“On February 28, a local Boy Scout troop celebrated the first time scouts from that troop have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout,” Glendale News Press reports.

“The event was hosted for scouts Armen Ter-Zakarian and Matthew Diradoorian. The young scouts belong to Troop Ari 4 of the Homenetmen Glendale Ararat chapter, Troop 154,” the source says.

Ter-Zakarian, 18 beautified an abandoned part of Fremont Park in Glendale by planting trees within the framework of Eagle Scout project. Diradoorian, 16, painted the letters of the Armenian alphabet with correlating images for the Chamlian Armenian School.

Homenetmen is an Armenian organization of scouting and sporting activities for young people Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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