Mercer Area District Boy Scouts celebrated the fall camporee with an open house and Jamboree on the Air, the largest scouting event of the year, with more than 500,000 scouts around the world talking on short-wave radios. Edward Pfaltzgraff, 6, of West Windsor, talked to another scout in Canada. He is a member of Pack 48.
More than 300 area scouts attended the event where the main event was Punkin Chunkin, in which scouts compete to see who can catapult a pumpkin the furthest. There was also tomahawk throwing, archery, orienteering, geocaching, fishing, volleyball, and basketball.
Brownie, Daisy, and Wolf scouts got together to help beautify Maurice Hawk School on Sunday October 12. Together they created a work day planting mums, flowering and green perennials, and even bulbs for spring. It was an experience of what organized teamwork can accomplish. Patricia Buell, principal at Hawk School, stopped by to thank everyone.
