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Scout completes project for

Enon Volunteer Fire Department

BY LINDA FAUSZ

PHOTOS COURTESY OF LISA TATUM

FIRE CHIEF RUSSELL WHITE WAS IM-
PRESSED WITH HOW THE TABLE TURNED
OUT.

organizing the project,” he said.
Tatum loves big storms, hurricanes,
predicting the weather, camping, and
the outdoors. He plays the clarinet in
JACOB TATUM, CENTER, HAD AN OFFICIAL UNVEILING OF HIS TABLE AT THE FIRE STATION MONDAY NIGHT. PICTURED FROM LEFT: the Thomas Dale Marching Band, is a
CAPTAIN CHRIS TAYLOR, FORMER SCOUTMASTER, ANDREW ALLISON, TROOP 922 SCOUTMASTER SCOTT HURLEY, ZACHARY HUR- member of the Honors Music Society
LEY, TATUM AND HIS DAD, JEFF TATUM, ETHAN ENGLISH AND FIRE CHIEF RUSSELL WHITE. ENGLISH IS HAVING A BLOOD DRIVE AT Tri-M, and is taking an AP class, Human
THE FIRE STATION ON FEB. 17 11 A.M. TO 3 P.M. FOR HIS EAGLE PROJECT. Geography. He also has two sisters, Allie
Jacob Tatum, a freshman at Thomas before his fifteenth birthday. and the number 343 on either side in the and Megan.
Dale High School, knew he wanted to be “It took a lot longer than I thought, middle of the table.
an Eagle Scout when he became a Tiger but with my leadership experience, He doesn’t have the hours spent
Cub Scout eight years ago in the Scouting it wasn’t too bad,” said Tatum. “My tallied yet, but says he feels it is between
program at Bermuda Hundred United troop and Scout Masters, now Scott 40 and 60. The table will serve as a
Methodist Church. He took on leadership Hurley, [Allison has retired] were very meal table, but with the finery of the
roles, and he has been a patrol leader in supportive.” construction, it will also serve as a very
Boy Scout Troop 922 since the age of 11. Tatum’s project was a table for the respectable conference table.
The honor roll student’s ambitions are to fire department. He had another project “I am very proud of Jacob,” said him
attend college, in mind, but when he thought about the mother, Lisa Tatum. “He is a good boy,
to become a community fire department and wondered [he] has determination, and [he is] good
meteorologist, if they needed anything, he said they at setting goals. He is my sunshine.”
have a family, really would like a place at which they all His father is also proud of him.
and to lead a could sit down for a meal together. “I think he did an awesome job on JACOB TATUM DIRECTS HIS TEAM ON
Boy Scout unit. Volunteer Tom Evans was his first SETTING THE TABLE IN PLACE.
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