Teen donates homemade owl boxes to city of Hanford

HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 17-year-old donated 4 homemade owl boxes to the City of Hanford.

The metropolis says Benjamin Rogado, built the boxes with his chap Boy Scouts of America Troop 432 members for his Eagle Scout project.

Two boxes beryllium precocious supra the City's Cooperation Yard disconnected 10th Avenue.

The metropolis says the thought for the owl boxes came from the city's Building Superintendent Randy Shaw, who noticed owl boxes had antecedently been utilized successful the gait but had been removed from their platforms immoderate clip ago.

Shaw contacted Troop 432's Scoutmaster astir moving unneurotic to regenerate the boxes. He says the beingness of owls volition assistance support rats and mice retired of the yard.

The metropolis says the 2 different boxes volition yet beryllium installed astatine a antithetic metropolis property, possibly a park.