PINEVILLE, W.Va. — It’s more than fun and games between now and next Tuesday for the close to 40,000 Boy Scouts in attendance at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Fayette County. The scouts will be performing 300,000 hours of community service work in nine counties starting Wednesday morning.
“We have around 57 projects and we’ll have about 2,880 scouts here in the five-day period in Wyoming County,” Christy Laxton with the Wyoming County Economic Development Authority told MetroNews Tuesday.
The scouts will also be doing work in Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Raleigh and Summers counties.
“We provide all of the materials and the tools that they’ll need to use as well as we’ll provide them with water and all of their gloves and safety gear and things like that,” Laxton said.
Projects planned in Wyoming County include trail work at Twin Falls State Park, Milam Creek in McGraws and at R.D. Bailey Lake. Construction of handicap-accessible fishing docks are planned for Mullens and Oceana. The Boy Scouts will also work on the grounds at the county courthouse in Pineville and do some work at the Castle Rock landmark to name just a few of the projects.
“It is a variety of everything and they are going to be from one end of our county to the other,” Laxton said. “We tried not to leave any portion of our county out. We wanted to make sure the entire county benefited from this project.”