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COMMUNITY
Scouts make garden a homier
place for the birds
BY TOM ODER
The Girl Scouts
in Troop 29430 at
Our Lady of the As
sumption Elemen
tary School have
earned a flock of new
friends, feathered and
unfeathered, with
a birdhouse service
project they under
took on behalf of the
Dunwoody Commu
nity Garden.
The girls, most
ly from Brookhav-
en, and friends
since they were Dai
sy Scouts, decorated
12 birdhouses dur
ing a meeting earlier
this month. Last Sat
urday, as one of the
girl’s moms played
the sound of a bird
singing from a cell
phone app, nine girls
from the troop presented the birdhous
es to Community Garden leaders at the
garden in Brook Run Park.
The girls made the presentation at a
birdbath in the orchid entrance to the
garden. A sign in front of the birdbath
designating the garden as a wildlife sanc
tuary registered with the Atlanta Audu
bon Society attested to the timeliness of
the project and presentation. The gar
den was awarded the certification earli
er this year.
“This is just what I like to see, youth
contribution and artwork,” said Com
munity Garden Chairman Nicole
Maslanka. “This is a combination that
really enlivens the spirit of a Communi
ty Garden.”
Scouts participating in the presen
tation at the garden were Abby John
son, Bella Cabibi, Lauren Kim, Frances
ca Walker, Katie Wojna, Lauren Natsch,
Ava Massey, Tegan Siksta and Hallye
Loeffler. Maslanka and Garden Vice
Chairman Art Simon, who led the ef
fort to win the Audubon certification,
accepted the birdhouses on behalf of the
garden.
The scouts got the idea for the bird-
house project when they were working
on another Community Garden proj
ect last year. That effort involved clean
ing pots and tidying up the area around
the greenhouse in the park. During that
project, Diana Wood, who was manag
ing the Community Garden portion of
the greenhouse, gave the girls some bird-
houses to paint to help beautify the gar
den. The girls decided to turn that gift
into a second Community Garden ser
vice project.
The troop purchased several more
birdhouses and spent an afternoon
painting and decorating them. When
parents arrived to pick up their daugh-
TOM ODER
Girl Scouts from Troop 29430 at Our Lady of
the Assumption Elementary School show off
birdhouses they decorated as a service project
for the Dunwoody Community Garden. From
left, Abby Johnson, Bella Cabibi, Lauren Kim,
Francesca Walker, Katie Wojna, Lauren Natsch,
Ava Massey, Tegan Siksta and Hallye Loeffler.
ters, “the girls were having so much fun
they wanted to keep on working and
keep adding more details,” said Mary
Natsch, a mom of one of the scouts.
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