By Jill Fedders-Ellefson
This fall the Garretson Girl Scouts Troop voted to complete activities that improve our community. On a beautiful but windy afternoon the girls met after school let out to pick up litter at the city parks.
They determined that the most litter was found at Splitrock while the cleanest was the school playground. Each girl carried a GFC grocery bag to empty in a larger trash bag as we worked.
The most common trash we found were plastic water bottles and wrappers. The weirdest trash found was a Sioux Falls Rec Area patch and a softball.
The girls differed in opinion on how far they walked and left it at somewhere between 1 to 105 miles! While picking up litter the Girl Scouts discovered a cave and a walking bridge they had not seen before.
Last week the Garretson Troop provided a large variety of individually wrapped treats for the Garretson school teachers. The girls hoped it would make the teachers a little sweeter and their day a little brighter.
