Senate Resolution No. 361 BY: Senator MARTINS CONGRATULATING Mackenzie Lingley upon the occasion of receiving the Girl Scout Silver Award, Cadette Scouting's highest award and Girl Scouting's second highest achievement WHEREAS, Mackenzie Lingley, through her diligence and rigorous efforts, has achieved Cadette Scouting's highest and Girl Scouting's second highest achievement, the Silver Award; the Willistons, Albertson, Roslyn, Mineola (W.A.R.M.) Girl Scout Association Award Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at Chaminade High School's Activity Athletic Center in Mineola, New York; and WHEREAS, Mackenzie Lingley is a member of the Girl Scouts of America Troop 1162; and WHEREAS, Girl Scouting has cultivated in our Nation's young people the goals of building solid values of sisterhood and the importance of working with others, stimulating both mind and body, instilling pride, and encouraging community service and success; and WHEREAS, Girl Scouting has expanded the horizons of the countless hundreds of thousands who have participated in Scouting programs which have made Scouting an American and international institution; and WHEREAS, Mackenzie Lingley completed a Silver Award community service project which she planned, developed, and executed along with two of her fellow Scouts; and WHEREAS, To achieve this goal, Mackenzie Lingley and her friends worked on the exterior of their local Post Office, pulling weeds, trimming bushes, laying down mulch, and painting the doorway casing on the main entrance of the building; and WHEREAS, Mackenzie Lingley is a credit to her family, her school, her community, her State and her Nation, and no doubt her future will be filled with accomplishments of equal importance; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to congratulate Mackenzie Lingley, recognizing her achievement in earning the Girl Scout Silver Award, and to wish her continued success in all her future endeavors; and be it further RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to Mackenzie Lingley.