Eagle Scout Project Shelters Community Garden 

Eagle Scout candidate Cole  Retzloff recently finished his service project by building a garden shed for MEEC's community garden. An Eagle Project represents a scout’s best effort to “give back” to their community, and when Cole learned that MEEC needed a shelter to protect garden tools for their community garden he went right to work. He planned, developed and communicated MEEC’s needs into a working design for their building. The local Home Depot gave Cole a tremendous shot in the arm by donated almost all of the building supplies for the project. The big construction push came in early September when Cole organized a Labor Day Barn Raising. About twenty scouts and their parents rolled up their collective sleeves and came out to help build the shed. Cole then spent the next month applying final touches, and he handed the keys over to Sr. Leanne Jablonski FMI and Mrs. Michele Banker in time for MEEC’s  25^th anniversary celebration in October. A portion of the garden produce is donated to the Greenmont food pantry, a collaboration between Greenmont-Oak Park Community Church and Ascension Parish.  Cole lives in Beavercreek, OH, is a junior at Chaminade- Julienne High School in Dayton, and a member of St. Luke Catholic Church Troop 85.