NORTH SMITHFIELD – An all-girls scouting troop primarily based in North Smithfield has added one other Eagle to their ranks, with a ceremony to have fun the achievement set to be held this weekend.
Kerith Fontenault of Smithfield has earned Scouting America’s highest development award, and might be acknowledged in a ceremony at Scouter’s Corridor on Saturday, Might 24.
A member of Narraganset Council Troop 438 North Smithfield, Fontenault joins an elite group of the group’s younger individuals. Solely roughly 6 p.c of all Scouts attain Eagle rank, famous Troop 438 Scoutmaster Megan Reyes. Every candidate should earn 21 benefit badges and efficiently full a neighborhood, church or synagog-related service venture to earn the rank.
Fontenault selected to construct feeding station for the PawsWatch Group Cat Middle’s program.
“I used to be so completely happy to crew up with PawsWatch, helping their neighborhood cat crew by offering these feeding stations for his or her devoted volunteers as they work tirelessly to securely preserve colonies of susceptible cats in northern Rhode Island,” stated Fontenault. “It was nice to have their volunteers be a part of with us to construct and full this venture.”
Fontenault is a member of Ocean State Baptist Church and is lively in ballroom dance, and within the artwork division at Rhode Island School, the place she simply accomplished her freshman yr.
Previously Boy Scouts of America, Scouting America is likely one of the nation’s largest and most outstanding values-based youth improvement organizations.
