Social 28 April 2023

Blanchester Girl Scout Troop 45988 donates cookies to area veterans

The Highland County Press - Staff Photo -
Pictured at the Georgetown Veteran Home are Avaylia Hollingsworth, Navy Korean War Veteran Coach Vernon Hawkins, Josie Fruediger and Julia Fruediger. (Submitted photos)
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Submitted by Ida Miller

Blanchester Girl Scout Troop 45988 has been busy the past few months.

For quite a few years, the girls have gathered donations from local business owners and organizations to support the Georgetown Nursing Home veterans. With only 60 residents there, we decided this year that since we had our largest donations ever of 296 boxes that we would split the cookies to bless 140 veterans receiving patient care checked in at the Chillicothe Veterans Hospital.

This would not have been possible without the generous support of Blanchester WiC on Fancy Street, Blanchester BIC Machine Shop on 28, Blanchester Eagles, Blanchester Masonic Lodge, Bush Auto of Wilmington, Wilmington Champion Bridge, Wilmington Auto Sales, Mark Kratzer's Pharmacy and Mariemont's Mathew Lackney Dentistry, as well as donations handed to the girls from customers and at cookie booth sale locations.

Navy Korean War veteran Coach Vernon Hawkins gladly posed during the girls’ cookie dropoff.

Participating Girls registered in the troop are Josie Fruediger, nine years; Avaylia Hollingsworth, seven years; Janet Crow, two years (eight years in Girl Scouts); and Julia Fruediger, two years. The girls attend Blanchester and Clinton-Massie schools. The troop leaders are Ida Sells Miller and Stephanie Elaine Miller and volunteer Jana Fruediger.

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Pictured at Lowe’s: Josie Fruediger, Stephanie Elaine Miller and Avaylia Hollingsworth.
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Pictured at the Chillicothe VA: Becky Vinzant and Ida Miller.
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Pictured at Blanchester First National Bank: Avaylia Hollingsworth & Janet Crow.

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