Alcuin Daisy Troop 47025 Gives Back to Seguin & People with Disabilities

Anne Marie Evans, Alcuin’s Daisy Troop 47025 Leader, and the other co-leaders believe service to the community can never start too early. They have encouraged their children to give back of their time, hard work and their treasure too.

This year’s Daisy Troop is comprised of 17 girls, ages five to seven years old who attend Alcuin Montessori School in Oak Park. These girls decided to use some of the money they raised through cookie sales to give back to the community. With guidance from their parent leaders they chose to beautify a community-based group home in Oak Park owned and operated by Seguin Services.

The McConnell Home, located at 1111 S. Taylor Avenue, is named after River Forest resident Gregory A. McConnell for his many years of support to Seguin and people with disabilities. Four men, Davey Campos, Michael Campos, Earl Lampkin and Norris Lambert, reside at this beautiful home, where they are provided ongoing services by Seguin so they can become more self-reliant. Seguin is anon-profit social service agency which provides residential care, day services, case management and employment services to over 600 children and adults with developmental disabilities and other special needs.

The Troop came out last Thursday on a beautiful sunlit day to plant perennial and annual plantsand flowers. It was a wonderful tribute to the men who this year will receive the coveted Shining Star Award at Seguin’s Celebration Gala on June 14 at the Westin Lombard at Yorktown. Each of the men work in community-based jobs, take public transportation to their jobs, earn their wages and manage their lives as independently as possible. They have made great strides in their lives, learning to live together, while cooperating and managing their home for ten years. It is wonderful that they could be the recipients of the Troop’s generosity!

The girls had fun working together, digging in the dirt, finding earthworms, planting hostas, coral bells, impatiens, sweet potato vine and other plants that enlivened the outside of the Seguin home. All of the plants were purchased from Seguin Gardens & Gifts where 30 individuals with developmental disabilities and other special needs work weekly to propagate, plant, and care for the plants and flowers which are sold to the general public. It truly was a great day for Seguin’s participants to receive the generosity of these young girls!

Thank you Girl Scout Troop 47025 and the Greater Chicago & Northern Indiana Area Girl Scout Council!

For more information, please call Dawneen Suriano at 708.222.4251 or visit www.seguin.org.