Venture Crew 2055, chartered to Westside Presbyterian Church, spent Sept. 23-24 at Wilson State Park mountain biking the trails. The crew arrived Friday night and set up camp. The crew spent Saturday morning riding the E Z Loop trail. They then went to the Hell Creek Loop and rode on that trail until early afternoon and then went back to camp for lunch. Afterward, some of the crew went back out and rode on the Purple trail. Venture Scouts attending from Crew 2055 were Cody and Levi Koch, Jacob and Clayton Pfeifer, Connor and Isaac Remboldt, and Amber Remboldt from Venture Crew 2052. Crew advisers were John Pfeifer, Chuck Remboldt and Monicka Remboldt.

Beginning today, Lawrence Girl Scouts will begin selling cookies. The Lawrence area will have cookies Nov. 7. For more information, visit girlscoutsksmo.org and click on the cookie button at the top of the page.

Boy Scout Troop 60, chartered to First Baptist Church in Lawrence, attended a fall camporee Oct. 21-23 at Camp Bromelsick. While there, the boys worked on their emergency preparedness merit badge. Scouts who had already gotten the merit badge helped the Webelos Scouts with their activities.

Attending were Darren Rawlings, Jake Keary, Chris Geiss, Steven Ozaki, Will Schrader, Austin Lemmons, Isaac Slane, Andy Dominguez, Adam Schrader, Parker Matthews, Jonathan Jackson, Joel Craven and Nick Maloun.

Adult leaders were Bob Lemmons, Dave Ozaki, Deb Rawlings, Richard Rawlings, Brenda Jackson, Janell Schrader, Chris Golledge and Carol Stevenson.