26 January 2009
Saturday’s Eagle Nest -01/24/2009 (delayed)
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Alabama
The normal Alabama winter winds, fierce and cold, were not in this Sunday’s weather forecast. Instead, a warm gentle breeze with mid 70’s temperature greeted out Sunday morning special Eagle Scout ceremony honoring James Macon Skillman.
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Alaska
Trevor Larsen celebrated the achievement of his Eagle Scout award with friends and family on Nov. 30 at Resurrection Lutheran Church, the sponsor of Boy Scout Troop 11. “Hearing wolves howl close by while we were camped on the bank of the Yukon was a neat experience,” Trevor said “Catching Dungeness crabs with our bare hands in shallow water in Seymour was another fun time.” For his Eagle project, Trevor hung new siding, trimmed the windows, and painted the garage owned by Resurrection Lutheran Church’s congregation.
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California
Olivia Morales attended each event, presented to Robert Anderson, Neal Morrissete, Samuel Murphy and Brandon Gillespie a framed U.S. Flag with the Elks ‘Eagle Scout’ Court of Honor Certificate to each boy.
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Brian Michael Ginell, 15, of Thousand Oaks received his Eagle Scout Award in a court of honor ceremony on Jan. 11. Brian’s Eagle project benefitted the band and physical education departments of Redwood Middle School. He built storage shelves for the marching band’s percussion section and also installed storage for P.E. equipment. He led a crew of 38 volunteers.
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Colorado
Ethan Twamley, a senior at Cedaredge High School, officially became an Eagle Scout on Oct. 28 after passing an Eagle Board of Review by three other, experienced Eagle Scouts. For his project Twamley chose to help the Dolphin House in Montrose, a child advocacy center serving the 7th Judicial District. Children who have been abused, neglected, drug endangered, witness to traumatic experiences, etc., are served at the Dolphin House by law enforcement, social services, medical professionals, and more. The Dolphin House is a child-friendly facility that puts the needs of the child victim first and foremost.
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Connecticut
Eagle Scout Philip Michael Battaglia of Easton was recently honored for reaching Scouting’s highest rank. His Eagle service project was renovating trails and benches at Easton’s Senior Park, most notably building cedar rails for one of the park’s bridges.
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Florida
Coshatt will have the opportunity to see that eager youngster, Brian McCormick, become an Eagle Scout. The 18-year-old college freshman will receive the honor today in ceremony at YMCA Camp Indian Springs. The YMCA Camp Indian Springs campgrounds set the stage for Brian’s service project. He created a series of signs to explain the intricate spring system that lies beneath the campgrounds.
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Hawaii
The University of Hawai’i football team yesterday secured All-State safety Aulola Tonga of Kahuku High School. Next month, he will earn his Eagle Scout ranking. His project was to build a sandbox for a preschool in Kahuku.
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Illinois
Frankfort resident Ricky McCully has been involved in Boy Scouts since first grade. Now, as a senior at Lincoln-Way East, he’s achieved the highest honor only two percent of Boy Scouts attain. McCully’s eagle project was making a path, placing signs and restoring an antique plow at the community garden and agriculture center at Lincoln Way East High School.
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Recently, Stefan Ballek and Dakota Coslet, both of Mundelein, and Sebastian Wilkosz of Wauconda achieved the highest award in scouting, the Eagle Scout rank. Ballek improved the area around the mobile classrooms in Fremont Elementary School, Coslet put together a lending library of videos and DVDs for Good Shepherd Hospital and Wilkosz put benches on a five-mile long section of the Millennium Trail, located west of Fairfield Road and north of Route 176 toward Gilmer Road.
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Iowa
Nate Bentley, Mike Kickbush and Joel Pinkerton have worked for years to attain the most coveted Boy Scout rank, which has become a near-universal symbol of preparedness, trustworthiness and dedication. Bentley’s project was to paint addresses on the curbs in front of 80 houses in his neighborhood. The numbers would help police and fire officials find houses in emergencies, and would also help guests looking for a house in the dark, he thought. For his project, Kickbush sponsored a blood drive to benefit the Blood Center of Iowa. The event took weeks of planning. Pinkerton chose a project that fit well with his favorite part of Boy Scouts – being outdoors. He enlisted friends, family members and fellow scouts to clean up Songbird Park, a five-acre city park in western Waukee. Over the course of three weekends, they pulled up dead trees and replaced them with new ones.
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Massachusetts
As proud family and fellow Scouts looked on, Dustin Wieland became the latest Boy Scout from Holyoke Troop 32 to earn his Eagle rank at a special Court of Honor on Sunday, Jan. 18 at the Lions Den in Holyoke. Last year, Wieland completed the final service project needed to attain his Eagle Rank by putting in large cement blocks at the Lions Club Fishing Pond. The blocks were placed in the water along the south side of the pond so anglers can fish along the edge without having to tangle with the bushes and weeds along the shore.
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Michigan
Adam Card of Boy Scouts of America Troop 48 was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout on Jan. 3. He also led a service project which upgraded the Frisbee Golf Course at Kenwood Park with 160 hours of labor.
