Girl Scouts earn Bronze Award

Junior Troop #31 helped the Greater Birmingham Humane Society in a major way as they worked to earn the Bronze Award.  The Bronze Award is the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can achieve.  

Troop #31 toured the Humane Society, crafted frames to advertise each animal in the shelter, made 100 newspaper rolls for the shelter to use when cleaning cages and held a pet food drive to collect pet food for the Humane Society’s Pet Pantry.  The girls advertised the weeklong drive at Brookwood Forest Elementary School and collected several buckets of dog and cat food from this effort.  In addition, the girls gathered at a local Piggly Wiggly grocery store and collected $600 worth of pet food.

The Troop accepted money donations too and these donations along with several of the Scout’s arts and crafts endeavors (jewelry making, personalized t-shirts, and computer generated art work) as well as the profits made from selling Girl Scout cookies this year allowed the Troop to purchase two permanent small mammal habitats for the Humane Society. These living quarters are already being used to house bunny rabbits at the shelter and will be used for many years to come.

Members of Troop #31 include Anna Balzli, Olivia Bell, Holly Brown, Holly Chapman, Harper Cook, Sara Cook, Rachel Estreicher, Grace Flynn, Mary Margaret Freeland, Emily Grant, Amelia Jane Joehl, Greer Kelly, Louise Knight, Alison Levine, Tess Levine, Hannah McCabe, Katelyn McInerney, Kathleen Odum, Kate Perry, Anna Lisa Pflaum, Ella Pyron, Sophie Saab, Kyndall Scott, Annika Siddall, Maddie Stern, Sarah Taylor, Grace Turner, Maddie Usdan, Martha Louise Waters and Luisa Windsor.