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At Friday's meeting the girls decided to try to each sell 12-18 more boxes of cookies so that we'll make our cookie goal (& cash bonus!). We've ordered 500 extra boxes of cookies, so please go ahead & keep taking orders! You can pick up all the extras you need when all the cookies arrive in March.

We have reserved cookie booth times at the Northlake Kroger store on March 13th (Thursday, 4-7 PM) and March 16 (Sunday, 1-4 PM) and at the Embry Hills Kroger on March 17th (Mon, 4-7 PM). Please mark your calendars. We'll need a minimum of four girls and one or two parents at each booth.

Cookies will arrive around March 8th. When you deliver the cookies, please try to accept cash only. If people MUST write a check, have them write it to you or your mom or dad. When it’s time to turn in your cookie money, our troop will accept cash or a check from scout moms & dads, but not from neighbors, teachers, or friends. To repeat: the only checks that the troop can accept are from the SCOUT’S MOM or DAD. The Girl Scout Council will not allow us to accept checks from your customers.

Museum Discovery Day at the High Museum, February 17, 2003

Not only are we camping this weekend, but we also have a special day planned at the High Museum on Monday from 10-3. The plan is to meet on Monday morning at 9:00 AM outside the Chamblee Marta Station at the ‘Kiss & Ride’ entrance. Mrs. Lott will be there with tokens for us to ride Marta downtown to the Museum. We would like to take the 9:15 train, so please don’t be late. We’ll call parents when we get on the train home that afternoon, planning to be picked up at the Chamblee Marta station around 4:00 PM.

Bring with you: $3.50 for Marta fare, sack lunch and drink or water bottle, your permission slip, a notebook and pencil or pen. The Council would love for you to wear your uniform, but if you would rather not, dress nicely and maybe wear your Girl Scout pin.

Camping Trip next weekend, February 14-16, 2003 (Be sure to bring both your camping & horseback riding permission slips)

We’ll be busy next weekend, but if everything works out and we can keep to a tight schedule, by the end of Sunday we will be Red Cross certified in First Aid and CPR, we will have finished the Camping IPP, we will have completed five of the seven requirements for the Emergency Preparedness IPP, we will have taken our traditional freezing trail ride, and we will have had time for fun and relaxation. Here’s the plan.

Red Cross First Aid and CPR taught by Mr. Callaway

The First Aid and CPR course has some parts that we can do all together and some other parts that need us to divide into two groups.

First Aid & CPR Class A

Introduction that we can do all together (65 minutes)

First Aid & CPR Class B

Divide into two groups for practical instruction and skills test in CPR (2 ½ hours for each class)

First Aid & CPR Class C

First aid session that we can do all together (1 ½ hours)

First Aid & CPR Class D

Review, Written Exam and Closing - together (30 minutes)

Child CPR

Divide into two groups for practical instruction, skills test, and written test (1 ¼ hours for each class)

Infant CPR (optional)

If the Red Cross gives us the infant size manikins, those who also want to do this class will do it after we return to St. Bede’s (2 hours)

In order to get all this instruction (and some fun!) into two days, we’ll have to work hard. The girls who choose to come up Saturday morning will have to arrive by 8:30 if they expect to be certified. Here’s how we hope to do it all.

The Very Tight Schedule

Friday

3:00 p.m.

Meet at St. Bedes with permission slips, sack suppers, $34 for expenses and horseback riding, warm gear and shoes for a hike, long pants, shoes with ½” heel, and warm jackets and gloves for riding, water bottles, and comfortable clothes to get on the floor for training

3:30

Leave for Pine Acres (remember that Friday night traffic on I-285)

5:00

Arrive at Pine Acres, put up gear, turtle time, dinner, clean-up

8:00

Interview Laurel Martin, Pine Acres Camp Director for Career requirement of Camping IPP

9:00

Separate into interest groups for R&R (socializing, harmonizing, quiet time)

11:00

Lights out

Saturday

7:00 a.m.

Rise and shine, cooks on duty to get breakfast going

7:30

Breakfast and chores

8:30

Begin First Aid and CPR Class A

9:45

Break, divide into two groups

10:00

First Aid and CPR Class B1
Other group works on Technology #5 and fixes lunch

12:45 p.m.

