Eagle Scout project aids center clients with mobility issues
Eagle Scout ramp: Boy Scouts of America Troop 94 member Ben Parsons, left, stands by a handicapped-accessible ramp he completed for his Eagle Scout project under guidance of his grandfather, Ray Burchett, right, at the Light the Way Christian Counseling Center, 221 Fountain Place, Bellefontaine. (PHOTOS | PARSON FAMILY)
For more than 16 years, Light the Way Christian Counseling Center, a ministry of the First Christian Church of Bellefontaine, has offered area adults and children with support and guidance to navigate through difficult times in their lives.
This summer, an area teen through his Eagle Scout project in turn extended a helping hand to the counseling center for an initiative that will assist its clients with mobility issues.
Bellefontaine High School sophomore Ben Parsons has worked for the past year with his grandfather, Ray Burchett, a retired carpenter from Kentucky, to design plans to build a handicapped-accessible ramp for the facility at 221 Fountain Place, Bellefontaine.
“I’m really happy with the way it turned out,” he said Wednesday of the wooden ramp that was built in two-days time last week. “It feels satisfying to carry this through after laying all of the groundwork.”
The Boy Scouts of America Troop 94 of Bellefontaine member said his mother, Angelia Parsons, works as a therapist at the center. When brainstorming ideas for his Eagle Scout project, he asked her if there was anything that the facility needed.
“She said that it’s an older building and lacked a handicappedaccessible ramp,” said the Boy Scout, who joined the program in fifth-grade, and also participates in marching band, concert band and robotics at his school.
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