Girl Scouts serving in the community in honor of founder Juliette Low’s vision to “make the world a better place”

It’s that beautiful time of year when the industrious Girl Scouts of Lake Highlands get up and get moving. Oh, you thought I meant cookie-selling? Yes, they do that, too, but Girl Scouts also consider March to be prime time for community service.

Last Saturday, Girl Scouts from Service Unit 165, which includes more than 40 diverse troops from area schools, churches and neighborhoods, came together to tackle projects all across the city. The effort was part of their annual tradition of celebrating the origin of the Girl Scouting movement in America in March of 1912.

For birthday #114, the group “gifted” the community 14 acts of service in honor of founder Juliette Low’s vision to “make the world a better place” and “do a good turn daily.” If you are putting up three fingers and recalling the Girl Scout Promise as you read this, you may have been a loyal scout yourself.

Rain didn’t hamper their plans, so they powered through painting bandanas for pets at East Lake Pet Orphanage, delivering free groceries and Girl Scout cookies to families in need at Path to Nourishment at Hamilton Park United Methodist Church, delivering cards to elderly residents at Brookdale Senior Living, playing Bingo with memory care residents at The Villages of Lake Highlands, assembling household cleaning kits for elderly residents at Audelia Manor, collecting period products for teens and women at Feed Lake Highlands, assembling blessing bags for the Dallas Street Choir, delivering donuts to area fire and police stations, assembling food and hygiene spring break kits for needy RISD students, collecting truckloads of clothing for White Rock Center of Hope, assembling and delivering beds for youth who had been sleeping on the floor, repurposing buckets for composting with 4DWN, delivering cookies to nursing home caregivers and making thank you cards for first responders.

If you have questions about joining as a scout or volunteer, contact Lowry Manders at lowrymanders@yahoo.com. If you’d like to buy cookies, click here and plug in your zip code. A list of upcoming booth setups will pop right up.

Girl Scouts at Hamilton Park United Methodist Church

Girl Scouts work to repurpose buckets for 4DWN