The Peru Gazette

L-R Melissa Wiggins, Judy Lefevre, Lorelei Wiggins

Lorelei Wiggins received the Youth Patriotic Award Citation.

Peru Girl Scout Unit #446 received the National Youth Group Supporting Our Veterans Citation. 

VFW Auxillary President Judy Lefevre made the following remarks.

Lorelei Wiggins has an extensive list of accomplishments and activities.  She dances at Center Stage in Plattsburgh, where she is a member of the Lake City Players.  As a junior at Peru High School, her activities include Select Chorus and All-State Chorus. She was selected to perform solos at the New York State School Music Association and has been a member of the Drama Club.

At St. Augustine’s Applefest, where Lorelei sells her canning products to help her parents pay the costs of her extracurricular activities, she promoted the VFW Auxiliary and our youth scholarship programs to anyone and everyone who will listen. She was terrific, even though she is not currently a member of our Auxiliary.

Lorelei is an Ambassador Girl School and Peru Community Delegate at State Conferences.  For the past two (2) summers, she has served as a Councilor in Training, learning, and practicing her leadership style to become a Camp Councilor.

We have witnessed Lorelei’s leadership skills as she mentored the younger Peru Community Girl Scouts and called the commands as the younger girls posted our nation’s colors during both Memorial and Veterans Day ceremonies. I am honored to present Lorelei Wiggins with a Youth Patriotic Award Citation for her dedication to veterans.

Tonight’s second (2nd) award is to Melissa Wiggins as a representative of Unit # 446 Girl Scout leaders. Before Memorial Day, the Peru Community Girl Scouts cleaned and re-planted the flower beds around our building and in front of the Veterans Memorial Wall. On Flag Day, they performed a beautiful flag-burning ceremony. In September, before our 50th Anniversary Dinner, the girls met here and did a fall cleanup around the building and the Memorial Wall. These activities were a tribute to our veterans.

I am honored to present The National Youth Group Supporting Our Veterans Citation to Peru Community Girl Scout Unit # 446 in “Recognition and appreciation of your support of our veterans and their families.”  Congratulations!  Thank you for all you, your fellow leaders, and the girls do for our veterans, their families, and this community.