Have you noticed something new in the outside area in between the school?
In addition to the outdoor garden there is now a new outdoor seating area. This new area as a whole is now called the Garden of Hope.
This garden was built to be a tribute to past members of Liberty and will be used for people to sit and have remembrance of those past students.
You might be wondering where this came from?
Boy Scout, Patrick Nolan (12), along with 10 people from his scout troop, started building this seating area sometime in June.
“I emailed Dr. Edgar Nelson and he forwarded me to Mr. Stanton Schumacher and he gave me this idea with Ms. Sandy Pizzo to do an outdoor seating area by the garden,” Nolan said.
Pizzo was the one that came up with the idea originally and she gave Nolan a basic concept and he designed what’s there now.
“We wanted an area for students to go to for solitude,” Pizzo said.
An Eagle Scout project is a project that helps out the community in some way so it can be at a school, church, or a public area of some sort that is basically supposed to help out the community. To complete an Eagle Scout project, you have to also get a certain amount of merit badges, which are skilled based awards.
Nolan got the project idea at the beginning of sophomore year and didn’t start planning the foundation of it, until about the middle of last year.
To complete an Eagle Scout project, it doesn’t just have to be a building. There is a very long planning stage, a lot of paperwork, and time put into this process. It took Nolan months to plan in advance to get all the prices.
“First thing we did was dig down about six inches, then we put a layer of limestone screening which is very small dust rock down, next we laid an inch of sand, then laid the pavers down, next we put sand in between the pavers and finally we surrounded it with mulch,” Nolan said
The benches positioned in the garden area were built from two by fours from Home Depot that were cut to size and screwed together.
It took about a month and a half to build it and was built five work days a week for about six hours with 10 people from June 28- Aug. 17 of this year.
“My job was more of supervising because that is the point of the eagle scout project is the leadership,” Nolan said. Nolan supervised, planned, and was in charge of the whole project process.
“Hopefully within the next couple of weeks it will be completely completed,” Nolan said.
In the next couple of weeks before he turns 18, Nolan has to finish the rest of the paperwork and also has to go to a board of review for the district and get approved to officially become an Eagle Scout.
