Leader Meeting
Minutes for May 4, 2006
Troops in
attendance, Daisy 2956, Brownie 222, 696, 2450, 2546, 2805, Junior 2245, 2597,
2676, Cadette 2079
Camporee
We looked at
several options for our customized patch and decided on "Marshmallow Roast"
This patch will
be customized to say
“
“Camporee 2006”
All troops
received their camp packet.
Troop site
assignments are as follows:
Daisy 2956-
Treehouses (1 12-person unit)
Brownie 222- Tall
Timbers
Brownie 696-
Brownie 2450-
Yolacan
Brownie 2546-
Treehouses (1 12-person and 1 6-person unit)
Brownie 2805-
Windigo
Junior 2245-
Junior 2597-
Windigo
Junior 2676- Tall
Timbers
Cadette 2079- The
Nut
Click here for
the packet handed out 2006camporee.doc
Adult Training
We need more
leaders to be trained in Basic Outdoor Living Skills. Council is now asking for copies of BOLS
training cards before we go camping.
Council has a
great program running this summer called “The Great Escape”. It is being held August 11 – 13th
at
Leaders receive
training in BOLS (or First Aid/CPR) during the day while the girls work with
the camp counselors. The girls get the
experience of summer camp with the comfort of having their troop and leaders
with them. Activities include swimming,
boating, riding, ropes course, art, games, etc.
Girl to adult ratio must follow Safety Wise guidelines.
The cost is $80
per girl (50% can be paid in cookie dough) and $20 per adult plus an additional
fee of $22 for BOLS or $11.50 for First Aid/CPR. All food and activities are included in the
cost.
For additional
adult training classes, visit the Swift Water adult training page at http://www.swgirlscouts.org/adult_education/trainingschedule.htm
*Remember that if
you will be bridging to a new level next year, you need to take your EOL II for
that level before meetings begin.
Early
Re-Registration
All troops that
are participating in the Early Re-Registration got their packets. This includes all girl and adult registration
forms, an early re-registration Patch Request form and instructions for
registering.
Some important
points to remember:
- Leaders no longer make the deposit into
council’s registration account. You
need to give one check to the registrar from your troop account. No personal checks are accepted.
- You can still add more members to your
troop in the fall.
- To be part of the early registration,
you must have at least 5 girls and 1 adult who register. If an adult is registered with more than
one troop, indicate that on the tan Patch Request form.
- Girls who are bridging to a new troop
can still participate. Their form
and fee should go to the new leader.
- All members of an early registered troop
can attend the fall “Trot into 2007” event. Only girls who actually registered early
will get the patch.
- Return ALL girl and adult registration
forms (even for girls who are not registering now), Membership Dues
Summary form and tan Early Re-Registration Patch Request form to the
Registrar with your check no later than May 26th.
- You will get back the forms for the
girls who did not register early at the August leader meeting so they can
have a second chance.
Memorial Day
The Lions Club
will be holding the annual Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 29th
at 9:00 am on the corner of 102 and 121 across from Spollettes. They are looking for some girls who are
willing to read a poem. If you have
anyone interested in participating, please let
We’d love to see
a good turn-out of Girl Scouts at the Memorial Day Ceremony this year! We had less than 10 girls there last
year. Please have them come in uniform.
Community
Service
All troops should
complete a minimum of 1 service project each year. If your troop hasn’t done one yet this year,
please try to get one in before the end of the year. Here are some ideas:
- Make cards for a veterans
hospital, children's hospital, nursing home, etc.
- Have younger girls color a picture for
“Color a Smile” http://www.colorasmile.org/
- Practice holiday songs and head to one
of the places above and sing a holiday program.
- Collect toiletry items and give them to
a crisis center or homeless shelter.
- Collect needed baby items (wipes,
diapers, powder) and give them to a homeless shelter.
- Organize and run a gently used coat
drive and donate the coats.
- Collect toys for "Toys for
Tots"
- Clean up at the school/church/building where
you meet.
- Collect and send needed items to our
Military Troops overseas.
- Write letters to our Military Troops and
send them to “Moore Mart” http://www.mooremart.org/donate.html
- Collect needed items and food for a
local animal shelter.
- Check with Senior citizen groups in your
area to see if you can "adopt a grandparent" or help them in
some way.
- Check with the local Lions Club or other
organization to see if you can work with them on upcoming projects
Annual
Appreciation Dinner
We need to find a
troop who is willing to take on the annual Fire and Police Department
Appreciation Dinner and show. This is
the perfect project for a junior troop to earn their Bronze Award.
If there isn’t
one troop who is willing to take it on, we could do this as a town
project. It would require much less work
from each troop if we did it as a collaborative effort. Each troop would be responsible for only part
of the meal and part of the entertainment.
We should know by
fall if your troop would like to take this on.
If it is a Bronze project, it will require you to start working on the
pre-requisites of the Bronze right away.
It takes most troops from September – April to complete the steps
towards the Bronze then plan and prepare for the dinner. It was held on April 21st this
year.
Year-End
Paperwork
Your Year-End
Troop Finance Report is due to
If you need a
copy of this form, you can download one here http://www.swgirlscouts.org/PDFs/web%20forms/group_finance_report.pdf
2006-2007
Service Team Positions
For next year we
will need the following positions filled.
- Public Relations Coordinator (someone
who can get information to TV channels, “In The
News”, on Town sign, etc. for important GS events.
- Registrar
If you currently
hold a Service Team position and are NOT returning for 2006-2007, please let
Cindy or Nancy know ASAP.
Camporee 2007
Badge Changes
For the last few
years, we have been giving 1st year Juniors
the “Junior Aide” badge for working with the Daisy and Brownie girls. Technically, they are not fulfilling the
requirements of this badge by working with the girls just one time. The badge requirements indicate that the
girls should be working with younger girls “at least 3 times”. (which could be translated to be a minimum of 3 hours.) We
decided that starting in 2007, girls will be required
to work with the younger girls for 2 years at Camporee before they earn the
Junior Aide badge. This will benefit the
Juniors by giving them more leadership opportunities
and will give us more Juniors to lead the younger girls.
Brownie leaders,
please remember that the following badges should not be done in your
troop. They are to be saved for Camporee
and will be done on a rotating yearly schedule so no girl will earn the same
badge twice if she attends Camporee as a Daisy and then 3 years as a Brownie.
- Ready, Set, Go Camping
- Earth and Sky
- Outdoor Adventurer
- GirlSports
Investiture
Our Investiture
ceremony for 2006-2007 will be held on Thursday, November 9th at the
MPR at 7:00 PM. This is an early release
day at
Slide Show
Tina is putting
together a slide show for the closing program.
Please send her up to 10 pictures per troop of the activities you did
this year.
Leader Award
Cindy is looking
for at least one leader to be nominated for an Outstanding Leader Award to be
given out at the COA on June 14th. If you want to nominate someone who
has gone above and beyond for the girls this year, please send Cindy an email
telling her who you're nominating and why.
Next Month
Next month we'll
be going over the closing program, starting to plan the Midway and creating a
team to plan the Girls Event for next September.
There will be no
meeting in July.
Our August
meeting will be held at the Community Center.
Date TBA.
OUR NEXT
LEADER MEETING IS THURSDAY, JUNE 1