Girl Scout Senior Troop 4715 Newsletter
February 9, 2002
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Girl Scout Senior Troop 4715 Newsletter February 9, 2002 |
We’re off to Pine Acres to stay in their brand new bunkhouses like the ones we love at Misty Mountain next Saturday morning, February 16. We’ll leave from St. Bede’s promptly at 9:00, so please plan to be there by 8:45 AM so that we can collect paperwork and money. We forgot to talk about money at the meeting, but we will need $20 for the food and the bunkhouse, $12 for the trail ride, and fast food money. Mrs. Lott needs to hear from each girl in the troop about whether or not you plan to go by Monday so that she can plan carpools.
Your permission slips for attending and for horseback riding have been delivered to your home, so please fill them out and bring them along. Check our website for your packing list, and remember that for riding you must bring long pants and shoes with a straight ½” heel, preferable with a smooth sole. In addition you will need a sack lunch for Saturday, cash for fast food on the way home, warm clothes, and whatever shoes you like to hike in, and let’s bring Gold Award notebooks, too. Please, no sandals outdoors!
| We have an opportunity that Mrs. Lott just
found out about this morning to participate in the
Great Backyard
Bird Count at Pine Acres, which will only take 15 minutes out of our
weekend, although if you want to spend more time on it you can. Please bring
binoculars and bird identification books if you have them. If you’re
interested in the All About Birds IPP, this would count as your
service project.
Our plans for the weekend include each of us making two of a jewelry craft-by-Evelyn, one to keep and one to send to the Juliette Low gift shop in Savannah where they sell Girl Scout made crafts to help support the birthplace. We should arrive at camp by 10:00 a.m. and be settled in by 11:00. We’ll get Evelyn to teach us what to do, and then we’ll work on our projects during downtime throughout the weekend. |
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Here’s what people at the meeting last night promised to do, make, or bring. If you didn’t volunteer last night and want to do something, call Evelyn, who is in charge of this activity. |
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| Materials to make swaps: | Pat |
| Research on Girl Scouts in New Zealand: | Evelyn |
| History of New Zealand: | Christina |
| Lummi Sticks: | Anne |
| Map and backboard: | Karen |
| Lord of the Rings angle & picture(s): | Chandler |
| Vital statistics: | Rossie |
| Sheep: | Nicole (to Evelyn by 2/15) |
| Maori words and personal narrative: | Katie |
| Personal Narrative: | Liz |
Check your calendars so that we can plan for the Atlanta Cat Show (April 27-28) and the CPR Saturday (March 2) service opportunities. We’ll work on our Thinking Day presentation on New Zealand. We decided that what we need most is a relaxing weekend, so we’re planning a lot of turtle-time. We will work on our Thinking Day project, go horseback riding on Sunday, and plan to have Mrs. Callaway out of camp with all the troop stuff loaded in her truck by 8:30 Monday morning so that she can teach her 11:00 class in Gainesville. We’ve planned an easy menu, thanking Mrs. Kennedy for again doing our shopping. It sounds great!
The girls who worked at Camp Timber Ridge’s Junior Adventure and Brownie Adventure weekends last year received a mailing inviting them to work again. If you didn’t get the mailing, you can call Lynne Krogh at 770-948-8200. These are Leadership Hours.
The Atlanta Cat Club is having a cat show at Cross Keys High School April 27-28, and it looking for six girls on each of the two days to help the judges, spray the cages with disinfectant after one cat is out and before another cat goes into the cage, and generally do whatever needs doing. The hours are Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 9-4:30. If our troop were to supply all the volunteers, the Cat Club would make a $250 donation to the troop. That works out to an hourly rate of $2.87.
CPR Saturday is March 2, and our troop has been invited to volunteer and to take free CPR training. Mr. Callaway is helping to organize the day at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (where Lakeside is graduating this year). We would work/train from 7:30 a.m. until about 5 or 6 p.m. We’d help with registration in the morning and be trained in the afternoon, and then we’d probably help with the clean-up. We need to take CPR training for the Emergency Preparedness IPP, the one your leaders especially want the whole troop to complete, and we’d rather do this for free. Yes, we could simply attend CPR Saturday, but if we’re also volunteering, that should take care of the service project part of the IPP.
Elizabeth, Rossie, and Evelyn are working on developing a Fernbank Patch project and a Girl Scout Day at Fernbank probably sometime next fall. The whole troop is needed to help facilitate the day, and it will serve as the service project for the Museum Discovery IPP. If you haven’t looked at that IPP, take a look. It’s an especially interesting one.
Everyone who hasn’t been to a Gold Award Workshop needs to get signed up, except Karen and Jessie, who are both registered as Cadettes. Never mind, Jessie, we’ll fly you up as soon as we can. If you haven’t been to a workshop and received your actual Gold Award Notebook, please get some kind of notebook to keep safe the things we work on at meetings.
At the January meeting Evelyn, Christina, and Stephanie did a great job of helping us continue the work begun in November on our Girl Scout Challenge. Liz had typed up the first part of the Challenge, and we worked on those in the meeting In addition we’ve copied the pages on goal setting from a Gold Award Notebook. If you do not have a copy of the worksheet, get one from Pat. If you have your Gold Award notebook, you can use the worksheets to work out your ideas before copying them into your notebook. If you don’t have the notebook, you can use these to get started and copy them in later. Remember that the Council reviews your Gold Award Notebook before you can start your project.
Last night Chandler and Anne had rounded up eight computers so that everyone at the meeting was able to make her resume for the Career Exploration pin. Each girl had a diskette with a resume form on it, and a diskette will be coming to each girl who was missing last night. You need to make your resume and put it in your Gold Award Notebook. Why not save the diskette in your notebook, too. We may need it again later.
Check our website for your progress toward the Gold Award, and be sure to let Mrs. Lott know when something needs to be added.
Our next meeting will be one month from today, and unless Aisha and Jamie decide to change the time, let’s plan on 7-10 at the Callaway’s. If you have an activity conflict, let them know so that we can adjust the time and as many girls as possible can attend. Committee chairs, please, make your plans about what you want to work on, and call Aisha or Jamie to let them know how much time you’ll need.
Thanks to everyone who signed up for cookie booths last night. Mrs. Lott will be finalizing the schedule and letting you know when she needs you.
It’s time to start the process with the Council Office. Let’s talk about what we need to do at Pine Acres. See you next week!
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