After months of planning, the annual Girl Scouts Junior First Aid Workshop in Collinsville went off without a hitch. Despite the cold and rain on Saturday, almost 150 girls came to take part in 7 sessions of First Aid and Disaster Preparedness activities. Although some activities were planned for fair weather, our friends at the Collinsville Fire Department and Scott Air Force Base came prepared with a plan to make sure the girls still had a blast. Throughout the day, I heard how “awesome” practicing CPR had been, or how the Tornado Scavenger Hunt was “so cool”. So at the end of the day, the girls had earned their First Aid badges and learned a little something about how “awesome” the Red Cross really is. 

 Kelly Briggs in the health & safety associate for the Metro East Service Center.