Troop 617 makes donation to IU Health Saxony

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Working toward its Bronze Award, Girl Scout Troop 617 accumulated and donated a collection of stuffed animals and books to be given to children at IU Health Saxony Hospital. Pictured, from left, are Sage Ladaig, Katherine Wincek, Anabella Dentler, Daniela Boyer, Faith Mackenzie and Trinity Mackenzie. Not pictured are troop members Sara Cains and Ella Powell.
Working toward its Bronze Award, Girl Scout Troop 617 accumulated and donated a collection of stuffed animals and books to be given to children at IU Health Saxony Hospital. Pictured, from left, are Sage Ladaig, Katherine Wincek, Anabella Dentler, Daniela Boyer, Faith Mackenzie and Trinity Mackenzie. Not pictured are troop members Sara Cains and Ella Powell.

By Sam Elliott

Fishers’ Girl Scout Troop 617 collected and donated more than 100 stuffed animals plus boxes of books for the children of IU Health Saxony.

Part of the HSE Service Unit, the troop’s eight members are working on earning the Bronze Award and needed a good deed they could organize for their community.

“The Bronze Award is the highest honor the Junior Girls Scouts can earn,” Stephanie Boyer, who leads the troop with Kerrie Wincek, said. “They have to look for a need in the community and then put a plan together and put their team together to help whatever that need is.”

The girls, fifth graders primarily at Fall Creek Intermediate School, chose local children in the hospital as the need they wanted to help.

“Kids who are in the hospital with a cast on or their leg elevated who are bored — they might as well read a book or play with a stuffed animal,” troop member Faith Mackenzie said. “It’s over 100 stuffed animals. There’s a lot … What we did was we made fliers and we went to meetings with other Girl Scout troops and some of this stuff was theirs and some of it was ours. We’ve got two big buckets of boys stuff, two big buckets of girls stuff, one big bucket of books and a smaller box of books.”


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