STE. GENEVIEVE – The Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri congratulate local Girl Scouts: Grace Hermann, Elcie Schweigert, and Kailyn Warren for earning the Girl Scout Silver Award. The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can receive.
To earn this award, a girl must dedicate herself to completing a Take Action project that addresses a need in the community that makes a lasting difference. Before beginning the Girl Scout Silver Award project, girls must complete prerequisites that allow them to discover new skills, connect with others and take action to address an issue or need the community, and brainstorm innovative ways to solve the problem.
Each girl must take leadership in planning and implementing the project, and work with others in the community to act on the plan. The project must have a minimum of 50 service hours. Only 10 percent of Girl Scouts earn their Silver Award.
With an end goal of wanting to make a difference in their community, the girls teamed up to form the Girl Scout Kindness Rocks Garden. The project focused on promoting kindness, love, support, happiness and smiles. The garden is located at the Ste. Genevieve County Fairgrounds near the Youth Building. The garden itself is filled with decorated rocks you can either keep for yourself or give to a friend who may need it. You can also take a small rock from the rock house to decorate and bring back to the garden for someone else to enjoy. They just ask it to be decorated in a way that will bring a smile to someone else’s face.
The girls think that small acts of kindness such as this, can really lift someone’s spirit or change the course of their day or life in a positive way. “With so much going wrong in the world today, helping spread a little kindness is the least we can do to help make the world a better place”. They would also like to thank those in the community that have helped along the way – their parents for their support,
The Ste. Genevieve County Library for hosting their rock painting event, Arnold Masonry for donating the decorative stone for the garden, Aaron Doza with Dwayne Doza Autobody for donating the base of the rock house, Chris Schilly for his welding expertise, Brad Bauman with Centermark Construction for his assistance in the construction of the home for the rocks and the Jour de Fete Committee for allowing a rock decorating booth at no cost.
They would also like to give a huge thank you to the University of Missouri Extension office and the Ste. Genevieve County Fair Board for the usage of the property to implement the garden.