Girl Scout News

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Troop 233 from Sandy Hook Elementary School performed a montage of 1950s dances for this year’s Thinking Day Program. From left are Melissa Watts, Amanda Vitti, Rose Pagett, Tonya Tucker, Brianna Piccirillo, Maria Labatti, and Brianna Baranowski.

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On April 12, the GSCSWCT St Rose First Grade Brownie Troop 596 participated in an afternoon of dance. Jennifer Johnston, artistic director of the Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet, treated the girls to an hour of fun. The girls learned creative movement steps, participated in a “Garden Dance” and learned the Vaganova Method of ballet. Also in attendance were Bridget Moore, St Rose third grade Brownie, and Haley Ryan, St Rose fourth grade Junior Girl Scout, who taught the girls Irish step dancing, cheerleading, and pep squad moves. Here, the girls follow Miss Johnston in a ballet routine. —photo courtesy Michelle DePinto

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Middle Gate School fourth grade Girl Scout Troop 1006 is pictured at the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) in New Haven. The girls donated more than 50 boxes of cookies that were collected via the Girl Scout Gift of Caring Program. They also collected and donated thousands of pull tabs, which the RMH will have recycled and collect the funds to put toward supplies needed daily to support the many families of sick children that stay there.

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Pictured in Japanese attire is fourth grade Junior Troop 706 from Middle Gate School, along with leaders Dot Perpignand and Robbin Chaber. The girls spend several weeks learning Japanese words, painting Japanese fans, and choreographing their routine, which was a fusion of tradition Geisha dance and Japanese Hip Hop for Thinking Day, held Friday, April 27. A handful of mothers of troop members sewed the kimonos.

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Hawley School First Grade Brownie Troop 599 members, from left, Claudia Harrison, Holly LoCascio, Larkin Huffman, Sophia Rhyins, and Sophie Wolfman recently donated 40 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Women’s Center of Greater Danbury. During Girl Scout cookies sales, scouts asked people to donate boxes of cookies for the cause each troop selected.

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Nina Rhyins and Cally Peterson from Brownie Troop 891 from Hawley School are pictured at the Faith Food Pantry with Colette Ercole with the troop’s Gift of Caring donation of 42 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.