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Larchmont Chronicle
AUGUST 2020
SECTION ONE
Past scouting trips swapped for activities closer to home
By Rachel Olivier COVID-19 has not slowed down local Girl Scout troops — much. Most trips and other activities have been postponed or cancelled. However, Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) has recently issued guidelines for in-per-
son activities, and troop leaders told us Scouts also have been busy meeting over Zoom and doing projects together. Hiking, masks, time capsules Troop 495 leaders Amy Kiehl Miller and Alysoun Higgins said that their Scouts have been on several social distance
hikes this spring and have been having Zoom meetings. They learned how to make mocktails, and they planned a virtual scavenger competition for later this year, said Miller and Higgins. Celia Lopez, leader of troops 625 and 2115, which both
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AMBASSADOR TROOP 495 on a trip in 2016, left to right: Maeve Carney, Amadi Cary, Teva Corwin, Zoe Gittelson, Kayla White, Quinn Lanza, Poppy Miller, Fiona O’Malley, Olivia Brancato, Mary Higgins, Vivienne Black, Amy Kiehl Miller, Alysoun Higgins and Zoe Corwin.
meet at St. James’ Church, said that two of her Scouts are making and selling face masks and donating the proceeds to food banks, where they also are donating masks. Tasha Welton, troop leader at 1125, another St. James’ Church-based troop, tells us that her Scouts have been busy with virtual Girl Scout camp and Zoom meetings where they play games, and are putting together a time capsule to open when they reach sixth grade (they are currently ages 7 to 9 years). Some of the items the Scouts are including in the capsule are friendship bracelets, pictures, letters from parents and other troop members and All About Me Daisy and Brownie pages. They hope to complete the capsule by the end of the summer. For more about virtual Girl
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Scout camp, visit girlscoutsla. org/en/camp/summer-camp. html. Trips postponed for now The Miller and Higgins Troop 495 (whose Scouts are going into 12th grade or their freshman year in college) did not make a scheduled trip to Oregon this year. Miller says GSGLA is allowing a onetime extension for 12th graders to use funds earned in Scout projects to reschedule cancelled activities into the next membership year. “That’s good news for us because we have two 2020 graduates,” Miller concluded. Miller, who is also troop leader for 615, reported that those Scouts were able to make one last trip to San Francisco in February for the Girl Scout Golden Gate ceremony before most activities in the state were shut down.
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