26 October 2008
Sunday’s Golden Girls – 10/26/2008
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California
If anyone is the face of the Girl Scouts organization in Carmel Valley, it’s Olivia Lenz. Lenz had to shadow a professional for 40 hours, have 30 hours of leadership service and compete 65 hours of community service project. Lenz went above and beyond, logging 120 hours of community service. She organized and taught dance classes at three locations, in Barrio Logan, St. Vincent de Paul downtown and the Sudanese Refugee Center in North Park.
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Connecticut
The Girl Scout Gold Award was earned by Lacey Wildman, Samantha Morrill, Jessica Ireland and Christina Cormier. Their projects involved renovating a playground, repairing church statues, producing a cookbook, and creating a garden for children with disabilities.
Improving the Danbury Moose Lodge playground, at 75 Boulevard Drive, was Lacey Wildman’s project.
When Samantha Morrill, 18, set out to earn her Gold Award, she decided to focus her energy on the statues and gardens outside her church. “St. Edwards Church is a really big part of my life; I noticed the statues were really worn down. I probably put in 70 or 80 hours. Before it was all said and done I knew how to use a ton of different power tools.”
Jessica Ireland earned her Gold Award through the creation of “Zack’s Meal Book,” a recipe guide she wrote, bound and donated to the Scotty Fund of Bethel. A nonprofit, the Scotty Fund assists families with sick children by delivering meals and other services. The book contains more than 20 fast and easy meals that volunteers can prepare more efficiently.
Christina Cormier, 19, earned her Gold Award through creation of a sensory garden at Shelter Rock School. The garden, called Seasons of Serenity, is for children with disabilities, but what it does is bring students of all abilities together.
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Massachusetts
By Sari Star/Troop 1472
Thank you all for assisting me in my Girl Scout Gold Award Project, “Winchester Goes Green”!!! It was a great success-we built three recycle bins for the town, located on Ginn, Mullen, and McDonald fields. I also coordinated a workshop at the Winchester Public Library on Oct. 1.
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Minnesota
A Senior Girl Scout from Morris recently earned the highest honor in Girl Scouting, the Gold Award. The project was the History of Girl Scouting in Morris. Erin Koehntop earned the Girl Scout Gold Award through her effort of compiling data of the history of Girls Scouting in Morris. Erin worked on an exhibit that is displayed at the Stevens County Historical Society.
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Chrisana Pokorny and Catherine Brown each completed the requirements to earn a Girl Scout Gold Award. The girls developed, organized and ran a week-long summer theater camp for boys and girls.
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Missouri
Brittany McCurley, a junior at Winnetonka, and Brittney Tebbenkamp, a junior at Oak Park, made blankets for the Veterans Hospital for their Girl Scouts Gold project.
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New York
Ashley Schichtel, and Holly and April Zendarski, all of Girl Scout Troop 44 in Franklinville, New York, recently completed an anti-soring DVD, “See It Through My Eyes,” for which they earned the scouts’ highest honor, the Gold Award.
It is something that everyone needs to know about, even those who are not horse owners,” April told the Olean Times Herald.
Holly told the newspaper, “It’s all about greed really. It’s to get an exaggerated gait [from the horses] so they can get into shows and win more. What they do is they usually put chemicals – diesel oil or mustard oil – [on a horse’s hooves] to make it painful so horses step higher.” To view the eight-minute long DVD, “See It Through My Eyes,” visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFeYu1CrjU.
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Ohio
After two summers of volunteer internships in the Case Western Reserve University microfabrication laboratory, Solon High School senior Sloan Zimmerman decided to help other students find similar opportunities for hands-on scientific research. Sloan, a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist and member of Girl Scout Troop 763, founded the Lab Link club at the high school as a community service and leadership project. The club’s aim is to connect member students with professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Sloan presented her project last week to Girl Scout Council and is receiving the Gold Award, the highest rank in Girl Scouting.
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