Scouts’ monkey business will bring smiles to kids

A couple of Modesto Girl Scouts did a good deed and gained some financial savvy in the process.

As their Bronze Award service project, two Cadette Girl Scouts – Julia Shannon and Kora Elkins – from Troop 4077 bought plush toy monkeys about a foot tall, sold them for a profit and then used the proceeds to buy still more more monkeys.

On Sunday, they delivered a barrel – actually, a few big boxes – of monkeys to Memorial Medical Center, to go in the toy room for pediatric patients.

The girls, both 11-year-old sixth-graders at Savage Middle School, bought 100 of the toy monkeys and gave Memorial 50 of them. The rest will go to another beneficiary.

This story was originally published April 20, 2015 at 3:10 PM with the headline "Scouts’ monkey business will bring smiles to kids."