Girl Scouts help community, achieve Bronze awards
This tulip and other bright spots appeared recently around the Silent Battle monument, thanks to landscaping work by members of Girl Scout Troop 10148. (Photo by Clara Noelle)
From left are Ella Standiford, Liberty Smith, Lydia Goldberg, Ainsley Hudnall-Bolian and Avery Fleming of Girl Scout Troop 10148, who worked on landscaping projects and flag replacements at Gold Star Park. They’re standing in front of the Battlefield Cross monument at the park. (Photo Provided)
This tulip and other bright spots appeared recently around the Silent Battle monument, thanks to landscaping work by members of Girl Scout Troop 10148. (Photo by Clara Noelle)
From left are Ella Standiford, Liberty Smith, Lydia Goldberg, Ainsley Hudnall-Bolian and Avery Fleming of Girl Scout Troop 10148, who worked on landscaping projects and flag replacements at Gold Star Park. They’re standing in front of the Battlefield Cross monument at the park. (Photo Provided)
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Five Girl Scouts from Troop 10148 not only earned their Bronze awards this past week, they also received the thanks of a park full of people.
Four fourth-graders and one fifth-grader researched, planned, designed and installed the flowering landscape around the Silent Battle memorial monument at Gold Star Park as a project to benefit the community and earn the Bronze Award.
The award is the highest Junior girls in fourth and fifth grades can achieve. Before any of the project could be realized, the girls also had to appear before the Marietta City Council lands, parks and buildings committee to pitch the idea, then get council approval.
The same group had already planned a community service project at the park, where they would weed and mulch other beds and replace the flags for the poles.
They combined the Bronze Award and community service projects into an all-around effort to make Gold Star Park look its very best for the dedication of the Veteran PTSD and Suicide Awareness Memorial Monument. That dedication was hel Sunday.
Their leader, Alison Smith, estimates each girl has spent a total of about 20 hours the past two months on the park work. Saturday, they also had help on the weeding and mulching from 14 younger Girl Scouts.
The City of Marietta provided all the mulch and Greenleaf Landscapes gave advice on what to plant and supplied the flowers. The bed around the monument now has tulips, daffodils, lamb's ear, yarrow, catmint and phlox.
Receiving the Bronze Award were Ainsley Hudnall-Bolian, Belpre Elementary; Avery Fleming, Marietta Elementary; Ella Standiford, Marietta Elementary; Liberty Smith, St. Mary Catholic School; and Lydia Goldberg, St. Mary Catholic.
They were among the many volunteers thanked and recognized for their work in preparing Gold Star Park for its big day.
Nancy Taylor can be reached at ntaylor@newsandsentinel.com