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Eagle Scout Beautifies Concord Elementary with Butterflies

Lindbergh High School freshman Joey Musial and his Brentwood Boy Scout troop built a butterfly garden for elementary school students.

freshman Joey Musial recently built a butterfly garden at for his Eagle Scout project.

At Truman Elementary School, Joey and his classmates in the Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students visited the school’s butterfly on several occasions during classroom activities. However, when Truman students moved to Concord in 2011, they no longer had access to a butterfly garden.

Joey’s project has provided a solution by giving back to the PEGS community while also fulfilling his Eagle Project requirement.

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Joey’s fellow Scouts in Troop 361 from Brentwood assisted with the project, and Tom Krauska (aka Tom Terrific, the butterfly man) lent his expertise and donated the plants.

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