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Scouts Earn Bronze Award For Assisting Genesis House
Women's shelter receives bags of toiletries.
Five fifth-grade junior girl scouts from Avon Lake Troop 157 recently carried out a donation drive for Genesis House, a Lorain County women’s shelter. Collecting thousands of personal care items and toys, the girls packaged and delivered the items for battered women and children.
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The girls spent more than 20 hours on the project, packaging 80 one-gallon Ziplock personal care bags and donated about 15 additional shopping bags and boxes of toiletries for the shelter’s pantry shelves.
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The project earned the girls a Bronze Award, the highest honor given to junior girl scouts.
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