KayLee Melton from Wood River Honored with Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois' Volunteer Spotlight Award
Congratulations to KayLee Melton from Wood River. She is being recognized with Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois' Volunteer Spotlight Award for her service with Service Unit 101 Alton/Godfrey/Wood River/Roxana.
Volunteer Spotlight Awards celebrate volunteers who are honored by their peers for living the Girl Scout Law. Here is why KayLee is being recognized as a shining example of a great volunteer:
"KayLee has been a Girl Scout since Kindergarten and graduating high school was not the end of her involvement in Girl Scouts. She is a Trifecta Awardee and serves as a National Delegate for our council. She continues to help out with the troop she graduated from as well as a younger troop she has worked with since she was in high school. While at school she decided that she missed Girl Scouts and currently leads a troop of Daisies through Juniors in her council at school.
This past summer KayLee traveled with both her troop and the younger troop she has worked with for a few years. This was a new role for KayLee, traveling as an adult member, but she took it on with great ease. She was a great help as we all learned how public transit in Chicago works and often times led the way making sure we were going in the right direction. The older adults in the troop all agreed we would have literally been lost without her assistance. When traveling with the younger troop there were several things that she did that just seemed second nature to her, from making sure the girls were ready on time to again helping navigate through Savannah. There were several times when we would need to transition to the next activity, or need something taken care of or organized and KayLee would already be stepping in to take care of it. Many times, the older adults could sit back and relax knowing that the girls' 'big sister' was there to help.
Since returning from the trips, she has continued to help with the younger troop - even having a big hand in organizing the activities for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas campouts. And she has done all of this while on her breaks from school, which is out of town. She deserves to be recognized because she didn't let graduating be the end of her involvement and she serves as such a great role model to all of the younger Girl Scouts with which she works."
