2009-01-08 / Community

Making a better world


REACHING THE PINNACLE IN SCOUTING- - Leanna Morinishi, left, an MIT freshman, and Jillia Fongheiser, a UC Berkeley freshman, have earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, Scouting's highest honor. For their projects, Fongheiser, who graduated from Westlake High School, created blankets for women and children at the Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Oxnard. Morinishi refurbished a day care center in the inner city of Los Angeles. She attended Westlake High as a freshman before moving to St. Louis, where she would later graduate from Marquette High School. The Gold Award requires a community service project of 60 hours or more and leadership skills. REACHING THE PINNACLE IN SCOUTING- - Leanna Morinishi, left, an MIT freshman, and Jillia Fongheiser, a UC Berkeley freshman, have earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, Scouting's highest honor. For their projects, Fongheiser, who graduated from Westlake High School, created blankets for women and children at the Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Oxnard. Morinishi refurbished a day care center in the inner city of Los Angeles. She attended Westlake High as a freshman before moving to St. Louis, where she would later graduate from Marquette High School. The Gold Award requires a community service project of 60 hours or more and leadership skills.

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