If you are attending the 2008 Shrimp Festival on the Alabama Gulf Coast, don't take offense if a Boy Scout tells you to "can it." He isn't being rude; he's working to preserve the environment and earn money for his troop's projects. The annual National Shrimp Festival, now in its 37th year, is teaming up with Boy Scout Troop 97. About 17 Scouts and their parents will be walking the festival site and beach front in Gulf Shores to pick up aluminum cans for recycling. In addition, specially marked containers - 60 in all - will be placed throughout the festival grounds so festival-goers can more easily help in this effort to "Go Green." It's just fantastic to hear of service projects such as this one. In return for helping keep our beaches beautiful, the Scouts get to keep the proceeds from the recycling to fund future projects. This is just the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that makes this country the land of opportunity.
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