Scouts

SCOUTS
Eagle Scout Award earned
David Craig of Austintown received his Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouting's highest honor, at a court of honor ceremony last month at Austintown Community Church.
He is the son of Michelle and Thomas Craig, also of Austintown, and is a member of Troop 84, Whispering Pines District, Greater Western Reserve Council. His Scoutmaster is Terrence P. Rusu.
Craig earned his Arrow of Light, Cub Scouting's highest award, while a member of Pack 84 in February 1998. He earned 23 merit badges and was a member of Wapashui Lodge of the Order of the Arrow. He served Troop 84 as historian, troop guide, assistant patrol leader, patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader and senior patrol leader.
His Eagle Scout service project involved building three benches for Austintown Township Park. This entailed designing the benches, creating building drawings, organizing Scouts to participate in building the benches and getting adults to help.
Craig is a freshman at Kent State University, where he is majoring in physics. He is a member of the Association of Physics Students and Anime Club.
LEADERSHIP
Akron Public School Board
Youngstown native Shelia Smith, 51, has been elected to the Akron Public School Board. She will serve a four-year term on the board, which has seven members.
Smith is employed as a program coordinator for East Akron Community House, Arlington Street, which provides drug and alcohol outreach services, a youth center, life link outreach program, summer day camp and after-school care programs.
She is a 1972 graduate of The Rayen School and attended Youngstown State University.
She recently graduated from the American Association of Christian Counselors at the World Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
Her husband, Jeff, is a 1972 Youngstown East High School graduate.
LAWYERS
Career begins in Vermont
BetsyAnn Marie Dunbar Wrask, a 1998 graduate of Salem High School and a 2002 graduate of Mount Union College, Alliance, has been admitted to the bar of the state of Vermont.
Atty. Wrask begins her legal career as second assistant clerk of Vermont's House of Representatives. She is the first woman to have the position since 1929.
She graduated from Vermont Law School in May, earning a juris doctorate degree. While at Vermont Law School, she was a member of the Student Leadership Collective and Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, vice president of Snowriders Club, and made the dean's list.
Wrask is the daughter of Anna Wrask and the late Edward Wrask, and the granddaughter of Mrs. Ethel Dunbar. She lives in Stowe, Vt.
state police
Police academy graduate
John P. Isoldi Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Isoldi Sr. of Cortland, has graduated from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy in Hershey, Pa. During the ceremony his father, a retired lieutenant with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, presented him with his badge.
A 2001 graduate of Lakeview High School, Isoldi received his degree in criminal justice from Youngstown State University before entering the academy.
He has been assigned to the barracks at headquarters in Greensburg, Pa.
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