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29 December 2008

Saturday’s Eagle Nest – 12/27/2008 (delayed)

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I don’t know why I bother to call these Saturday posts any more because it’s been a month since I actually posted one on a Saturday, but it’s my shtick and I’m shticking to it.

California
Cole Harder, member of Corral de Tierra’s Boy Scout Troop 93, has received the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank achievable. Harder, 17, is a senior at Salinas High School. His Eagle project consisted of rehabilitating the Nature Trail at Washington Union School on Corral De Tierra Road.
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Utkarsh Vasa earned the rank of Eagle Scout from Troop 1630. For his Eagle project, Utkarsh built a trophy case for the music department at San Ramon Valley High School.

Gregory Michael Ashton has earned the rank of Eagle Scout from Troop 803. For his Eagle project, Gregory participated in the Mount Diablo fence removal project.
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Connecticut
Lena Pettway plans to take advantage of the new parent library at Jettie Tisdale School in the East End. The parent library was an Eagle Scout project by Boy Scout Max Baudisch of Newtown. His mother, Jerri Baudisch, is the numeracy coach at the school. Numeracy coaches work with teachers to improve math instruction strategies. Max, a Newtown High School senior, told the gathering he created the library as a community service project to earn his Eagle Scout rank, the highest in Scouting.
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Florida
At first glance, 17-year-old Sam McKendrick has little in common with astronaut Neil Armstrong. But taking a closer look, they have both reached a rare milestone – the highest rank in scouting. They are both Eagle Scouts. While consulting with Bereavement Manager Allyson Moskowitz, the Scout learned that many times children use play to work through their grief. Before long, he had an idea for his backup plan – a puppet theater that counselors and volunteers can use at Camp Brave Heart, Good Shepherd Hospice’s annual children’s grief camp. In addition, the theater would be portable so Bethany Center staff could present puppet shows in the community.
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Georgia
Jeff Ducote, an 18-year-old senior at Marist School, was officially recognized Saturday as an Eagle Scout, following in the footsteps of brothers Rich, Brian, Gary, Justin, Greg, Mark and Brent. Jeff Ducote hopes to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., like three of his brothers.
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Eagle Scout: Scouts, leaders and members of the Troop Committee of Boy Scout Troop 716 recently announced that Steven Taylor Bowden has attained the rank of Eagle Scout.
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Illinois
Benjamin Ullom and Tyler Mulford, both of Boy Scout Troop 19, have attained the rank of Eagle Scout.

For his project, Ullom planned, arranged, and scheduled an ongoing series of meals at Safe Harbor homeless shelter, raised funds for those meals and edited a guidebook detailing how to provide and serve a large-scale meal at a low cost, including recipes.

