Local Cub Scouts live up to the motto “Do Your Best.”
Thanks to the Cub Scouts of Pack 7193 and the Camp Verde Public Works Department, residents can now enjoy a refurbished “Welcome to Camp Verde” sign, along with freshly restored service club signs such as Kiwanis, all mounted on a single pole in the Fort Verde Mobile Park and visible to northbound motorists at the intersection of East Hopkins Lane and Main Street.
“We couldn’t even see [the sign] before the kids decided to help,” because it was so faded,” Town of Camp Verde Maintenance Worker Marcus Munoz said.
“That sign has been up for 20 years before the Cub Scouts helped us fix it up,” Ground Maintenance Supervisor Triston Laubinger said. “The guys that put it up originally actually currently work in our streets department, and they’re about to retire. So, yeah, it’s been up for quite a long time.”
Pack Leader Jim Binick explained that the Cub Scouts recently helped renovate the placard billboard featuring organizations such as the Lions Club, the Kiwanis, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The sign had become rusty and was in need of maintenance, so the kids stepped in to assist. After the town crew took the signs down, and the scouts cleaned off the rust and repainted them before being returned to the town.
The signs were then reinstalled by public works on Wednesday, July 23, after the town repainted the pole and ordered a replacement sign for the American Legion. All told, the cost to the town was some hours of labor and a few gallons of paint, according to Laubinger.
“I think this is the first [project] we’ve done with the scouts,” Laubinger said. “We were talking, and now that this is [done], we got a lot of small project that I think would be great for the kids, if the kids wanted to do it.”
“I liked painting the sign because it was fun and I felt proud to help,” said 9-year-old Tucker Jones. “[But] of all of it is my favorite part of being in scouts,” but especially “camping and hiking.”
“I had fun doing the painting [and] the most fun part was painting the letters,” said 8-year-old Evan Hinkle. “I’m turning 9 in a month. I’m enjoying camping … we’ve been to Camp Kaibab outside of Parks … we’re going to Payson this month, so we’ve been all over the camp. … The more people there are the more money will have to do funner things like go to Lake Knoll.”
“It was great doing that for the kids … it’s awesome that the Boy Scouts are here and active and lending a hand,” Laubinger said.
For more information about joining Cub Scouts Pack 7193 contact CSPack7193cv@gmail.com or call (928) 451-1811. The pack meets Mondays from 6 to 7 p.m. at 395 S. Main Street in Camp Verde.
