5 November 2008
Nice Cap on a Frustrating Hoax
Posted by admin under: community service .
A Kentucky Girl Scout troop was taken in by a hoax that has been circulating among troops out east. It’s the same one I posted about a couple months ago: collect bottle caps to pay for cancer treatments. The UPI says the Kentucky troop turned those frowns upside down, though, because they actually found a use for their misled good deed.
The Girl Scouts of America Kentucky Wilderness Council Troop 1050 from Highland Heights, Ky., like other local residents, believed they were helping to pay for a boy’s cancer treatment by collecting bottle caps. But the disappointment that came from learning the boy didn’t exist turned to happiness when the girls found out a Minnesota hair products maker could really use the caps to help the environment, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Tuesday.
Aveda Corp. of Blaine, Minn., operates a bottle cap recycling program to make new metal caps rather than plastic caps for its shampoo and other products, company officials told the newspaper.
How about that? What a great way to overcome someone else’s attitude. It’s all part of being a strong Girl Scout.
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