The girls of the Tabernacle Girl Scout Troop 23030 were all smiles as they braved the summer heat and filled the little library they helped build together at the Tabernacle municipal building and Camp Kettle Run at the Her Story building in Medford.
For their efforts, the 12 fourth and fifth grade Scouts – Annabelle Meister, Charlotte Dodaro, Ellie Lopez, Erin O’Hara, Estie Gager, Karly Fritz, Kate Ritter, Keira McNally, Lucy Grosser, Lucy Skare, Melynie Judy, and Scarlett Weydig – earned their bronze Scout awards.
“First by earning a journey, they do a project before they do a bronze award where they made bat houses and then they decided to do Take a book, leave a book library,” explained Michelle Judy.
All materials were donated by Carter’s Lumber of Medford, Spotts Hardware of Medford, Home Depot of Berlin and the Cima Network of Pennsylvania. Books for both libraries were donated by all girls in the troop. Doug O’Hara guided the girls in construction safety and building the libraries, along with teaching them how to paint the libraries.
It was a consensus that the girls enjoyed working together as a team. McNally, Dodaro, O’Hara, Weydig and Judy confirmed that as they spoke about their project.
“It really was a team bonding challenge that we did,” McNally noted. “It was really fun.”
Ritter added that their libraries can help little girls and little boys who want to read.
Skare enjoyed painting the libraries and many of the Scouts noted that constructing them was the most challenging part of the project, which took the team roughly three days to complete after they started in the fall of 2022.
After they filled the library at the municipal building on Aug. 5, the Scouts stood in front of it and cut a red ribbon to signal their work was done.
