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March 12-18, 2023 March 2023

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Girl Scout Week, the week of Girl Scouts’ birthday on March 12, is a great time to celebrate with faith communities to share about Girl Scouts and its benefits, thank faith partners for their support and give girls the opportunity to be recognized in their places of worship.

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Clara Maass receives $25K donation to support pediatric patients

The Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation donated $25,000 to the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation to support pediatric patients in the hospital’s emergency department.

The award will be used to purchase 35 hospital-grade flatscreen televisions and upgrade children’s programming in English and Spanish — initiatives that will create a more joyful environment for pediatric patients and their young sib- lings, who often accompany them.

The emergency department is the first entry point for many patients. Their wait times can be long due to the additional hours needed for observation and diagnosis before they are discharged home or admitted to the hospital.

This can be particularly challenging for children, who are often anxious and restless during their stay in the emergency department.

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Belleville veterans posts purchase $1,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies

American Legion Post 105 and Sons of the American Legion Squadron 105 in Belleville made the day a little sweeter by making a combined $1,000 purchase of Girl Scout cookies, which will be sent to servicemen deployed abroad and to veterans at New Jersey’s VA hospitals. The hope is that each bite of a samoa or a trefoil cookie reminds the troops and vets of how much the American Legion 105 Family appreciates and values what they do and have done.

As they do every year, Girl Scouts around the country sell cookies as their biggest annual fundraiser. This is the case for Girl Scout Troops 20122 and 20462, both of Nutley, who have sold cookies for the past few years at Post 105. Troop 20122 makes its home at Post 105, meeting monthly at the Post Hall — something the American Legion family is very proud to support.

Since 2018, the Post 105 family has annually voted on buying and donating cookies to send to those in uniform who can’t be home during “cookie season.” For the 2023 cookie sale, Post and Squadron 105 went big — bigger than they ever have.

“That’s what our money is there for — this is a great project to give to,” said Squadron 105 Commander Steve Sangemino at the meeting where the vote happened. “This (donation) should increase every year — just like everything else we’re doing.”

SAL 105 voted to top last year’s dona- tion by increasing it to $250 of cookies sent via “Operation Jersey Cares” to troops overseas and $250 to the second annual “Cookies for Vets” program to veterans in VA hospitals. Post 105’s Legionnaires then matched both of those donations.

Through “Operation Jersey Cares,” skids of cookies from around the state are loaded onto planes and sent to troops around the world. In 2021, more than 80,000 boxes were sent to the military.

The “Cookies for Vets” program is in its second year, run by the Children and Youth Commission at the state-level SAL Detachment of NJ. SAL 105 Adjutant Rusty Myers, who is also the state Children and Youth Commission chairperson, manages the donation of cookies in January which are then donated to New Jersey’s two VA campuses at Lyons and East Orange. Last year, Girl Scouts from both Troops, as well as a young SAL from the Belleville squadron, delivered the cookies to both VA locations in April, which is National Children and Youth Month.

“This program is great — it’s what we should be doing,” said Essex County Adjutant Henry Deltosto at a meeting of the American Legion Essex County Committee, where they voted to donate to “Cookies for Vets” as well. “It hits two of the reasons why the American Legion is here — helping our veterans and supporting our kids.”

Most cookies are $5 a box, making

See VETERANS, Page 11