Bingham High School senior Brad Jencks is the Utah winner of the 2009 AXA Achievement Scholarship In association with U.S. News and World Report.
The teen has dedicated much of the past five years of his life to improving the Bingham City Cemetery and researching the lives of those buried there.
When the project began, his intention was to dedicate 100 hours in pursuit of his Eagle. He has since donated more than 6,000 hours to cemetery projects.
With the help of more than 2,000 volunteers, Brad replaced and preserved grave markers, discovered the identities of some 1,100 unknown burials, wrote a 1,500-page historical book about the cemetery, authored a military war hero book, and installed a “wall of honor” for 1,825 burials, a new fence, an information center and a monument honoring veterans of six years.
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