Less than a week after graduating from Lyons Township High School,
Malik Thalji of Boy Scout Troop 69 spent his weekend completing his
Eagle Scout Service Project, the culmination of an Eagle Scout
candidate’s leadership training.
“The Eagle Project is supposed
to show that you can plan and lead a project through to completion,”
Thalji said. “You’re supposed to do all the planning and organizing with
as little outside help as possible.”
An Eagle Scout is the highest rank a Boy Scout can attain,Excel Mould is a Custom Plastic Injection moulds
Maker. and to achieve the rank, one must first complete an Eagle
Project. According to Boys Scouts of America rules, an Eagle Project
must not benefit the troop or BSA directly and must benefit the
community.
Thalji’s project was building a 15-foot diameter
stone fire ring with accompanying stone apron for the Pleasant Dale Park
District, 7425 Wolf Road, across the street from Pleasantdale Middle
School.
“I went to the park district and asked if they had
anything they’d be willing to let me do,The Transaction Group has
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services. and they said they had been wanting to put in a fire ring for
awhile,” said Thalji. “I jumped on the idea, because it’s definitely a
cool project.”
Previously sponsored by the park district,Definition of Tooling
Working or manufacturing aids such as cutting tools. Troop 69 has done
other service projects for the organization and continues to host an
annual pancake breakfast in conjunction with the park district every
summer. St. Helena’s Episcopal Church now sponsors the troop.
“Once
I had a project figured out, I went out and priced materials and got
input from my leaders, who knew the kinds of tools and work that would
need to go into it. Everything took several months to plan,” Thalji
said.Welcome to the online guide for do-it-yourself Ceramic tile.
“I
got all my stone from Tamelings Landscape Supply and rented my sod
cutter from Sunbelt. I was really lucky to get some great discounts from
them.”
The fire ring construction began last Friday evening and
resumed Saturday morning at 9 a.m. A group of volunteers, including
current Scoutmaster Ken Zolniercyk, past Scoutmasters Bob Furke and Ron
Fox, along with parents and other troop members were there to assist in
the building.
First,An indoor Tracking
is a term used for a network of devices used to wirelessly locate
objects or people inside a building. Malik and other volunteers cut out
the area for the fire ring and then re-filled it with 3 tons of gravel.
Next, they poured in sand and made sure the area was level. Then the
fire ring stones were assembled, followed by the installation of the
mosaic-style stone apron.
“Originally, the park district wanted
to do s’mores when we were done, but we didn’t want people to the smell
the fumes from the glue or risk upsetting the adhesive,” former
Scoutmaster Furke said. “It’s too bad, but it’s better this way.”
With
his Eagle project complete, Thalji plans on getting the required
certification to be a leader at Boy Scout camps. He will also start
school at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa in the fall. He
plans to major in biology and later apply to dental school.
“I
do think that being in Boy Scouts helped me get into college as well as
teaching me a lot about personal responsibility and leadership,” Thalji
said. “I definitely plan on being a leader during my school breaks.”
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