Correspondent
CANFIELD – When asked what it felt like to use a wide, two-person crosscut saw to slice off a piece of a thick log, Vincent Desanto cut to the heart of the matter.
“It was an exercise in connecting us all together,” explained Vincent, 17, a member of Ellsworth-based Boy Scout Troop 9071, who stressed the importance of teamwork and others’ support in completing the laborious task.
Vincent, who has been in Scouting about five years, was on one end of the saw with teeth arranged in an alternating pattern, and fellow Troop 9071 member P.J. Beres was on the other. P.J., 15, has spent about four years as a Scout, he said.