HORTONVILLE — For Hortonville High School cross-country runner Silas Hutchinson, the inspiration to take on one of the most ambitious Eagle Scout projects in recent Outagamie County memory came during a sudden downpour.
“What originally gave me the idea was a practice where we all met at the trail, and it was overcast and started to rain,” Hutchinson recalled. “We had our backpacks and all our school gear, and everyone was scrambling like, ‘Open up the car! We need to get our stuff in so it doesn’t get wet!’ I thought about how nice it would have been if we had something to stand under.”
On Saturday morning, that vision became a permanent community landmark as Outagamie County officials, local leaders, family members, and volunteers gathered at the Wiouwash State Trailhead off Lakeview Avenue to cut the ribbon on a brand-new 16-by-24-foot timber-frame pavilion…