The Daughters of the American Revolution recently presented the Good Citizenship Award to Carley Scholter, a junior at Auburn High School, for honor, service, courage, leadership and patriotism.

Scholter, a Girl Scout in Troop 1758, earned the award for raising $1,232 in the “Gift of Caring” drive

for U.S. troops in Iraq. She also earned the organization’s Bronze Award for making a quilt for Hurricane Katrina victims and a Silver Award for tutoring high school math.

A past Honor Society president, Scholter has been active in many causes. She donated nine inches of her hair to the “Locks of Love” program, and donated blood to the Puget Sound Blood Center. She has volunteered at the Auburn Food Bank, VA Hospital in Seattle, Soldiers Home in Orting, the White River Valley Museum and Washington Elementary School Halloween Carnival.

Scholter marched in the Veterans Day Parade and walked all night for “Relay for Life” cancer survivors the past two years. She helped plant more than 1,300 English Laurel bushes during Auburn’s “Clean Sweep” program. She put together a PowerPoint presentation on the history of flags from the DAR Lakota Chapter Regent.