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A month ago, most of the teenagers at the Boy Scout cabin in North Park wouldn't have believed that they'd spend six weeks of their summer doing construction and landscaping work supervised by the Army Reserve.
But there they were yesterday, hammering down new reddish-brown shingles on the cabin's A-frame roof, nailing planks on a bridge over a small creek and clearing away brush and weeds.
The youngsters glowed with pride as they described how, in their first seven days on the job, they already had knocked down walls and filled trash bin after trash bin with old shingles, wood and mounds of brush around the cabin they are renovating.
They explained how they had learned to use power tools and walk on top of the roof with their toes pointed to the ground so that their heels gripped the surface.
Rounding out the lesson was learning how to work hard and well with each other.
"I thought we were going to be doing paperwork. Then...