Through its continuing efforts to help the community, members of Cub Scout Pack 159 dedicated roughly 60 hours of service to clean up Fox Mill Elementary School.
More than 17 families attended the pack's annual spring clean up to help pull weeds, spread mulch, pick up trash, clip bushes and participate in other beautifying activities.
Because the pack uses the school's cafeteria during the year for meetings, members decided cleaning up the area would be a proper way to say thank you.
In addition to beautifying the school, Dan Cahoon, Pack 159 Cub Master, said the event helps teach the young scouts about civic responsibility, among other things.
In addition, the scouts are able to meet requirements towards rank achievements.
For the clean up, the pack partnered with the school's PTA to arrange for the mulch delivery and to provide access to the school atrium.
In addition to cleaning Fox Mill Elementary each year, Pack 159 regularly participates in other services.
This year pack members performed more than 280 service hours ranging in everything from raising $1,312 in five hours for the Red Cross tsunami victims and collecting 178 bags of food for the needy to collecting holiday gifts for disadvantaged children.
Along with working to help others, pack members also take time out to have fun though camping and ski trips, a Pinewood Derby, campfires and model rocket building.
Lead by Cahoon, the pack is chartered to Christ Presbyterian Church and consists of more than 100 boys in first through fifth grade.
The pack, which has been around for 23 years, meets every third Thursday of the month at Fox Mill.
For information visit www.cubs159.com.