Girls Scouts Lend a Hand to Those with PAWS

When the girls in Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington Troop 51413 sat down to choose a community project to go along with their fall product sale, there was one option that stood above the others, hands down.

“They all love animals so much,” said their troop leader, Diane Hamby, “and they have been wanting to volunteer at PAWS for a while.”

So, the Girl Scout Juniors and Cadettes in grades four through middle school elected to use $100 of their hard-earned troop funds to buy supplies for PAWS, Pioneer Humane Society’s Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. The Pendleton-based troop took it a step further and filled out applications and volunteered two hours at the shelter on Feb. 4.

“They had a lot of fun playing with puppies and kittens,” Hamby said.