Local News - October 2002

Education—and an award— are health fair goals

Cadet Troop 656 to host event on Oct. 12 at Salem UMC

By DIANE TURBYFILL, Staff Writer

October 2, 2002 - DENVER — Girl Scouts in Cadet Troop 656 hope to educate women and earn an award with an upcoming Women’s Health Fair.

Jackie Correll, Mandy Homce and Jennifer Martin have been working diligently to earn their Silver Award, the highest honor a Cadet Girl Scout can earn.

“They started working on it last spring,” says troop leader Lisa Martin. “We’re going to have a party when it’s over.”

The award — a silver sunburst with a trefoil in the center — requires scouts to earn several badges and participate in community outreach.

The Denver girls have been focusing on health issues: earning badges, and inching their way towards the award.

The girls plan for their hard work to provide education to women.

“We hope they leave with a little bit more knowledge,” says Correll.

Booths will be set up at Salem United Methodist Church in Denver Saturday, Oct. 12. Among those participating will be the Lincoln County Health Department, the Coalition Against Child Abuse, the American Red Cross, a mobile mammogram unit and various doctors and health care professionals.

While the scouts have about ten participants, they did not receive the quite positive response they expected.

“It’s been kind of disappointing,” Martin says.

Correll, Homce and Martin have sent e-mails and letters and made phone calls. Many groups have not responded or have declined to participate.

But the girls feel they have plenty of professionals joining in to make a go of it.

The day will include various health care screenings as well as handouts and demonstrations.

Younger Girl Scouts in Troop 656 will provide child care while Correll, Homce and Martin will be “the overseers.”

Though the event is still to come, the girls agree that they have already learned a lot.

Martin says she’s learned most about “leadership and responsibility.”

The project has included planning, publicizing and executing their idea. Correll says she has high hopes for those attending, and for she and her partners.

It’ll be great “knowing that we accomplished something.”

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The Women’s Health Fair will be Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Salem United Methodist Church, 378 N. Pilot Knob Road, Denver.

To make an appointment with the mobile outreach mammogram unit, call 704-597-0046 and talk with Angela Moore. Most major health care plans are accepted.

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