Joining their mothers at Possibilities Salon in Wiscasset Sept. 21, Brownies Presley Tochterman, 7, and Emma Bailey, 8, both of Wiscasset, said hearing about the recent hurricanes in the South and watching the news on them has been sad. The people there don’t have much now, Presley, a second grader at Wiscasset Elementary School, said.

“I felt very sad because a lot of people could lose their homes,” said Emma, a WES third grader.

They and the rest of Wiscasset Girl Scout troops 478 and 1664 are planning to help by holding a bottle drive Sept. 30 at the salon Bailey’s mother Desiree Bailey owns and where Tochterman’s mother Kelly Tochterman styles hair. Desiree Bailey, Troop 478’s co-leader, had already been looking to hold an open house-community block party to introduce her new renters serving clients at the Gardiner Road salon, including a nail technician, hair stylist, two massage therapists and an aesthetician who does facials, electrolysis and makeup tatooing.

The devastation the hurricanes caused in Texas and Florida inspired her to combine the salon’s event with the bottle drive she said will benefit Girl Scouts in the stricken areas, helping their families get what they need, whether toothbrushes, teddy bears or other items to replace those lost or destroyed in the storms and flooding.

Kelly Tochterman said the Wiscasset troops’ relief effort reflects the values she and her husband Ted, who serves with the U.S. Coast Guard in Boothbay Harbor, love about the Girl Scout organization and having their daughter in it. “I think it’s great she has the opportunity to help others. It’s exactly what my husband and I want her to be doing, and learning.

“It teaches them how to be toward other people, and molds them into a caring, happy person,” Tochterman said.

The block party, set for 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., is free and features a bounce house, refreshments, salon services and product giveaways. Wiscasset Speedway’s Super Streets 2015 and 2017 points champion Josh Bailey, Desiree’s husband and Emma’s father, will be there with his No. 2 race car. For more, check the salon’s events page on Facebook.

Want to donate bottles to the troops’ hurricane relief effort but can’t make the party? Bailey said the Scouts will keep a display outside the salon for a week after the event for more collections.

The salon has been involved in other relief efforts, donating hair to help absorb the oil BP spilled in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and sending a care package to a New Jersey church after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Bailey added, Wiscasset’s Girl Scout troops have been growing and need more volunteers and co-leaders. Call her at 687-9023.