Audubon Girl Scouts earn Silver Awards

By RELMA HARGUS AND CHANTE WARREN
Advocate staff writers
Published: Oct 29, 2007 - Page: 3D

Six Girl Scouts in the Audubon Council recently received Silver Awards, the highest award a Cadette can achieve.

Cadettes are Girl Scouts 12 to 14 years old.

To earn the award, each Girl Scout completed a project to benefit the community that required at least 30 hours of planning and implementation.

 To meet the requirement, Girl Scouts may work alone or complete a group project.

 Working together, Jasmine Wilson, a Baton Rouge Magnet High School sophomore, and Margaret Davis, a McKinley Middle Magnet ninth-grader, designed a project to help hospitalized children.

The two, who are members of Troop 117, collected  undergarments, coloring books, socks, pens and pencils. They plan to make it an annual event.

“Having asthma, I know how it feels to be ill and have nothing to do to keep busy,” Davis said.

“I wanted to do something to make another child’s hospital stay less gloomy and more comforting.”

Kelsey Reynolds, Marlee Roberts and Carole Shockley, all Parkview Baptist School sophomores and members of Troop 468, presented “Pyramid Power” to a group of elementary school children.

“Children today don’t eat like they should. We wanted to inform students that they aren’t eating right, and we wanted to tell them how to eat right,” Shockley said.

Abbey Simoneaux, a St. Joseph’s Academy sophomore and member of Troop 340, addressed hunger with her project.

Through her “Can You Care” project, canned foods for the Sacred Heart of Jesus School food pantry were collected, then packed and delivered to needy families.

“I was able to help those less fortunate than me,” Simoneaux said.

Every little bit helps

•  Students and faculty at Fifth Ward Elementary School in St. James recently contributed $300 to the local chapter of the American Red Cross. Each participant in the campaign donated a dollar to dress down on a Friday in September.
• Westdale Heights Academic Magnet students are sending T-shirts to Bindi and Robert Irwin, children of the late Steve Irwin. With that gift goes a check for more than $4,000 to help continue the Crocodile Hunter’s conservation work. The money was raised during the school’s recent Steve Irwin emphasis that included an overnight “campout” in the school gymnasium. 

With funds raised during last year’s inaugural Steve Irwin Memorial event, the students helped support Irwin’s Wildlife Warrior Worldwide animal and habitat preservation fund.

Make a difference
Help save the environment and earn money in the process by participating in a program that allows schools, houses of worship, and others to take used drink pouch containers off the nonrecyclable list.

The program pays 2 cents for each Honest Kids® drink pouch;  1 cent for all other drink pouch brands.

Registered participants receive containers and postage-paid labels to return the used pouches.

The material will be reused to make school supplies such as pencil cases, as well as handbags of various sizes and styles tentatively scheduled to be sold at major retailers in 2008, program sponsors said.

The goal is to reuse 1 million pouches in the next 12 months. The program is modeled on TerraCycle’s nationwide Bottle Brigade recycling program that has rescued and reused more than 2 million soda bottles.

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http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/
Celebrate your No. 1 book

Youngsters 11 and younger are invited to celebrate National Children’s Book Week by having an individual  photograph taken holding their favorite book during a photo shoot at various East Baton Rouge Parish libraries.

The photos will be printed in color and available for pick-up the following Saturday.

 A photographer will be available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Delmont Gardens, 3351 Lorraine St.

The program will continue at the following East Baton Rouge Parish library locations during the same hours on each of the Saturdays listed:

• NOV. 10: Carver, 720 Terrace St.; Central, 11260 Joor Road; River Center, 120 St. Louis St.
• NOV. 17: Baker, 3501 Groom Road; Greenwell Springs Road, 11300 Greenwell Springs Road;Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.; Pride-Chaneyville, 13600 Pride-Port Hudson Road; Zachary, 1900 Church St.
• NOV. 24: Bluebonnet, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd.; Eden Park, 5131 Greenwell Springs Road; Jones Creek, 6222 Jones Creek Road; Scotlandville, 7373 Scenic Highway.