Mulford planned and managed the work to replace a washed-out, 42-foot bridge connecting the footpath in the Merwin Nature Preserve. Tyler was assisted by Troop 19 and the Normal Community High School football team, among others.
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Massachusetts
In an attempt to earn Eagle Scout status, the 17-year-old Chris Fisher decided to build and donate five picnic tables to the town. He and dozens of his friends constructed the standard-sized picnic tables in Selectman Armand Aparo’s garage on Saturday.
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Boy Scout Troop 31 recently conducted a Court of Honor for the rank of Eagle Scout, scouting’s highest honor, for Benjamin Bergeron. Ben’s 10 years of scouting culminated with the completion of his Eagle project. Ben and his family have been in the process of adopting five children from Haiti. Upon visiting Haiti and realizing their total lack of basic necessities, Ben decided to collect items, as well as monetary contributions to purchase items for an orphanage in Port au Prince Haiti; he was able to fill 12-fifty pound suitcases and personally deliver them to the Hope for the Children of Haiti orphanage this year. Ben has since returned to Haiti on a couple of separate occasions.
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New Jersey
Joshua Steven Branham achieved Eagle Scout rank, Boy Scouting’s highest honor, after completing a leadership project at North Cemetery in Lunenburg. His Eagle Scout project took more than 100 hours and included several fellow scouts from Lunenburg Troop 1728. A flagpole had been mounted atop a section without burial plots, with a single stone bench beneath it for reflection. Joshua and the scouts dug around the pole, creating a garden with plants and bushes, then added two more stone benches.
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Millstone Township Middle School band students had no choice but to balance expensive laptops on chairs or music stands before Kevin Basko came along. The 16-year-old Millstone Township Boy Scout, who commends the middle school music department for encouraging his musical talents, wanted to give something back to the school and music teacher Gwen Parker. He had the opportunity to do so this year through his Eagle Scout project.
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New York
Schuyler Schmadtke has attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor in Boy Scouts. His Eagle project was to build a large outdoor picnic table and a storage cabinet for a senior day care service called Day Break South. The project was completed with the help of fellow Scouts.
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North Carolina
Organizing a group of a dozen or so boys, ages 10 to 18, for a pickup basketball game, say, would be challenge enough for some adults. Attuning them to the precision required to build a marimba seemed an impossible task, at least to the Boy Scout leaders in Troop 820, who tried to steer Chris Evans toward a less ambitious undertaking for his Eagle Scout project. In selecting an Eagle project, Evans wanted to combine his interests in music and engineering. He came up with the idea of building a marimba and donating it to the music teacher at Phillips Middle School, where he’d played trumpet in the band years earlier. He found instructions online and tapped into the expertise of a Scout leader in the troop who plays the marimba. Then he recruited other Scouts of all ages and skill levels to help build it.
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Alan Christopher of Chapel Hill has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. For his Eagle project, he worked on the Coker Pinetum Nature Trail in the N.C. Botanical Garden. He made a bench, signs and other improvements.
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Ohio
More high fives to John Stevens, son of Janet and David Stevens of Bellbrook, who not only was named a National Merit Semifinalist recently, but who received the rank of Eagle Scout from Boy Scout Troop 75 last Sunday. He earned the required 21 merit badges and an independent project, but demonstrated spirit, service and leadership overall. You can check out his Eagle project: he organized and lead the building of a split-rail fence around Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Community Center parking lot, which took 26 volunteers and 175 hours.
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Thomas Blackbern, Troop 165, Boy Scouts of America, Xenia, achieved the rank of Eagle.
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Tennessee
Carlton Smith earned his Eagle Scout award during a Court of Honor at Red Bank United Methodist Church. For his community service project, the Eagle Scout constructed a newspaper recycling station at Red Bank United Methodist Church under the guidance of troop leaders Kirk Eidson and Scott Hardin.

Drew Johnson earned his Eagle Scout ranking during a recent Court of Honor at Harrison United Methodist Church. For the community service project required of all Eagle Scouts, Mr. Johnson rehabilitated the Friendship Baptist Church cemetery, which had become overgrown and many of its monuments knocked down. The project involved cutting down trees, digging up and removing root systems and brush, replacing fencing and putting monuments back in place.
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Texas
Andy Caballero, 18, built four athletics benches for Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Dallas.

Christopher Krohn, 17, renovated two fitness stations along a Flower Mound bike path.

Jonathan Nine, 14, planted a small orchard for Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano.

John Scully, 15, refurbished the rose garden at Parish Episcopal School in Dallas by clearing brush and overgrowth and replanting roses.
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Twin brothers Brian Nock and Stephen Nock will receive their Eagle Scout awards as members of Boy Scout Troop 1222 on Jan. 3. The 17-year-olds completed a Peace Garden at Covenant Presbyterian Church for their Eagle project. Brian leveled soil and laid brick while Stephen completed landscaping and trellis work.
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Washington
On Dec. 2, Christopher Finney, son of Virginia and Kevin Finney of Woodinville, earned the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout Award. For his Eagle Project, Finney focused on the bee colony collapse that has decimated the bee populations across the country. He chose to build five Langsthrop bee hives and install them in the apiary at the 21 Acres Woodinville Community Gardens. The five bee hives included two each of the deep and western boxes, plus the bases, lids, feeders, and 40 hand built wooden frames per hive with beeswax foundations, a total of 200 frames in all.
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Thanksgiving dinner is hard enough to prepare for your own family — but preparing it for 250 people is another story. But it was a challenge that the Liberty High School community was willing to help 17-year-old Connor Callahan tackle to earn his Eagle Scout rank.
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