When: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Where: St. Charles Convention Center,
One Convention Center Plaza, St. Charles, MO 63301 (near I-70 and Fifth Street)
Contact: Joe Mueller, Director of Public Relations
Cell: (314) 603-9983
ST. CHARLES, Mo.--A Boy Scout will receive a
Heroism Award for assisting his father after he fell from a tree during a hunting trip and shattered both ankles, and 24 Scouters will receive a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday during the
Greater St. Louis Area Council's Annual meeting and Recognition Dinner.
Colt Wahl, 12, from Troop 250, chartered to the Knights of Columbus of Perryville, Mo., will be recognized during a National Court of Honor. After his father, Danny, 48, fell 20 feet from a deer-hunting stand, Colt came to his aid and witnessed bones protruding through the skin on one leg. He used his father's cell phone to call emergency assistance. Since the property was not marked by a mailbox or address marker, Colt drove an all-terrain vehicle through a heavily wooded area to meet the paramedics. When paramedics arrived, Colt led them back to his father. When paramedics decided to evacuate his father by medical helicopter, Colt led them to a nearby bean field and stomped down bean plants to create a safe landing pad. He then assisted paramedics in loading the gurney with his father onto the ATV and slowly drove it to the bean field while the paramedics walked along side.
Jim Williams, the chief executive officer of
Sunset Transportation and a member of the council's executive board, will be one of 24 recipients of the
Silver Beaver Award during the dinner. The award is the highest recognition a Boy Scout council can bestow on an adult volunteer leader. Williams and Sunset Transportation have provided all transportation and logistics services for the council's annual
Scouting for Food Good Turn for the last seven years. Previously, the transportation and logistics were provided by the U.S. Army Reserve. However, when the unit was deployed to Iraq, the Scouts had no back-up plan and the annual drive was just weeks away. Williams and Sunset Transportation stepped in, volunteering in 2004 and continuing each year since then. Sunset Transportation annually provides trucks and drivers to move approximately 50 trailers of food from St. Louis-area fire stations to the
St. Louis Area Foodbank in less than nine hours.
