13 January 2009
Sunday’s Golden Girls – 01/13/2009 (thought I forgot, didn’t you?)
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California
Leanna Morinishi, an MIT freshman, and Jillia Fongheiser, a UC Berkeley freshman, have earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, Scouting’s highest honor. For their projects, Fongheiser, who graduated from Westlake High School, created blankets for women and children at the Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Oxnard. Morinishi refurbished a day care center in the inner city of Los Angeles.
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Massachusetts
Yearbook editor, telethon host, field hockey all star…Cori Sullivan is a familiar figure at Maynard High School. An assistant Girl Scout leader, she earned a Girl Scout Gold award for her work with a program designed to educate fellow students and community members about eating disorders, and works with second-grade girl scouts at Green Meadow Elementary School.
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Mariah Dunn, recent recipient of the Girl Scout’s highest award, the Gold Award, will demonstrate various hands-on science activities that she developed as part of the science camp for girls which she ran this past summer.
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New Jersey
Faryn Pearl, a junior at Holmdel High School, has been a Girl Scout ever since she was in kindergarten. She has also been ice-skating since the age of 3. Lauren Lechner, 16, of Tinton Falls also loves ice-skating and has been skating since the age of 5. The two paired skates to work on their Girl Scout Gold Award and hosted a day of free ice-skating at their local ice rink. The two organized the free National Skating Day held Jan. 3 at the Gold Coast Arena in Wall for their Girl Scout Gold Award project.
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New York
Nadine Peck, an 18-year-old Sidney High School graduate, will receive the Gold Award at a ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Congregational Church in Sidney. Peck had to achieve a number of steps to receive the award, capped off by her community service project, which was completed in September, she said. It involved landscaping the area at the corner of Pearl and Delaware streets, including building a retaining wall. The site holds the sign that was part of her brother’s Boy Scout Eagle project.
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Virginia
Altavista’s Erin Hudgins earns the Gold Award, the highest honor given by Girls Scouts of America.
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