John Glenn High School receives new sign from student

ZANESVILLE, OHIO- As part of his eagle scout community service project, John Glenn High School Senior, Blake Cooper also wanted to commemorate John Glenn’s basketball state championship by making them a sign.

Cooper said that he placed the sign outside the school’s entrance so that people traveling on state route 83 could view the sign as well as those who are turning in and out of the high school, middle school, and the intermediate school.

“It’s really a memorial to the hard work and dedication that the boys put in earlier this year,” said Cooper.  “In addition to it just being my sign, I just wanted to do something for the school, because I know the school didn’t have anything planned to do along with it.  So I figured if anyone was going to do it, it might as well be me.”

Cooper said that with the help of his cousin, they designed and created the sign using a 3-d router.

“The sign is completely 3-d routed and it’s layered so it catches the light of your eye.”

Cooper said that joined the scouts back when he was just 6-years-old as a cub scout and it’s been his dream to earn his eagle scout.

“The process for becoming an eagle involves that I have to plan the project, raise money for it, construct the project.  Now I have to do the report phase where I talk about what went well, what went bad and what I learned as a leader.”

Cooper said that this project wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the Community Bank in New Concord, Century National Bank in New Concord, Orme’s Do It Best Hardware, Buckeye Water Services, Riesbeck’s Food Markets, Guernsey-Muskingum Electric Cooperative and Homeland Reality.