Clarksburg’s Boy Scout Troop 547 frames puzzles completed by veterans

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — For weeks, veterans at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center’s Community Living Center have been hard at work completing puzzles with Boy Scout Troop 547.

On Friday, their hard work paid off as the completed puzzles were unveiled after being donated by West Virginia Artist, Frank Ceravalo. Eagle Scout Candidate and Troop 547 Boy Scout, Daniel Frame—who worked with the veterans to put the puzzles together—also built frames that now house the completed puzzles.

“My mom actually works at the VA Hospital, and she told me that the veterans like to build puzzles. They’ve been framing them, showing their families and such. So, I decided it would be nice to make a display for them,” said Frame.

Veterans often enjoy doing puzzles as a way to pass the time while in the community living center. Many of them are placed on the walls to decorate the center and display their hard work, while others are sent home as gifts for family members. Some veterans even take puzzles when leaving the center as a token of their stay at the hospital.

“We worked with the Boy Scouts, they come in and we worked a couple, three puzzles with them and then we made a puzzle for Mary and we just enjoy doing something to do until we get out of here,” veteran Skip Glasscock said.

Boy Scouts from Troop 547 said that they enjoyed helping the veterans with the puzzles and were happy that they could make friends with the older generation.

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