Seventeen local Girl Scouts were among the 72 throughout San Diego and Imperial counties who recently received their Gold Award at the council’s annual ceremony. It is the highest honor for a ...

each recently earned the Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouts. Each of the four completed more than 80 hours of work toward a community-based cause or specific need they wanted to address.

Victoria Platcek, a high school senior who lives in Two Harbors, is organizing a life-saving Gold Award project. The Girl Scouts’ Gold Award could be compared to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scout honor.

Local Girl Scout Audrey Chen presented her Gold Award project, “Paws for a Cause.” The Girl Scout’s Gold Award is given to role models in their community who aim to fix a problem and make ...