Eagle Scout Award to be Presented

EAGLE SCOUT AWARD TO BE PRESENTED

Elijah Joseph Deakin, of Livermore, CA, has earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts, the Eagle Scout Award.

Deakin will be recognized in ceremonies on Saturday, May 9th, 2015, 2:00 PM at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Hillcrest Ave. Livermore, CA.

A member of Twin Valley District, Troop #935, Deakin is one of approximately 2 percent of all Boy Scouts who attain the Eagle rank, according to Scoutmaster Jeff Price.

Each candidate must earn 21 merit badges and successfully complete a community-related service project to earn his Eagle; Deakin chose to provide his High School (which is located in a temporary elementary school) with beautiful and useful planter box benches. His school’s Garden Club will use the planters to provide vegetables and flowers to the local food bank and the benches provide his fellow classmates with much needed outside seating. His project not only beautifies the campus but serves a vital purpose to his school culture and the surrounding community.

He has served as Junior Assistant Scout Leader and received The Thomas S. Monson Award. Deakin joins other outstanding American citizens who have become Eagle Scouts, among them former President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the head of the F.B.I., William Sessions and the host of Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe. Deakin is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and is active in drama, film production, choir, dance and the varsity swim team at Livermore Valley Charter Prep High School, where he is a Senior. He has been accepted to Brigham Young University where he plans to major in Sociology and later join the Airforce to become a canine police officer. He also plans serve a 2 year mission for his church. He is the son of Joseph K. and Kjelene Deakin of Livermore.