Former VHEW Student Gives Back To School Via Eagle Scout Project

VESTAVIA HILLS, AL — A former Vestavia Hills Elementary West student used his Eagle Scout project as a means to give back to his former school. Hudson Winter, a former West student, built guitar carts for the school's music department and delivered them this month.

"I didn't have the guitars yet, but I told Hudson that I would need carts for storage, and asked if this would be something he might like to tackle," said music teacher Trudye Confessore." Lucky for me, he said yes! He came to look at my ukulele cart, and at the space I would have to store my carts, and he contacted others who had built carts before for ideas on how to begin."

She said they signed the paperwork for the project mid-summer, it was approved in July, and Winter started the fundraising and drew up the plans for the carts.

"Right before school started the guitars were delivered, but stayed in boxes until the carts were ready," Confessore said. "A couple of weeks ago Hudson asked for a few guitars for final measurements on the carts, and yesterday he wrote that he was ready to deliver."

Winter will still need to present the final paperwork to his Scoutmaster for the final approval of a finished project, but once that is completed, he will be eligible for his Eagle Scout status.

"This has been so rewarding for me to see a former student take such initiative and ask to give back to a part of the community he valued so highly," Confessore said.