Local patrol leaders from Scout Troop 223G report on recent Career and Good Turn trips.
Eleanor Yoda | Huskies Patrol Leader Troop 223G
On Saturday, February 10th, the Huskies visited the workplace of Lovely Day, a women’s wholesale fashion company based in downtown Los Angeles for a Career Trip.
Founded in 2006, Lovely Day specializes in women’s dresses. They sell their designs to companies like Windsor.
We met with Stephen Kim, one of the company’s sales representatives. We learned how clothing is designed and manufactured.
We were also surprised to learn that while the designing is done in Los Angeles, the manufacturing is done overseas. Fabric is sent to places like Mexico, Guatemala, and China, where workers make the dresses, and then ship them back to the United States. This sparked an interesting conversation on how “fast fashion” affects the environment and economy.
Afterwards, we went to Pink’s Hot Dogs and ate lunch. We had a great time learning about the clothing industry and bonding as a patrol.
Aleah Plume | Fox Patrol Leader Troop 223G
On February 17, the Fox Patrol completed their Good Turn Trip. As a patrol, we decided on collecting food drive items to donate to the Upward Bound House and decorating cards to give to the families at the shelter.
Scouts looked through their cabinets and collected any food drive items they were willing to donate. Next, our patrol spent about an hour decorating colorful, homemade cards.
We then drove to Upward Bound House, a local homeless shelter for families in Santa Monica, to donate our food drive items. We donated water bottles, canned foods, granola bars, and more.
Our patrol learned that helping others is a very important part in being a good citizen. We are very thankful for the opportunity to help out the community.
To learn more or visit a Troop 223 meeting, contact Greg Frost at frostfamily@frostinvestigations.com (boys) or Scoutmaster Larry Kirven at lkirven@gmail.com (girls).
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