PLUMSTED: Girl Scouts become TV ambassadors

by Peter Geier, Staff Writer
   PLUMSTED – Mayor Ron Dancer and the Township Committee plan to recognize ten fresh faces from New Egypt who introduced national television viewers to their hometown on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show last week.
   Mayor Dancer said that it was “certainly an honor for Plumsted Township to be represented by members of our Girl Scouts and Brownies to a national television audience.”
   ”I congratulate them for being great ambassadors for New Egypt and I look forward to personally acknowledging and commending them with the Township Committee at an upcoming Plumsted Township public meeting,” Mr. Dancer said.
   New Egypt’s ambassadors were four first-graders from Brownie Troop 440 — Mary Beth Barnes, Kristen Koch, Mattison Nixon and Jessica Peroni — and six fifth-grade students from Girl Scout Troop 603 — Alyshia and Amanda Barnes, Laureen and Natalie Suess, Jackie Consolloy and Courtney Dobbins.
   Sharon Barnes, mother of Girls Scouts Alyshia and Amanda Barnes and leader of Troop 603, said that efforts by the girls and their chaperones to leave early to travel to GMA’s television studio in New York and to wait in the cold was rewarded when they were selected to appear on the show.
   ”It was very nice and lots of fun and the people there were very pleasant,” Ms. Barnes said. “We got a chance to meet Robin (Roberts) and the girls got to see how they do everything and were really impressed.”
   During their televised appearance with weather anchor Sam Champion, the girls held the American flag and recited their Girl Scout pledge. When Mr. Champion asked the girls where they are from, “they proudly informed the national television audience that their hometown was New Egypt, New Jersey,” Mayor Dancer said.
   Mr. Champion replied that not only did he know of New Egypt, but actually had been there, the mayor said.