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mary’s place girl scout troop cookie sales

Our Mary's Place Girl Scout troop #40103 is excited to be selling cookies again this year! Their goal is to sell 2,000 boxes of cookies, with proceeds going towards an AWESOME camping trip being planned by the scouts! Check out dates and times!

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Victoria and Roxanne are happy to be home!

Both Roxanne and Victoria are enjoying the autonomy they have in their own space. Victoria loves to cook and grilled up her first steak recently, and Roxanne is so happy using her own key to open her own door!

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We can, and must, keep families in their homes

Rachel and Jackson Smith (not their real names) have four children between the ages of 11 and 19. Jackson uses a wheelchair as a result of a stroke. Mary's Place helped the Smiths move to a new home in early 2019. Rachel was working then but lost her job as a school bus driver when schools closed due to COVID-19. Unless we act quickly to prevent homelessness with assistance programs scaled to meet the need, thousands of families like the Smiths will face homelessness.

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moving forward

We are heartbroken by the murder of George Floyd, the latest death of a Black man by police. We stand with him, his family, and the Black community as we mourn.

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