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Schiro completes Boy Scout Eagle project at Witherell

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Joe Schiro and a team of Scouts and Scout Leaders put the final touches on the bulletin boards.
Joe Schiro and a team of Scouts and Scout Leaders put the final touches on the bulletin boards.

Visitors to The Nathaniel Witherell may have noticed the brand new bulletin boards on each of the skilled nursing care units in Witherell’s Tower. However, they might not know whom to thank for them. That would be recent Greenwich High School graduate Joe Schiro, who worked for months to design and fabricate the four bulletin boards as part of his Eagle Scout Service Project for the Boy Scouts.

Schiro has been volunteering at the Witherell since he was a sophomore, coming in on weekend mornings to help out wherever needed, whether it be transporting residents and short-term rehab patients to physical therapy or lending a helping hand during chapel services and music programs. So, when it came time for him to choose his Eagle Scout Service Project, designed to demonstrate leadership ability while performing a project to benefit the community, he immediately thought of the Witherell.

“For me, personally, I wanted to give back to the Witherell. I’ve been there for a couple years and really wanted to do something to help them out,” says Schiro.

It was one year ago that Schiro first asked Sally Van Leeuwen, Witherell’s Volunteer Coordinator, if she had any ideas for a project. She told him that the bulletin boards were in poor shape, and the Witherell could really benefit from Schiro constructing new ones. Those boards contain all kinds of information of importance to residents and their families – events, birthday lists, menu items – and they constantly change.

“This is a project that we will all appreciate and benefit from, and it will last for many years to come – all markers of a successful Eagle Scout project,” says Van Leeuwen. “And if that weren’t enough, Joe and his crew came back a week later to clear the far side of our employee parking lot of invasive vines!”

Schiro’s Eagle Project was the culmination of his Scout leadership training and a requirement to attain the Eagle Scout Rank.

“I’ve worked on a lot of Eagle Scout projects before, but as someone helping out and following orders. This time I was the one in charge. I feel a sense of extreme accomplishment because this time I was the one leading the project and directing the other Scouts,” says Schiro. “I’m really glad I could do this for the Witherell.”

For more information on volunteering, please contact Sally Van Leeuwen at 203-618-4228 or sallyvanl@live.com.

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