NORWAY — Market Square Health Care Center recently installed window boxes made and donated by Ryan Lebroke of West Paris, an Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School senior.

Lebroke made the boxes and donated them as part of community service in his pursuit of his Eagle Scout rank. He is in Troop 133, West Paris. Lebroke has been in the Scouts for years, beginning as a Cub Scout at age 7. Nick Diconzo has been his leader during his entire scouting career.

Lebroke’s final project culminated with the building of the 25 boxes to be installed at Market Square along the front of the building outside the dining hall windows and along the Tuttle parking lot side of the building. Lebroke has spent the majority of the summer working on the project and was able to get flowers donated to fill some of the boxes.

Materials for the potting the plants were donated also. Warren and Mary Emery, his grandparents, donated nails. The landscaping fund at Market Square Health Care Center was used to purchase lumber, brackets and stain. All of the boxes are pressure treated and lined.

Market Square maintenance employees will paint them over the winter to ensure that they last for many years.

The idea began with former Market Square Administrator Phil DuBois asking a few years ago for someone who was pursuing Eagle Scout status to help build window boxes. Lebroke’s mother, Denise, works in the accounting office at Western Maine Health and approached DuBois when Lebroke started to get close to the final project for his Eagle Scout award.

Bonnie McAllister, director of dietary for Market Square, received the boxes on Aug. 26 and said the boxes with flowers would be installed by Lebroke with help from Market Square employee Regis Landry. The rest of the boxes will be put up next spring. She said, “The residents will enjoy years of beautiful flowers thanks to Ryan.”

Market Square Health Care Center is an affiliate of Western Maine Health, which is part of the Maine Health® family. Visit Western Maine Health on the Internet at www.wmhcc.org.