Scouts’ cookies welcome troops

Girls in the troop come from all over northern Frederick County as well as lower Pennsylvania and western Carroll County, she said.

Scouts Maggie Cole, Anna Eyler, Taylor Garner, Samantha Nigida, Veronica Smaldone, Jenna van Volkenburgh and Marah Williams “would just hand out the cookies as the soldiers were walking,“ Eyler said, adding that the soldiers were clearly gratified.

The girls chose to benefit Operation Welcome Home, a Maryland charity that meets U.S. military troops returning from Iraq or Afghanistan at the airport, for this year’s Gift of Caring program, which is tied to their cookie sales.

Eyler’s husband, Terry Eyler, generated a huge number of sales when he announced the program at a gathering of the Thurmont Conservation and Sportsman’s Club, she said. Each box costs $3.50, which means the girls did $1,295 in sales.

Joan Williams also advises the scout troop.

For more information about Operation Welcome Home, visit www.operationwelcomehomemd.org.

Zimmerman named ‘hero’ at golf tournament

Emily Zimmerman, 11, of Walkersville has been selected as the 2008 “patient hero for her incredible strength and positive attitude while battling leukemia“ for the 18th Annual Bobby Mitchell⁄TOYOTA Hall of Fame Golf Classic, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Web site.

Emily will be honored at a July 12 banquet at Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va. The next day, 38 NFL hall-of-famers will golf to raise money for the society, which fights to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma.

For more information, visit www.bobbymitchell.com.

Walkersville manmakes dean’s list

Justin Melvin, of Walkersville has been named to the fall 2007 dean’s list at Liberty University, according to a press release from the Lynchburg, Va. evangelical university. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or above to make the list.

Woman inducted intohonor chapter

Gillian Beach, of Woodsboro has been inducted into the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society at Gettysburg College, according to a press release from the college.

The Iota Chapter, founded in 1923, is one of 242 Phi Beta Kappa chapters nationwide and one of 19 in Pennsylvania. Selection for the society signifies a student’s “scholarship, character, love of learning and promise of achievement,“ the press release says.

Businessman honorslocal students

John Chaney wants local students to reach their full potential.

The Frederick native and loan advisor for Immediate Mortgage in Urbana held an event at the Clara Harris Community Center in the city’s Sagner neighborhood on Saturday to honor 15 young students who improved their grades and earned a place on the honor roll at their schools.

The recognition started when Chaney promised a treat to two friends of the family if they improved their grades. The idea grew as friends and family members recommended more students who needed a little academic push.

Chaney, a 1985 graduate of Frederick High School, said he hopes to partner with more community and school organizations to make the student recognition event a regular occurrence for all young people, but especially minority students who grew up in the same Sagner community he did.

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