Joe Weingarten is someone publicly active in the Fishers and Geist area.  He was involved in the effort to fight annexation of Geist by the then-Fishers Town Council.  He was a major figure in the City Yes movement that successfully advocated for a Fishers city government with a strong mayor’s office.  Now, Joe serves as Chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party.

But Joe is being recognized for something apart from all those activities.  He is set to receive the National Alumnus of the Year Award from the Boy Scouts of America at a national meeting in Dallas during May.

He started his Boy Scout career while growing up in New York City, within the borough of Manhattan.

“The troop was kind of different from most in New York City in that we were a camping troop,” Joe says. “Every month we went up into the Catskills or Adirondacks, except for once a year when we had to go to a Boy Scout camp.”

Joe Weingarten is the 8th person to receive this honor.