Troop 146 Wellsville Earns Community Service Hours by

Troop 146 Wellsville
Earns Community
Service Hours by
Revitalizing St. Michael’s
Evangelical Lutheran
Church
by Jane Musser
Boy Scout Troop 146 and their families
help St. Michael’s congregants raise
and level headstones that were buried
beneath years of dirt and debris
Boy Scout Troop 146 and their families
help St. Michael’s congregants raise
and level headstones that were buried
beneath years of dirt and debris
Ian, Boy Scout, and Treva Smith, church
member, work together to find the edges of a
headstone.
Steph, and
Scout work
together to
enlarge the
headstone
area by two
inches so it
can be
leveled and
reset.
The Bortner Family works together to
remove a headstone and enlarge the
area.
While unearthing one headstone,
another headstone was discovered
directly underneath it.
Mrs. Bortner removes tree roots from the
headstone area. The roots may have caused
one headstone to slip under the other.
Scout,
Paul
Bortner,
uses a
headstone
to rest.
Mr. Bortner removes dirt while his son,
Paul, balances the headstone.
Barb Spangler and
Marg Prosser
increase the
area of the
headstone.
Broken
headstone with
part of broken
sandstone base
still attached.
Scout, Dylan, and his mom load buckets with
stone for placing under the headstones.
Dawn Grib,
church organist,
and her daughter
work together
revitalizing the
cemetery.
Vicar Micki Kautz
supervises and
visits during the
Wednesday
evening cemetery
project with Boy
Scout Troop 146
and St. Michael’s
church members.
Boy Scout Leaders
level the headstones
to be slightly lower
than ground level.
Brad Myers,
Troop 146
Leader,
works
diligently to
level a
headstone.
Dwayne, Scout Leader, and Jim
Spangler, church member work
together leveling headstones.
Lucas, the
youngest
worker,
crawled right
into the lap of
Treva Smith,
one of the
oldest workers.
In two hours the volunteers raised and
leveled over 70 headstones. St.
Michael’s congregation is so thankful
for the work of Boy Scout Troop 146
and their families.
It is estimated
that there are
30 more
headstones to
raise and level.
However, with
more probing at
empty areas,
more
headstones may
be found buried
beneath the
ground.
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On Wednesday, May
Troop 146 and St.
Michael’s members will
join together to work
from 6-8 PM.