9 November 2008
Sunday’s Golden Girls – 11/09/2008
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California
Madison Murphy completed the highest award a girl can earn in Girl Scouts, the Gold Award. For her project, Madison created a time capsule that was buried at the new Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto. Major contributions to the time capsule included a “Star Wars” action figure donated by George Lucas, tickets from YES Company’s “Seussical,” church donations, a Townsend Opera Players feathered mask and many other items. The time capsule was placed in the ground during the opening ceremonies of the Gallo Center and will be opened in 75 years.
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Katie Clabeaux, a senior at Agoura High School, helped to reorganize the shelving at the Manna food pantry as her project for her Girl Scout Gold Award, the organization’s highest honor.
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Planting trees was a “golden activity” for Emily Elam, a local Girl Scout and senior at Valencia High School. Elam and a team of volunteers planted 27 pepper trees on Oct 18 at The Gentle Barn, a local nonprofit animal sanctuary and host for at-risk and special-needs children.
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Maryland
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council announced Monday that Emily K. Rosser of Accident has received the Girl Scout Gold Award®. Emily is the first Gold Award recipient in Garrett County since Misty Moon earned her award over 20 years ago. Her Gold Award project, “The Wandering Wigwam,” is a fully portable and authentic Eastern woodlands Native American structure. Emily’s project was made possible by sponsorship of the Garrett County Chamber of Commerce. The wigwam serves as a visual history lesson of Garrett County’s early residents for area students and the general public. The wigwam is still being shared by members of the Garrett County Girl Scout community.
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Ohio
The girls from Westerville Girl Scout Troop 1011 continue bringing home the gold. Two more girls from the troop recently earned the Gold Award, the highest title possible in Girl Scouts. Samantha Rader, a graduate of Westerville North High School, is a freshman at Otterbein College. Allison Hrabak, also a North graduate, is a freshman at Wright State University.
According to troop co-leader Shelley Schultheis, Rader’s project was titled “Self-Esteem, Shining Through to the Real You,” and focused on homeless and at-risk girls who are counseled by professionals at Southeast Inc., a recovery and mental health care service in downtown Columbus.
Hrabak’s project was called “Columbus Colony Culture,” and involved interviewing many of the residents of Columbus Colony Nursing Home on Sunbury Road, according to Schultheis. Hrabak interviewed the residents, many of whom were deaf or blind, about their families, careers, hobbies, likes and dislikes, and what they enjoy at Columbus Colony. “The main goal of this Gold Award project was to raise the self-esteem of the elderly residents who do not have visitors very often,” Schultheis said.
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Pennsylvania
Sheri Snyder has earned Girl Scouting’s top honor, the Gold Award. For her Gold Award project, Sheri organized an open house at the Carbon County Environmental Education Center in order to promote the center, located on Lentz Trail.
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