SHADYSIDE — Onondaga Lodge 36 of the Ohio River Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow, placed 615 flags, working 141 service hours, to honor the veterans of the Ohio Valley for Memorial Day.

Members placed flags in cemeteries from the north end to the south end of the council region, such as at Hammondsville Cemetery, Fort Steuben Burial Estates, Upper and Lower Wegee Creek Cemeteries in Shadyside and Craig’s Chapel Cemetery, New Martinsville, to name a few. Flags were placed on veterans’ graves on May 22-23.

The Order of the Arrow is the National Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America, composed of Scouts and Scouters who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives as elected by their peers. The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson, in 1915 as a means of reinforcing the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. Onondaga Lodge is a youth-led organization that harbors fellowship, promotes camping, and renders service to Boy Scout councils and their communities.

Currently the youth leading Onondaga Lodge is Nick Shust, lodge chief, with the guidance of his adviser, Rob Crow. Though the Order of the Arrow is 105 this year, Onondaga Lodge will be celebrating 75 years. Onondaga Lodge is made up of Scouts and Scouters from Tyler, Wetzel, Monroe, Marshall, Belmont, Ohio, Brooke, Hancock, Jefferson and Harrison counties that make up the Ohio River Valley Council, BSA.