By ROBERT LINNEHAN
Joel Eisner spent over 900 hours successfully achieving his Eagle Scout ranking and the members of the Evesham Township Council felt he deserved another reward for his effort. The council approved a commendation for Eisner, for achieving the highest honor the Boy Scouts of America can bestow upon a scout.
Deputy Mayor Joe Howarth presented Eisner with his commendation and lauded the Scout’s Eagle Scout project, in which he retired over 2,000 worn American Flags. Eisner collected flags from the local VFWs, American Legions, and other sources throughout the state and the nation.
Howarth, the district Scout chair of District Four in Burlington County, was actually Eisner’s Scout Master when Eisner was a young Scout in Troop 49.
Eisner said the flags were retired by burning them in a special ceremony.
“We retired the flags respectively. We didn’t just toss them in all at once,” he said.
Eisner has displayed leadership abilities, fine character and earned the necessary skill awards and merit badges required for his award, Howarth said. It’s a great honor for him to receive this and its always the township’s pleasure to commend a young Scout like Eisner, he said.
