Edina Native Wins Girl Scout Award

For Hayley Morrison, being a Girl Scout is about more than selling cookies. The 2013 graduate of Edina High School and current freshman at Creighton University, received a Gold Award—the highest honor given by the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys—for leading a group of volunteers to help restore her neighborhood’s dilapidated and overgrown park trail and clear an invasive plant species from Garden Park.According to Girl Scouts public relations manager Sara Danzinger, Morrison also took steps to educate the community on how to be a positive influence and protect the environment. The park trail and surrounding area are now accessible and are sustained by a local company and surrounding neighbors.“I’ve been in the Girl Scouts since I was 7 years old. To me it’s about helping the community and being a good role model for younger girls,” says Morrison. “It’s also about doing whatever I can to help the environment. My family has always walked through Garden Park. But it got so overgrown that you couldn’t walk there. I wanted to fix that and make it a path that everyone could use.”