Flagstaff siblings Matthew and Emma Hirning recently became the first brother-sister pair in the city both to earn the rank of Eagle Scout in the Scouts BSA.
Emma finished her Eagle requirements May 17 with a video on her school’s anti-bullying anonymous alert system. Matthew had constructed a tiny library for a retiring teacher at Cromer Elementary to earn the rank in 2020.
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