Staff Reports

FORT PAYNE- Seth Hill, Ladd Engineering and Ben Shurett will be honored as this year’s recipients of the Boy Scouts of America, Greater Alabama Council, Sequoyah District Heart of an Eagle Award.

The Heart of an Eagle Award is given to deserving individuals and companies who have demonstrated leadership, character, and integrity in their service to the community, their profession, and their country. It symbolizes strength and compassion and demonstrates that leadership and philanthropy go hand-in-hand in serving your fellow man. The award is unique to the Greater Alabama Council, Boy Scouts of America. This is the seventeenth year that this award has been presented to deserving members of our community. The Sequoyah District serves DeKalb County. The Greater Alabama Council encompasses the twenty-two northern counties of Alabama. 

Seth Hill

Ladd Engineering

Ben Shurett 

The honorees will be recognized at the Sequoyah District’s seventeenth annual American Values Dinner, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at Fort Payne First Methodist Church, 206 Grand Avenue NW, Fort Payne, Alabama.  

This year’s keynote speaker will be Chris Stewart. Chris has been a broadcaster since 1988, and has been the Alabama’s men’s basketball play-by-play announcer for the Crimson Tide Sports Network since 2002.

In addition to that role, Stewart also serves as the play-by play announcer  for CTSN’s radio coverage of Crimson Tide Football and as the television host of “The Kalen DeBoer Show” and “The Nate Oats Show,” along with hosting “Hey Coach” during the football and basketball seasons.

Stewart also served as the radio play-by-play announcer for Bama Baseball for 24 seasons.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Montevallo, Stewart was honored with the school’s 2009 Alumni Achievement Award, and was a 2021 inductee into the UM Athletics Hall of Fame.

On six occasions he has also been named “Alabama Sportscaster of the Year” by the National Sports Media Association..

For information about attending the event, please contact Nathan Austin at naustin78@hotmail.com, Sequoyah District Executive or Bill Mitchell at bmitch1948@gmail.com, Friends of Scouting Chairman, Stephen Eberhart.