Congratulations to the following young men for earning the rank of Eagle
Scout, the highest rank available in the Boy Scouts of America.
| NAME |
TROOP NUMBER |
CEREMONY DATE |
PROJECT |
| Will Belsterling |
81 |
January 2, 2011 |
Constructed a brick patio and benches for meditation and prayer
at a local church. |
| Matthew Mannino |
150 |
January 9, 2011 |
Restored a nature trail on the grounds of a local elementary
school, and carved a sign for the trail. |
| Andrew Lowery |
403 |
February 13, 2011 |
Built an archery center for a local research center. |
| Daniel Lowery |
403 |
February 13, 2011 |
Constructed an outdoor learning center at a local elementary
school. |
| Dakota Chirdon |
|
February 19, 2011 |
Refurbished an exercise trail on the grounds of a local high
school. |
| Sean Harrington |
157 |
February 21, 2011 |
Landscaped the grounds of a local Hospice center. |
| Matthew Kinol |
157 |
February 21, 2011 |
Constructed a handicapped-accessible bathroom for the youth
house at a local church. |
| Thomas Lindeman |
157 |
February 21, 2011 |
Organized a fundraiser to finance the construction of furniture
for the teenager room at a local library. |
| Daniel Patrick Clark |
181 |
March 6, 2011 |
Refurbished a meeting facility owned by a local church. |
| Casey Brienza |
195 |
March 8, 2011 |
Refurbished the trail ad graves of horses at a local ranch. |
| Benjamin T. Allman |
403 |
March 20, 2011 |
Replace the repackaging area platform at a local food bank. |
| Dominic A. Baker |
403 |
March 20, 2011 |
Refurbished an archery range at the Woodlands Foundation. |
| Justin D. McGee |
403 |
March 20, 2011 |
Renovated an amphitheater at the Woodlands Foundation |
| Kevin Bunce |
81 |
March 27, 2011 |
Constructed a portable Shuffleboard court for a local Veterans
Hospital. |
| Drew David Chidester |
344 |
April 3, 2011 |
Constructed a picnic table and trail direction sign along a
local trail. |
| Lucas Peter Gintner |
344 |
April 3, 2011 |
Cleared an area of invasive plant species along a hiking trail
and rebuilt a trail and bridge at a local park. |
| Dominic Navarro |
344 |
April 3, 2011 |
Constructed three benches, replaced birdhouses and cleared an
invasive plant species from a meadow habitat at a local park. |
| Jordan Scott Miller |
457 |
April 17, 2011 |
Created a room in the basement of Cranberry Community United
Presbyterian Church for storage and built shelves. |
| Andrew Osheka |
81 |
May 1, 2011 |
Built four wheelchair-accessible planters for the Worthington
assisted-living home in Seven Fields. |
| Adam DeLauder |
81 |
May 1, 2011 |
Restored a 270 foot section of the Braille Trail in North Park.
Put two new guide wires for the blind and relocated posts that ran along the
trail. He cleared out plans, reapplied mulch, inserted underground pipes to help
drain runoff, rebuilt two benches, designed and built a switchback to prevent
bicycles from using the trail. |
| Aarron J. Smith |
6 |
May 2, 2011 |
Sorted the books in the Children's and Young Adult Section of
the Butler Public Library to make space for new books. He also made five
tabletop bookshelves for the library. |
| Michael Clouse |
81 |
May 7, 2011 |
Organized and supervised a group of scouts to collect, package
and ship comfort items and other supplies to United States Armed Forces troops
serving overseas in coordination with Operation Troop Appreciation. |
| Christopher Leonard |
81 |
May 7, 2011 |
Refurbished a meadow, trail and hillside at the Latodami Nature
Center in North Park. |
| Jacob Chavara |
81 |
May 7, 2011 |
Restored and repaired the Betty Rhule Trail adjacent to Wexford
Elementary School in the Pine-Richland School District. This included widening
the trail and constructing and installing eleven trail markers, two bird houses
and five benches. The project was funded with the Lowe's Heroes
Award-Scholarship. |
| Brandon Littell |
150 |
May 12, 2011 |
Revitalized the wetlands near the nature building in North Park.
