MILESTONES || Champion grad honored at White House

MILESTONES

HONORS

White House visit

Morgan Tracey, a 1999 graduate of Champion High School, was honored last week at the White House for her work building homes for low-income families as part of AmeriCorps, serving as firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, and other activities.

She passed the bar exam in 2010 and is part of the United States National Skeleton Program, training at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. with a goal of competing in the Winter Olympics.

Skeleton is a fast winter-sliding sport in which an person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down.

Morgan was honored as one of 12 AmeriCorps alums who are “Champions of Change.” Such leaders demonstrate how AmeriCorps alumni have leveraged their national service experience to become influential in their careers and leaders in their communities, according to a press release from the White House.

SCOUTS

Eagle Award

Alexander J.J. Green, 17, of Salem, has earned his Eagle Scout Award and had his court-of-honor ceremony earlier this month at Salem Hills Golf and Country Club.

Alexander is a member of Troop 6, Salem, in the Sandy Beaver District of the Buckeye Council. He earned 21 merit badges. Scoutmaster is Terry McElroy.

For his Eagle Scout community service project, Alexander assisted the Salem ReStore, part of Habitat for Humanity Columbiana County, by placing a brick sidewalk, landscaping, painting trim on signs, porches and doors, weeding the lawn and resurfacing the organization’s driveway.

Alexander is a member of St. Paul Church and is a senior at Cardinal Mooney High School, where he is involved in the school’s Link Crew, drama club, art club, Card Control program, student council and the soccer team.

He is the grandson of Eugene and Judith Herbick of Salem, with whom he lives, James and Linda Avona of Boardman, and Velma Green of Warren.

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