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12 January 2009

Saturday’s Eagle Nest – 01/10/2009 (delayed)

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Alabama
The College Street Park in Old Cloverdale is being re-dedicated to Montgomery residents Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. The event is part of an Eagle Scouts project to re-plant and re-furbish the small neighborhood park.
Davis Hudson, who lives in Old Cloverdale, came up with the idea and has worked closely with urban forester, Russell Stringer to make the project happen. Once the group got approval from the Architectural Review Board they began fundraising for new trees, markers, water gators, benches and trash barrels.
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Matt Mercier, who belongs to Boy Scout Troop 350 of Madison, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout. For his service project to earn the rank, Matt decided to complete a construction project at Madison Public Library. He led a group of fellow Scouts in constructing 10 shelving units to display new arrivals to the library’s book collection.
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California
That’s when Berkley Price, 13, became an Eagle Scout. That’s 30 years to the day after his father, Brian Price, also became in Eagle Scout. Berkley will be honored at a ceremony Jan. 24 at the Boys and Girls Club of Lodi, 275 E. Poplar St. He raised $2,500 through his Eagle service project to purchase and build a commercial sign for the club.
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Downey resident Anthony Gamboz, 16, earned the rank of Eagle Scout at his board of review in December, and helped beautify the city in the process. Anthony’s project was to clean-up an undeveloped area of Downey and plant a community garden. The area had little vegetation, and was a magnet for trash and graffiti. Since Anthony completed the project last August, Anthony and neighbors have maintained the garden, kept the area free from trash, and it has not been vandalized with graffiti since its makeover.
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Connecticut
Daniel Buckley, a senior at Trumbull High School, recently completed his Eagle Scout project with an endeavor that entailed mapping and marking a proposed trail, then clearing and building a hiking trail at the end of Wordens Lane in Trumbull. Daniel and his crew cleared and cleaned out three stream beds, and relocated a stone slab to its original place as part of a footbridge crossing. He organized groups of volunteer helpers, friends, family, Trumbull town officials, and fellow Scouts from Troop 499 in Madison, where he began his Boy Scouting experience.
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Colchester teens Sean Larkin, Christopher Chobot, Martin Ball, Anthony Morano and Aidan Griffin will receive Boy Scouting’s top honor today in an Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London. “It’s a good feeling to get here,” said Larkin, 18, who coordinated collecting more than 1,000 books, movies and video games for a teen recreation room at the Connecticut Children’s Center for his Eagle project. “It’s not easy … but it was a lot of fun along the way.” Chobot, 18, has earned 29 merit badges. He organized the construction of two bridges to provided a safer cross-country trail behind Bacon Academy. Ball, 16, and a junior at Bacon Academy, has earned 46 merit badges. His project involved building a walking bridge over a wetlands area at Zagray farm in Colchester to improve handicapped access from the parking lot to the field, where events take place. Morano, 18, led a project to recondition the gazebo at the Ruby and Elizabeth Cohen Woodlands in Colchester. He attends Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. To earn his Eagle rank, Griffin, 18, organized and supervised a group of troop volunteers to refurbish the men’s and women’s restrooms in the Colchester Senior Center.
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Florida
Scouting was always in Chris Lemons’ blood. He spent a summer clearing an overgrown part of Cimino Elementary’s playground so the kids could have a shady place to play. And after a year of filing paperwork and waiting, he was handed the award.
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Illinois
A crowd of 200 filled Chandler’s Banquets at the Schaumburg Golf Club, including 153 teens – from 29 communities and 56 troops – who had earned Boy Scout’s highest award last year, the rank of Eagle Scout. The youngest Eagle in the room was 13-year old Jason Brescia of Hoffman Estates and Boy Scout Troop 493. He solicited merchants for toys to donate to patients at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and he eventually wound up delivering 1,400 of them. Stan Dulkoski, a senior at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, completed his service by renovating and cleaning up the historic Wheeling Township cemetery.
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Massachusetts
The ceremony for the eight members of Boy Scout Troop 7 who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in the auditorium at Tantasqua Regional High School. The Scouts are Sean T. Riel, David M. Ryan Jr., Gabriel M. Woolf-Sullivan, Jacob W. Hilker, John D. Hulten, John M. Dunbar, Michael A. Zollo and Michael D. Julian.

