Meets 7:00 PM Thursdays
Shepherdsville Community Center

The Trashmasters' Classic lakeshore clean-up day is an annual event at Barren River Lake.  Hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Barren River Lake State Resort Park, hundreds of volunteer "trashmasters" show up to scour the shoreline picking up litter.  Of course, the garbage collected typically includes more than just discarded bottles and busted styrofoam.  The array of trash that some people leave behind when boating is simply amazing!

Picking up all the trash is a good lesson about littering for the Cub Scouts, as well as an important community service.

The Corps of Engineers provided several campsites in the Bailey's Point public campground for our group and for Boy Scout Troop 868.  They also permitted us to use the camp's amphitheatre for a Saturday night campfire program and for our Sunday morning worship service.

We spent Saturday morning picking up litter and Saturday afternoon shooting BB guns and doing archery.  The Boy Scouts of Troop 868 erected a rope bridge that the Cub Scouts got to cross on Sunday.

More photos from this event can be found on the troop's website by clicking here.

Early Saturday morning, Cubmaster Frank lined the boys up in our campsite for a hike to the boat dock.		At the dock, the group waited for a shuttle boat to ferry them to their assigned section of shoreline.
As boats became available, scouts and parents boarded them in groups of 8~10.		One of the shuttle boats heads off with a group of volunteer "trashmasters."
These scouts, like their buddies, enjoyed the boat rides.		Another group was shuttled in a pontoon boat operated by a Corps of Engineers Ranger.
This group of "trashmasters" carried their bags to the shore and waited for pickup by a shuttle boat.		While waiting for the shuttle boat, Cubmaster Frank taught this group of boys how to skip rocks.
One of the shuttle boats returns with a load of volunteer "trashmasters" just before lunchtime.		Pack dads Charles Gardiner and James Poyner helped unload the collected trash from the boats.
Scouts who have gotten off one of the shuttle boats walk up the boat ramp past a pile of tires that have been collected.		Cubmaster Frank and Pack dad James Poyner pose in front of trash bags that were piled at the side of the boat ramp after two dump trucks were filled to capacity.