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the Mokena Messenger | June 15, 2017 | 3<br />
Girl Scouts collect more than<br />
500 coloring books at MIS<br />
YOUR SEARCH BEGINS AT<br />
Group earns Bronze<br />
Award for project<br />
Amanda Stoll, Assistant Editor<br />
Members of Girl Scout Junior Troop 70183 dropped off<br />
more than 500 coloring books at Hope Children’s Hospital<br />
in Oak Lawn on Saturday, June 10. Photo Submitted<br />
After collecting coloring<br />
books at school, Girl Scout<br />
Junior Autumn Maholy said<br />
she did not think her troop<br />
would reach its goal.<br />
After all, the goal was a<br />
lofty one and one that Co-<br />
Troop Leader Kristin Wallace<br />
said staff at the Hope<br />
Children’s Hospital in Oak<br />
Lawn were surprised the<br />
troop was able to reach: collect<br />
500 coloring books to<br />
donate to the hospital.<br />
But when the girls of Junior<br />
Troop 70183 started<br />
counting, they found they<br />
had not only met their goal,<br />
they surpassed it. With a<br />
final count of 510 coloring<br />
books, the girls would<br />
be able to supply coloring<br />
books for activity bags for<br />
hundreds of children in the<br />
emergency room at the hospital.<br />
“We picked a big goal because<br />
we wanted to make a<br />
big difference, as much as<br />
we could,” Autumn said.<br />
“We wanted to help as many<br />
people as we possibly could,<br />
and we wanted to have a big<br />
variety.”<br />
On Saturday, June 10, the<br />
girls visited the hospital to<br />
drop off the coloring books,<br />
which will be packed into the<br />
activity bags for children waiting<br />
in the emergency room.<br />
“You have to wait until<br />
it’s your turn to go in, and<br />
you might want to keep your<br />
mind off the fact that you’re<br />
hurt,” Autumn, who will be<br />
in sixth grade next year, said<br />
of the idea behind donating<br />
the activity bags to the children’s<br />
hospital.<br />
To help motivate classmates<br />
at Mokena Intermediate<br />
School to donate coloring<br />
books to the cause,<br />
Autumn said they offered ice<br />
creams from Dairy Queen to<br />
the classroom that donated<br />
the most coloring books.<br />
Girl Scout Grace Douglas<br />
said that although the Blizzard<br />
party was a good incentive,<br />
she thinks the other students<br />
got onboard because of<br />
the cause.<br />
“We talked to them about<br />
it, and I think they thought<br />
it was a really good cause to<br />
donate coloring books to the<br />
children in the hospitals that<br />
aren’t feeling well and need<br />
something to do to keep their<br />
minds off things,” Grace said.<br />
In all, the girls had to plan<br />
their project, meet with and<br />
get permission from the<br />
principal, collect the books<br />
and deliver the prize for the<br />
winning class.<br />
Grace said the girls also<br />
spent a lot of time sorting<br />
and checking the coloring<br />
books for use or scribbles<br />
before boxing them up for<br />
delivery.<br />
The project was all done<br />
by the girls — except driving<br />
to and from Dairy Queen<br />
to buy the ice creams.<br />
“I think all of us were<br />
very proud in seeing what<br />
the girls had accomplished,”<br />
Wallace said.<br />
She said she thought the<br />
girls ultimately chose the<br />
project they did because it<br />
was something they could<br />
relate to.<br />
In order to attain their<br />
Bronze Award, however, the<br />
project had to be done entirely<br />
by the girls. It is the highest<br />
award they can receive<br />
as Junior Girl Scouts and<br />
requires the girls to work together<br />
as a group rather than<br />
as individuals.<br />
Before tackling their<br />
Bronze Award project, they<br />
had to raise money through<br />
cookie sales to support their<br />
project, which funded the ice<br />
cream prizes for the winning<br />
classroom. The girls each<br />
also had to complete a Junior<br />
Journey, which involves<br />
identifying a problem and<br />
putting together a solution<br />
that can help make a difference<br />
with that problem.<br />
“We all had faith in each<br />
other, and we all knew that<br />
we could do it because we<br />
all work together as a team,”<br />
Autumn said. “If we all<br />
worked together, we knew<br />
we could make our highest<br />
goal and maybe even surpass<br />
it, and that’s what we did.”<br />
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