Girlformation - A Newsletter for and about Maine's Girls!

Girls in the News

Adventure Girls' first event was a trip to the Wiscassett Raceway to meet Margery Albert and her daughter Kayla; both race stock cars in the summer. Margery completed this past season with the highest number of points making her the 1st place winner in her division. Adventure Girls is an interactive, adventure-based program that gives girls the opportunity to meet once a month with women who are defying gender stereotypes and challenging notions of what a girl or woman "should" do or be.

Teens Who Care! Amelia Butman is a 2006 recipient of the "Teens Who Care Award". The Abnaki Girl Scout Council, Samantha Lott, nominated her for her work in MOOSE Group - Mentors Offering Anti-Smoking Education and Becca's Closet-non profit organization (started the only chapter in Maine) to give girls free prom dresses. etc. Amelia is a co-founder of MOOSE with in the Piscataquis Public Health Council since 2001. She has lead workshops, given presentations to schools within the Piscataquis County and represented Maine at a Health Summit in Washington, D.C. On April 13th there will be a presentation/ workshop at Milo Schools. Her efforts started in helping her peers quit smoking or try not to start has blossomed into adding physical activity and healthy eating. She also has given tools to others to start their own program and help their peers. One success story is a middle school student was smoking 2 packs a day. His whole family were smokers for many years. It is now 3 1/2 years later and none of them smoke. This young man still keeps in contact with Amelia to let her know how he and his family are doing. With Becca's Closet she has given out 1,958 dresses to date to young women throughout the state of Maine. because of this, a young girl in Hodgdon Maine has started a chapter in Northern Maine, a young girl in Guilford is starting one and another in the Waterville area. She also has secured makeup kits from a cosmetic company in New York to help out with this special day for girls. She also has given out wedding dresses, mother of the bride/groom dresses, bridesmaid dresses and tuxedos.