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Dylan Stompe, 19, and now a freshman at UC Davis, built wheelchair accessible planter boxes for seniors
NAME: Dylan Stompe
AGE: 19
SCHOOL: University of California, Davis
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OUTSTANDING DEED: Built two wheelchair accessible garden boxes for low-income seniors at for an Eagle Scout Project.
In the summer of 2010, Stompe, a member of Troop 73 managed several boy scouts to make wheelchair accessible garden boxes for Casa Grande Senior Apartments, PEP Housing’s newest affordable housing development for seniors.
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To earn the Eagle Scout rank, the highest advancement rank in scouting, a Boy Scout must demonstrate leadership, service, and outdoor skills, all of which came into good use in this project. The volunteers used lumber donated by Heritage Lumber for the garden boxes.
“The wheelchair accessible planter boxes that these kids built enabled seniors to continue gardening and enjoying the outdoors even though they have decreased mobility,” said PEP Housing’s Development and Maintenance Director, Jim Langford.
Today, Stompe is a freshman at UC Davis where he's studying Wildlife Fish Conservation Biology so that he can one day work as a fish and game warden.
KEY TO AWESOMENESS: Perseverance, compassion and drive.
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