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27 September 2008

Saturday’s Eagle Nest: 9/27/2008

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California
Jonathon Pitassi, 15, has earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to scouts, the Eagle Scout Award. Each candidate must successfully complete a community service project in order to earn his Eagle rank. Jonathon’s Eagle project entailed building a teak bench near the entrance to St. Johns Episcopal Church in Rancho Santa Margarita. The bench was designed to cover up existing pipes while still allowing access for maintenance.
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Rikhil Patel, a junior at The York School and a resident of Corral de Tierra, will become an Eagle Scout in a ceremony to be held Oct. 5. For his Eagle Scout project, Rikhil designed and labored to revamp a garden area at the Ave Maria convalescent hospital on Josselyn Canyon Road in Monterey.
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Karsten A. Tuttle, of Whittier, California, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. He belongs to Boy Scout Troop 161, led by Scoutmaster Bud Rudluff and chartered to Temple City First United Methodist Church. Tuttle’s service project benefited the City of Arcadia’s Wilderness Park. Wilderness Park, located on the south flank of the San Gabriel Mountains below Mt. Wilson, is a popular recreation area in the San Gabriel Valley. Tuttle’s project included the organizing, scheduling, planning and purchasing of materials for repairing a steep 1000-foot (333 meter) long hiking trail in the Park.
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Colorado
Garrett Ivan Butler, 16 the son of Rhett and Cathy Butler, will receive the Eagle Scout Award in a Court of Honor ceremony September 28th at Southeast Christian Church, Parker, Colorado. His eagle project consisted of planning and planting a foraging garden at The Gabriel Foundation, an avian rescue facility in Elizabeth, CO.
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Florida
Last Saturday, Sanibel resident Anthony “Chris” DiBiase was honored by his Boy Scout Troop with the highest rank attainable — Eagle Scout. DiBiase led a crew that created a stone community prayer labyrinth at Gateway Trinity Lutheran Church and raised funds to get the materials for the project. The labyrinth, he explained, will benefit many for years to come.
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Georgia
Seventeen young men obtained the rank of Eagle Scout Sunday morning at Gainesville First United Methodist Church.

The scouts received their Eagle Scout ranking in a special ceremony during the Sunday school hour, then were recognized along with the rest of Boy Scout Troop 16 at the 10:55 a.m. worship service.

In order to receive the rank of Eagle, scouts must complete a leadership service project that requires a minimum of 120 man hours. They must also obtain a certain number of merit badges.
[NOTE: There is no minimum number of hours for an Eagle project. This is a common misconception.]
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Iowa
Shawn Gordon of Boy Scout Troop 64 in Waukon will be honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor this Sunday, September 28 at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon. Gordon’s own Eagle Scout Project was to upgrade the sound/light booth in the Waukon High School Auditorium. It was felt that the sound booth was small and in need of an upgrade. The project included demolishing the existing sound booth and constructing a much larger booth for easier use.
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Maryland
Two weeks ago while House Speaker Mike Busch, D-Annapolis, looked on, six more of the Scoutmaster’s Boy Scouts were recognized in an Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony held at the Ulmstead Barn.

The new Eagle Scouts are:

Vinson Baxley, 19, Broadneck High Class of 2007 and a business management major at Anne Arundel Community College, refurbished office space for the Severna Park Assistance Network.

Shawn Hagerty, 17, a Broadneck High senior, designed and built new benches for the outdoor learning area of an Arnold school.

Matt Kelly, 18, a member of Broadneck High Class of 2008 and a freshman at Coastal Carolina College, helped create a new look for a local sporting club with new benches and refurbished billboards.

Sean Kelly, 16, a Broadneck High junior, noticed that the nature area of an Annapolis park needed better signage, so he created and installed it for his project.

Jimmy Llewellyn, 16, a Broadneck High senior, improved the look of an Annapolis sporting club with new benches and seating.

Matt Unglesbee, 17, Broadneck High Class of 2008 and a communications major at AACC, discovered the canoe rack at a Cape St. Claire beach was overloaded. He estimates it took 200 volunteer hours to design, source and construct a handsome new one. Not surprisingly, it too is now filled with canoes.
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Massachusettes
Nick Angelo and Alex Chodor of Boy Scout Troop 29 will become Eagle Scouts on Saturday, Oct. 4. Chodor’s service project was building two picnic tables at Banerman Farm in East Bridgewater. Before adding the tables Chodor and his helpers cleared the area and installed concrete anchors to lock the tables in place.

Angelo had a similar approach and he added two picnic tables to the Skylur J. Spagone Memorial Skate Park. The work for the project included digging holes and pouring cement into tubes, and setting eye bolts to secure the bench and tables in the area at the front or street end of the park.
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Michigan
Christopher Newlun, of Williamsburg, has been awarded the Eagle Scout rank by the Boy Scouts of America. His Eagle project involved the organization, planning and operation of a First Aid station at the 2008 VASA cross country ski race in Traverse City. His team was responsible for handing out drinks and fruit and offering assistance for the more than 400 skiers as they came through the check point. He was also responsible for coordinating the volunteers serving lunch to the racers.
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Minnesota
Thomas Hilpisch had time between appointments last Friday to talk about milestones – but not much. The 2008 Stillwater Area High School graduate from Lake Elmo was spending a day with family and friends, celebrating his graduation from the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp, while awaiting the evening board of review that approved his application to become an Eagle Scout.
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New Hampshire
Noah James Glennon, a Portsmouth High School student, was presented with his Eagle Scout badge at a court of honor held recently at the Greenland Congregational Church Parish House. Glennon’s Eagle Scout project included renovating rooms used for a food pantry, the Congregational Church’s Sunday School classes, and community groups like the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts.
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Nevada
A Boy Scout is awarded the special honor and distinction of an Eagle Scout Award after he has worked for several years to achieve certain goals and merit badges while living by the principles of the Scout Oath and Scout Law on a daily basis. Conner Rhyno celebrated that accomplishment in a ceremony on Aug. 18 at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church with family and friends in attendance. For his Eagle project, Rhyno led his troop in building and installing bicycle racks at the Fernley Out-of-Town Park.
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Oklahoma
Matthew Warshauer, 16, of West Long Branch, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in March after completing a project that consisted of constructing a new nesting area for ospreys at the Owen Nature Preserve on Wall Street.
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South Dakota
An Eagle Court of Honor ceremony will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minn., at 1 p.m. on Sept. 28 for Jason Cole, son of Robert and Heide Cole of St. Peter. For his service project, Cole built eight 24×36-inch bat houses for the Wildlife Habitat Council and placed this along the Minnesota River to held control the mosquito population.
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• Saturday’s Eagle Nest – 11/15/2008

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