On Sept. 27, 2025, Queen of Heaven parishioner Conor Edwards, 17, began work on his Eagle Scout project alongside 24 members of Boy Scout Troop 334. A junior at Green High School, Edwards plays tennis, performs saxophone as a squad leader in the marching band, and is a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club, the Academy of Scholars and Scholar Athlete program. He also serves as a student liaison for the Green Schools Foundation.
Friends, family members and his grandfather, Denny Loudermilk, joined him at 8 a.m. to begin the project under his supervision. After discussions with Queen of Heaven Pastor and fellow Eagle Scout Rev. David R. Durkee, Edwards chose to build a shrine dedicated to St. Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint. Troop 334 is chartered to Queen of Heaven Church.
The work crew installed a concrete walkway and extended it with landscape fabric and gravel. The new section, five feet wide and nine feet long, connects to the existing path leading from the pavilion past the Stations of the Cross and Angel Garden. Beyond the walkway, volunteers created a circular area 22 feet wide and 20 feet long, covered with gravel, and an adjoining triangular section bordered with pavers laid by Loudermilk. Three posts were set in this area to hold plaques…