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Troop 40029
Silver Award Troop 40029
Scouts Collect Toys For Silver Award
ORANGETOWN: Cadette Troop 40029, a group of Girl Scouts from Orangeburg, are working to complete their Silver Award project called "A Little Joy for TOYmorrow." They set a goal to collect 500 toys for the People to People's JOY Store. The troop hosted 110 Girl Scouts at a Diva Dance Party on Nov. 21 at Our Lady of Sacred Heart Church in Tappan. Each attendee was required to bring a toy, and during the event they collected 131. They collected an additional 400 toys from other troops. In return for donating toys, the Scouts received a Toy Drive patch. The final step in their Silver Award project will be to set up the JOY Store to distribute the toys. The store will be open to pre-approved People to People clients from Tuesday to Thursday. Cadette Troop 40029 has been together for 10 years under the direction of Mary Ryker and Brian Lyons, a retired Orangetown police officer. The members are ninth-graders Victoria Dellacava, Emily Frantzen, Allison Kroenert, Renee Lyons, Savannah Lyons, Emily Ryker, Lene Sansone and Madison Schindele. They attend Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg.
More photos of the dance can be found in the TZ Event Album: Diva Dance
2008-09 Troop News
Troop 40029
Cadettes Leaders: Mary Ryker and Brian Lyons
We began the year by focusing on service and striving towards the Silver Award. Nam Knights gave the troop a perfect opportunity to help others and earn service hours. We planned and executed a successful, but very cold food drive that netted 700 lbs of food and 138 dollars. We worked on Election Day at People to People sorting clothes, organizing the store and unloading food supplies. We spent a weekend in December helping with the newly named Project Joy and also adopted two families of our own. We attended Silver Smarts in New City and it helped with our organization and timeline for the Silver Award. We also completed the Artistic Crafts IPA by working numerous sessions with a local potter, Sylvia March.
Bronze Award Troop 40029
Leaders: Mary Ryker and Brian Lyons
Date: Fall 2007
Project: FLAG IN A BAG
Our troop created a "Flag in a Bag" - A Complete Flag Ceremony Kit to be loaned to other troops. The kit included a Flag Ceremony CD, made by the troop, and also included gloves and laminated calling cards. They presently have two sets at Girl Scout House and two in our Community. In addition to making the CD the girls also completed the Wave the Flag try-it with Brownie troops, The United We Stand badge with Junior troops and taught many troops to do a proper flag ceremony. As part of the prerequisite for the Bronze the girls earned the Model Citizen and The United We Stand badges
Troop 40029 2010-2011
Helping Hands of Rockland along with Pastor John VandenOever provide a Safe Haven for men and women at the Piermont Reformed Church for 10 weekends during the winter months. Every year Troop 40029, Ambassador Girl Scouts from Rockland cook, serve and clean-up two weekends. They have been doing this since they were Juniors in 5th grade. This year they were asked to come in at 6:15am to cook a hot breakfast to the guests and also ready the church before Sunday services. The girls were more anxious to help than they were to get up so early in the morning and cook, serve and clean the bathrooms, but they did it and had a lot of laughs in the process.
Troop 40029 took a little time out of working on their Gold Awards to continue what they love --feeding the homeless. They served a Super Bowl Sunday Fiesta at the makeshift shelter in Piermont.
They made it a fiesta style party with chicken, rice and beans and complete with banana pudding and fresh pineapple. I like to think of it as "serving up kindness." Troop 40029!! --Mary Ryker, Leader
(And don’t they look great in their full uniform dress!--TZ Webmaster)
Troop 40029
2009-2010
