Girl Scout Troop 20002 from Forestport is made up of 18 girls who love doing community service. So much so that they’ve earned the Presidential Service Award – for three years in a row!
To earn the Presidential Service Award, you have to achieve the required number of hours of service over a 12-month time period or cumulative hours over the course of a lifetime.
The girls have raised food, blankets, and other necessities for the local SPCA.
“We actually got over 500 pounds of food,” said troop leader, Elizabeth Abelbeck.
They have also done a town clean-up where they’ve helped out the seniors in their community doing yard work and other labor for them.
Due to their constant presence in their community they had a long-running relationship with Mayor, Parker Snead. So much so that when he died in December 2015, his family asked that in-lieu of flowers all donations go to Troop 20002.
“Because we do so much, the family actually called us and we did a special ceremony,” Abelbeck said.