SCOUTS

SCOUTS
Received Eagle award
Brian Kear, son of Tom and Cheryl Kear, North Main Street, Poland, received his Eagle Scout award, Boy Scouting's highest honor, at Poland United Methodist Church on April 8.
He is a member Troop 2 and Hank Zimmermann is scoutmaster.
In 1990, Kear joined Cub Scout Pack 2, earned his Arrow of Light award in 1993 and became a member of Boy Scout Troop 2. He has held many positions in the troop including patrol leader, junior assistant scoutmaster, scribe and senior patrol leader.
He earned 25 merit badges. During summer 1998, he and a select group of fellow scouts hiked part of the Appalachian Trail.
His Eagle service project was to benefit the Poland Municipal Forest. He directed a scout crew in building, finishing and installing a picnic table in the park.
Kear is a member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and was a member of its youth group. He attends Youngstown State University.
Another recipient
Brett Barringer, a son of Betsy Barringer of Lisbon and Gary Barringer of East Liverpool, received his Eagle Scout award at a court of honor in New Lisbon Presbyterian Church.
He is a member of Troop 95, which meets in the church. Randy Crothers is Scoutmaster.
Barringer served as a Tiger Cub and Cub Scout and earned his Arrow of Light award, Cub Scouting's highest award. He became a Boy Scout in the fifth grade.
He has earned 27 merit badges and is a member of Order of the Arrow and has earned his fifth-year Pipestone Award. He has held positions of assistant patrol leader and junior and senior patrol leader.
For his Eagle service project, he raised $2,000 to pay for supplies and materials to rebuild the Willow Grove Park Bridge, to scrape and paint the park pavilions and replace signs in the park. He led a team of 25 volunteers in completing the project.
He is a senior at David Anderson High School, where he is a member of National Honor Society, was a three-year varsity football letterman, four-year member of track and participated in several weight-lifting competitions in the region. He also was a tutor in algebra, geometry, history and Spanish.
He was a volunteer in the community for Habitat for Humanity, participated in the CROP Walk and was a Salvation Army bell ringer. He is a member of the church, its adult choir and was a church camp counselor.
HONORS
Struthers grad's salute
Patricia Ringos Beach, formerly of Struthers, recently was named one of five outstanding women of Toledo for 2001 at a ceremony at the Franciscan Center in Toledo.
The St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center Auxiliary annually salutes women who demonstrate commitment to family, their professions and their community.
Beach, a Struthers High School graduate, has been a nurse for 25 years. She works at St. Vincent as a clinical nurse specialist who provides care to terminally ill patients.
Beach graduated from St. Elizabeth Health Center's School of Nursing and began her career as a staff nurse in the surgical intensive care units of St. Elizabeth and Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from Capital University, Columbus, and in 1994, received her master's degree in nursing from the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.
She is an adjunct assistant professor at the Medical College of Ohio's School of Nursing. She also spent five years as an instructor at Toledo Hospital School of Nursing.
Beach, a daughter of Paul and Rose Ringos of Struthers, also is involved in several local and national nursing organizations and has long been active in community affairs in the Toledo area.
She is married and has two daughters.
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