Amity Service Unit Meeting
Thursday
February 20, 2014 (delayed from Feb 13th due to snow)
· We said the Girl Scout promise
and Vicky asked us to say a prayer for Megan Luciano, a former Girl Scout
volunteer and Beecher mom who passed away.
· Treasurer Report (via
Vicky): just a reminder now that
cookie sales are underway, that each troop is assessed $2 PER GIRL this
year. This Service Unit assessment
helps to underwrite the Lifetime memberships that the Service Unit provides to
graduating high school Girl Scouts each year.
· Girl Scout Week
Proclamation. Orange Troop 60333
will be receiving the proclamation from the Town of Orange on 3/10. Clio will email Gerry Shaw to get on
the 3/12 Woodbridge Board of Selectman agenda. Any troops interested should try to coordinate.
· Recruitment Update: Thinking Day will be a recruiting
event. Ads have been placed in
Orange Town News, Woodbridge Town News and in online PATCH. Mary Cassidy and Anita Silvestro will
man the Recruiting table at the event.
· Cookie Booth info will be
disseminated tomorrow by Sue Leigh to the COOKIE MOMS. Cookie delivery is 3/1 and is also
coordinated through the COOKIE MOMS for each troop. If leaders have any questions, they should talk to their
troop’s Cookie Mom first.
· QSP Incentives Distribution
continued. If your troop did not
receive it yet, please contact Vicky Burford. Election Day Booth Sale patches were also distributed.
· Communications
Update/Secretary: Clio reminded
everyone about the opportunity to earn Faith badges or GS My Faith pins. All major faith groups have specific
guidelines for earning badges for their faith and Girl Scouts has guidelines
(in the Girl Scout binders) for earning the My Faith pin (one for each year).
· Service Unit events:
o Bowling with the Boys made $103
profit with 25 people participating. Suggestions for future Man in Your Life
events: sports games, Lowe’s/Home
Depot building projects
o Camporee 2014 – plan ahead now
for June 6-7-8. 4/11 is the
deadline if the Service Unit wants to be able to reserve the entire campsite,
we need to guarantee 80% capacity by this date.
o Camporee 2015 - Sponsoring troop 61099 needs to fill
out paperwork to reserve weekend/campsite by 3/1. Clio to coordinate with Karen.
o Thinking day – we expect about
100 Girl Scouts + 75 parents/tagalongs.
Still time to sign up.
o Big Girl Scout Sing & Swap –
Vicky and her girls attended and it was fun. It was held in the arena at Quinnipiac University with over
1000 girls attending.
· Delegate Update (Karen, via
Clio) – Property meetings are finishing up. Anyone can attend and the results will also be posted
online. We will distribute that
information at the next meeting.
In addition, the Board of GSofCT has added another membership meeting
for March 20, 2014 in Norwalk, CT.
All Girl Scout volunteers are encouraged to RSVP and attend. This is an open forum meeting.
· Council Update (via Vicky):
o This weekend, 2/22 is Yale Women’s
Pink Zone. Free admission to game
if you wear pink.
o Rock Cats annual Girl Scout
sleepover (on baseball field) is 6/21.
o Girl Scout Day at the Capitol is
2/26. Troop 61099 and 60437 plan
to attend.
o Online registration is coming
soon!!!!
o Bronze/Silver Awards – to clear
up confusion from an earlier email.
There is no deadline for these wards. There are webinars that the girls are supposed to take and
when they have completed the award, p. 32 in the Program Book explains that
they need to “register” for the award.
This just enables Council to keep track of who is earning these awards.
· Service Unit project for ReRun
Shoes – last meeting we agreed to collect shoes fro ReRun shoes. If anyone wants to help coordinate this
service project, please talk to Clio.
In the meantime, please ask your troops to start saving shoes for this
project. We hope to place some
collection boxes around our towns.
One troop from MA collected over 1000 pounds of shoes in a couple of
months.
· NEXT MEETING: March 13, 2014
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