NOVEMBER 2008
Lindsey Baker, Executive Director of the Laurel Historical Society was at the
meeting. She's working on developing some Girl Scout programs, patch programs and badge events at the Laurel Museum. They
are holding a program on historic New Year's on 12/30 and will get us info on the program and if teen girl volunteers will
be needed for the event once the flyer's been developed. She said that the flyers are on www.laurelhistoricalsociety.org site. They'll also need some volunteers to help take down the current exhibit in Dec or Jan
and put up the new exhibit in Feb.
Cookie Training date to be announced.
GSCNC
not renewing contract with American Red Cross because CPR and First Aid course can be taken directly
through the Red Cross cheaper then going through council. Laurel Boys & Girls club has CPR and First Aid Classes.
SHARE
- Lynn didn't have any info on what we've collected so far. She said council is having problem processing SHARE envelopes.
She said she'd have a full report next month
Registration: Per Robin, 223 registered girls.
Database is messed up. Communication issues between her and Sandy. Robin asked that any paperwork left in the plastic
bin outside her front door be identified with a troop number
Thinking Day: Committee is meeting
Sunday (11/16) at C. Williams' house. They're working with WSSC to have it there again but she'd like some alternate location
suggestions in case WSSC falls through. Tentative date for Thinking Day for 2/21 but not sure. More committee members
needed
Sweetheart Dance: Set for Feb 7th at Eisehhower. 6 - 7:30: Daisies/Brownies 8-10:Older
girls
Flyers for pictures, flowers and dance tickets are supposed to go out this week via email. Committee meeting
at Robin's house
Kim Snider's gold award party is 12/13 in College Park MD. RSVP
She handed out invites to everyone and said that any girl interested in learning more about what she did is welcome to come.
The cat shelter that she did her award at is near the hall and guests will be walking over to it to see what she did.
Service
Unit decided to participate in community service project for the Laurel Pregnancy Center instead of doing
a separate event. Flyers are posted on the Yahoo group site. Bring stuff to the Dec SU meeting.
December
SU Meeting: bring finger foods and prepare for paperwork turn it
Scotchtown Elementary
is looking for volunteers to babysit during their PTA meeting on Tuesday Nov 18th
SEPTEMBER 2008 SU MEETING
Robin wants all outstanding registrations to her at Oct SU meeting.
Updates
have been made to Safety-wise.
Thoughtful Treasures service project for Children's Inn. They're also
asking for food items to their pantry. Flyer has list of what they can take.
Flyer on programs at Patuxent
Research Refuge.
Flyer on 'Cluster Meetings' mainly for SU managers but Melissa invited anyone who wants to
attend to do so. Flyer has info on place, dates and time.
Flyer on GSCNC Programs at a Glance. Register
online if you want to attend.
Flyer on 'Women and Math'. LaPlata on Sat 10/18/08.
Lynn gave out
SHARE info and envelopes. New goal is $6,020. She said she's not doing a SHARE event right now.
Girl Scout Night
at Deerfield Run. Tuesday Sept 16th and Wednesday Sept. 17th. Melissa needs girl and adult help. Starts at 6:30 & she
said shouldn't be there more than 1 hr. Email her to help.
Trick or Treat on Main Street is Thursday October
30th 6 - 8 pm. Methodist Church does 'Truck or Treat' and hands out candy from car trunks in the parking lot. Girl Scouts
would had out lollipops and GS info but I don't think it was finalized.
Calendar depot at DC office open now.
Others open 10/11/08.
Association 23 is holding a Daisy Event on 10/18 at Branchville VFP. 'Teddy Bear Tea'.
Need girl help. 10am set up. Event goes to 1pm. Email Assoc. 23 Chair Lisa Ealley
website www.girlscouts4u.org is up. People interested in joining scouts in our area (Assoc. 23) can go to site & sign up electronically
for placement.
Council delegates: Brenda D. is a delegate and Shelly Nixon. Terri Wallace & Shelly's daughter
are alternates. Any issues or questions for council issues can be directed to them.
MAY SU MEETING
SHARE: Haven't met goal yet. We are approx. $500 short.
Cadette Troop 1883 is organizing
a Canned Food Drive to benefit Elizabeth House. Donations are due at the June SU Meeting.
"Journeys": New
program levels & Program guides. New Levels & Program guides will be:
Daisy - (Kindergarten &
1st Grade) "Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden"
Brownie - (2nd & 3rd Grades) "Brownie Quest"
Junior -(4th &
5th Grades) "Agent of Change"'
Cadette - (6th - 8th Grades) "aMaze"
Senior - (9th & 10th Grades) "GIRLtopia"
Ambassador
(11th & 12th Grades) "Your Voice, Your World"
Registration for training & program events will
be online starting 6/1/08. Sunday September 21st, 9 - 4 they'll have a training at Brighton Woods.....register early because
it'll probably fill up fast!!!
2008/2009 scouting year will be same levels, forms etc.
2009/2010 registration will be new program & age levels. More info is in the Capital Notes that you can download online.
Community
Based Summer Camps: Girls 16 years & older & Adult Volunteers needed for Community based Summer Camps.
SU
Positions still needed. SU Manager, Co or assistant SU Manager, Organizers, Delegate & Alternate Delegate. Contact
Terri or Brenda if interested.
Spring Association Meeting: Tuesday May 20th
Community
Bridging: Wednesday May 28th
June SU Meeting: Wednesday June 4th will be a leader/daughter
dinner. Location TBD.
Money Manager & Honor Troop forms will be due at the June SU meeting
APRIL
2008
QSP is available for distribution. Sales will
continue through May 23, but you can turn in your packets at the May 7 SU mtg to Ann Meixner. Ann has enough packets
for every girl in your troop and extras, if needed.
