By Daily Press staff
One Girl Scout is going for the gold by telling stories. Allison Hales from Girl Scout Troop 533 brought her Gold Award project, “Books-4-Babies,” to St. Joseph Center’s Infant Toddler Development Center in Venice last month to tell the story of “The Little Engine That Could” to low-income toddlers who have never seen a storyboard before.
Hales, an 11th-grader at Notre Dame Academy, spent more than 65 hours and collected more than 1,000 children’s books from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Hermosa View School to create an interactive library at the center to give young children an opportunity to read and understand that reading and learning can be fun.
Having been scouting since the first grade, Hales has received the Silver Award and is now striving to achieve the Gold, the highest award the Girls Scouts bestow.
For more information on how you can help, call 396-6468, ext. 325 or visit www.stjosephctr.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 12, 2004. Read the original PDF.