October 2015 Search and Rescue training exercise
On October 24th, access to our park was restricted to … Read more
Category Archives: Park & Range
Landscaping our Chapter Park with Native Plants
This past Sunday, November 1st, Wanda Gerard, Chapter Ike and Master Gardener, delivered to our Chapter Park 25 (twenty-five) 6″ potted pickerel weed native plants that were donated by Dr. Laurie Fox, as well as goldenrod and black eyed susans dug up from Wanda’s own garden.
About a dozen Chapter Ikes and a half dozen Webelos Scouts from … Read more
Member Advisory – Please Volunteer to Help Plant Native Plants
To: All S-N IWLA Members
From: Wanda Gerard
Subj: RSVP requested to assist planting native plants in our Park this coming Sunday, November 1, 2015, starting at 2:00PM, at the Park Pavilion, we will have a small introduction over what we are planting, where, why, etc., then, we will move out … Read more
Fall 2015 Park Cleanup
We had a very good turnout at our Chapter Park on Saturday, September 12th, 2015 for our Fall (semi-annual) Park maintenance cleanup day. Sixteen (16) scouts from BSA Troop #1, led by Allen Kiger, assisted 25 of our Chapter Members with clearing weeds from our dam and drainage pond culvert and … Read more
New Chapter Park Sign
A Boy Scout from troop 16 completed his Eagle Scout project on Saturday August 15, 2015. He provided us with a beautiful sign at the entrance to our park.
Beekeeper Says that Bees on our Park’s Dam Do Not Sting!
March 22, 2019–correction: After this article was first posted in June of 2015 it came to our attention that one of our members was in fact stung by a bee on the top of our chapter park dam near the pond. Whether this particular bee was a mason bee is … Read more
May 2015 Chapter Picnic
This past Saturday at the Park we had a really good turn-out for our May Members Picnic/Meeting at the Park, and as you can see from the photo gallery, our Ikes and their families had a good time fishing, playing corn hole, and just relaxing. The weather that Ricky ordered up for … Read more