Attendees: Service Unit (SU) Coordinator: Amy Kelly [73897, 71901], SU Secretary: Debbie Nearing [73891], SU Recording Secretary: Alycia McGoldrick [73904], Little School Coordinator Barbara Gravel [71876], SU Treasurer: Julia Slavin [71872], SU Cookie Coordinator: Kerstin March [71898], Christine MacInnes [71900], Karen Mericantante [85335], Amanda Heffernan [71888], Deb White [65374], Melissa Grew [71896], Lynne Alley [85336], Kate Mahoney [71868], Sue Kirby [73899], Ruth Kennedy [73899], Cindy Russell [73917], Barbara Duff [71902], Kym Fischer [85337], Kristin Lamont [85193, 71880], Karen McCullough [71905], Dorothy Lehane [73899], Mary Lasdin [71871, 71893]
Items requiring attention are marked in red
ASAP!! Items requiring IMMEDIATE attention are preceded by "ASAP!" and marked in red
Intro/Announcements
Meeting was called to order at 7:40 pm
Pledge of Allegiance and the Girl Scout Promise were recited
Welcome New Leaders
A welcome is extended to all new Leaders! Just a reminder that you need to get your training before holding meetings - you can, however; participate in town-run or council run events before then. Look for trainings out at www.girlscoutseasternmass.org
Cindy Russell has volunteered her 12th grade scouts to help or run some of the new Daisy meetings. Cindy can be contacted at ctrussell@comcast.net
Share Campaign Update
Dara visited us from Council to congratulate us from exceeding our goals for the SHARE Campaign and presented us with a check.
For those that need the reminder, SHARE is a fundraising campaign to raise money that is used to underwrite Council programs, maintain camps, fund training, and provide financial assistance to girls including summer camp scholarships and yearly fees.
Our goal was to have 45 families contribute a total of $1000. Our results were 85 families contributing a total of $1457.
Fall Registration Update
47 new girls registered this fall - and all are placed!
There are leaders who have CORIs that need to be updated this fall. Even if you are CORIed for some other town organization, you need to be CORIed for GSEM. Parents/Husbands/other adults who are regularly at your meeting place or ever drive for events need to get CORIed. CORI forms can be found online and you can have these folk drop by up to a 1/2 hour before the next Leader meeting to turn in their form and have it signed off.
Council Changes and Reminders
The store in North Andover has new hours.
Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10-4
Wednesday - 11-6
Thursday - 10-4
Friday - 10-4
Saturday - closed
There is an Adult Learning Conference being held on 10/29 from 8:30-4:15 in Tewksbury. This is a multi-track event where you can get your Core Learning Plan done, update your CPR/First Aid, get New Leader Training, etc...
A reminder that the books and badges have all been updated and are now in use throughout all the stores. Old badges will only be available until supplies are used up.
Next Leader's Meeting, we will be have a "bring your old craft supplies" so that the new Daisy Leaders can grab 10 pair of safety scissors without having to buy them! So...bring the stuff you're never going to use again to share with the new or new-ish Leaders! (Next Leader's Meeting is at Town Hall)
Past Events
Older Girl Overnight - Held at Wind-In-The-Pines in Plymouth. The weather was perfect. There was canoeing, flying squirrel, archery, and the girls could sign up for the ziplining the next day. The event was relaxing and the facilities were great (even with the Cape traffic).
We are still looking into running a Younger Girl Overnight in the spring...
Corn Maze for Older Girls - at Marini Farms in Ipswich. 35 girls attended - some loved it, some hated it! Easy event to run...will probably do it again next year!
Future Events
Halloween Party - 10/23, 2-4pm at the Moose. About 100 girls have registered! This is a drop-off event, though Leaders are welcome to stay to help with Safety-Wise numbers. Mothers of new Daisies are invited to stay as the girl's troops haven't really formed yet!
Monster Mini-Golf - 10/21, 1:45-3 pm in Danvers. This is a 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade event.
Astronomy Night - 11/11, 7-9 pm in Middlesex. This is a Junior event. There is a maximum enrollment of 50 girls. Cost is $5 per girl. This event has a cloud/raindate of 11/18. Forms are up on the blog and due BEFORE THE NEXT LEADER'S MEETING
Gingerbread House Decorating - 12/4, 1-3 pm at Rice Moody. This is a Brownie DROP-OFF event. Cost is $20 per girl. There are limited spaces available. Forms are up on the blog and due at the next Leader's Meeting.
Fall Product Sales
Sales run to the end of October. Product will be delivered in mid-November.
Some troops haven't responded to the invite to a "GreenMean" ? account. If this is you, please respond. There was a problem with registering, but this appears to have been fixed.
Cookie Info
Door to door cookie sales will be 12/9-1/20 this year. Booth sales can run until 3/9. Cookies will be delivered to the town on 2/10.
Cookie Advisor Training will take place on 11/8, 7-8:30 pm in the Library Activity Room.
This year's cookies are the same as last. This year's theme is "What Can A Cookie Do" and the theme animal is a penguin.
Service Project Ideas
Meals on Wheels tray decorations - we will have sign-ups for this at the next Leader's Meeting (really, this time we mean it).
Christian Community Service Gift Bags - we have been asked to help out with providing toiletry gift bags to needy families this coming holiday season. We'll have more information and sign-ups at the next Leader's meeting.
ASAP! Martin's Pond Haunted Playground is this coming Saturday and they're looking for Pumpkin Carving entries. Pumpkins should be dropped off before 10/22. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Veterans Services is looking for Scout troops who want to help out with the Veteran's Day event. They asked if troops are interested in baking and serving brownies or something similar. If you're interested, contact Sue at Veterans Service - NRVets@northreadingma.gov
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Gingerbread House Event for Brownies, 12/4
Who? Brownies
Cost? $20
When? 12/4, 1-3pm
Where? Camp Rice Moody
Forms are due back 11/15 and can be found here
Astronomy Night - Jrs and Up, 11/11
Who? Juniors and up
Cost? $5 per girl
Where? Mendel Observatory at Merrimack College
When? 11/11 at 7 pm (Cloud/Rain Date 11/18)
Forms due by 11/1 and can be found here
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