Friday, February 05, 1999
31 Boy Scouts from N.Ky. soar to Eagle status
BY KRISTINA GOETZ
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jim Fette, a 15-year-old Boy Scout from Erlanger, is one of 31 from Northern Kentucky who will be honored with the Eagle Scout rank at a ceremony on Sunday.
The Northern Kentucky Scouts will be honored with about 100 others across the region at the Dan Beard Council Court at the Landmark Baptist Temple in Evendale.
Jim has been working toward the honor for four years and is excited about the ceremony.
“Statistics show that only about 2 percent of the boys who are Scouts become Eagle Scouts,” he said. “It's kind of an honor to know you're one of the few. It's an honor to know I've worked so hard at something and am the best at it.
“It also looks good on a resume.”
To earn the rank of Eagle, Scouts must earn 21 merit badges, move up through six ranks, and hold a leadership position in their own troop for six months.
They also have to plan, develop and give leadership in a community service project to benefit their school, church or community.
Jim, who is a student at St. Henry District High School, rounded up volunteers to plant more than 2,000 flower bulbs around the school for his service project.
Sean Hogan, a 17-year-old from Park Hills, has been a Boy Scout for six years and will also be one of the new Eagle Scouts.
For his community service project, he spruced up an old Civil War battery in Devou Park. He sought donations of materials to landscape the area around the battery, put up fencing and added some benches.
“I'm very proud of it,” he said. “Especially the project. It was special to me because I made a difference.”
The ceremony starts at 2:45 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Following is a list of all the Northern Kentucky Scouts. Together, they worked more than 1,900 hours in community service projects to attain Eagle status:
Eric Schrott of Crescent Springs; Adam Winterberg and Brett Winterberg of Crestview Hills; Donald Adams of Covington; Michael List and Keith Morgeson of Edgewood; Sean Collins of Elsmere; Sean Flaherty, Jim Fette and Mi chael Horn of Erlanger; Gregory Barth, Brett Marshall, Stanley Schulte and Nicholas Warneing of Florence; Nathan Trapp of Foster; Michael Young of Fort Wright; Gregory Breetz and Joshua Selm of Hebron; John Crawford and James Mitchell of Independence; Mitchell Landwehr of Lakeside Park; Jason Smith of Newport; Sean Hogan of Park Hills; Adam Forney and Brian Radle of Union; Christopher Richie and Christopher Wera of Villa Hills; Thomas Butt, Frank Hester and Richard Gilligan of Walton; and Joshua Henry of Williamstown.
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