Once again we did work in a stream which had no useful purpose and if anything just caused future problems when it flooded.
At the time I was still with troop 224 a group of too many bully's and hooligans who loved to torment other scouts myself and other 224 scouts chose to get away from them in the evenings and went over to other troops campfires and sat with them on the first night. Then Saturday morning it was down into the stream we had to walk down about half mile and where assigned to put deflection dams in the stream to hold back water and build little pools where fish would congregate . But like I said as fast as this stream runs and as high and swift as it floods it was ripped right out . 12 years later after we did the stream improvement I would be back in this same area ,while attending a Bull Creek horse back riding event with my sister in law. We parked our horse trailers in the old Harvey Lumber yard which at the time was still operating and I mentioned to the old lumber yard worker who let us in to park our trailer on a Sunday how I helped with the creek improvement all those years ago and camped in the field next to his place and he just laughed and proceeded to tell me all about the creek and how what we did was useless waste of time and how we where lucky no one got hurt or drowned due to how fast the creek runs and how fast the whole creek basin fills with even a light rain storm.He said " I know how all you boys worked hard and thought you where doing a good thing but in the end it did nothing for the stream" . While riding along the bridal path beside the stream he was right there was not one of the many projects our group had completed that weekend 12 years back still in place they had all been busted up and blown down stream. What a shame how many weekends wasted in a stream by us and other scout groups which could have been put to much better use. I would later meet a women who works at one of my customers who lived next to the creek who told me how here brother drowned in the creek one afternoon after it quickly swelled after a minor storm up in Butler county sent water cascading down the creek. She also said how many times improvements where done to be washed out with the next storm as well. Just what the hell where scout leaders thinking when they allowed this work to go on. I really have a bad taste in my mouth about that whole weekend and the fact my fellow scouts never called to tell me they had a follow up project a couple weeks later after I missed attending a troop meeting and never called or stopped by house to make sure I was OK and went camping with out me but thats the way people are in Carrick uncaring fools and not real friends too many only interested in what they can get from you instead of working together . Thats why I do not keep in touch with any of them any more.
