By Mary-Justine Lanyon
The Dec. 6 meeting of Every Girl Counts – the program for middle-school girls sponsored by Soroptimists of Rim of the World (SIROW) – began with Elaine Tipton outlining the program’s code of conduct.
Elaine Tipton went over the code of conduct for Every Girl Counts with the middle-school girls.
Be quiet and listen, she advised the girls. Show empathy when we have a speaker or when someone else shares. Be gracious. Show compassion and kindness.
And just as the name of the program can be abbreviated EGC, so can the code of conduct: Empathy-Graciousness-Compassion.
At each meeting the girls learn about a female hero. This meeting’s hero was Bindi Irwin, presented by Jeannie Venturini. She told the girls that, at age 9, Bindi had starred on her own television show, Bindi the Jungle Girl.
Before the girls started planting daffodil bulbs, Cathy Kay explained the proper method to them.
The girls’ project at this meeting was planting yellow trumpet daffodil bulbs on the grounds of Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School. Before they began, Cathy Kay demonstrated the proper way to plant the bulbs. The girls then set to work with trowels.
Back inside, the girls decorated blankets for cats.
The girls also created holiday cards.
Once they were back inside the school’s multipurpose room, Paula Anderson of the Mountain Humane Society explained the nonprofit’s purpose, which is to support animals, mostly cats and dogs. She told the story of a dog that had gotten away from a family visiting the mountain. Two months later, a team sent out by the Mountain Humane Society found the dog and reunited it with its family. She urged everyone to spay or neuter their pets.
The afternoon ended with the girls decorating blankets for cats and creating holiday cards.
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