Can you explain about Service hours and helping with Eagle projects?

Part of Scouting is giving back to the Community. One way of doing this is through Service hours. Also some of the higher level rank advancements require the Scout perform Service hours. Service hours can be performed on an individual basis, such as volunteering at PADS or one of the local Food Banks, with prior approval of the Scout Master. If the Scout is going to perform individual hours they should get a yellow card for volunteer hours, which needs to be signed by the organization the hours are performed for and turned into the Advancement Chair. They can also be performed as part of a Troop Service project, such as Schick Road Clean-up, which the Project coordinator will turn into the Advancement Chair. Service hours can also be performed as part of an Eagle Scout Service project, which the Eagle Scout Candidate will turn into the Advancement Chair. The Eagle Scout Service project is usually a major undertaking by the Eagle Scout Candidate, which typically involves well over a hundred service hours by the Eagle Scout Candidate and the Scouts who volunteer to help him.

Also, once a year in late April, Our Savior Lutheran Church holds their Annual Garage Sale. We help them with setting up, by putting down cardboard on the Gym floor. Scouts can also help during collection, during the day of the sale and at clean-up. It’s a chance to give back to an organization that has been very generous to us in allowing us the use of the facilities. Service hours are not earned for this event, as this is giving back to an organization that gives generously to us.