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10 | December 5, 2019 | The wilmette beacon NEWS wilmettebeacondaily.com MAKE YOUR WINTER BREAK BOARDING RESERVATIONS NOW! CARRIAGE HILL KENNELS HAPPY HOLIDAYS FREE 1 DAY OF DOG or CAT BOARDING (Min. 3 Night Stay) Cannot be combined with any other offers. One coupon per customer. Expires 1-15-20. BOARDING • GROOMING • BATHING • SWIMMING • TRAINING 2218 Waukegan Road, Glenview www.carriagehillkennels.com • (847) 724-0270 Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 3 days ago Wilmette student remodels community basement for Eagle Scout project Hilary Anderson Freelance Reporter Alex Bailey searched for a project that would benefit both the community and help him earn his Eagle Scout Award. He looked at several possible projects. The Wilmette Boy Scout, member of Troop 2 and New Trier High School sophomore, learned through his mother’s friend the space in the Winnetka Community House’s basement where the Winnetka Youth Organization, held its drop-in center and other events for teens, badly needed a new floor. “The flooring was old,” said Lynne Levernier, chairman-WYO. “An area there had just been flooded so some of the tiles needed to be replaced as well.” Bailey talked with his scout leader, Steve Galindo, members of his scout troop and other friends, secured their help and decided replacing the tile floor would be his Eagle Scout project. It proved to be no small undertaking, not an easy one especially since the area was not open floor space. There were many things to consider. Measurements had to be taken — figuring out how to factor in the posts in the basements and openings such as doors and windows. Bailey brought his family along and sought the help of the Northbrook Lowe’s store staff person, Mike Stoeckle. He proved to be instrumental in helping Bailey decide on the best product and how to correctly install the flooring. “It was hard figuring out what was the best option in flooring for the WYO’s space,” Bailey said. “There were so many possibilities. Then we had to learn what supplies were needed, make a list along with the required tools. We discovered it would be necessary to do an overlay on the tile.” Fortunately, the WYO had just held a fundraiser so there was money in the budget for the necessary supplies according to Levernier. The job seemed enormous but Bailey was relentless. Even those who were not experienced in laying a new floor offered assistance in some way. “Alex spent many of his free hours at Lowe’s,” looking at samples, reading about each product’s benefit, talking to its staff and sought the advice and help of yet other adults who had experience doing similar jobs,” said Grainne Bailey, Alex’s mother. “We viewed several You- Tube videos that showed what to do. Alex finally wrote up a proposal.” The choice made for flooring was luxury vinyl tile. The weekend to install the flooring arrived. Bailey and a crew of about 20 scouts and other volunteers spent Friday night before the actual installation moving furniture and scrubbing the old floor. Alex Bailey, a sophomore at New Trier High School, begins his work for an Eagle Scout badge at Winettka Community House. Photo submitted “Many adults who arrived Saturday morning to drop-off their kids who volunteered, stayed to help as well,” Grainne Bailey said. “There were sign-in sheets. We counted more than 100 man-hours of work that weekend putting in the flooring. Ten people actually spent two tenhour days working on the project.” Pizzas fed the hungry throughout the process. “Putting in the flooring was not all the group did,” Grainne Bailey said. “They had to install the finishing touches like baseboards. It was learning on the job. There were things to consider we never anticipated—like how to cut properly.” Bailey now will write about his completed efforts to install a new floor for the WYO’s teen dropin center at the Winnetka Community House for his Eagle Scout badge. Full story at Wilmette- Beacon.com.
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