Boy Scouts pitched in at Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora Saturday, Aug. 26.
From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 13 Scouts and eight adults wielded hand saws and power tools to clear overgrown brush and plants near Hesed’s women’s shelter. The project was designed to improve safety at the facility.
The crew from Blackhawk Troop 11, based at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora, was led by Connor McMenamin, 17, of Montgomery.
A senior at Oswego High School, he organized the effort to complete requirements for his Eagle Scout award, the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America. It will be presented in a court of honor at Wesley.
McMenamin is the son of Marie and Neil McMenamin of Montgomery.
Initially chartered by Wesley in 1916, Blackhawk Troop is chartered by Walter E. Truemper American Legion Post 1944 of Aurora.
The second-oldest troop in Illinois, Troop 11 is part of BSA Three Fires Council based in St. Charles.
—Al Benson