Food Pantry Flyers - 2013

Here are the Food Pantry Flyers to support our efforts to help the Food Pantry for the month of March!

On the Spot Flyer

I Promised a Girl Scout Flyer

Coloring Flyer

Drop off day of all collected items is March 24th.  Watch the Monday Leader's mail for more info!

Simon Says art activity

Came across another potentially fun idea for a meeting at The Artful Parent blog:

http://artfulparent.typepad.com/artfulparent/2010/07/simon-says-draw.html

Basically, it is Simon Says with drawing - and each girl can express her own creativity!

Nick Jr video on Juliette Gordon Low!

Check out this cute video on Juliette Gordon Low produced by Nick Jr!  This would be a quick video to show Daisies to give them some history on the founder of Girl Scouts!

http://www.nickjr.com/video/index.jhtml?videoid=110955

NJ GS's provide "Journeys in a Box"

Look what Debbie found - a Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey has done a lot of work to help Leaders with the task of planning out Journeys!  Check it out at the address below:

https://www.gsnnj.org/About-Us/GSLE/Girl-Scout-Journeys/Pages/Journeys-in-a-Box.aspx

There are so many great things out on the web!  Thanks Debbie...and thanks GSNNJ for sharing!

Girl Scout Sunday - March 10th

Sunday, March 10th
GS Sunday patches will be distributed at these Churches:
9:00 Mass at St. Theresa’s Church
10:00 Services at Union Congregational Church
8:30 and 10:30 Services at Trinity Evangelical Church

Please wear your GS Vest or Uniform

A group photo will be taken afterward at each church

GS Sabbath is the following Saturday, March 16th.

The flyer can be found here

Leader's Meeting Minutes - 2/12/13

Attendees: SU Treasurer: Julia Slavin [71872], SU Recording Secretary: Alycia McGoldrick [73904], SU Registrar: Anne Valade, Kristin Puliafico [85118], Karen Mericantante [85335], Ruth Kennedy [73899], Kristin Lamont [85193, 71880], Jodi Sponzo [73897]

Items requiring attention are marked in red
ASAP!! Items requiring IMMEDIATE attention are preceded by "ASAP!" and marked in red

Intro/Announcements
Forms for Father/Daughter Sports and Ice Skating were collected.

A request was made that the Troop Directory be attached to a Monday email.

Registration Update
Council updates to the rosters seem to be slow - some girls are not yet appearing in the right troops.  If this is the case, let Anne know.  She can't fix it but can feed it back to Council.

Council tells us that we are ~50 girls short of our registration goal. 
Council is going to try to run a recruitment event - our concern is that if we had those 50 girls registered, we wouldn't have troops to put them in!

Registration fees are going to be going up to $25 per girl - with $15 going to GSUSA and $10 going to GSEM!

Town Events
Father/Daughter Sports Event - Moved to 3/2
Ice Skating Event - February 20th
World Thinking Day - February 22nd

Girl Scout Week - March 10th-16th
Girl Scout Sunday - 3/10
  Looking for volunteers to coordinate with their church (make sure that the clergy knows that it is 3/10 and ask that Scouts be recognized at the very least - varies with sanctuary), and hand out patches.  Churches are: St Teresa's, Union Congregational, Trinity, Martin's Pond, Aldersgate (we will be contacting past volunteers)
  Flyer with details will be posted to the blog.  There will be a collection for NR Food Pantry at St Teresa's that day

Mother/Daughter Daisy Tea - late March/early April

March is Girl Scout Food Pantry month
Tentative date for collection drop off - 3/24
Troop participation was VERY low last year.  The intent is that troops make this a troop activity (service project and learning opportunity).
Flyers will go up on the blog in case troops want to do door to door solicitation of donations.
On collection day, will welcome a handful of additional volunteers to help sort donations - if interested, please contact Julia Slavin at juliaslavin@verizon.net.
Will likely have a collection day (or two) at Stop and Shop where Scouts stand at the doorways requesting and collecting donations.  Will have 1-2 hours slots for troops to sign up to staff.  Details will be in Monday email and posted to the blog.

Vacation Week Gymnastics - 4/19, 9-10:45 a.m.
This will be a single session and space is limited to 65 girls, so sign up early!
Flyer will be distributed in the Monday email and posted to the blog.
Collection will be at March Leader's meeting.

North Reading Garden Club's Arbor Day - 4/26, 6 p.m. at IRP
This event is open to all scouts.  If planning on attending, please email Ruth Kennedy at ruthekennedy@gmail.com so that she can make sure to have adequate supplies.

We will provide a date for an Early Bird Registration event at the March meeting.

The small group discussed ways to make scouts better for the leaders and the girls:
Facebook
Leaders - Have you had success with a troop event, outing, or activity?  Please post it on our Facebook page so that others can benefit from your experience.  If you tied it to a badge or Journey, share that too!

Are you struggling with ideas for a specific topic?  Post your questions on Facebook and take advantage of the collective knowledge of the group.

Do you know of an NR Leader on Facebook who isn't part of the group?  Invite them!

Blog
If you have things that you think would make sense to post to the blog - crafts, outing ideas, badge ideas - please send them along to Amy Kelly at kellys@majekelly.com.  

Next Leaders Meeting is 3/19, 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall

Father/Daughter Sports Event Update

The new date is Saturday, March 2nd at the Little School.
With the new date we will be accepting new participants for the Father/Daughter Event.
We need to have all interested sign-up by Sat. the 16th.
The times have not changed for the 2 sessions.
session 1 is 10 - 12 noon and session 2 is 1 -3pm
$15 per couple and $7 each additional girl

The form is here

New participants can drop off info to either mailbox: Cheryl Carr @ 479 Park St. or Janet Grasso @2 Barberry Road

We hope that all that have signed up can still join us for the new date but we understand if there
are some that may have scheduling conflicts. We can refund anyone that signed up and can not join us on March 2nd.
Send request for refund to janet_grasso@hotmail.com and cherylcarr03@gmail.com .

Father/Daughter Sports Event postponed until March 2

Due to the impending snow storm, the Father Daughter Sports Event scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, to be held at the Little School has been postponed.  The Event has been rescheduled to March 2, 2013.  More information will be forthcoming from Troop 71888 who is running this Event.  If you have any questions, please contact either Janet Grasso at janet_grasso@hotmail.com or Cheryl Carr at cherylcarr03@gmail.com.