Scouts from North Wales Troop 84 pose with council President Sal Amato, right, after the Scouts were honored for their work on several park cleanup events in town on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Photo by Dan Sokil | The Reporter.
Local Troop 84B and 84G helped clean two town parks in recent weeks
As they strolled into council chambers, about a dozen special guests sported matching blue uniforms and orange scarves, while their older counterparts were decked out in a familiar khaki.
As they stood and saluted, dozens of Scouts from North Wales Scouts BSA Troop 84B and 84G were honored by borough council for their work to beautify their hometown.
“Everyone around this table, we are very proud of what you do, and your participation in the Scouts. Scouts are a wonderful organization to belong to: it takes men and women who have a lot of honesty, and do a lot of community service — you are very important to the borough,” said council President Sal Amato.
In early 2024 the Scout troop “adopted” the town’s Hess Park, turning their volunteer efforts toward cleaning up trash and brush from that park last March, then older scouts took to the town’s streets last fall to survey the shade trees in one of the town’s three wards. Those joint efforts have grown this year, borough Manager Christine Hart told council, with the town’s Earth Day celebration in Weingartner Park just weeks away.
“The egg hunt’s going to be there, and summer kickoff, and a lot of foliage had fallen in Weingartner Park. Troop 84 was looking for something that they could do to give back, so we thought ‘how fitting,’ it’s right across from the Scout center, and our most traveled and prestigious park in the borough,” said Hart.
Scouts from North Wales Troop 84 pose with council President Sal Amato, at left, after the Scouts were honored for their work on several park cleanup events in town on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.As she spoke, the Scouts took turns lining up in front of a video screen showing photos of their efforts, to clean up Weingartner Park last week and at Hess again in March, and offered Scout salutes as they received formal proclamations from Amato honoring their efforts. Hart added a shout-out of a major event being planned by the troop: their first ever ‘Fish Fry’ fundraiser, to be held at 300 Church Street starting at 4:30 p.m. on April 11, offering fried fish, fries and coleslaw for $17 as a fundraiser for a troop fishing adventure.
“North Wales is a better place because of all of you. You’re all little threads that make our fabric very strong, within the borough. We are who we are because of Scouting, and your parents, and being part of the community, and we do value that,” Hart said.
