The Girl Scouts in Troops 409 and 1125 saw a need in Auburn, so they offered to help.
Jason Rearick / The Citizen
Melissa Bowers, 9, picks up trash along the fenceline of a park across the street from Wegmans, as Erin Taro, 10, comes to help. Both are Girl Scouts from Troop 1125.
Melissa Bowers, 9, picks up trash along the fenceline of a park across the street from Wegmans, as Erin Taro, 10, comes to help. Both are Girl Scouts from Troop 1125.
When they learned that John Panko, the man who cleans downtown, might be losing his job as a result of the city's budget crisis, the scouts organized a cleanup project for Memorial Day Weekend.
The Auburn Business Improvement District (BID) worked with the scouts to clean Market Street Park and the park across from Wegmans, in time for the Memorial Day parade and duck derby.
Scout leaders handed out plastic gloves, rakes and trash bags to the dozen girls who came out to help. Bending, raking and scooping yielded cigarette butts, papers, cans, leaves and even a few losing lottery tickets.
As the scouts raked and swept, the blacktop walkways through the parks appeared from under the layers of dirt and pine needles.
“The girls are very excited to be helping out,” said Cheryl Coogan, the Girl Scout Council program consultant.
Cayuga County scouts are part of the Seven Lakes Girl Scout Council, which is based in Phelps. Coogan had been a scout herself, and now her daughter is one. She was asked by the council if she would serve as a consultant.
“I look for projects for the girls to do,“ she said. ”I try to get them out into the community.”
Elaine Wilt, a former scout and a
parent volunteer with troop 409, came with her daughter, who is a scout leader, and her granddaughter, who is a scout.
“The troops here are very active,” she said. � is working on a community service badge.”
The Girl Scouts have nearly 100 years of service in communities across America.
In 1911, a young woman named Juliette Gordon Low met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in England. When she returned to the United States, Juliette brought her enthusiasm for scouting back with her. She called one of her friends and said, “I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight.”
On March 12, 1912, eighteen girls met and registered as the first troop of the American Girl Guides. The following year the organization changed its name to the Girl Scouts. Today more than 3.5 million girls are scouts.
According to the Girls Scouts official website, “Juliette encouraged girls to prepare not only for traditional homemaking, but also for possible future roles as professional women in the arts, sciences and business, and for active citizenship outside the home. Girl scouting welcomed disabled girls at a time when they were excluded from other activities.”
Low had a hearing disability.
In Cayuga County, troops often meet in schools or churches according to age: Daisies, 5 to 6; Brownies, 6 to 8; Juniors, 8 to 11; Girl Scouts, 11 to 17.
Cheryl Coogan said many girls who join a troop as Daisies or Brownies stay with the organization through full girl scout level. She wanted to emphasize the community involvement of the scouts. “If any groups need volunteers, they can contact the Girl Scouts.”
To contact the Seven Lakes Girl Scout Council, call 315-539-5085.
The Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
The Auburn Business Improvement District (BID) worked with the scouts to clean Market Street Park and the park across from Wegmans, in time for the Memorial Day parade and duck derby.
Scout leaders handed out plastic gloves, rakes and trash bags to the dozen girls who came out to help. Bending, raking and scooping yielded cigarette butts, papers, cans, leaves and even a few losing lottery tickets.
As the scouts raked and swept, the blacktop walkways through the parks appeared from under the layers of dirt and pine needles.
“The girls are very excited to be helping out,” said Cheryl Coogan, the Girl Scout Council program consultant.
Cayuga County scouts are part of the Seven Lakes Girl Scout Council, which is based in Phelps. Coogan had been a scout herself, and now her daughter is one. She was asked by the council if she would serve as a consultant.
“I look for projects for the girls to do,“ she said. ”I try to get them out into the community.”
Elaine Wilt, a former scout and a
parent volunteer with troop 409, came with her daughter, who is a scout leader, and her granddaughter, who is a scout.
“The troops here are very active,” she said. � is working on a community service badge.”
The Girl Scouts have nearly 100 years of service in communities across America.
In 1911, a young woman named Juliette Gordon Low met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in England. When she returned to the United States, Juliette brought her enthusiasm for scouting back with her. She called one of her friends and said, “I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight.”
On March 12, 1912, eighteen girls met and registered as the first troop of the American Girl Guides. The following year the organization changed its name to the Girl Scouts. Today more than 3.5 million girls are scouts.
According to the Girls Scouts official website, “Juliette encouraged girls to prepare not only for traditional homemaking, but also for possible future roles as professional women in the arts, sciences and business, and for active citizenship outside the home. Girl scouting welcomed disabled girls at a time when they were excluded from other activities.”
Low had a hearing disability.
In Cayuga County, troops often meet in schools or churches according to age: Daisies, 5 to 6; Brownies, 6 to 8; Juniors, 8 to 11; Girl Scouts, 11 to 17.
Cheryl Coogan said many girls who join a troop as Daisies or Brownies stay with the organization through full girl scout level. She wanted to emphasize the community involvement of the scouts. “If any groups need volunteers, they can contact the Girl Scouts.”
To contact the Seven Lakes Girl Scout Council, call 315-539-5085.
The Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
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