GR Scout learns to help others

Helping others is something this Boy Scout learned during his time in the scouts.

Green River High School graduate Paul Wright bas been in the Green River Boy Scout Troop 312 for the past 11 years.

“I got started because my troop used to be in my church; and I joined because my troop looked cool,” Wright said.

Over the years, Wright has participated in numerous scouting projects, but some of his favorites came when he helped other scouts obtain their Eagle Scout awards.

“I have been involved in five or six Eagle Scout projects, including trash-can holders at the high school; and numerous painting and bench building projects at the high school as well; and they were all fun, but a lot of work,” he said.

Like other scouts, Wright also was faced with the difficult task of deciding what community-service project to complete for his Eagle Scout.

“I picked my project to build flower boxes at the (Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center) because it would make the lives of the people there a little brighter to have plants in them also because my grandmother used to work there,” Wright said.

During the completing of this project, Wright learned important skills.

“In doing my project, I learned how to organize people to get work done quickly and to delegate people to do things,” he said.

Wright has also served in a number of leadership roles during his time with Troop 312, including patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader and instructor. Wright has attended summer camp every year that he was registered as a scout.

As senior patrol leader, he took the troop to two camps during the summer of 2013, at Gorham Scout Ranch in New Mexico and Camp New Fork, near Pinedale.

He is a Brotherhood Member of the Order of the Arrow, the National Honor Society of Scouting.

Wright became known as a very accomplished outdoorsman. He has around 200 nights and days of scout camping to his credit in all weather conditions, and is known in the troop as a great cook.

“Being a scout has helped me in so many ways that it is hard to say them all but it made me a better person that can live in the outdoors and taught me how to lead people effectively,” Wright said.

“Also, it has made me a lot of friends that I will have forever and countless stories of bad food on camp outs and brutal nights sleeping in a tent,” he said.

A 2015 graduate of Green River High School, Wright has been active in football, swimming, track and summer baseball.