Last weekend members of the Third Arrowsmith Scout Group built themselves a wooden tower in honour of Scout-Guide Week in the Alberni Valley. The tower is visible in front of Arbutus RV on Johnston Road.
Members of the older Scouts spent much of Saturday lashing support pieces to the main poles. On Sunday, Beaver-Scouts and Cub-Scouts joined in the party. Parents finished off the tallest part of the tower and proclaimed it safe for adventurers. It will come down Sunday.
While this is not the first tower to ever be built by a scouting group in the Alberni Valley, it is the first time since the Alberni Mall closed that the scouts have done something so public, Troop Scouter Pete Batt said.
“Scouts are big on pioneering or engineering projects and this is the easiest one to do,” he added.
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