LAKE SUTHERLAND — After years of fond Girl Scout memories dating back to first grade, Jerrah Holth gave back to Camp Fisher Cove.
The 18-year-old honors graduate of Port Angeles High School planned a project to improve the aging Lake Sutherland Girl Scout camp’s facilities and organized a work party of more than 20 volunteers to carry out her plans.
“I think I’ve been going to that camp since I could barely walk, and attending Girl Scout camp since first grade,” Holth said Sunday. “There were just some needed improvements.”
Holth’s efforts earned her the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn — the Gold Award — and she joins the ranks of an elite group of less than 1 percent of Girl Scouts.
The overall improvements accomplished in two days, beginning June 21, included building an 8-by-6-foot woodshed to keep firewood dry, installing water fountains with new drainage areas for spigots to improve drinking and cooking water availability. Holth also joined with volunteers build a new pumphouse roof to stop leaks.
The final part of the project involved buidling a bench-bunk in the main lodge, which is the only part of the camp that is wheelchair accessible.
Holth said her work party volunteers were so productive, they even helped clean up the property, preparing it for the camping season ahead.
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The rest of this story can be found in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.
