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Stewart Chipman awarded Eagle Scout Project of the Year OAK RIDGE – Stewart Chipman, 14, a member of Scouts BSA Troop 600, recently received the 2020 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award for Old North State Council’s eightcounty service area. For his project, Stewart collaborated with the Oak Ridge Parks and Recreation Advisory Photo courtesy of Holly Stewart Committee on the design and For his Eagle Scout project, Stewart Chipman, 14, construction of a flag collection created a flag retirement center in Oak Ridge Town and retirement center at Oak Park. Chipman recently received the Eagle Scout Ridge Town Park. The center Service Project of the Year Award for the Old includes a flag collection box, North State Council’s eight-county service area. bench seating and landscaping, and an octagonal concrete area with a servant leaders including active-duty milifire pit designed exclusively for proper flag tary, veterans and first responders.” retirements. “The community’s support for this proj“Our town is grateful to Stewart for ect has been overwhelming,” said Stewart, educating residents about the need for an eighth grader at Brown Summit Middle the proper retirement of flags since many School for Advanced Academics. “We have are not aware of how to do this appropricollected hundreds of worn flags, honored ately and respectfully,” Oak Ridge Mayor veterans and others at events, and hosted Ann Schneider said. “We’re especially two flag retirement ceremonies so far.” happy he designed his project to fit seamAs part of Troop 600’s new Flags lessly into the landscape of our beautiful, Over Northwest program, the center is 80-acre town park.” being used for quarterly flag retirement Mike Matzinger, Troop 600 Scoutmasceremonies and patriotic holiday events. ter and fellow Eagle Scout, said Stewart not A resident of Oak Ridge, Stewart is the only met requirements for his Eagle Scout son of Chris Chipman and Holly Stewart. project, but “He left behind a legacy in a For more info about Scouts BSA project that will provide a way to honor our Troop 600, visit www.scoutdude.com.
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Emma Moberg, a Northwest Guilford High School senior and pitcher for the Vikings’ fast-pitch softball team, achieved a career-high 300 strikeouts in Monday evening’s home conference game against Grimsley High School. Moberg’s pitching and hitting achievements helped secure her team’s 7-1, 7-0 record (the Vikings were scheduled to play High Point Central (8-2, 6-1) in the last game of regular season play on April 28). Moberg will attend Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina this fall.
