19 April 2009
Sunday’s Golden Girls – 04/19/2009
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Colorado
On April 27, Lauren DeGeorge, a Girl Scout from Fort Collins who attends Fossil Ridge High School, will receive the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts.
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Lauren made 80 Boredom Buster Bags filled with activities for children to do while they are staying at Poudre Valley Hospital. When she was in third grade, Lauren had surgery and stayed in the hospital for three days, and she remembers being bored because there was nothing to do but watch TV. For her Gold Award project, she collected donations of markers, coloring books, puzzles, Play Doh, reading books, nail polish and stuffed animals to fill the bags. Lauren’s friends and family helped put the bags together.
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On April 27, five teens from Littleton will receive the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts. Shauna Booton, Rebekah Boudar, Cada Fabian, Kristyn Kellner and Hannah Leigh have demonstrated exceptional dedication to the Girl Scout Law’s commitment to “making the world a better place” through their community service.
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While in high school at Chatfield, Shauna Booton was in a PE class that combines typical students with students with disabilities and was a partner on the school’s adult Unified Basketball team. Shauna wanted to make the athletes on Chatfield’s Unified Program feel like a real team and that meant they needed full uniforms. She planned open gym nights for the athletes to raise money to buy basketball uniform shorts for Chatfield’s 40 Unified Basketball athletes. Shauna also created brochures and Power Point presentations and wrote newspaper articles to make her community aware of Chatfield’s Unified Program.
Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, are problems faced by many adolescents. Rebekah Boudar wanted to address the issue for fifth-graders and help them understand that there is no definition of beautiful and everyone is who they are for a reason. Rebekah worked with 140 12-year-olds, having them fill out a questionnaire and reflect about how they feel about how they look and how others look around them. She enlightened them about problems they might face in society about image, including eating disorders, and how they might act or what they might do to try and change their appearance because of what others think.
Cada Fabian’s passion for culinary arts and volunteering in her community led her to create a cookbook and teach cooking classes at Warren Village, a transitional housing facility for single parents. Frugalicious, a budget and user-friendly cookbook, became a tool to teach the women at Warren Village how to budget their money for grocery shopping by using the weekly shopping list in the book Cada created. She also helped the residents to see how easy and fun cooking can be and gave each student in her class a reusable grocery bag filled with the ingredients to make one of the recipes in the book. Cada plans to continue teaching classes at Warren Village while attending culinary school.
Sometimes better than the big dance is getting ready for the big dance, and Kristyn Kellner hoped to help bring that princess-for-a-day feeling to the girls at North High School for their prom. Originally she was going to hold a dress drive and two events – one to pick out a dress and get measurements for alterations and then a second the day before the prom doing hair, nails and make-up. Over the course of the project, it changed to one huge dress drive as the focus and one event to distribute the dresses and make-up to the girls before their prom.
Blankets and stuffed animals give children a sense of security, and Hannah Leigh knew that children dealing with homelessness could use a bit of security and stability. For her Gold Award project, Hannah made tied fleece blankets and collected donations of 224 stuffed animals for the Jeffco Action Center, a nonprofit homeless shelter that houses men, women and families while they work on self-sufficiency plans. Hannah also held a workshop for members of other Girl Scout troops and children in her neighborhood. During the workshop she taught them how to make the fleece blankets, and the group made 20 blankets to be donated.
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Connecticut
In the news: Rebecca Morea, 18, of Gales Ferry received the Gold Award by The Girl Scouts of the USA at a ceremony last month at Temple Emanu-El in Waterford.
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For her community project, Morea performed an energy audit on two units at the Ledyard Senior Housing Authority complex, then worked on repairs on seven more units, based on the results of the audit. She and a group of volunteers sealed leaks, replaced standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, and replaced shower heads and faucets with water-saving versions. Rebecca found an organization that had a federal grant to pay for repairs so seniors would not have to cover them.
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Massachesetts
Westborough resident Anne Blackney has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award and will be honored at a ceremony at the Crowne Plaza in Worcester on May 3.
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Anne’s Gold Award Project, entitled “Safe Running Routes in Westborough, MA” grew out of her passion and skill as a runner. After her teammate was hit by a car on the road, Ruggles Street was deemed an unsafe running route for the Westborough High School track teams. In response Anne started to research safe running routes around town. She developed a booklet with maps and directions to and from safe running routes for both novice and experienced runners. This booklet, which also includes safe running tips, can be found at the Westborough Public Library, the Westborough Recreation Department and the PR Running Store. An additional aspect of her project was organizing a “Fun Run” for community members on one of these safe running routes. The 5K run was well attended in spite of the cold and rain on the day of the event, and all participants received a list of running tips and a copy of her booklet. Anne is a dedicated runner and wants to share this passion with others who might come to love these local routes.
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Minnesota
Laura Anderson, Britta Gahm and Elizabeth (Elle) Golden worked together to develop and complete a service project for the community to earn that Gold Award. (The Gold Award is similar to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Rank.)
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The year-long project included sprucing up Rec Park, Reineke Park and Riverview Park, then holding an “Art in the Park” event for youngsters at Rec Park.
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Each of the three Gold Award winners put in about 90 hours of work on their service project (over 270 hours total).
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On Saturday, April 25 at 12:30 p.m., the girls will be honored at the Gold Award Ceremony at St. Mary’s Church.
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New Jersey
Jennifer Okulewicz collected medication and medical supplies for the Bishop Asili Clinic in addition to making many community presentations about the health issues in the East African country. The senior at Jackson Memorial High School collected medications and medical supplies through drives at St. Aloysius and St. Monica’s parishes. She also conducted a coin drive through the religious education classes and raised more than $2,818 for the clinic.
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Okulewicz is one of more than 30 girls from Monmouth and Ocean counties who have already earned a Gold Award this year from the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore.
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North Carolina
Hannah Grace Richards of Raleigh has been awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. For her Gold Award project, Hannah wanted to strengthen relationships and create an interest in youth missions at Lifepointe Church in Raleigh. She made a CD library and floor pillows for a new youth room, creating a more teen-friendly atmosphere. She also created a record-keeping process for youth mission trips and yearly activities.
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Jennifer Rose Kueffer of Chapel Hill has been awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.
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For her Gold Award project, Jennifer created a political awareness club at Chapel Hill High School. The club hosted a mock vote in which nearly 1,000 students participated. Members also organized early voting marches to encourage parents to vote.
Stephanie Cogdill of Raleigh and Suzanne Elizabeth Akers of Wake Forest have been awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. For her Gold Award project, Stephanie repainted a room at North Raleigh United Methodist Church that is used for the children’s church and Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network. She also helped make pillows and new curtains for the room. Suzanne’s Gold Award Project was to create a children’s library at North Raleigh United Methodist Church.
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Oklahoma
Local Girl Scout Brittany Fannon, a senior at Lexington High School, is among those being recognized with a Gold Award this year. Fannon decided to use her Gold Award project to help provide a little extra warmth and comfort to the elderly residents of the Lexington Nursing home and Rivermont Retirement community by designing and making fleece blankets to fit over their wheelchairs.
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West Virginia
Rachel Morgan Wallace of Charleston and Katherine Morris of Madison have been named Girl Scout Gold Award recipients. Rachel’s Gold Award project involved setting up an after-school Spanish Club at Watts Elementary in Charleston. The project addressed a lack of after-school activities and foreign language opportunities at the school. Katherine’s Gold Award project addressed the need to learn about mind, body and soul.
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