Patrick O'Brien Becomes an Eagle Scout

Patrick is the 57th Eagle Scout of Boy Scout Troop 361, chartered by St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Brentwood.

Maplewood Boy Scout Troop Serves Pancakes at Maplewood United Methodist

Sunday was Boy Scout Sunday, and the troop chartered by Maplewood Richmond Heights Elementary hosted a brunch for the church as a thank you.

The usually active Maplewood United Methodist Church was even busier on Sunday. Boy Scouts from Troop 362 and their families filled in extra spots in the pews. It was the annual Boy Scout Sunday observance. The troop has about 50 members. See more photos at Maplewood-Brentwood Patch Facebook. The scouts served pancakes, biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs and sausages to the congregation after the service. The troop normally meets at MRH Elementary on Thursday nights, but when a scheduling conflict comes up, the church allows the troop to meet there. The pancakes were a thank you. Each scout and leader of the troop has a small "80" stitched onto his uniform to indicate how many years the troop has been in existence. It's one of the oldest …

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Make the 'Perfect Bag' for Scouting for Food Pickup This Saturday

Last Saturday Scouts and Cubs dropped off bags for Scouting for Food. This Saturday is pickup day.

Give Back: Organize Food Donated for Holiday Season

Check out our round up of volunteer opportunities.

Help with Scouting for Food Scouting for Food is a food drive Nov. 17. Scouts collect items to serve pantries during the holiday season. Volunteers are needed from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. to help with collecting, sorting and boxing food collected at firehouses on the bag collection day. Sign up here to help in Ferguson. Sign up here to help in Lemay.  Sign up here to help in University City.  Sign up here to help in Chesterfield. Sign up here to help in Webster Groves. Sign up here to help in Creve Coeur. Sign up here to help in Ballwin. Thanksgiving fun for Teen Girls Bring simple thanksgiving decorations, supplies for crafts and ingredients for baking cookies and have fun for a few hours with girls in residential care at Epworth in Webster …

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Once Richmond Heights Boy Scout Leader Accused of Assaulting Scouts

A once Richmond Heights Boy Scout troop assistant leader and former Hazelwood man was named, accused of assaulting scouts in 1978. He is currently in St. Louis County Jail, charged with failing to register as a sex offender.

A Richmond Heights Boy Scout troop assistant leader was fired in 1979 after three allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced, according to the recently released Boy Scouts “Perversion Files. The files contain 1,200 cases—including 261 in the St. Louis and St. Charles County area—of suspected sexual abuse as well as efforts by the Boy Scouts, law enforcement and community leaders to shield suspected leaders from consequences. The Scouts terminated John J. Kelley, of Hazelwood, from his position as assistant Scoutmaster of a Richmond Heights troop after learning of three separate, suspected accounts of sexual assault against scouts during two campouts, according to a statement from a then-14-year-old scout troop member included in the file. …

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Brentwood, Clayton, Richmond Heights Among Boy Scout 'Perversion Files' Incidents

Patch is still sifting through the hundreds of files released, but read the story to find an alleged incident from a Webster Groves troop.

The recently released Boy Scout "Perversion Files," files that detail cases nationwide of sexual abuse by scout leaders, include 205 cases in Missouri, involving 56 troops in the St. Louis area and St. Charles County. The files detail hundreds of cases of alleged sexual abuse perpetrated by Boy Scout leaders as well as efforts by Boy Scout officials, law enforcement and community leaders to shield those leaders from consequences. The Los Angeles Times incorporated the files into a searchable database, although not all documents are yet available online. The documents include names of those accused of abuse and the names of the children who were abused. Among those are reported incidents in Brentwood, Clayton and Richmond Heights. According…

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Brentwood Boy Scout's Eagle Project Benefits Lindbergh School

Joey Musial and his Brentwood Boy Scout troop built a butterfly garden for elementary school students.

Lindbergh High School freshman, and Boy Scout, Joey Musial recently built a butterfly garden at Concord Elementary School for his Eagle Scout project. Musial is from Brentwood, and is in the Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students (PEGS) program at Lindbergh. At Truman Elementary School, Musial and his PEGS classmates visited the school’s butterfly garden on several occasions during classroom activities. However when Truman students moved to Concord in 2011, they no longer had access to a butterfly garden. Musial’s project provided a solution by giving back to the PEGS community while also fulfilling his Eagle Scout Project requirement. Joey’s fellow Scouts in Troop 361 from Brentwood helped with the project, and Tom Krauska (aka Tom …

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Boy Scouts Honor America's Fallen

St. Louis Boy Scouts placed flags on the graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

For 63 years, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers have honored the fallen soldiers of America's wars.  Sunday, the tradition continued as more than 4,000 scouts and their families braved the heat to place flags on each of the 189,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. See more photos on our Facebook page. 

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Boy Scouts Do 5,000 Good Turns for Memorial Day

For the last 62 years, the Gravois Trails District of the Boy Scouts of America have organized the decoration of graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery for Memorial Day.

If one good turn deserves another, what do 5,000 good turns deserve? In what has become a 62-year tradition on Memorial Day weekend for the Boy Scouts of America, more than 5,000 Scouts decorated more than 138,000 graves Sunday at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in South County. The Gravois Trails District of the Boy Scouts of America organizes the annual ceremony, which brings together 200 Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, Venture Crews and Girl Scout Troops from South County and the surrounding area. Gravois Trails encompasses the Mehlville, Lindbergh, Affton, Hancock Place and parts of the Rockwood School Districts in South County and the public and private schools that sponsor Scouting groups. The Memorial Day Good Turn is meant …

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