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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1982
Page
11
The Help Young America Campaign from Colgate-Palmolive recognizes kids in Boy and Girl Scouts 4H Camp Fire and clubs for volunteering and fundraising. Prizes reward outstanding projects and highlight youth community service amid tough times.
The 4 H Honey Bears club in Montpelier Vermont organized a babysitting course for junior high students. Speakers included a nurse a police officer and a firefighter. Participants who completed the course received certificates and their names and phone numbers were shared with local parents.
The Morristown Tennessee Girls Club launched a welcoming effort for new residents titled Let’s Be Friends. Volunteers produced pamphlets with tips for newcomers and hosted monthly parties to help new kids feel at home.
The Katherine House Boys Club of East Chicago Indiana raised funds to help a 13 year old girl needing an operation for a rare skin disease. Club members built birdhouses from scrap lumber and donors could adopt one of the four sides of 50 houses.
Members of Camp Fire Club 601 in Willows, California organized bake sales garage sales posters and letters and potluck dinners to raise money and recruit workers to build a sidewalk along a busy street to their school.
Cadette Troop 38 organized and sold an exercise booklet to promote understanding of disabilities. Funds raised were donated to a local nursery school for disabled children.
Boy Scouts Troop 76 of Ringwood New Jersey aided the fire department by locating painting numbering and mapping all 162 hydrants with help from the water department as veteran volunteers retire.
The notice invites participation in the yearly contest with the theme Be Your Community Champion. Interested units are urged to request blanks or submit via a self addressed stamped envelope to Help Young America P.O. Box 1058 FDR Station New York NY 10150.
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