Around West County: Scouts get environmental, camping lessons at camporee

Odenton and Gambrills Boy Scouts recently participated in the annual Four Rivers District Camporee held earlier this month at Downs Park.

The event brought 24 troops, nearly 270 Scouts and 130 adults. Local troops included: Boy Scout Troop 119, sponsored by Ark and Dove Presbyterian Church; Troop 209, sponsored by the Odenton Mason Lodge 209; Troop 769, sponsored by Nichols-Bethel United Methodist Church; and Troop 755, sponsored by the Church of God in Gambrills.

This year's theme was "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." During the event, Scouts competed against one another in patrols, and in...