3 Canton Girl Scouts receive Gold Awards
By Canton CitizenGirl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts is proud to announce that Canton Girl Scouts Emily Buckley, Alicia Healey and Samantha Rizzo received their Girl Scout Gold Award pins on Wednesday, June 19, at a ceremony at the Marlborough Holiday Inn. The event was attended by family, friends, and Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts CEO Ruth N. Bramson and Board President Elizabeth Stevenson.
Gold Award recipients Alicia Healy and Emily Buckley (holding yellow roses) with fellow Canton Girl Scouts
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can achieve, and it recognizes a service project that fulfills a need within a girl’s community — whether local or global — creates change and becomes ongoing. To earn the award, girls must complete the Silver Award and a minimum of 80 hours of service.
The project is more than a good service project — it encompasses organizational, leadership and networking skills. Only approximately 5 percent of all Girl Scouts earn this award each year.
Buckley’s high school (CHS) requires that each student complete 20 hours of community service. The only source of these opportunities is through the Career Center website, which was not maintained properly and needed to be updated with more current and diverse opportunities. Buckley’s project, Career Center Website Rehabilitation, provides easy access to information on local nonprofit organizations, as well as organizations outside the community, offering students more diverse service opportunities to choose from. Members of the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society will update the website annually.
Healey’s project, Mission Pet Safe, is an educational campaign for pet owners. The campaign addressed pet safety, including accidental poisoning, car accidents, proper restraint practices, pet first-aid kits and heat-related deaths from dogs left in cars. Healy, with the help of volunteers, created bookmarks, a traveling display, first-aid kits, brochures and puzzles for preschoolers. She gave presentations at the library and the middle school and high school. She also wrote an article for the newspaper, shared the information on global websites, and created a website and blog.
A can is recycled in six weeks, but takes hundreds of years to decompose in a landfill. Rizzo raised public awareness about the need to recycle through her project, Recycling Receptacles. She gave a presentation to the Canton Board of Selectmen to show why the town needed public recycling receptacles and explained the costs between different types of receptacles. She made a public service announcement on recycling, which will air annually on Canton Community Television. Rizzo also created recycling stickers to encourage the public to use the new receptacles.
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on Jun 27 2013. Filed under News.
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