Today is the annual Day of Service and Giving on what would have been the 23rd birthday of an Eagle Grove boy. Aaron Eilerts was 14 when he was killed by a tornado that hit the Boy Scout camp in Harrison County in 2008. Beth Stephas, a counselor at Robert Blue Middle...
Iowans are being asked to perform a good deed on Wednesday, the statewide "Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving." The annual day honors Eilerts, a teenager from Eagle Grove who was killed along with three fellow Boy Scouts when a tornado hit their Harrison County...
Tuesday will mark the annual Day of Service and Giving in Iowa in honor of Aaron Eilerts of Eagle Grove. Eilerts was among four Boy Scouts who were killed when a tornado hit their camp in western Iowa's Harrison County in June of 2008. Scott Jeske is the principal of...
This is the Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving in Iowa on what would have been the 20th birthday of the young man from Eagle Grove. Eilerts was one of four Boy Scouts who were killed when a tornado hit their camp in western Iowa six years ago this June. Beth...
The fifth annual Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving is Sunday on what would have been his 19th birthday. Eilerts was the Boy Scout from Eagle Grove who was killed, along with three others, when a tornado hit the Scout camp in Harrison County in June of 2008....
Today marks the third annual "Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving" in Iowa. The day honors the Boy Scout from Eagle Grove who volunteered his time in numerous projects in his community. Eilerts and three other Scouts died in June of 2008 when a tornado hit the...
Iowans remembered a young man from north-central Iowa Wednesday with the 2nd annual Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving. Across the state, school children and others took part in service projects to honor the boy scout who died - along with three other scouts - in...
Around 70 communities across the state recognized the extraordinary life of an Iowa teenager Tuesday while performing various service projects in their towns. The first ever Aaron Eilerts Day of Service and Giving included a ceremony in Eilerts' home town of...
A group of students at a school in Eagle Grove is working to raise money for a project to remember a classmate who was killed this summer when a tornado ripped through a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa. Aaron Eilerts and three other Boy Scouts from Nebraska died in the...
The 14-year-old Iowa Boy Scout who died in a tornado that struck the Little Sioux Boy Scout Camp in June was honored at the statehouse Wednesday. Aaron Eilerts was honored with a special certificate at the Robert D. Blue Scholarship ceremony, an award given in the...