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New York
Surrounded by family, friends and fellow Scouts, four young men were honored with their Eagle Scout awards Saturday afternoon during a ceremony at American Legion Skinner-Ernest Memorial Post 1612. The young men – Kevin Nagle, Jacob Peregrim, Matthew Saginario and Aaron Sozanski – are members of Boy Scout Troop 87.
* Peregrim, the son of Gary and Helen Peregrim, built benches and identified animals for a display for the Chemung County Soil and Water Conservation Department.
* Saginario, the son of Wendy and Al Saginario, built a goat climber for animals to play on at Farm Sanctuary, near Watkins Glen.
* Nagle, son of Stephen and Susan Nagle, built a handicapped-accessible trail bridge at Tanglewood Nature Center in Big Flats.
* Sozanski, son of Mark and Jane Sozanski, built the informational kiosk at Tanglewood’s vernal pond.
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Twins Allan and Jamie Lounsbury advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout in ceremonies Jan. 11 at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge. The young men, each of whom is fighting Crohn’s disease, chose Eagle projects to benefit Saratoga Hospital.
Jamie made three entertainment cards for the hospital’s emergency department, each equipped with a TV/DVD combination, a Playstation 11 video game system, a headset and a library of DVD movies and video games. He raised $2,700 in cash donations to complete his project.
Allan built and installed a meditation garden outside the hospital’s Molly Wilmot Radiation Oncology Center. He received more than $1,700 worth of plants and supplies donated by local businesses and individuals. Major donors were Barnes Landscaping, Dehn’s Flowers and Sunnyside Garden Center. The Heritage Garden Club will maintain the garden.
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North Carolina
Nelson Christopher Morton recently completed the requirements for Eagle Scout, the highest achievement in Boy Scouts. For his project, Nelson chose to construct two picnic tables for the First Church of God in Raleigh.
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More than 100 friends and relatives braved the cold on Saturday to attend the presentation ceremony for Joshua Lail receiving the Eagle Scout award.
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Ohio
Dylan Haines of Boy Scout Troop 131 was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout on Jan. 11 at Lexington Senior Center. He led his troop in the construction of 30 bat houses for his Eagle project and presented them to Gorman Nature Center. The effort represented 201 hours of work.
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Kyle Holland, 17, of Old Forge, has attained the rank of Eagle Scout.
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Three local boys have earned the highest rank in scouting. Gregory Kuczynski, Jessie Rogers and Ryan Becks were recognized during a Jan. 4 ceremony for having attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Gregory replaced benches at the St. Peter’s School playground, while Jessie built a fenced-in area for dogs at the Animal Protective League in Elyria. Ryan replaced each of the stations along the Stations of the Cross path behind the St. Peter’s Church cemetery.
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Pennsylvania
Among actions taken by the Wayne County Commissioners, Thursday, was awarding a certificate to an Eagle Scout. Ron Scubic, scoutmaster at Pleasant Mount, requested the certificate for Scout Wade Malicky. The new Eagle Scout will be honored at his “Court of Honor” in late February.
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Rhode Island
NATHAN HALE CHMIELINSKI, a 2008 Graduate from Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School, has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Nathan’s Eagle Project was to design, organize and execute a volunteer effort to create a public park. The project involved transforming an area along the West Branch of the Palmer River by removing fallen trees and debris, planting native species, and locating a permanent bench with the approval of the Rehoboth Conservation Commission.
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South Carolina
Caleb Coker Fort, 14, son of Caleb and Delie Fort of Spartanburg, recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. For his Eagle Scout project, he and the volunteers he enlisted landscaped the new entrance to the Cottonwood Trail off Woodburn Road.
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Texas
Tyler Carnes, 18, renovated a tool storage building at the Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano. Jonathan Ellis, 15, built a cedar pergola for Pioneer Place, a low-income independent living facility in Plano. Chase Fortmeier, 18, built a ramp for an elderly woman’s house with the help of Dallas Ramps. McAllister Green, 18, organized and supervised the landscaping of a courtyard of an apartment complex owned by Faith Christian School in Grapevine.
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Hayden Burger, 16, prepared and landscaped two mission houses on his church’s property, including flowers, trees and 275 yards of sod.
Robert Kirkpatrick, 16, planned, coordinated and led the cleaning and rebuilding of a 150-foot landscaping bed for First Baptist Church of Midlothian. Teddy Pressler, 17, planned and constructed a section of one of the nature trails at The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney. Zak Shorlo, 15, collected donations to build two picnic tables and purchased lawn chairs and a side table for an outdoor break area at a Dallas firehouse.
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Justin P. Harris was presented his Eagle Scout Award at a Court of Honor held at Bishop T.K. Gorman High School on Dec. 28. For his Eagle Scout project, Justin organized and oversaw the construction of 250 neck coolers for U.S. soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Washington
A member of Boy Scout Troop No. 221 recently was awarded the Eagle Scout rank. Carter Case, 15, is a sophomore at Jackson High School. For his Eagle Scout project, Carter led a team of fellow Scouts, family members and friends in a project to build guardrails for four bridges in the Mill Creek Nature Preserve. The team also re-striped the preserve’s parking lot.
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