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Inducted into the Eage Scout Court of Honor from Troop 224 were (front, l-r) Daniel Ketner, Luke Schaub, Grant Wiehauch, Nicholas Fenbert, Logan Haughn and (back) Ryan Maas, Travis Nienberg, Matthew Samuelson, Jonah Vonderembse and Caleb Siefker.

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Ten scouts inducted into Eagle Scout Court of Honor

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Eagle Scout requirements:

- Be active in your troop for a period of at lest six months after you achieve the rank of Life Scout
- Demonstrate that live by the principles of the Scout Oak and Law in your Daily life
- Earn a total of 21 merit badges
- For period of six months while Life Scout serve in position of one or more as patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor or Webmaster.
- Plan, develop and give leadership in a service project to any school or your community.
- Take park in a Scoutmaster conference
- Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.

Ten members of the Ottawa Boy Scout Troop 224 were honored during the Eagle Scout Court of Honor Monday night at the Ottawa VFW.  Scoutmaster Scott Ketner said Troop 224 now has 203 members who have become Eagle Scouts through the years.
The following is a list of each 2012 Eagle Scout and their project:

Nicholas Fenbert is currently a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. He helped remove playground equipment from the old elementary school location. A jungle gym was relocated, reassembled and made available at the Water Works Park. A hexagon swing set was moved to the Theo Kersh Park. His project took 139 hours to complete.
Nicholas is the son of Doug and Diane Fenbert.

Logan Haughn is currently a sophomore at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. For his project he did renovations at the Sts. Peter and Paul cemetery. Haughn power washed the signs out front, along with redoing the sign backing and letters. He also restained wooden signs and restained a crucifix and painted the statue of Jesus.
Logan is the son of Gary and Nancy Haughn.

Daniel Ketner is a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. For his Eagle Scout project he was in charge of moving all of the teacher supplies, cafeteria equipment, gym supplies and library books to the new Glandorf Elementary School. He also coordinated the set up of three computer labs as well as all of the classroom computers.
Daniel is the son of Scott and Suzie Ketner.

Jonah Vonderembse is a sophomore at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. Jonah’s project was to resurface the parking lots at the Putnam County YMCA. He also did landscaping around the flagpole at the YMCA.
He is the son of Dan and Jan Vonderembse

Ryan Maas is currently a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. His project was for Challenged Champions Equestrian Center. He built a mounting block and a horse bridge to help the clients mount the horses easier and to help with their therapy.
Ryan is the son of Pam and Denny Maas.

Travis Nienberg is a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. His project was moving everything from Ottawa Elementary to their new building. In addition to organizing the volunteers to do the work Travis worked on getting donations from businesses to help the project.
Travis is the son of Jason and Vicki Nienberg.

Matthew Samuelson is a junior at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. For his project he tore down and rebuilt the “Welcome to Ottawa” sign on US 224. The organizations that are represented on the signs represent service organizations in Ottawa.
Matthew is the son of John and Terri Samuelson.

Luke Schaub is a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. For his project he built a wooden bin surrounding the concrete barrier the village uses to hold dirt for local baseball fields. Luke also painted a shelter house ceiling in the Ottawa Memorial Park. This project took over 135 hours to complete.
Luke is the son of John and Nancy Schaub.

Caleb Siefker is a junior at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. His project was painting playground equipment such as soccer goals, basketball backboards and baseball fields for SS Peter and Paul School.
Caleb is the son of Greg and Dianne Siefker.

Grant Weihrauch is a freshman at Ottawa-Glandorf High School. For his project he fixed the dairy barn at the Putnam County fairgrounds.
Grant is the son of Mike and Michele Weihrauch.


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