By: Shar Dimick
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
Lucas Blanchong recently became Wauseon Troop 8’s newest Eagle Scout.
Blanchong is the son of Bill and Tina. His Eagle Scout service project included volunteering at First Christian Church’s Vacation Bible School, “Weird Animals.” Blanchong said that he supervised the middle school helpers, helped with technology, created ads, set up a website for participants to register and led a training session for all the workers. “It was fun, but a lot work!” he said.
His Boy Scout career began in Pack 8 as a Tiger scout. When asked why he wanted to be an Eagle Scout, he said “I wanted to be an Eagle Scout because it is the highest rank you can achieve in Scouting. When I first joined Scouts I always looked up to the higher Scouts and thought it would be cool to be an Eagle Scout someday. I just kept working towards it.”
Blanchong, a freshman at Wauseon High School, also plays soccer year round in various leagues and is on the quiz team. In addition, he will be in the spring musical, Godspell, as a philosopher.
He will officially be honored for achieving the rank Eagle Scout at a ceremony on May 7; however, the Eagle Scout board of review has approved his new rank and told him he didn’t have to wait until the ceremony to consider himself an Eagle Scout.
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