Boy Scout troop hosts car wash fundraiser for summer trip

by Les Jacobson June 5th, 2022June 6th, 2022

Oliver Powell (left) and Eli Corr, both rising sophomores at Evanston Township High School, stand astride their next auto at the fundraising carwash Sunday, June 5, on Central Street.

The pair were raising money for Evanston Boy Scout Troop 929’s mid-July trip to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Four scouts and their parents will hike an average of 10 miles a day and climb 12,500-foot Mount Baldy.

To help defray the troop’s travel and equipment costs, donate here.

Les Jacobson

Les is a longtime Evanstonian and RoundTable writer and editor. He won a Chicago Newspaper Guild best feature story award in 1975 for a story on elderly suicide and most recently three consecutive Northern... More by Les Jacobson

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