submitted by Joyce Brewer
The Girl Scouts of Hoosick Falls have been very busy this fall continuing the community service theme of Helping Our Neighbors.
The Food Pantry has always been important to the Hoosick Falls Girl Scouts. This fall they were able to help by donating a 32-inch TV as a raffle item for the Fill the Bus food drive. The raffle was a huge success, bringing in enough money to purchase 5,188 pounds of food through the Regional Food Bank. HACA normally orders 4,000 pounds of food twice a month to support the program. The girls also collected food as the entrance fee to their yearly “Lock-In” event. They enjoyed a night of dancing, movies and sleeping over in the St. Mary’s gym. Forty girls generously donated 85 pieces of food. The community garden they planted, along with raised herb beds at the HACA Center, produced fresh, nutritional vegetables and herbs weekly for over 14 weeks.
As part of the annual nut, candy and magazine sales, Scout leaders encouraged their girls to participate in a service project as a group. This year the project was to collect and distribute books to kids in need. Over 100 books were collected and given to the programs at Hoosick Falls Central School and the Cheney Library.
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With Girl Scouts, you will make a bunch of new friends and have a ton of new experiences that show you how exciting the world is and how awesome you are, repeatedly. To inquire, call Joyce Brewer at 518-258-5772 or email girlscoutshoosick@gmail.com.