Fremd Student Achieves Eagle Scout Rank

Zachary Matuszczak, of Boy Scout Troop 209, recently completed his service project in Creative Art Therapy by creating and donating more than 200 medical play dolls to help ill and traumatized children during hospital stays.

Zachary Matuszczak, a 16-year-old sophomore at Fremd High School, recently received the highest ranking possible in Boy Scouts. On Novemer 13, he became an Eagle Scout. Matuszczak is a member of Boy Scout Troop 209 which meets at First United Methodist Church of Palatine. The troop has more than 100 members which hail from Palatine, Inverness, Hoffman Estates and Rolling Meadows. When Boy Scouts decide they want to become an Eagle Scout, they are required to choose a service project that will benefit the community, and they must also find a way to fund it. Included in the project is required paperwork, documenting every action taken to complete the project from start to finish. “I definitely learned leadership, I didn’t think it would be …

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