Picture courtesy of Melanie Bartee.[/caption]Alex Bartee, an OHS junior, recently was awarded Eagle Scout, the highest honor you can receive as a Boy Scout.
The award requires a lot of tedious work and involves work in your local community. With special qualifications, including a community project, and earning 21 merit badges, becoming an Eagle Scout is no easy job.
Bartee, who has been with Boy Scouts for five years, decided to join the Scouts because, “I had a lot of friends who were Boy Scouts,” and decided to continue to participate in the Scouts because, “I enjoy it.”
As a Boy Scout, Bartee and his troop helped clean up the community and they even helped create Gold Park.
For Bartee’s Eagle Scout community project, he said, “I helped paint and build tables at Occoneechee Speedway.”
To receive the Eagle Scout award, you must be eighteen years old and demonstrate that you live by the principles of the Scout Oath and Law in your daily life.
Bartee is seventeen, and is not yet eligible, so once he turns eighteen, Bartee will have the title of Eagle Scout.
For more information on the Eagle Scout award requirements and information, go to
http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/eagle.aspx.
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