BY BILL MORGAN STAFF WRITER
The local Girl Scouts held a “Court of Awards” event last week to recognize all achievements the girls have made throughout this past year.
The troops have been active with many activities. They also had two troops complete their Bronze Award activities.
The Girl Scout Bronze Award — the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can earn — requires the scout to learn the leadership and planning skills necessary to follow through on a project that makes a positive impact on her community. Working towards this award demonstrates her commitment to helping others, improving her community and becoming the best she can be. The scout must do 20 hours of service.
Troops receiving the Bronze Award are following:
Troop 159. Their focus was helping homeless animals. The girls made tie blankets, catnip toys and homemade dog biscuits to sell at the Becker Community Center craft fair.
With help from their community, Troop 159 was able to raise money to buy a lot of dog food and supplies, cat food and supplies, and even small critter food and supplies. The troop partnered up with Ruff Start Rescue in Princeton and donated all of their food and supplies to them.
Their message is simple, “ Adopt. Rescue. Love”.
Troop 782. Their bronze award project was creating birthday bags full of goodies for a birthday party, such as cake, balloons, party hats, decorations and $5 gift card, etc.
Troop 782 donated 25 of the birthday bags to Compassion Connection in Becker, that helps foster families. A special thank you to Kamal Fakherddine and Riverside Family Dental for the generous donation.
Other news
• The girls scouts also recognized Jalissa Johnson for her Gold Award project;
• This year, the Girl Scouts had five troops bridge to the next level from daisy, brownie, junior, cadette, senior, ambassador, and adult;
• This is current service unit coordinator Jean Schmidt’s last year as SU coordinator, but she plans to continue participating in day camp;
• Troop 411 is the first troop from UR service unit to bridge into adulthood. These four girls have been together since 1st grade.
The Girl Scouts is a great program that helps girls mature into capable young women and sets them up for success. The local scouts have had a great year and the SU looks forward to next year in hopes of continuing to grow their program.
