Girl Scouts complete pet project

Courtesy of Sue Goldberg Members of Troop 615 at Loyola School created and sewed beds for pets for their community service project.

Junior Girl Scouts from Troop 615 at Loyola Elementary School in Los Altos recently completed a community service project as part of earning their Bronze Award. The troop organized a sewing event, inviting other local junior troops to help sew pet beds of various sizes for animals from the San Martin Animal Shelter. The shelter serves animals from unincorporated areas of the county.

The 40-plus scouts were able to make more than 40 beds, which Troop 615 delivered to the shelter in June.

Achieving the Bronze Award, the highest a Junior Girl Scout can achieve, requires spending a minimum of 15 hours planning and executing a project that serves a community need and uses the talents and abilities of the girls to carry it out.