and Buhlow in Pineville. This is a great way to support the local community and get service hours. We encourage…
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Matthew Kimball’s Eagle Scout Project
On Friday, February 14, Troop 8 helped to complete its latest Eagle Scout Project. Matthew Kimball’s project was to build shelving units for our sponsor organization, the First Baptist Church of Pineville. Scouts arrived at 7:30AM and began work unloading wood to build the shelves. Over a period of around 4 hours, scouts built 6…
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Scouting for Food 2024
On Saturday, November 2, 2022, scouts showed up to the Timber Trails community to place Scouting for Food bags. Scouting for food is an annual program which donates food to the local food bank through Scouting. Scouts place brown paper bags outside of homes which are filled by the homeowner and then collected and brought…
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Nicholas Pardue’s Eagle Scout Project
This Saturday, September 7, most of Troop 8 showed up at the T.R.E.E House Children’s Museum at 7:30am for Nicholas Pardue’s Eagle Scout Project. Garden Path Stone Center in Alexandria supplied materials and T&D PowerSkills contributed funds. Previously, there was no pathway to connect the main building of the T.R.E.E House with the benches and…
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Nathan Capezza’s Eagle Scout Project
On the morning of August 26, 2023, Troop 8 met at the T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum in Downtown Alexandria to finish Troop 8 scout Nathan Capezza’s Eagle Scout project. This project consisted of digging, assembling and aligning the pole, and pouring a concrete base. See more Eagle Scout posts here.
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Hayden Difulco’s Eagle Scout Project
On August 19, 2023, Hayden Difulco completed his Eagle Scout project with Troop 8. Many scouts from the troop showed up and helped to build benches to be donated to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
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Flags for Memorial Day 2021
On May 29, 2021, scouts from Troop 8 placed flags at graves at the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville. Our troop consistently attends this ceremony on Memorial Day every year.
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Kent House Eagle Scout Project
On March 13, 2020, Troop 8 helped complete an Eagle Scout project at the Kent House in Alexandria.
