Hannah Alto, Cando, ND, renovated the Cando Community Library’s youth and children’s rooms. She facilitated getting new shelves, paint, rugs, tables and decorations for the space. Further, Hannah created a homework/reading room and administered the Summer Reading Program that was in place.
From January 2013 to September 2013 Kimberly Bosworth, Fergus Falls, MN, created a community garden. During that time, she planted and maintained several types of vegetables and flowers, set up numerous garden beds, laid mulch and built two vertical garden beds. Further, the community garden donates all produce to W.I.C. families and to the Food Shelf.
Traci Corcoran, Pierre, SD, decided to raise money to purchase a trailer for the Pierre Area Referral Service. The trailer is used to transport food and furniture to families in need of these supplies. To complete her Gold Award project, Traci invested 91 hours of work.
Cassandra Coss, St. Lawrence, SD, saw a need in her community and focused her Girl Scout Gold Award around that need. From June 2013 to August 2013 Cassandra worked to create a prayer garden in her community. The prayer garden is located between the Avera Handy County Hospital and the Handy County Courthouse in Miller, SD.
Sara Gramberg, Black Hawk, SD, saw a need in her community and utilized her Gold Award project to meet that need. She decided to build a bench and an informational board at her community’s Outdoor Campus. Sara created the content for the informative board, and facilitated building the bench.
Haley Hovde, Minto, ND, wanted to beautify her local community park for her Gold Award project. In the past the flower beds have been washed away by flood waters. To eliminate this from happening in the future, she partnered with the community to clean out the park’s flower beds and replaced them with concrete flower beds as well as large concrete flower pots.
Myriah Koebernick, Jamestown, ND, recognized a need for memory boxes at Ave Maria Village, a care facility which specializes in skilled rehabilitation, nursing and healing. The purpose of memory boxes is to help residents identify which room is theirs, as well as give them a sense of belonging. Not only do the memory boxes help the residents, they also help others. get to know the residents.
Laken Krohn, Brandon, SD, wanted to impact her community in a positive way and did so by holding rummage sales. The proceeds from the rummage sales were used to purchase books for Children’s Home Society’s Loving School Library. But Laken didn’t stop there. Along with the donated books, she created a literacy program to help encourage children to read.