Early bird registrations were given to leaders.
Changes can be made and saved online this year and troops will get a $25 girl scout shop if 50% early bird and register using
formatta. Please turn them in at the next SU mtg. Girls who do not Spring register are not assured placement in
the same troop. They will be placed in the Fall.
SHARE - we are $991 short of goal for SHARE. $4,900
has been raised. Keep up the good work and don't forget to bring your luxury tax (donation to SHARE) for the encampment
GSopoly. ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ENCAMPMENT ADULTS HAVE ATTENDED ONE OF THE ADULT MEETINGS. One more meeting
has been set up for Sunday at 7 PM. Contact Terri for more information.
Paid positions are available for girls 14 and up with
the summer camps this June and July. Contact Melissa for more info.
Kelly reminded everyone to nominate an MVP for your
troop. If you need a form, click here. Kelly would also like to get the names of all girls earning awards (bronze, silver, gold,
trefoil, leadership, religious) this year.
Bridging is May 28, 7 pm - Capitol College All
parents are invited! Two girls from each level are needed for the flag ceremony. Contact Terri or Brenda.
MARCH 2008
Bring your luxury
tax donation to encampment. SHARE is at 74% (and we got 17 more at the meeting)
Don't forget that
the troops at encampment will get a sheet cake to decorate in any way they like. You can bring additional decorations
and be as creative as you wish. Pictures will be taken and there will be a slide show of the creations! (Maybe we can
put them on the website). Also don't forget the mandatory encampment meeting 3/26 and 27.
February 2008
We now have 253
registered girl scouts!!
Share: We are
at 73% of goal and we are doing better than any other SU in the area. KEEP TRYING!
Terri and Brenda
will not be continuing as SU managers after June 2008. If you would like more information about the assignment,
click here and/or contact Melissa.
Cookie Delivery Day
is February 22. HELP IS NEEDED!!!! If the temperature that day is below 32F, there may be a change of location.
Booth assignments were handed out.
Encampment News:
Each troop needs to make a BIG token to carry with them at encampment. One leader suggested buying or making a pinata !
Thinking Day:
Remind your girls about SWAP etiquette and bring 3 swaps. Don't forget your donation to the World Friendship Fund.
Remember that Juliette Low sold her pearls to help fund Girl Scouting. Parents are not allowed in the WSSC building.
Gallon jugs are needed (before Saturday morning). They can be dropped off at Terri's.
Each troop is asked
to make a Birthday Box to be donated to LARS. Please bring the donation to the March SU mtg and note if it is for
a girl or boy and the age range. A list of suggested items can be found on this website.
Troops are
needed to do bridging events. The community bridging will be on a Wed. night in May.
SU Team Meeting 12-2-2007 Minutes
SHARE
The team discussed various ways to meet
our goal. The Outdoor Skills Day was a success as far as donations, but it would have been nice to have more girls attend.
Upcoming opportunities already in the schedule are: coat check donations at the dance; a brief talk about the benefits of
Girl Scouting and how SHARE contributions help to be given at the dance; the same talk to be given at bridging. New ideas
include: craft and supply sales at the SU meetings; a troop penny drive to be used as the Luxury Tax at the encampment; and
a mother-daughter bingo or tea party. Kelly and Lynne are going to look into a SHARE patch program to help families understand
the importance of SHARE.
Membership
Melissa has increased our girl membership
goal to 440 girls. The team feels that this is an impossible goal given that over the last 5 years our girl numbers were 297
(2003), 272 (2004), 233 (2005), 247 (2006). We have 239 girls registered so far this year, largely due to the 10 recruitment
events and other campaigns (see below for list). However, the team felt that we would do as much as we can to recruit new
members. Terri will contact Melissa to do a flyer for Scotchtown Elementary to fill up the existing Brownie and Junior troop
and ask Melissa to do a general flyer to all schools in January. We will continue to help troops with Bring-a-Friend activities.
Brenda will investigate placing an ad in the Spartan News (Laurel HS) for girls who are looking for community service hours
and could help with troop meetings or want to join a troop. We will also contact the Laurel Main Street Festival committee
and /or PNC Bank to see if we can get a booth at the festival. If girls are recruited in January and we do not have room,
Brenda has volunteered to run a once-a-month drop-in troop for girls and their moms to introduce them to Girl Scouting and
to get them ready for Encampment.
We also discussed how Spring Registration
went. There have been some comments that girls didn't want to sign up in the spring because things weren't going so well in
their troops. We should think about attaching a general interest indicator to the registrations which can survey the parents
on their experience with Girl Scouting. We could offer a way to transfer into another troop at that time.
2007 Recruitment Activities: National Night Out, Girl Scout Open House, 8 Back-to-School
Nights or PTA nights, "Wear Your Uniform" campaign, "Bring a Friend"
campaign, 4 School Liasons, St. Mary's bulletin advertisements, Local newspaper ads, Bond Mill and Laurel Elementary newsletters
SU Events
The
dance is right on target. We have a troop doing flowers and have offered the pictures to another troop. Thinking Day has been saved. The committee will present a flyer at Wednesday's
SU meeting. The Encampment Committee is continuing their planning.
SU Finances
The SU currently has $1600 in the account.
We have been questioned by Melissa as to why we have this much money in reserve. This money is earmarked for usage fees for
the dance, Thinking Day and Encampment. We need to pay out these fees before money comes in from ticket sales so it is necessary
to maintain this balance in our account.
Public Relations
Lynne is going to run a piece on the
service that our troops are providing. It may end up as a letter to the editor thanking Giant for letting us Carol for Cans
in their store. Sometimes a letter to the editor is easier to get into the paper that an article.
