Local man to receive Scout award

Mark Standring, 18, son of Jim and Lori Standring of Crescent City, is set to receive the highest award of the Boy Scouts of America, the Eagle Scout Award, at a ceremony scheduled for Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Cultural Hall, 1031 A St. The public is welcome.

Standring is a 2011 graduate of Del Norte High School, where he was the marching band drum major, a 4.1 honor student, and a pole vaulter, triple and long jumper and relay team member on the track team.  Besides track, he was a letterman in tennis and soccer, receiving Honorable Mention All-League Honors for soccer.

During his freshman and sophomore years he was the class president and he played on the school’s basketball team. He sang baritone in the Madrigal Choir all four years of high school and accompanied the choir on trips to Germany and Europe, as well as Hawaii. He played lead tenor saxophone in the Stage Band all four years of high school, as well as clarinet, and tenor steel drum in other school bands and performed last year with the bands on a cruise ship to Mexico.

Other activities Standring has been involved with include the Crescent City Swim Team, Redwood Empire math tournaments, school newspaper, Boys State nominee, California Scholarship Federation, LDS Church Young Men’s program and leadership and the Boy Scouts of America. He was awarded several Del Norte scholarships, as well as a Brigham Young University full tuition scholarship for his first year of college this fall where he is currently majoring in Applied Physics.

As a Scout since before the age of 8, with Pack and Troop 66 in Crescent City, Standring has earned 29 Merit Badges and completed an Eagle Scout Service Project planning, organizing and supervising 25 people over a few months’ period involving an accumulation of 210 man-hours in renovating facilities at Lado Del Rio campground in Gasquet. The group installed a French drain system for the restrooms and constructed vent caps for the pipes on the roof of the building, as well as eradicating scotchbroom and non-native plant-species from the grounds.

Standring is the fifth in a succession of brothers to earn the Eagle Scout Award. His future plans include serving a mission for his church and continuing his college education.