On August 4 2007 the Scouts and Leaders of local Troop 21, Chartered with the Boy Scouts of America by Second Reformed Church of Zeeland Mich., began their journey to the Canadian Wilderness.  After loading the Scoutmaster’s truck with the gear they would need and enough food to last for seven days, he left for Sault St Marie.  The Scouts were to return later that night to have a sleep over in the basement of the church.  The rest of the leadership was to return at 3:00AM to load the boys into three vans for the trip to the Soo.

Scoutmaster Gary Peters along with two Scouts and another leader arrived in the Soo on Saturday evening. They set up camp in a small campground on the American side of the Bridge and settled down for a night of listening to boat whistles.  On Sunday morning while the rest of the Troop was on their way there, they got up and went to the Algoma Central Train Station to load all of our gear onto the train. They then relaxed till the group got there.

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Today, Boy Scouts from Troop 21 participated in the 2009 Annual Lakeshore Klondike Derby. Twenty-eight groups of Boy Scouts from Ottawa and Allegan Counties also participated. Groups or Patrols were challenged in Knots and Lashings, Teamwork, Fire building, First Aid,Cooking, Compass/Orienteering and a Mystery Challenge. This year BoyScout Troop 21 from Zeeland chartered by Second Reformed Church won the competition.

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Boy Scout Troop 21 "Cleans House"

Troop 21 from Zeeland, MI recently spent a weekend cleaning up Westown! On March 14, around 25 Scouts and 6 leaders filled 3 enormous dumpsters as part of their annual dumpster day at "The Other Way". The Scouts cleaned up trash in the surrounding streets and alleys, broke apart items that could be recycled, and served over 45 Westown families by allowing them to drop off their junk or going to collect it from homes around the neighborhood! Thanks, Troop 21, for another successful spring clean-up!

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Camp Gerber, Twin Lake, MI

 We left Zeeland on Friday night and traveled to Camp Gerber.  We set up our tents & other Camp Gear and sat around our Camp fires until we got tired and finally went to bed. 

We got up early Staturday morning.  We got our breakfast done.  We set off to the copes course and met up with Mr West our Copes Director.  We did some games on the Low COPES course which were lots of fun..  We finally got to the High COPES course and the kids got in their harnesess and started to tackle the course.  The boys had lots of fun.  The best part was the zip line at the end.  The afternoon was spent with 1st & 2nd year Webelos.  We played water balloon games with them.  They had lots of fun and it was good for the Boy Scouts to mingle with them.  we also cooked supper for them and their parents.  The Boys had hot dogs and the adults had steak, potatoes and vegetables.  Mr. Timmer made a Milkey Way candy bar dipped in batter then roasted it over the fire.  Yum, yum.  We closed the day with skits and singing by the fire.

Sunday we woke up, had our breakfast, cleand up and had our Sunday Church Service.  we headed back home and arived back in Zeeland at 2:15 PM.

by B. Buning

Watch a video of our COPES Outing.
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When we were asked to make a float for the Pumpkin Parade we decided to showcase the Boy Scouts 100th year of Scouting.  We decorated the wagon with a tent, tripod, pumpkins, strawbales and banners.  It rained the morning of the parade so we were worried about getting wet.  The rain held off for the parade and we had a good time.

After the parade we went through Zeeland's downtown and picked up the trash.  We have a clean Zeeland once again.

by N. Buning

Watch a video of our Pumpkin Fest Parade.
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