Lunch

1:30

First Aid and CPR Class B2
Other group works on Technology #5 and fixes dinner

4:15

Hike (about time!)

5:30

Dinner and clean up

7:00

Group discussion to complete Career #3

8:00

Career #5: Movie - Twister (Don’t forget to bring it, Jenny!)

11:00

Lights out

Sunday

7:00 a.m.

Rise and shine again, cooks on duty to get breakfast going

7:30

Breakfast and chores

8:30

First Aid and CPR Class C

10:15

Break

11:00

First Aid and CPR Class D

11:45

Fix and eat lunch quickly

12:30

Child CPR Class 1
Child CPR Class 2/Riding Group 1 cleans up the kitchen and gets ready to ride at 1:30

1:15

Child CPR Class 2/Riding Group 1 leaves for the barn

1:45

Child CPR Class 1/Riding Group 2 gets ready to ride at 2:30

2:15

Child CPR Class 1/Riding Group 2 leaves for the barn

3:00

Child CPR Class 2

4:00

Begin loading all vehicles, checkout with Ranger, leave for home ASAP

5:30

Return to St. Bede’s – Girls who want to do Infant CPR meet with Mr. Callaway in the St. Bede’s Parish Hall for class.

7:30

All Done!

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First Aid & CPR Class A	Introduction that we can do all together (65 minutes)
First Aid & CPR Class B	Divide into two groups for practical instruction and skills test in CPR (2 ½ hours for each class)
First Aid & CPR Class C	First aid session that we can do all together (1 ½ hours)
First Aid & CPR Class D	Review, Written Exam and Closing - together (30 minutes)
Child CPR	Divide into two groups for practical instruction, skills test, and written test (1 ¼ hours for each class)
Infant CPR (optional)	If the Red Cross gives us the infant size manikins, those who also want to do this class will do it after we return to St. Bede’s (2 hours)

Friday
3:00 p.m.	Meet at St. Bedes with permission slips, sack suppers, $34 for expenses and horseback riding, warm gear and shoes for a hike, long pants, shoes with ½” heel, and warm jackets and gloves for riding, water bottles, and comfortable clothes to get on the floor for training
3:30	Leave for Pine Acres (remember that Friday night traffic on I-285)
5:00	Arrive at Pine Acres, put up gear, turtle time, dinner, clean-up
8:00	Interview Laurel Martin, Pine Acres Camp Director for Career requirement of Camping IPP
9:00	Separate into interest groups for R&R (socializing, harmonizing, quiet time)
11:00	Lights out
Saturday
7:00 a.m.	Rise and shine, cooks on duty to get breakfast going
7:30	Breakfast and chores
8:30	Begin First Aid and CPR Class A
9:45	Break, divide into two groups
10:00	First Aid and CPR Class B1 Other group works on Technology #5 and fixes lunch
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:30	First Aid and CPR Class B2 Other group works on Technology #5 and fixes dinner
4:15	Hike (about time!)
5:30	Dinner and clean up
7:00	Group discussion to complete Career #3
8:00	Career #5: Movie - Twister (Don’t forget to bring it, Jenny!)
11:00	Lights out
Sunday
7:00 a.m.	Rise and shine again, cooks on duty to get breakfast going
7:30	Breakfast and chores
8:30	First Aid and CPR Class C
10:15	Break
11:00	First Aid and CPR Class D
11:45	Fix and eat lunch quickly
12:30	Child CPR Class 1 Child CPR Class 2/Riding Group 1 cleans up the kitchen and gets ready to ride at 1:30
1:15	Child CPR Class 2/Riding Group 1 leaves for the barn
1:45	Child CPR Class 1/Riding Group 2 gets ready to ride at 2:30
2:15	Child CPR Class 1/Riding Group 2 leaves for the barn
3:00	Child CPR Class 2
4:00	Begin loading all vehicles, checkout with Ranger, leave for home ASAP
5:30	Return to St. Bede’s – Girls who want to do Infant CPR meet with Mr. Callaway in the St. Bede’s Parish Hall for class.
7:30	All Done!