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Mar 24, 2006 6:17 pm US/Eastern

Jersey Girl Scout Has Novel Idea

Ships Books Down To Louisiana

RIDGEWOOD (CBS) ― For several years Ridgewood High junior Marya Goodman has been traveling to Dulac, Louisiana helping to repair homes damaged by years of hurricanes.

She even worked to repair the town Library.

Then came Katrina, extensively damaging the library and destroying most of it's books.

Marya got this idea for her Senior Girl Scout Gold Award project, a program that requires a Senior Scout to spend sixty hours doing something
for her community.

Marya stretched the "community" idea bit to include two communities, Ridgewood and Dulac. It took a lot more than sixty hours. But what she did says volumes.

She circulated fliers urging residents in her New Jersey town to donate books for the Louisiana town's library. "I thought maybe I'd get a thousand
or so books," Marya told me.

What she got were more than 40-thousand books. She got a moving company to donate boxes for shipping, and a storage company donated space. A public relations person from Ridgewood heard about the drive and convinced Benjamine Moore Paint Company that donating a truck and crew to get the books to Louisiana would be a good idea.

Today the huge paint company truck wheeled up to The Community Church of Upper Ridgewood with a crew of men to load the books. A crew member said, "This is a perfect feel good story to start the weekend." We couldn't agree more, maybe even more than Benjamine Moore.

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