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Top of the class! This year’s crop of nine Junior BP Award winners is the biggest roll-up in the long history of the Kingaroy Girl Guides<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 4, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year the Kingaroy Girl Guides painted a new name on their Junior BP Award honour board \u2013 the first one they\u2019d added to it in the past ten years.<\/p>\n

This year, though, they’ll be breaking all records with nine additional names, the biggest single year roll-up the troop has ever seen since they first put up the honour board in the late 1970s and added the first pair of names to it in 1999.<\/p>\n

The board records Kingaroy Girl Guides who’ve won the Junior BP Award, named in honour of Girl Guides founder Robert Baden-Powell because it is Guiding\u2019s highest honour.<\/p>\n

Last year a Junior BP Award was won by 12-year-old Kingaroy State High School student Jade May, who put in almost a year’s effort to win the rare honour.<\/p>\n

The previous recipient (L. Jacobsen) won a Junior BP Award in 2006, and in the seven years before that only two other names were recorded: A. Shephard and S. Jamieson.<\/p>\n

But this year – inspired by Jade’s 2016 effort – nine other guides earned the prestigious award, along with the right to have their names inscribed on the honour board, too.<\/p>\n

The 2017 award-winners were Emma-Lee Cohen, Hannah Frohloff, Megan Frohloff, Savanah Reed, Lillian Davey, Laura Davey, Veronica May, Rebekah Stone and Tallyn Broderick.<\/p>\n

Amanda May, who has been the Kingaroy troop\u2019s leader for the past 18 years, said she was extremely proud of the girls.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the time of last year’s presentation, five other girls were following in Jade’s footsteps and were part-way towards gaining a Junior BP award in their own right.<\/p>\n

Another four joined the quest for the award when the troop resumed this year.<\/p>\n

“They were so keen to finish before this year’s awards ceremony that some of them called me up on a weekend to see if they could come around to my home to finish some tasks,” Amanda said.<\/p>\n

“When you’re faced with so much enthusiasm, you really can’t say no.”<\/p>\n

The troop’s annual award night was held at their Mant Street headquarters last week, where 140 individual awards were presented to troop members for their accomplishments during the year.<\/p>\n

Long-time assistant troop leader Laurel John also won an award for five years of service to the group.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Guides and their proud parents mingled over a late afternoon tea.<\/p>\n

The awards ceremony was the troop’s last official activity for the year – they’ll now go into recess until February.<\/p>\n