OXFORD – Oxford Girl Scouts recently received awards for a project that took them nearly three months to complete this summer. From April to July, the five girls donated nearly 200 hours to landscape and improve the Oxford community pool. The work of the girls is estimated to have saved the village over $1,300. That sum doesn’t count the girls’ efforts to rally local businesses to donate materials, such as new garbage cans, or the cost of the supplies they used to perform the work.

The five girls, all of whom are 15 years old and sophomores at Oxford High School, began participating nearly 10 years ago beginning at the earliest level of Girl Scouts called Daisies. Jessica Roach, Shelby Myers, Erica DeWispelaere, Trisha Chmielowicz and Catherine Barrows – with the help of their troop leader Sue Myers – removed garbage, painted, landscaped and raised funds to achieve their Silver Award.