Girl Scouts in the News

Calling all Girl Scouts, past and present! This is National Girl Scout Week, celebrating 98 years of building courage, confidence, and character in girls to make the world a better place.... more

Barberton Daisy Troop #1399 fills BAGS OF LOVE for Barberton Area Community Ministries.... more

Strongsville Service Unit 715 held its annual World Thinking Day at the Strongsville Recreation Center. More than 300 Girl Scouts participated. To celebrate this year's theme "End Extreme Poverty and Hunger," the Girl Scouts donated over 500 pantry items to the Strongsville Food Bank and $300 was donated to the Red Cross-International Relief Fund for Haiti. ... more

Service Unit 715, Strongsville North is donating $300 to Pan American Development Foundation and The American Red Cross. Each girl who participated in World Friendship Day donated $1.... more

Troop #50774 from the Quarrystone Service Unit held a World Thinking Day celebration for 19 troops at Camp Timberlane. Since the theme this year was "Together we can help end extreme hunger and poverty," all troops entered the program with canned goods for Harvest for Hunger and nickels collected the past two months by doing a good turn daily.... more

This year, the troops chose WAGGGS countries from the Middle East to learn about. Each troop did a display and had foods from that country to taste. Nine troops participated with 67 Girl Scouts plus their families.... more

NORTH RIDGEVILLE Two North Ridgeville High School students are enjoying success in their goal to extend the quarter-mile trail through South Central Park, and establish a safe place for recreation in the city.... more

HOWLAND As a newly formed health and wellness committee is working on improving their quality of life for residents, two local Girl Scouts will be doing their part to help. The committee met recently to set various goals and share ideas for healthy living and also heard from Scouts from Troop 598 who are planning community service projects.... more

FAIRLAWN — Nina Parri is going for the gold. The 16-year-old Archbishop Hoban High School sophomore is working on building a garden and interactive information board for the Fort Island/Griffiths Park Learning Resource Center in order to earn her Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor a participant may receive.... more

Although it was a few days early, Girl Scouts of North East Ohio Service Unit No. 762 celebrated Thinking Day, which is actually set for Monday and honors the birthday of Boy Scouts of America founder Robert Baden-Powell.... more