Dunbar worked on trails in Brimfield State Forest. Hulten worked with the Conservation Commission on removing invasive species of plants from a wetlands area. Hilker removed damaged trees and invasive plant species from the Brimfield Trail. Julian repaired and painted the basketball and tennis courts at Hitchcock Academy. Riel took care of ceiling repairs for a church in Bondsville. Ryan made improvements to the courtyard at Brimfield Elementary School. Woolf-Sullivan worked on the conversion of two basement rooms at Town Hall into a public access television studio. Zollo organized, promoted and conducted a recycling effort for electronic equipment that filled three truck trailers.
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Local Boy Scout David Moffat, 18, will receive his Eagle Scout Award in a ceremony at the First Congregational Church on Main Street in Wenham on Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. Moffat wanted his project to benefit the Hamilton Wenham Regional High School drama department. Several years earlier, the Ferrini family donated a large collection of plays and theatre related books to the department. The collection belonged to Mrs. Ferrini, for whom the Ferrini Auditorium at the high school is named. The books were randomly stored in boxes. Due to the state of the library, much work had to be done. Moffat organized and catalogued the library of plays and theatre materials with the help of fellow Boy Scouts and members of the high school theatre workshop.
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Bradley R. Card, a senior at St. Peter-Marian Central Catholic Senior High School and a member of Troop 91 of Worcester, has earned the Eagle Scout Award. For his Eagle project, Bradley partnered with St. John’s Episcopal Church on Holden Street for a food drive, which gathered more than 2,500 items.
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Tim Tufts and Brian Orne of Troop 11 Marblehead each received the rank of Eagle Scout on Saturday, Jan. 3 at St. Stephen’s Church in Marblehead. As one of the requirements to become Eagle, both young men had to plan and carry out a community-service project, which required a lot planning. Doing the project is actually the easy part; the legwork beforehand is the real test, according to the Scouts.
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Missouri
Kirkwood High School seniors Lane and Jacob Stabile and lifelong friend Wildwood Christian School senior Evan Johnson Boy Scouts with Troop 387 based out of St. John’s Church on Sulphur Springs Road, received their Eagle Scout rank this past summer. Their Eagle Projects were for the benefit of patrons at Castlewood State Park. Jacob built and installed two park benches, Lane restored an eroded walking path and Evan built and installed an information kiosk. Their Eagle Scout ceremony was held on Dec. 20 at First Evangelical Free Church of St. Louis County.
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Montana
Nick Kuka soars to Eagle Scout Award. Once again, I would like to thank all who helped throughout the project, including Raylene Stark and Jill Espeseth for the Quilt, all of my Junior High Guitar students, and all of the friends and family that showed up to work on the pool restoration.
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North Carolina
Alex Catotti of Durham has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouting. For his Eagle project, he designed and built a nature trail in Holt School Road Park in collaboration with the neighborhood and Durham’s Keep Durham Beautiful Program.
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Alex Arey recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest achievement in Scouting. For his Eagle Scout project, Alex led Scouts from his troop and other volunteers in building six benches for Yates Mill County Park on Lake Wheeler Road in Wake County.
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Mark Eatman, a 10th-grader at Rocky Mount High School, recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout by completing a much needed project at Benvenue Elementary School. Strickland constructed a concrete sidewalk for the drop-off area of Benvenue Elementary School to streamline student drop-off and pickup as well as to eliminate the previous sand-based drop-off area. With the completion of Mark’s Eagle Scout Project, multiple cars can drop off or pickup students simultaneously, reducing wait time for students and parents.
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Ohio
Jake and Josh LaRue, the sons of Wayne and Jenny LaRue, of Lancaster, were presented with the rank of Eagle Scout. This was the culmination of years of training in field craft, citizenship and leadership for Jake and Josh. Both are members of Boy Scout Troop 106, chartered by Maple Street United Methodist Church. The presentation of their Eagle Scout medals was made by their brother, Lt. John LaRue, U.S. Army, who is also an Eagle Scout.
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Good things truly came in threes for the Boy Scouts of America on Sunday, December 21, when Kevin Janek, Matthew Phillips, and Eric Evers received the highly coveted rank of Eagle during a ceremony at Kettering’s United Christ Methodist Church.
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Rhode Island
Thanks to Nathan Desautels, campers at the Spring Lake Campground in Glendale will be able to sing songs and toast marshmallows around the campfire. For his Eagle Scout project, Desautels, the son of Rick and Susan Desautels of 375 Cherry Farm Road, Harrisville, built an amphitheater at the campground complete with benches and firepit.
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Tennessee
Some meet with failure while others are embraced by success. And Dustin Strube is one of those that was successful in what many, even close peers, thought was too much for this teenager to try to tackle. The plan to build a World War II Memorial, on the court square, was his community service project for his Eagle Scout rank. Strube’s fundraising efforts raised $11,401.27. The monument totaled $10,252 and Strube will send the remaining $1,149.27 to the National World War II Monument in Washington D.C.
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Texas
Derek Centola, 18, designed, planned and installed dugout covers to protect children from the elements at the Mark Twain Baseball Park in Richardson.

Robert Metts, 18, planned and coordinated the restoration, including building trails and benches, of the outdoor science area and classroom at St. John’s Episcopal School.

Victor Olavarri, 17, planned, raised money and supervised a team of volunteers to install more than 140 smoke detectors after inspecting the houses for fire hazards in East Dallas.

Sudhish Srikanth, 14, planned and directed the improvement of about seven miles of L.B. Houston Trail in Dallas by making and replacing mile markers and adding various pre-made informational signs.
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Recently, seventeen year-old Charles Hogue completed the requirements to earn the coveted rank of Eagle Scout. For his service project requirement, Hogue and some volunteers raised funds and planned a garden for East Dallas Christian Church by replacing topsoil and adding shrubs and groundcover.
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Virginia
Alex Corvin, Todd Estep, Michael Guerci, Tyler Pridgen and Andrew Wilhite received their Eagle Scout Award, each completing projects over a year’s time that benefit the community.
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Washington
Dylan Schuck, son of Charlie and Gayla Schuck of Woodinville, has received the rank of Eagle Scout. He rebuilt an aviary bird flight enclosure, known as a “flight,” for Redtail Hawks. The existing flight was in disrepair.
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