Scouts send care packages to soldiers

ROCK FALLS -- At the Rock Falls American Legion headquarters, Boy Scouts of various ages scurried around cardboard boxes, packing up items that ranged from travel-sized soaps and shampoos to Crayola crayons and yellow suckers. The packages are to be mailed this week to soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait, including at least four from Lee and Whiteside counties. Troop 902 Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Doering led the annual project, which started roughly five years ago when the Illinois National Guard asked the troop to send care packages to some of their guardsmen. The troop decided to take out an ad in the paper to get donations, and collected enough goods to send 13 care packages. Within months, people in the neighborhood had gotten wind of the proj