Local Girl Scouts need your help

Three young Webster Girl Scouts are asking the Webster community to help them complete their Bronze Award project.

Junior Scouts Julia Meyers, Penny Patterson and Lily Pettit from Troop 60344 — all fifth graders from Klem North Elementary School — are collecting games, puzzles, children’s books, colored pencils, crayons, markers and craft kits for children in need.

It’s a project that’s been in the works for several months. Plans started coming together last fall when they and several other members of their troop discussed possible projects they could work on for their Bronze Awards, which must be completed by September 30. At first, Julia, Penny and Lily thought about collecting books, but got stuck deciding where the books would be donated.

Then one of the den leaders came up with an idea to collect games for children in need. A lot of people have unused games in their attics or basements, she suggested, and they might appreciate a way to put them to good use. And now, when people are doing their spring cleaning, would be an especially good time to collect them.

The young Scouts latched onto the idea and ran with it. Before long, the wish list of items had expanded beyond just games to other entertaining items children would enjoy, like puzzles and crafts.

Julia, Lily and Penny are each required to commit at least 20 hours to the project, and they’re already well on their way to meeting that goal. They designed flyers to hang around town and post online, they arranged for the Webster School District to send a notice about the collection home to all of the district’s families, they filled out forms and wrote letters to get approval to place their five collection boxes, they made a promotional video and they’ve already booked a date in early May at the Gathering Place Webster to sort the donations and pack all the “entertainment kits.”

Once all of the kits are completed, they’ll be donated to Family Promise of Greater Rochester, an organization dedicated to keeping families together by preventing family homelessness.

Five donation bins have been set up around town: one at the Webster Public Library, another at St. Rita Church, a third at the Webster Recreation Center, and two at Klem North Elementary School. Items will be collected through April 30.

If you don’t have anything to donate but would still like to help, the girls have put together a brief Amazon.com wish list for drawstring backpacks and cloth shopping bags which they can use when they pack the kits. More items might be added to that list in the coming weeks, so keep tabs on it!

Here’s the video the gals have put together to tell you about their project:

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(posted 4/3/2026)

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