For the past couple of years the CWE North Community Improvement District has arranged for American flags to be hung from light standards along Euclid Avenue to celebrate the Memorial Day and Independence Day holidays. This year Kate Haher, executive director of the CID, arranged for Boy Scout Troop 664 from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Olivette to take on the installation project.
Photographed from left above, Sam Beyes, Arthur Rowold, Brianna McCarty, and Travis Keith (Brianna's brother). The scout troop took on the flag project as a way to give back to the community fulfilling its slogan, "Do a good turn daily."
Patrol Leader Sam Beyes, second from left, is flanked by his parents Jo (the troop's Committee Member) and Matt Beyes (Assistant Scoutmaster). Other troop members photographed above are Senior Patrol Leader T. J. (Travis Keith) and Arthur Rowold. T. J. is the one in charge of this whole patrol, in essence the adults in the photo "work" for him. Not photographed, but very much in the picture Saturday morning, were troop members Nezzie Berry and Chuy Ramirez, Arthur's parents, Jerry and Cindy Rowold, and Nezzie's dad, Chuck Berry.
There were many thank yous and requests for photos from pedestrians as the troop installed the flags along Euclid. Later, as the troop enjoyed a wrap-up taco party at Gringo, the scouts said they had so much fun they can't wait to take the flags down later this summer. They are very proud of what they accomplished and love the way it looks.
I too love the way the flags give the neighborhood a small-town feel, don't you?