11 November 2008
A Dear, Deer Project
Posted by admin under: community service .
Maybe it’s the Californian in me (help somebody get me out), but this Eagle project struck me as quite a bit off the beaten path. It’s not bad, wrong or any of that. It’s just something so different that I had to reread it just to make sure I was understanding it.
Tyler Simons is hunting deer.
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The 14-year-old Central Freshman Campus student has organized a project that will feed local people in need and help him become an Eagle Scout, a destination he has worked toward since he was in the first grade. Under his project, Simons and more than a dozen others in Boy Scout Troop 22 are processing and packaging deer meat for local nonprofit groups.
He already has delivered 1,500 pounds of venison. In all, Simons has raised enough money to process 105 deer, which would produce about 4,000 pounds of meat - 16,000 servings for the local groups.
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The project has been a win-win so far for everyone involved. Tyler’s father, Greg Simons, owner of Wildlife Systems, a local outfitting company, said some of his deer hunters have donated the meat from their animals, and other landowners have donated deer.
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The processing plant skins and bones the meat, and Tyler and his friends grind and package it.
The meat is being delivered to the local Soup Kitchen, Project Dignidad, Meals for the Elderly and Concho Valley Regional Food Bank.
Tyler has been invited to help prepare the meals for local people in January.
He’s feeding people with good food that other people don’t want. We do it all the time, but we usually collect it already packaged in tin cans or cardboard boxes. Hunting isn’t my bag, but I’m glad to see that what otherwise might have been wasted is being redirected to help feed others a unique, and in the right hands, gourmet meal. Way to go Tyler!
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