Girl Scouts busy with service projects

    Members of Girl Scout Troop 712 have been dedicated to community service projects this year. MacKenzie LaBlanc suggested raking for someone in need and Troop leader Debbie Young knew the perfect recipient for this project.

Photo courtesy of Girl Scout Troop 712

    ENABLING FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS — Members of Girl Scout Troop 712 filled a box with goodies for a girl age 5-9 in another country for Operation Christmas Shoebox. From left is Becky Ruge, Hannah McKissick, Troop leader Debbie Young, MacKenzie LaBlanc and Tiffany Young.

    Young had noticed an elderly 96-year-old neighbor had not raked her lawn yet. Knowing that the neighbor spent all fall keeping her lawn free of leaves, Young inquired and found out the neighbor had fallen and was in a nursing home. Young then asked the girls if they like to rake the lawn for the neighbor.
    Becky Ruge, Tiffany Young, Lydia Farnsworth, Hannah McKissick and LaBlanc and adults Linda Herbest, Leanne Bailey and Young raked and hauled leaves during the weekly Scout meeting on Nov. 6.
    For the holiday season Troop 712 decided to donate a shoebox filled with goodies for a girl age 5-9 to Operation Christmas Shoebox. Troop leader Young wrapped a shoebox with Christmas paper and the Scouts filled it with a doll, tea set, toothbrush and toothpaste, hair brush set, small bars of soap, pencils with a sharpener, jump rope and a cloth pocketbook decorated with fabric paint made by one of the girls. They signed a card to put in the box and hope to become pen pals with the special little girl from a foreign country who receives their package for Christmas.