Smith-Root Provides Merit Badge Opportunity for Boy Scout Troop 14

Monday, January 16, 2012

While most of us at Smith-Root used our annual year-end closure to spend time with our families during the holidays, Project Manager Don Ormiston chose to use his time off assisting his son’s Boy Scout troop in making Patrol Boxes.

Based out of Salmon Creek, Troop 14 is comprised of 50 11-18 year old boys. Nine of these scouts volunteered to help build the patrol boxes at Smith-Root in exchange for a merit badge for metalworking.

Once Don came up with the project idea and the boy scouts committed to the task, he received permission for Smith-Root to donate the materials needed to construct nine Patrol Boxes. Smith-Root’s Production Manager, Ron Hansen, used CAD design software to create productions drawings the boys used in the fabrication.

The day after Christmas, a time usually spent playing with new toys; Troop 14 worked from 8am to 5:30pm building patrol boxes in Smith-Root’s metal shop. The boxes will used to hold camping gear at the various outings the scouts participate in.

Smith-Root is proud to have had the opportunity to help out Troop 14 with its recent project and is also delighted with Don Ormiston’s commitment as a scout leader and father.

News article on Columbian.com.

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About Smith-Root

Founded in 1964, Smith-Root has long been a respected member of the aquatic resource conservation community. We have supplied fish researchers, managers and hatchery personnel with quality fisheries sampling technologies and products over several decades. With on-site manufacturing facilities, Smith-Root produces a full-line of electrofishing, fish guidance, and electroanesthesia equipment to aid in fish restoration and recovery operations in various aquatic settings.

Posted by John Gielen at 3:40 PM January 16, 2012 in Company News