S.S. Seward senior receives Girl Scout's highest award

Florida - S.S. Seward senior Courtney Howell, a member of Troop #424, has earned Girl Scout ‘s highest achievement - the Gold Award. Howell has been in Girl Scouts for 13 years. In that time she earned her bonze and silver awards. The Gold Award requires a senior Girl Scout to choose a project that will benefit her community and demonstrate her leadership skills. Howell ’s Gold Award project was building homes for bluebirds to placed in Warwick Town Park. The bluebird is New York State’s bird and the houses were specially designed to help protect them from predators. With the help of Junior Troop #571, she was able to build and then place the houses for the migrating birds in Warwick Town Park. Howell offers her thanks to Arnold Beling, owner of Roe Brothers, for donating the wood for the project. “Mr. Beling is very generous and supportive to scouting and his community,” she said. Howell is in the New Vision Medical program, vice president of the National Honor Society and a member of the varsity basketball and soccer teams. She will be attending college this September to earn a degree in nursing.