On Saturday, October 29th, all of the Girl Scouts and Brownies throughout Shrewsbury participated in a town-wide cupcake sale.  Cupcakes were sold at all soccer fields to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims through an organization called Book Relief.  Book Relief has solicited 3 1/2 million children's books from publishing companies, but needs money to get the books to the areas/people in need.  For every .50 cents donated, one book, with a personalized message on a bookmark is sent to either a school, library or shelter.  It is the hope that each child leaving a shelter will have a small collection to restart his/her own personal library.

 

The Shrewsbury Girl Scouts raised $327 by selling cupcakes for .50 cents each.  This translates into 654 books being sent to the areas hit by the hurricane.  Hats off to the scouts, and may continued support be with our fellow Americans in the south!!!