BERN TWP., Pa. – An Eagle Scout project in Bern Township is making it possible for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors.<\/p>\n
Exeter senior Gavin Wanner designed and constructed a new accessible fishing pier at Blue Marsh Lake.<\/p>\n
Officials held a ribbon cutting for it Friday.<\/p>\n
Wanner spent more than 700 hours working on the project, raising more than $35,000, recruiting other volunteers and even managing changes through the government shutdown.<\/p>\n
He said it was all about filling a need in the community.<\/p>\n
“This specific project had been on her list, so it was definitely in need,” Gavin said.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also recognized Wanner today, awarding him the Corps’ Foundation Volunteer Excellence Coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. – An Eagle Scout project in Bern Township is making it possible for everyone to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2567,38170,23571,78593,78594,128,130,129,12960],"class_list":["post-175371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bern-township","tag-blue-marsh-lake","tag-eagle-scout","tag-gavin-wanner","tag-pier","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-u-s-army-corps-of-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}