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29 November 2008

Saturday’s Eagle Nest – 11/29/2008

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Alabama
Get Lee Smith, Aaron Nettie, Judson Harris, Tyler Evans and Adam Hall together, and you might as well forget about getting a word in edge-wise. One of the most significant journeys for the friends, all high-school seniors, was the earning of their Eagle Scout rank, the highest possible achievement for a Boy Scout.

Nettie put together a playground at Enon Baptist Church in Morris; Harris installed a Sheetrock wall for a storage room at Liberty Baptist Church, where the troop meets; Evans painted his high-school band room and cleaned hundreds of trophies; Smith built a brick sign for the Creel family cemetery in Kimberly; and Hall built and painted a pressbox at the Pinson Elementary School softball field.
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Kanasas
Three area Scouts have earned their Eagle Award, the highest achievement award bestowed by the Boy Scouts of America.

Stephen Fix, 15, is the son of Mark and Michelle Fix and the grandson of Dave and Mary Ann Matthews, all of Shawnee. For his Eagle Scout project, Stephen created a new shot put pit in Mirocke Field at St. Joseph Education Center. Stephen designed the new pit and gathered several of his troop members to help construct it.

Aaron Akin will receive his Eagle Award at a Court of Honor Ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, at Harvest Ridge Covenant Church, Shawnee. Aaron’s Eagle service project consisted of building three picnic tables and four benches for the fire pit at Harvest Ridge Covenant Church. He and his co-workers put together and stained the three picnic tables as well as built the four benches by hand.

Alec R. Smith, 14, of Basehor, has earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts, the Eagle Scout Award. Alec has earned 37 merit badges, and he chose to organize a group of youths and adults to put in around 200 hours in the building of a 1880s style storefront display for the Basehor Historical Museum.
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Kentucky
Scott Calvert, 18, of Lexington, recently earned his Eagle Scout Award, the highest Boy Scouts achievement. For his project, Calvert dedicated more than 300 volunteer hours to oversee the layout, design and construction of a trail and footbridge at the Life Adventure Center of the Bluegrass, a non-profit leadership-development camp in Versailles.
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Missouri
Jarret Michael Coon, a member of Troop 105 at Princeton, received his Eagle Scout Award during ceremonies on Sunday, Nov. 23 at the First Christian Church in Princeton. Coon’s Eagle project consisted of moving the flagpole in front of the old Princeton R-5 Elementary School building to the front of the new elementary school. The original flagpole had been a project of the late Chris Spease. Coon’s project included moving Chris’ memorial plaque and placement of Coon’s plaque honoring the Boy Scouts of America.
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Nebraska
Josh Moeller has learned a lot from his experience gathering donations for Operation Christmas Child. Moeller, 17, is a senior at Doniphan-Trumbull High School. He took over the reins of his church’s Operation Christmas Child collection this year as an Eagle Scout project.

Over the past month, Moeller has collected toys, hygiene products, candy and school supplies with which to stuff shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, a Christian mission to bring a smile to children in some of the poorest areas of the world through gift-filled shoe boxes.
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North Carolina
Scott Ballard, an eighth-grader at East Lincoln Middle School, was recently recognized by the Lincoln County Board of Education after he earned the Boy Scout Eagle Award.

Ballard procured materials, solicited vendors and built picnic tables at St. James Elementary School. The tables were added to each of the school’s playgrounds, as well as a courtyard outside the cafeteria.
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North Dakota
Brock Moser, Troop 20, completed all requirements for his Eagle Scout rank. His Eagle project involved the construction of a memory box for Sharon Lutheran Church, which now contains items found in the cornerstone of an earlier location of the church. He was recognized for this accomplishment Nov. 23 at Sharon Lutheran Church.
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South Carolina
Arley Seth Hendrick of Boy Scout Troop 270 was honored for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout on Nov. 16 at First Baptist Church in Greenwood. For his Eagle Scout Service Project, he designed and led 30 fellow scouts and leaders in building a prayer garden at the Ninety Six Pentecostal Holiness Church in Ninety Six.
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Texas
Boy Scout Troop 75 honored Connor M. Goff, 15, at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor recently at Couts Memorial United Methodist Church. Goff’s Eagle Project involved building and installing shelves in the shower cabin and performing some much needed maintenance and weatherproofing to the cabins at Camp Holland Girl Scout Camp in Weatherford.
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Utah
Last Friday night at the Pleasant Valley LDS Stake Center, Garrett, Abe and Landon Weeks were recognized for their extraordinary achievements in the Scouting arena.

To earn his Eagle, Abe contacted Jeff Kemp, owner and operator of Boman-Kemp. Kemp donated the money to buy shepherd’s crooks and bird houses for residents at Crestwood Care Center in Ogden. After doing all the work and interviewing each resident, Abe decided to get bird houses based on each resident’s favorite theme. Landon, 12, a seventh-grader at South Ogden Junior High, also earned his Eagle. He did the same project as Abe, but donated to several different facilities. Landon was born with a physical condition called phocomelia, in which his arms are shorter than normal and some of his fingers are missing, but he hasn’t let it slow him down at all.

At the court of honor ceremony, the three brothers were accompanied by three other young men receiving their Eagles. They are Jake Conolly, Nathan Sheffield and Spencer Davis. Hogle Zoo’s eagle also made an appearance to help congratulate the Scouts.
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Virginia
When former Scoutmaster Dave Nagy met Mooresville’s Bowen Smith seven years ago at a Boy Scout camp out, he knew the boy was special. Bowen’s cheerful outlook was especially memorable because he faces some special challenges: He is confined to a wheelchair and uses a ventilator. That determination has led to one of the Scout’s highest honors: on Oct. 27, Bowen, who is a member of Troop 171, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Bowen, who graduated from Lake Norman High School in June, said his project was both challenging and close to his heart: building two wheelchair-accessible picnic tables and a concrete patio at Woodland Heights Elementary.
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Mark Woerner, 17, of Midlothian Troop 852, recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. His project involved the clean-up and improvement of a running path at his school, Midlothian High.
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