Service Unit Cookie Rally

Service Unit 2013 Cookie Rally 

 

Date: Saturday , January 12, 2013

 1 p.m. -3 p.m.

Location: Neshaminy Warwick Church

(just off Bristol Road at the bridge)

 

This is a Service Unit wide event. They will have several activities related to the cookie sale.

 

Price: $10.50 (includes cookie rally t-shirt) or $3.50 (without the t-shirt)

 

The troop can cover the cost of the rally ($3.50) but if you would like the t-shirt,

you will need to pay for the t-shirt ($7.00).

 

The t-shirt will say, "I AM SELLING COOKIES FOR" and then the girls can write their goal on the shirt. Please note, the shirt is not really designed for a sash, so part of the message will be covered.

 

R.S.V.P. (and t-shirt payment) deadline, December 14, 2012

 

Please let me know if your Brownie will be attending, and if you want the t-shirt please include the needed size.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask...

 

Attending:

Katerina
Jayden

Meeting Reminder

Just a friendly reminder...our next meeting is this Friday.

November 30, 2012

Art Room

3:15pm - 5:00pm

Paree is scheduled to be our snack buddy!

Things for your Brownie to remember to bring to the meeting:

1. Meeting Dues ($1)

2. Signed Permission Slips - deadline to submit them for the following events is this Friday (11/30).
Peddler's Village Parade
Christmas Caroling

3. Healthy Living Homework

4. Terracycle Donations

5. Stamp Donations

Don't forget about our Warm Sock Drive. Or goal is to collect 100 pairs of socks!

We will also be voting on the song we will be performing for Lip Sync. So, if your Brownie has a song she would like to nominate, please bring the song to the meeting, so the girls can hear it and vote on them.


If you have any questions about Friday's meeting, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Peddler's Village Christmas Parade

Just received our confirmation for the Peddler's Village Christmas Parade.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Line up: 1:15 p.m.

Parade Starts: 1:30 p.m.

The parade takes approximately 15 minutes.

The parade will begin by Earl's Bucks County Restaurant and will proceed up Street Road, through the Village, across Rt. 263 and end at Giggleberry Fair.

It would be nice if the girls could wear their uniforms, troop shirt or white shirt, and brown or khaki pants plus a red santa hat.

The arching order will be as follows: Giggles from Giggleberry Fair with Elves / CB East Marching Band and Flag Squad / The Stilt Walker / Scout Troops / Dancers / Spiced Punch Carolers / Santa & Mrs. Claus / Seasons Greetings Pep Band.

Please confirm whether your Brownie will be participating in the parade.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Attending:

Katerina
Jayden
Ava
Claire
Maura
Paree

MLK Volunteer Opportunity

Date: Monday, January 21, 2013

Location: Neshaminy Warwick Presbyterian Church

Address: 1401 Meetinghouse Rd.

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Our Service Unit is working on its first annual MLK Day of Service Event. There will be several stations set up at the event where the girls can help. I will be signing up for the girls will help assemble Cool Nights/Warm Treats bags (i.e. cookie mix and cocoa packets for clients of the Doylestown Food Pantry).

 

They will also have the opportunity to work on get well cards for patients at Doylestown Hospital and Valentine's Day cards for residents at Pine Run Retirement Home.

 

We ask each girl participating in the project to bring one (or more) food items with them. We could use as many donations as possible.

Items needed:

Brownie or Cookie Mix

 

Granola bars

Juice boxes

Fruit Snacks

Single-serving cocoa packs

Old Jeans

 

Sandwich ziploc bags

Quart ziploc bags

Please let me know if your Brownie will be attending this service project as space is limited. Please also let me know if you have a time preference.

Attending:

Katerina

 

Cookie Sale Update

It's that time of the year again, I am currently getting ready for our upcoming Cookie Sale...

Cookie Sale

January 17 - March 3

Some important things to know and or remember:

There is no early bird selling! This means your girls can't sell, make facebook posts, distribute flyers, etc. until January 17.

I will be placing our inital cookie order in two weeks! So, I need to get an idea of how many cookie booths we think the troop would like to do.

Please note:

If there are two girls at the booth, there must be two adults at the booth as well.

All adults working a booth, must be registered with Girl Scouts as an adult volunteer and they must have a background clearance done! So, if you have not done this yet, please do so as soon as possible.

I will also need to get an idea of how many booths you would like your Brownie to do. I would like for them to each at least work one booth. I can't guarantee dates, locations, or times until January.

If you have any questions about the cookie sale, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Postcard Exchange

 

Since last year's postcard exchange was so much fun, we will be doing it again this year! The Postcard Exchange will be taking place from now through February 2013. The girls have decided they want to try and exchange postcards with at least one troop in every state again.

I have started contacting troops throughout the United States and internationally and we currently have troops in 45 states and from 9 countries who have confirmed wanting to exchange postcards with us.

Luckily, we still have postcards leftover from last year's exchange (Valley Forge and the Philadelphia Zoo have both donated postcards) so if we do have to buy any postcards, it shouldn't be too many.

 

If anyone has any postcards stamps they can donate that would be appreciated. We will need about 50 postcard stamps.

Katerina ~ donating 20 stamps.

Save the Date ~ Christmas Caroling

One of the items on our troop activity wish list for this year was to go Caroling at a Retirement Home. So, we are currently working with Pine Run Retirement Community in Doylestown for the troop to go caroling around the community.

SAVE THE DATE

December 7th

4:00 p.m.

Pine Run Retirement Community

777 Ferry Road, Doylestown

 

We will have more information on this event later in the month.

 

If you would like to help with the songs and music for this event, please let me know.

 

Transportation will need to be coordinated for this event since it will take place right after school. If your Brownie will need a ride or if you can drive some of the Brownies, please let me know.

 

I will be emailing out the permission slips once we have all of the information for the event. Please make sure your Brownie brings the signed permission slip to our November 30th meeting.

Attending:
Katerina
Jayden
Ava
Claire
Cianna
Paree
Maura
Allison

 

 

 

Warm Sock Drive

Last year we had a very successful Food Drive which benefited the Bucks County Housing Group food pantry. We had a goal of collecting 100 pounds of food and were able to collect 296 pounds!

With such a successful drive, the Bucks County Housing Group, has now contacted us with the idea for a new collection drive...

Warm Sock Drive

November 12 - December 7

Collection Drop Off Location: Bridge Valley Elementary

 

Our goal for this Drive is to collect 100 pairs of new warm socks!

 

We need a collection box for the school. I think it would be great if we used someone unique like a hamper or something. If someone has one we can use, please let me know. It needs to be at the school starting Monday.

 

We will also need a flyer or poster to place on the collection box, if someone wants to take on this task, please let me know. Again, we would need it at the school starting Monday.

 

Also, it would be great if each parent contact the Classroom Coordinator and see if they can share the information with the class. Sometimes, it is helpful when the parents know that they are in the class with someone in the troop.

 

If you have any questions about the Warm Sock Drive, please do not hesitate to contact me!