Happy Girl Scout Day in Woodbridge

For the 103 anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouts in the United States, Woodbridge First Selectman Ellen Scalettar on Wednesday proclaimed Thursday, March 12 as Girl Scout Day in Woodbridge.

March 12 is the anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, “which began in 1912 when Savannah, GA native Juliette Gordon Low gathered 18 girls to provide them the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually,” Scalettar she said in part of her proclamation (you can read the whole thing on the town website).

“We need terrific girl leaders and community involved people, and I know that what you’re doing in girl scouts prepares you well for that,” the first selectman said.

For a previous Girl Scout anniversary, Scalettar told the girls, she’d worn pearls, and she had been asked if she was wearing them in honor of Low, who at one point sold her pearls to keep her girl scout operation going. Scalettar said she hadn’t been aware of that before, but on Wednesday she was wearing pearls for the event.

You can see her read the proclamation to Woodbridge girl scouts in this YouTube video (also at the bottom of this article).

Photo from the Woodbridge town government website.