Leader Meeting Minutes from August 17, 2006

 

Troops in attendance, Brownie 222, 2450, 2805, Junior 2245, 2676, 2597, 2552, Cadette 779

 

All Leaders and Service Team members present signed their annual appointment form. 

If you were not at the meeting, we’ll need to have you complete these as soon as possible.

 

Make New Friends Event  9/24

1:00 – 1:15 Check in and pre activity

1:15 – 1:20 Opening (march in flags, say pledge, promise and law)

1:20 – 1:45 session 1

1:45 – 2:10 session 2

2:10 – 2:35 session 3

2:35 – 3:00 session 4

3:00 – 3:25 session 5

3:35 – 3:50 session 6

3:50 – 4:00 closing

 

1 table will be snacks and 1 will be songs. 

Crafts chosen:

Worry dolls

Song books

Law keychain

Silver and gold swaps

 

We decided on Sept 19th for the Junior/Cadette training.  Amber will be checking with the school on availability of the café on that day from 6-8 PM.

 

Campfire at Wason Pond/Recruiting and Registration event

Friday 8/25 at 7:00 (fire at dusk)

Jodie is getting fire permit

Leaders bring s’more stuff for troop. 

Let your troop know. 

Bring chairs or sit-upons

Need older girls to lead the songs, please encourage your troops to attend.

 

Town Fair  9/9/06

We will need 14-15 people minimum working per time slot (girls and adults)

Jodie and Patricia are coordinating

1 coordinator needs to be at the midway at all times. 

Coordinator will handle cash

Nancy has games and prizes, Jodie will pick up before the day of the fair.                             

Coordinator schedule:

Jodie - 9:30 – 2:00

Patricia - 1:30 – 6:00

 

Troop schedule

9:30 – 11:30 Set-up (may not take that long) 2079 has requested this time

11:30 – noon - PARADE – no girls at booth.  Someone needs to be there to watch things

12:00 – 1:30

1:30 – 3:00

3:00 – 4:30

4:30 – 6:00

(can close at 5 or 5:30 and start cleaning up if there are no customers)

 

Combine Jr/Cadette troops with 3rd graders from Brownie troops.

Possible combination:

2245 & 2450,

222 & 2679,

2805, 2597 & 779,

and 2552 & 696

Jodie will be contacting leaders to check on time schedule.

 

Nancy will have Registration table and sign-ups for Make New Friends

Jane will also be at this table for sign-ups for the Fall Service Project

 

Fall Fund Raiser

Sale starts 9/22 – ends 10/21

delivery on 11/11

Each troop will enter their own totals online

 

Fall Service Project

We decided on October 21st for the Fall Service Project.  Jane will be doing sign-ups at the Chester Fair. 

 

First Aid/CPR for Adults

Check with Rich Antoine on available dates.  Linda Grass may be able to help.  Who needs to renew? 

Jodie will be arranging this date.  Please email her if you need to renew either CPR of First Aid.

 

First Aid Program for the Girls

We will hold off until the winter for this program.  We have too much going on in the fall.

 

Reminders

  • Please file a Trip Alert for EVERY trip you take outside your meeting place.  Many troops are not filing these forms.
  • Please use only the “Pink Permission Slips” for your activities.  Do not make your own forms
  • We need more leaders to take Basic Outdoor Living.  We have only 4 trained leaders now that Cindy and Kathe are gone.  We don’t want to have to say only troops with trained leaders can go to the camporee.  Council is asking for copies of training cards before approving camping applications now.  There is a BOLS class scheduled for 9/14 and 9/22-23 in Portsmouth.  Don’t forget, you can’t take your troop on hikes or camping even in your own backyard without BOLS.
  • If Cindy’s name is on your checking account, we need to change it to Nancy. 

 

Dates to Remember

August 25th – Campfire and Recruiting, 7:00

September 7th – Leader Meeting, 7:00, Community Center

September 9th – Chester Fair (parade at noon, line up at 11:30)

September 15th – Registration night, 7:00 – 8:30 (all troops with openings should have at least 1 rep)

September 19th - Junior/Cadette training for Make New Friends

September 22nd – Fall Fund Raiser starts

September 24th – Make New Friends event 1-4 PM  (set-up starts at noon)

October 5th – Leader Meeting, 7:00, Community Center

October 21st – Fall Fund Raiser ends

October 21st – Fall Service Project

November 2nd – Leader Meeting, 7:00, Community Center

November 9th – Investiture, MPR 7:00 (girls arrive by 6:30)

November 11th – Veteran’s Day and Fall Fund Raiser delivery

November 18th – Novemberfest (Any leaders interested in leading a badge, contact Emily Haswell)

 

 

News

GS of Swift Water Council is merging with GS Council of Vermont.  For now, the only changes will be that training taken in Vermont is good in NH and vice versa.  Starting in April 2008, we will begin the merger.  All changes will be complete by April 2011.  At this point, we don’t know what will happen with existing troop numbers.  GSUSA is taking it’s 317 councils and merging them into 109 new councils.  Both Maine and Massachusetts are “early adopters” of the change, so Swift Water will be monitoring their mergers closely to help make our merger easier.

 

OUR NEXT MEETING IS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER