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Show Two Panguitch youths, Kevin Hep-worth, 14, and Bret Chrlstensen, 13, recently completed requirements. Two Panguitch young men were awarded Eagle Scout status. Kevin Hepworth, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Hepworth and Bret Christensen, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Christensen were awarded their badges by Scouting Coordinator William Blackwell. Both boys are members of Scout Troop No. 661 with Rod Parry, Scoutmaster and Virgil Anderson, Assistant , scoutmaster. Kevin, a ninth grader at Panguitch High School, earned 23 merit badges. He said his favorite badge to earn was swimming and the most difficult to earn was environmental science. Kevin was among troop members last year who hiked to Lake Havasu which helped him earn his hiking and camping merit badges. They i stayed four days hiking 12 miles in and 12 miles out. As his Eagle project, Kevin chose to erect a flagpole in front of the newly located Zions Bank with the help of his older brother, mom and dad. He cut down the flagpole from the old site using a torch and transporting the pole on a tow truck. He sanded it, painted it, and poured cement to hold it in place. The bank then purchased a fine new flag to display. 1 Eagle Scout Bret Christensen, an eighth grader at Pangutich Middle School, earned 27 merit badges to certifiy. His favorites were Truck Transporation and Personal Management. I Bret too thought that the most difficult badge to l earn was Environmental Science. Both Bret and Kevin thought the Camping Merit Badge passed a board of review and were awarded the coveted Eagle scout award. Two Receive Eagle Awards was the most fun to work on. For his Eagle project, Bret built new fisheries in the Podunk Creek area. He received approval for his project from Clair Baldwin, U.S. Forest Service. The two met together on two different occasions to discuss the project before Bret actually began work on it. At the first meeting they discussed the need for and importance of fisheries and diagram-4 rhfd the proposed project. At the second meeting, Baldwin took Bret to the site where the fisheries would be built in East Fork Canyon on Podunk Creek in the Dixie National Forest. Bret gathered materials that would be needed to complete the project and asked for volunteer help from fellow troop members. They met at 7 a.m. on the designated Saturday and brought shovels and sack lunches. There were Bret, three fellow troop members, one explorer scout and four adults. Dividing into two separate groups, with one group assigned to cut 16 aspen logs and the other assigned to dig the footings for the fisheries. They constructed four fisheries in that one day's work. Bret felt his project benefited the public by providing a place for fish for recreation and to help stop erosion, he spent a total of 61 hours on his project. |