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Scouts provide lasting message of belonging entering the building felt acknowledged. As part of earning the Girl Every morning, students and Scout Bronze Award, the highest family members who walk honor available to Girl Scout through the front doors of Mead- Juniors, the troop identified a ow Elementary School are greet- need in the school community ed by the word “welcome” in a and created a lasting solution: updating Meadow’s welcome variety of languages. mural to reflect Until recently, more of the languaghowever, not every Meadow family es spoken by its stucould find themdents while also pros e l ve s r e f l e c t e d ducing a multilinthere. gual storybook For fourth-grader designed to teach Sothanee Sainsurin, students how to say whose family speaks “welcome” in many Cambodian and Haidifferent languages. tian Creole, the The girls omission was imposunveiled the comsible to ignore. pleted project dur“I always loved ing Meadow that we had a welSchool’s third annucome wall at Meadal Multicultural Fesow, but I didn’t like ElIANA EuStAchE tival on April 17. that not all languag- Girl Scout Troop 2210 According to the es were included,” scouts, the original Sothanee wrote in an email to welcome wall was created in the Herald. “I am Cambodian 2016, but Meadow’s school popuand Haitian, and neither of my lation has evolved significantly languages were on the wall. since then. As the girls looked Some of my friends also felt left around at classmates and neighout.” bors, they realized that many That realization sparked a students’ native languages and months-long mission by Meadow cultural backgrounds were not School Girl Scout Troop 2210 — represented at one of the seven elementary students deter- school’s most visible gathering mined to make sure every child Continued on page 14
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Naela brings lebanese flavors to library kitchen Patrons got a taste of Lebanese cuisine during a special cooking demonstration at the library on April 16 led by Chef Naela Zeidan. During the evening program, Zeidan showed attendees how to prepare organic beef and vegetable pies with sauteed onions, baba ghanoush, Middle Eastern salad and the traditional dessert Layali Lubnan. Guests sampled the freshly made dishes while learning culinary techniques and the cultural background behind each recipe. Above, Chef Naela Zeidan, right, guided Jane Policastro through a cooking demonstration featuring Lebanese favorites during the library’s culinary program. At right, Aileen Nathan displayed a plate of organic beef pie, baba ghanoush and Middle Eastern salad after sampling dishes prepared during Chef Naela Zeidan’s cooking demonstration.
t helps us understand that other people may live differently than we do and helps us understand each other.