Town
Hall Room 14
Attendance:
Kristin Puliafico, SUC and 85118; Debbie Nearing, Corresponding
Secretary & 73891; Anne Valade, Treasurer; Barbara Gravel, Registrar;
Janice Sarno, Service Team Member; Kerstin March, Cookie & Fall Product
Manager; Lindsay Felix, 76211; Sarah Stetson, 76213; Jodi Sponzo, 73897; Kelly
Desousa, 66232; Melissa Lally, 85118; Sandy Griffin, 71900; Lynne Alley, 85336;
Kristin Lamont, 85193 & 71880; Kate Mahoney, 71868; Stephanie Musgrave,
71868; Mary Lasdin, 71871 & 71893; Patti Harrington, 71876 & 85122;
Kristen Russell, 76211.
Meeting called to order: 7:35 pm
Pledge of Allegiance
Girl Scout Promise
Investiture Ceremony and Presentation of Pins to New Leaders and
co-leaders: Lindsay Felix, Sarah
Stetson, Kelly DeSousa, and Kristen Russell present at this meeting. For those not present: Shannon Sullivan,
Bridget Easler, Maria Driscoll, Marcy Nelson, and Elene McLoughlin, pins will
be given to them by associated leaders.
Barbara: Father-Daughter Square Dance 11-23-13. Since forms are being handed in at this
meeting, is it not known yet how many are attending. Discussion about possibility of holding only
one session and if so, then will hold the 3-4:30 time slot. Outcome of number of sessions held will be
known by Thursday, November 21st, and communicated to parents.
UPDATE TO MINUTES: EVENT IS RUNNING AS SCHEDULED AND
WE WILL TAKE MORE PARTICIPANTS AND AT THE DOOR AS WELL!
Barbara: Registration Event (second reg event) scheduled for
12-3-13. This is to try to recruit new
leaders, hoping to start a new second grade Brownie troop. There are three second grade girls waiting to
be placed in a troop.
Some parents did not know about the first registration event
held in September. The school will not
place paper flyers in backpacks like we’ve requested, so other methods of
public awareness were discussed.
Suggestions for elementary school principals to send emails to parents,
and to place a notice in the North Reading Patch online newspaper were
made. Contact person is Danielle
Masterson at the Patch.
Debbie: Encampment
tentatively scheduled June 13-15, at Camp Cedar Hill in Waltham, awaiting
approval from GSEM. One conflict is the
eighth grade class DC trip returns from their trip the night of June 13th. Girls going on the DC trip can still attend
encampment Saturday and leave Sunday morning if they wish. We are considering a separate 8th
grade campout since they will miss this event.
Debbie: Mitten Tags for
CCS. We are participating in providing
toiletries for families in need for the holiday season. Each tag is assigned to a family, lists the
number and ages of members. On the back
of the tag are the dates and place for dropping off. A list of suggestions of items to donate to
the family was also available. Leaders
picked out tags for their troop to adopt that family and a recyclable
collection bag was handed out to those who took a tag. This will help to ensure
families get about the same amount of items. Tips and ideas shared among
leaders about how to gather items, including each girl member donating supplies
or going shopping with the girls, which involves getting parents to chaperone,
and involving girls in the process.
Girls learn about how to work with a budgeted amount of money when they
are involved in the process. Suggestion
of applying this experience to badge work was made.
Kristin: Ultimate Girl
Scout Quiz, winner was Kerstin March with 33 points and winner of decorative
bowl filled with candy. Mary Lasdin came
in second with 30 points. Points scored
by past and present experiences in Girl Scouting.
Kerstin: Fall Sale: More
troops participated this year in the fall product sale. Product was delivered this week and pick-ups
available at Ruth Kennedy’s house. We reached
our goal for cans of honey roasted peanuts obtained for the NR food pantry
Thanksgiving Day baskets! Thanks to all
who participated. Profit to our SU town
account was some $200 plus.
Kerstin: Cookie Sale: The sale is from December 13th
to January 13th. The delivery
of cookies will be January 27th; this year pick-up of initial orders
will be at Burbank Ice Arena parking lot, in conjunction with the Reading
SU. Booth sale requests were due
today. Booth sales will be Walmart, Stop
and Shop, Post Office, and Ryer’s. You
can also hold a sale at another local business if you get permission from the
business owner and you must let GSEM and Kerstin March know about all booth
sales for approval. There is a separate
sale of the new gluten free cookie; these must be ordered by December 31st
but there is limited supply so
order early. The order form is in your
cookie product book handed to your cookie advisor at training! The gluten free
cookies are very tasty, are a shortbread-like cookie with chocolate chips and
they are $5.00 a bag. They will not be
available until the end of January from the time you order.
Events: Lynne Alley would
like to hold an anti-bullying event, might be in January near the week of
January 20th, which is no name calling week. Patti Harrington stated
her troop has looked at having Ed Biggs give a presentation about
cyber-bullying. There was a suggestion
that Thea Peach may be interested in providing something on this topic also, as
she is a former GS leader and is experienced in internet safety. May be able to contact Marci Bailey about
someone who can help with resources for bullying.
Discussion about future events, and what the leaders would like
to see return. Those suggested were:
scavenger hunt, father-daughter sporting event, ice skating, bingo, karaoke
night, mother daughter game night, caroling at the Common, all troops, movie
event, bracelet making party, night of beauty.
Of course, we need Leaders to step up and help run these events if we
run them!
At this meeting leaders brought used donated troop supplies to
share. We still have a lot of items left
and will continue to collect at each meeting.
The Daisy Raffle basket filled with lots of new fun activities
was donated by Kristin Puliafico and won by Lindsay Felix!
The next leaders meeting will be a morning meeting, Wednesday,
December 11th, 2013, at 9:30 am the Library Activity Room with
coffee and muffins!
Meeting adjourned at 8:40 pm.
