{"id":96437,"date":"2024-05-30T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=96437"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:18:02","slug":"brownies-take-action-with-local-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2024\/05\/30\/brownies-take-action-with-local-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownies Take Action with local food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Danielle Ray<\/em>
\nLandmark Correspondent<\/em><\/div>\n

STERLING \u2014 A group of local Girls Scouts is proving that you’re never too young to give back to your community.<\/p>\n

Brownie Troop 65179 is hosting a food drive as part of its Take Action journey badge. Collection boxes are set up at five locations: Conant Public Library, Lanpher\u2019s Market, and MEM Dance Theatre in Sterling, Kate\u2019s PowerHouse in Princeton, and Orchard Hills Athletic Club in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

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The Brownie Girl Scouts Troop 65179 Take Action Food Drive collection boxes will be up at the Conant Public Library in Sterling and other locations in the area through May 31. Photo Credit: Submitted photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nonperishable food items and pet food can be dropped off through May 31. The girls will deliver the donations to the Wachusett Food Pantry on June 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the \u2026 businesses for partnering with us to help ease food insecurity in our community,\u201d Courtney Mankus, one of the troop\u2019s program leaders, posted on social media. \u201cLet\u2019s show these girls what happens when a community comes together for a good cause!\u201d<\/p>\n

The dozen second grade girls in the troop voted to work on the Brownie Quest Journey this year instead of working on individual badges. The journey consists of earning three keys in order to unlock the final Brownie Quest badge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third key, and final step before putting all three keys together for the Quest badge, is the Take Action key,\u201d Mankus said. \u201cTo earn this, the girls needed to come up with a Take Action project \u2014 something they could do to improve the world and their own community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The young humanitarians are no stranger to giving back. Last year as Daisies they donated a portion of the total boxes of cookies they sold as a troop to the Wachusett Food Pantry, and took a field trip to drop off the cookies in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls learned that some of the items the pantry needs most are boxes of cereal and pet food, so they decided then to do a cereal and pet food drive within the troop, and we made another donation of those items collected,\u201d Mankus said. \u201cThis is when they first learned about food insecurity and the fact that it impacts our very own community.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and the other program leaders \u2014 Caitlyn Leary and Alanna Malatos \u2014 have assisted the girls with their projects, along with troop treasurer Sarah Boffoli and Melissa Trimbly, whom Mankus said is their \u201cshopper\/helper\/first aid leader.\u201d All of them have daughters in the troop and enjoy being part of shaping their efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, when brainstorming what they could do to take action within the community, the idea of doing a larger food drive to help our friends at the food pantry and make it bigger by including the community was born,\u201d Mankus said. \u201cThe girls agreed it was the project they wanted to do, so we spent a meeting making signs and got help from parents to reach out to businesses in the community to find hosts for our collection boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said it\u2019s important to her and the other parents involved in the troop to help facilitate community outreach projects such as this for the girls to be involved in.<\/p>\n

\u201cShowing the girls that they can make a difference and that their actions can have an impact will empower them to become leaders in our community as they become older,\u201d Mankus said. \u201cCommunity is important to Girl Scouts, and by doing a project like this, our girls can get a better understanding of what a community is and see how a community can come together to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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