By BETH ZUMWALT
Gavin Graham
Marco Ballinger
Three local Boy Scouts have completed most of the requirements for their Eagle Scout recognition. The Eagle Scout is the highest achievement or rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America program. Only four percent of Scouts achieve this honor.
Marco Ballinger, Gavin Graham and Stone Wintjen, all of Pittsfield have completed their projects and only need to file the necessary paper work to achieve the honor.
“We just have some paper work to submit,” Graham said, who added that he had been a Scout since early elementary school.
The three boys were given a list of projects the City of Pittsfield would like completed at the lake.
Ballinger chose to clean up a parking area near a popular fishing spot on the west side of the lake, not far from the Boy Scout Camp Grounds.
Stone Wintjen
Graham built a firewood storage facility at Jaycee Park and Wintjen built three benches, placed along the trail of the disc golf course.
“I don’t play disc golf, but both my brothers do,”Wintjen said.
Graham said his project was suggested by the park ranger as a item really needed.
“There was a firewood storage facility at the South Campgrounds, and they really needed one at Jaycee Park,” Graham said.
The city of Pittsfield purchased all the materials needed for the projects and the boys supplied the labor.
