Junior Girl Scouts Soccer's clinic earns Bronze Award

By Doneen Durling, Reporter

Posted Feb 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM

►Bronze Award winning Junior Girl Scouts Maddy Mulhall, left, and Molly Horgan celebrate the evening with ice cream sundaes.

ASHBURNHAM — Two young women from Girl Scout Troop 30246 have earned the Girl Scout Bronze Award by offering a soccer clinic for children ages 4-7 years old. If you asked them about the experience, they would tell you they had so much fun they would do it again.

Molly Horgan and Maddy Mulhall completed a minimum of 20 hours of community service by developing a plan and offering the clinic last July.

In the end, the two girls earned the Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn for their success and were honored for that success in a ceremony on Thursday.

Scout Service Unit Manager Michelle Whipple-Duclos explained that Junior Girl Scouts are eligible for the Bronze Award after looking at something in the community where they live and trying to find a way to make it even better.

Molly Horgan noticed that the soccer field was in need of tender, loving care, and noted that many kids wanted to learn something about soccer.

What Molly Horgan and Maddy Mulhall decided to do was work on establishing a soccer camp with kids age 4-7. They spent 20 hours cleaning out the area and organizing resources and people to help, including their own parents.

The girls ran their clinic for three days. The two girls even had T-shirts made up for those attending the clinic.

Whipple-Duclos said that at first the two scouts were a little overwhelmed with the children who signed up, so the dads started pitching in a little bit.

“But by the end of day three, the girls were telling the dads to go sit on the sidelines and run the timer,” said Whipple-Duclos.

John Mulhall, the father of Maddy Mulhall, said that in the beginning, both dads were trying to talk the two girls into other projects, but the girls were ready for the soccer challenge.

“It was a lot of work. I don’t think that they were prepared for how much work it was and how many times they were going to have to step out of their comfort zone,” he said.

The two girls set up at the annual Downtown Day Festival seeking children who would like to sign up for the soccer clinic. They also sought kids for sign up during Movie Night, and John Mulhall said that was when things began to become real.

“Before we knew it, they had 20 people,” he said.

The camp ran in July at Outlaws Field across from the Wachusett Brewery. The original plan was to open for six sessions with 40 kids, but the idea changed when they began to understand the scope of such a project.

“They put in a lot of hard work, and I think they had fun doing it,” said John Mulhall. “I certainly had a lot of fun helping out.”

Dad Kevin Horgan said that there were about 25 kids the first day of the clinic, which surprised him and the girls, and seemed a bit overwhelming, but by the third day the girls were acting like professionals.

Parents pinned their daughters with the Bronze Award. When the ceremony was finished, the crowd sat down to enjoy eating their own ice cream sundae creations with whipped cream, chocolate syrup, gummy bears and the works.

When asked what the hardest part of the project was, Maddy Mulhall said that getting the 4-year-olds to focus was the hardest part. The best part was playing a big game at the end where those who participated in the clinic could use what they had learned. There was no score kept, but Molly Horgan was pretty sure her team won.

The two would like to continue the clinic, but have decided that maybe they would not include 4-year-olds next time.

“We’ll get like older kids ... third- and fourth-graders,” said Molly Horgan, and Maddy Mulhall agreed.

Members of the Molly and Maddy Soccer Clinic said the clinic was a lot of fun. When asked what they liked the best, Lukas Horgan said the game at the end. The kids agreed that no one kept score, but it was just plain fun.

Whipple-Duclos said she was very proud of the two girls she has helped to grow through scouting since they were small.

“I am very proud of what they have done and how much they have grown these last few years,” she said.

Whipple-Duclos added that the girls in the troop will be moving on to the Silver Award soon which will include projects that will require more community service time.

Référence: https://www.thegardnernews.com/news/20190204/

MOLLY ANN HORGAN

LIGNÉE ANCESTRALE

XII       Molly Ann HORGAN

            née le 22 avril 2007.

XI        Sarah COLLETTE

            mariée à Kevin HORGAN

X         Léo-Paul COLLETTE III

marié à Patricia LORDEN, fille de Timothy J. LORDEN et d’Ida L. LEBLANC, le 29 juin 1975 à Pepperell (Massachusetts, États-Unis).

IX        Loretta E. / Laurette LÉGER

mariée à Léo-Paul COLLETTE JR., fils de Léo-Paul COLLETTE et d’Albina THIBEAULT, le 29 mai 1954 à Fitchburg (Massachusetts, États-Unis).

VIII     Samuel LÉGER

marié à Yvonne DESROSIERS, fille d’Adélard DESROSIERS et de LYDIA BOURQUE, le 28 décembre 1929 en l’église Saint-François-Xavier de Fitchburg (Massachusetts, États-Unis).

VII      Wenceslas LÉGER

marié à Séraphine CARRIÈRE, fille d'Amable CARRIÈRE et d'Archange BEAUCHESNE, le 26 novembre 1900 en l'église St-Bernard de Fournierville, ON.

VI        Dosithée LÉGER

marié à Sophie DUPUIS, fille de Joseph DUPUIS et d'Angèle CAZA, le 27 janvier 1874 en l'église St-Bernard de Fournierville (Ontario).

V         Augustin LÉGER

marié à Victoire SÉGUIN, fille de Louis SÉGUIN et de Marie-Louise MALLET, le 5 octobre 1829 en l'église Ste-Madeleine de Rigaud (Bas-Canada).

IV        Joseph LÉGER

marié à Marguerite Amable BREBANT, fille de Augustin BRABANT et de Eugénie ST-JULIEN, le 24 novembre 1800 en l'église St-Michel de Vaudreuil (Bas-Canada).

III        Thomas LÉGER

marié à Félicité CHOLETTE, fille de Jacques CHOLETTE et de Marie-Antoine LEGAULT, le 8 janvier 1776 en l'église St-Joachim de Pointe-Claire (Canada).

II         Charles LÉGER

marié à Françoise LEDUC, fille de Pierre LEDUC et de Marie-Catherine FORTIN, le 7 janvier 1738 à Ste-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Ile (Nouvelle-France).

I           Pierre LÉGER dit PARISIEN

marié à Jeanne BOISLARD, fille de Jean BOISLARD et de Jeanne MARANDAS, le 15 mai 1706 en l'église Notre-Dame de Québec (Nouvelle-France).

            Pierre LÉGER dit LE PRIEUR

marié à Marguerite DANDASE de St-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris (Ile-de-France).