{"id":71272,"date":"2016-07-26T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71272"},"modified":"2016-07-25T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:52:44","slug":"forestport-troop-receives-presidential-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71272","title":{"rendered":"Forestport Troop Receives Presidential Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The girls were assisting with the Vietnam wall in Boonville in 2015. From back left, Elizabeth Abelbeck, troop leader; Abby Olds, Angelina Olds, and Heidi Grienko. Front from left, Paige Wawrzyniak, Jaydin Klis, Paige Broadbent, Autumn Havens, Brylyn Havens, Dacoda Clance, and Avery Wawrzyniak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Girl Scout Troop 20002 from Forestport is made up of 18 girls who love doing community service. So much so that they\u2019ve earned the Presidential Service Award – for three years in a row!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The girls have raised food, blankets, and other necessities for the local SPCA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually got over 500 pounds of food,\u201d said troop leader, Elizabeth Abelbeck.<\/p>\n

They have also done a town clean-up where they\u2019ve helped out the seniors in their community doing yard work and other labor for them.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we do so much, the family actually called us and we did a special ceremony,\u201d Abelbeck said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Girl Scout Troop 20002 from Forestport is made up of 18 girls who love doing community service. So much so that they\u2019ve 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-ixy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Troop-20002.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}