Eight Hazelwood School District students earned the rank Eagle Scout, the highest honor a Boy Scout can earn.<\/p>\n
Sophomore David Benjamin, junior Jeffrey Craig and seniors Chris Singleterry and Marques Smith from Hazelwood Central High School and juniors William Dixon and Justin Ruester and seniors Jordan Fusco and A.J. Kissner IV from Hazelwood West High School recently attained that rank.<\/p>\n
The Eagle Scout Award is a performance-based achievement. To earn it, a Boy Scout must fulfill requirements in leadership, service and outdoor skills. A number of specific skills are required to advance through the ranks and a Boy Scout must pass specific tests that are organized by requirements and merit badges. To become an Eagle Scout, boys must plan, develop and lead a service project helpful to a religious institution, school or their community.<\/p>\n
Hazelwood Central and West high school students explained their Eagle Scout projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cI built two tables for the GALACTIC center,\u201d said Craig, who has been in Scouts since first-grade. The tables are octagonal-shaped and are used in the children\u2019s outdoor play area. \u201cIt took about two weeks and people in my troop and my parents both helped out. This project taught me a lot about planning and going forward with plans. The teachers tell me the students and teachers use the tables a lot so it\u2019s nice to know I helped out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singleterry, who has also served in Scouts since first-grade, beautified a 105-square foot area at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park. He started with a shed full of junk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cleaned it out and restored the shed,\u201d said Singleterry. \u201cThen we put a bench near the shed and painted the bench, cleaned up the area around shed and put a new roof on it.\u201dHe said the project took approximately two days and he had 10 people assisting him, including family members.<\/p>\n
Benjamin, another Boy Scout since first-grade, worked on a log cabin that is in Old Town Florissant, near the intersection of Washington Street and New Florissant Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cOriginally, the cabin had been traded by a family to the City of Florissant with the condition the city can use the land around it as long as it maintains the cabin,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen Florissant erected a water tower, it moved the cabin maybe 40 feet and the covered porch crumbled.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benjamin and his crew installed a new porch, which took two days to install. They re-shingled the roof and added cement footings for support.<\/p>\n
Smith, whose troop is based in St. Louis City, described his project.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy project was to put out flower boxes, lay out stepping stones and to build a swing with a canopy at a senior residential home in St. Charles,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI feel good about doing it and I feel like I did something nice for the home.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Hazelwood West, Ruester, who has been in Scouts since first-grade, said he created a fitness trail in Pershall Park, which is on Fee Fee Road. The trail has stations for push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and a balance beam.\u00a0 \u201cI feel relieved that it\u2019s done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dixon used an Internet search engine to locate other Eagle Scout project ideas. His project carried a patriotic theme.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made 300 pocket United States flags to distribute to soldiers at Ft. Leonard Wood,\u201d he said. \u201cMy grandfather was a prisoner-of-war during World War II and I wanted to do something nice since I didn\u2019t know him very well. It was something nice for me to honor him with.”<\/p>\n
Kissner\u2019s project is already in use at the school. \u201cI made a bookcase for Gerold Nave,\u201d he said. Nave is one of the school\u2019s assistant principals. \u201cIt is in his office here at West. It has four shelves.\u201d He said he started it in December and finished in February.<\/p>\n
Fusco\u2019s project was more involved and entirely outdoors.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsing PVC pipes, I built crappie beds in the bottom of the Lake of the Ozarks,\u201d he said, describing habitats for a popular species of game fish. \u201cThe beds will promote fishing habitats in the lake and lure fishermen to the lake and help the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said it took four to six months to complete the project. First, he had to obtain permission from Ameren Missouri Shoreline, which owns the land adjacent to that section of the lake and from the Missouri Department of Conservation.<\/p>\n
To build the beds, sometimes referred to as Christmas tree crappie beds, Fusco and his team started by filling 15 plastic buckets with cement until each was half-full. Before the cement hardened, they inserted six-inch diameter sections of PVC pipe into the buckets.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Previously, they bored holes into those pipes and inserted smaller diameter PVC cross pipes. He then roughened the ends of the cross pipes with sandpaper, which will promote algae growth. The entire bed was then lowered into the lake. (story courtesy of the Hazelwood District Communications. Dept.) <\/em><\/p>\n Eight Hazelwood School District students earned the rank Eagle Scout, the highest honor a Boy Scout can earn. Sophomore David Benjamin, junior Jeffrey Craig and seniors Chris Singleterry and Marques Smith from Hazelwood Central High School and juniors William Dixon and Justin Ruester and seniors Jordan Fusco and A.J. Kissner IV from Hazelwood West High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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