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AUGUSTA — Girl Scouts from Oxford County’s Troop 58 were recognized with a legislative sentiment by Sen. Lisa Keim, R-Oxford, for attaining their Girl Scout Silver Award, the highest award a Scout can earn. Keim recognized Audra Hamlin of Stoneham, and Katherine Trumbull and Sinead Lounsbury, both of of Fryeburg, on Wednesday, June 14. The award is given for excellence in skills development, leadership, personal growth and community service.
For their project, the Scouts focused on honoring veterans. After discovering the town of Stoneham did not have any map or record of veterans buried in three of its backwoods cemeteries, the girls took on the job to survey, photograph and document the cemeteries. The girls made sketches and uploaded the information from the gravestones, along with photos, to a website dedicated to helping genealogists and family members find ancestors’ graves www.namesinstone.com. A physical map of each of the cemeteries is now hanging in the community room at the Stoneham Town Office.
“I am honored to join their family and friends in expressing pride in these girls and their accomplishments,” said Keim. “Obtaining the silver award is no easy task; they have showed hard work and perseverance in reaching their goal. I’d like to thank them for completing such a worthwhile project and wish them all the best in the future. Our state is fortunate to have such promising young people.”
CAPTION: Sen. Lisa Keim, R-Oxford, presented a legislative sentiment to Audra Hamlin, of Stoneham, and Katherine Trumbull, of Fryeburg, for achieving their Silver Award as Girl Scouts. The pair, along with Scout Sinead Lounsbury, all of Troop 58, helped document veterans’ unmarked graves in Stoneham to earn the award.
