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PHOTO PROVIDED BY CHASE CORDON PHOTO PROVIDED BY CHASE CORDON

Chase plays horseshoes at Happy Camp as a Bear Scout. Chase serves as Honor Guard.
Local scout seeks community support for project

BY SUSAN GAMBLE ect will cost approximately $7000. He country, without leaving tracks behind, In March of 2012, Chase earned the
CONTRIBUTOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER has raised about two-thirds of the funds and those tracks may often be helpful highest award in Cub Scouts, the Ar-
Canyon Lake teen Chase Cordon is and needs approximately $3000 more to to those coming after him in finding row of Light. At that time, he bridged to
working toward the rank of Eagle Scout. complete the project. He hopes to raise their way,” said Founder of the Scout- Boy Scout Troop 444 in Menifee. He is
He has completed many of the require- funds by Apr. 15 to be able to complete ing Movement Robert Baden-Powell an active member of the troop, serving
ments for the rank of Eagle Scout and is the project installation by the end of These words speak to the actions of the in Quartermaster, Historian and Honor
working towards his Eagle Project. His May or early June. few scouts who seek the highest rank in Guard positions.
plan is to build a 10-station fitness trail Chase is working with Canyon Lake scouting, Eagle Scout. During the summer of 2017, Chase
at Evans Park on Canyon Lake Drive Director of Operations Steve Schneider Chase began his Scouting career in and others from his troop attended the
North. Currently, this park is a dirt trail and his staff for this project and plans to 1st grade as a Tiger Scout in Cub Scout National Scout Jamboree in West Vir-
and grass field. bring other scouts together to help with Pack 346. He spent five years in Cub ginia. Over 25,000 Scouts from all over
The goal of the project is to increase the project installation. For more infor- Scouts, enjoying the amenities of Can- the country attend this event which oc-
active use of this park and encourage fit- mation or to make a donation to Chase’s yon Lake with events at Holiday Harbor curs every four years. He was chosen
ness activities. Improvements at the park Eagle Project, visit cordoneagleproject. Park and camping at Happy Camp. He to be the assistant senior patrol leader
will allow members of the community a weebly.com. looks back fondly on his experiences for the California Inland Empire Scouts
place to walk or run off of the streets of “No one can pass through life, any racing derby cars and designing water who attended. He describes the trip as
Canyon Lake. Chase projects this proj- more than he can pass through a bit of rockets. uuCONTINUED PAGE A9