This included installing bird houses and making new signs. |
| Zarchary Thomas Dorsch |
400 |
May 22, 2011 |
Refurbished a nature trail at Adams Township Community Park. |
| Colby Schindel |
81 |
May 27, 2011 |
Designed and constructed an emergency response map for the
borough of Bradford Woods. |
| Evan M. Wilson |
195 |
June 14, 2011 |
Rehabilitated the Wagon Wheel Trail at the Latodami Nature
Center in North Park. |
| Keyur Rao |
81 |
June 5, 2011 |
Installed solar panels at the Latodami Nature Center barn in
North Park. |
| Michael John Spagnolo |
344 |
June 14, 2011 |
Refurbished hiking trails in Pine Township Park. |
| Anthony Meinert |
404 |
May 15, 2011 |
Constructed amphitheater seating by building fifteen benches for
the Family Resources Retreat Center in Mars. |
| Curtis Scheboth |
150 |
June 5, 2011 |
Refurbished the Hampton Township Police Department shooting
range. |
| Benjamin Michael Peters |
335 |
June 6, 2011 |
Landscaped the grounds and constructed a bridge, stairwell and
handrail to allow access to a nature walk on the grounds of Stonebrook Village
Senior Community. |
| Robert Edward Todd |
335 |
June 6, 2011 |
Collected donations for Ronald McDonald House Charities. He also
made more than thirty blankets and served Sunday brunch for the residents of the
charity house. |
| Michael William Porcelli |
71 |
June 7, 2011 |
Led a group of volunteers who installed several bat houses
within North Park of Allegheny County to help control the insect population
within the park. |
| Joshua Theodore Morrison |
171 |
June 7, 2011 |
Organized a group of volunteers who constructed a large outdoor
stage for performances by the members of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
Church. |
| Robert William Hickey III |
171 |
June 7, 2011 |
Organized and supervised a group of volunteers to identify,
categorize, photograph and document the gravesites at Saint John's Lutheran
Church cemetery. |
| Andrew Beck |
171 |
June 7, 2011 |
Organized and supervised a group of volunteers to construct
portable coat racks and installed permanent coat racks in various activity rooms
at Saint John Neumann Parish. |
| Max Robert Adzema |
171 |
June 7, 2011 |
Organized and supervised a group of volunteers to install three
flagpoles for Ingomar United Methodist Church's Camp Davis. |
| Sang Ho Alex Park |
335 |
June 6, 2011 |
Painted six rooms at the Korean United Presbyterian Church. |
| Thomas Newcomer |
377 |
June 25, 2011 |
Collected more than four thousand books for members of the
United States Armed Forces who are stationed overseas. |
| Tyler Ray Alan |
150 |
July 10, 2011 |
Constructed a picket fence for the Pine Richland Youth Center of
Gibsonia |
| Spencer Bradford Sargent |
150 |
July 10, 2011 |
Constructed a nativity stable for the First Congregational
Church of Etna. |
| Kurt Beatty |
81 |
July 31, 2011 |
Constructed sixteen raised bed planters and provided soil,
vegetable seeds, plants and instructions on how to grow a garden for the North
Hills Community Outreach initiative to provide food pantry clients with the
supplies to create fresh produce. |
| Joseph Nicholas Giancola |
457 |
August 14, 2011 |
Organized and supervised a group of volunteers to construct and
install four benches at Graham Park in Cranberry Township. |
| Justin Schmiedel |
329 |
August 21, 2011 |
Constructed six picnic tables on the grounds of Marshall Middle
School in the North Allegheny School District. |
| Kurt Russell Schoffstall |
36 |
August 6, 2011 |
Constructed a map of the trails in the Latodami Nature Center in
North Park. |
| Paul Joseph Swank |
457 |
September 4, 2011 |
Refurbished an outdoor classroom at Connoquenessing Valley
Elementary School. |
| James Aaron Fetterman |
457 |
August 21, 2011 |
Constructed a new section of sidewalk at the Graham Community
Park. |
| John Barczynski |
81 |
September 25, 2011 |
Conducted a Wetlands Restoration at North Park. The project
consisted of building a jack dam to recreate the wetlands, an observation bench
and removed invasive plant species from the site. |
| Aaron Thomas Schmelzer |
457 |
September 18, 2011 |
Constructed three raised garden beds for Connoquenessing Valley
Elementary School. |
| Ryan TeKolste |
398 |
October 15, 2011 |
Constructed a drainage ditch, a set of steps and a retaining
wall at the outdoor chapel of the Ingomar United Methodist Church. |
| Kevin Patrick Pfau |
344 |
November 20, 2011 |
Lead a group of volunteers who created a sugar maple grove at
the Latodami Nature Center in North Park. The project involved removing invasive
species of plants and trees, planting twenty sugar maple trees and protecting
the young trees with individual fence cages. |
| Sean Reed Phillip Kurtz |
344 |
December 18, 2011 |
Lead a group of volunteers who restored a park shelter at North
Park for use as an outdoor classroom for the newly created Gado nature and
wetlands area. The project involved repairing and painting the shelter, building
benches and building and installing multiple display cases for educational
materials that are used for class activities. |
| Ryan John Grzyb |
344 |
December 18, 2011 |
Carried out multiple efforts to collect new and used sporting
equipment for the North Hills Community Outreach (NHCO) Sports Share program. He
led a group of volunteers who collected and cleaned the donated items and
delivered them to NHCO in December 2010 for holiday distribution. |
| Gabriel Trey Gaspar |
36 |
November 20, 2011 |
Installed ninety-five medallions on storm drains throughout the
community to remind Franklin Park Borough residents not to dispose of hazardous
waste in the drains. |
| Walter George Sanborn |
150 |
November 27, 2011 |
Constructed a trail at Pymatuming State Park to connect the pets
allowed part of the campground to the main trail. |
| Brandon Grupe |
181 |
November 21, 2011 |
Constructed a platform and pulpit for an outdoor chapel in the
community. |
| Paul Michael Schreiber |
150 |
November 20, 2011 |
Created a habitat on the grounds of Hance Elementary School. |
| Kyle Thomas Weidman |
355 |
December 19, 2011 |
Created two storage areas for the stage at the North Allegheny
Senior High School. |
| Jake Owen Lennon |
355 |
December 19, 2011 |
Constructed wooden lockers for the firemen at the Seville Fire
Hall. |
| Henry Scott Uehling |
17 |
December 28, 2011 |
Designed, constructed and installed three coat racks for the
Elfinwild Presybterian Church. |
| Christopher Matthew Miller |
17 |
December 28, 2011 |
Reestablished the Lowries Run Slopes Trail. |
| Matthew McCoy Lesnett |
17 |
December 28, 2011 |
Constructed a fence, handicapped-accessible picnic table and
stone fire pit at the Elfinwild Presbyterian Church Youth House. |
