CHRIS'S NEWSCAST

Hi All!

Our next Leader meeting is Monday, January 23 but here's some news to enjoy before then.

Cookie Order Forms are being distributed - have you gotten yours?

Bingo Bash is being held by Troop 40547 on March 23. This is open to Daisy, Brownie, Junior, and Cadette Girl Scouts.

Council is setting up CPR/First Aid trainings in the Central and East Service centers for February and March; they should be online by early next week if not before. By the end of February Council will have new trainers ready for the East and Central areas so we should see an increase of CPR/First Aid training offerings sometime this spring. If you need training before then try the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association for classes.

Older Girl Me and My Guy Dance - We have a date! Saturday, March 3. More details will be shared at the leader meeting.

Have you heard or seen that Fanwood Scotch Plains Girl Scout Community is offering a College Scholarship for graduating Seniors thru the Dollars for Students program? If you make a donation to Dollars for Students you can write on the form to use it for the Girl Scout Scholarship.

Council is offering a new Volunteer Learning Opportunity (VLO) in February. The Theme is: How do the skill badges work with the Journeys?

For Brownie, Junior and Cadette level leaders. All 15 skill badges will be connected with the three journeys at each level. Science activities will also be presented:

• Brownie: Lava lamps and layered liquids. Four other fun science experiments will be handed out as a take-a-ways

• Junior: Tin can racers, shinning pennies, invisible ink, centripetal force. Other fun science experiments will be handed out as a take-a-ways

• Cadette: "Bet you can't" challenges, what happens when I mix this with that????? Two experiments will be offered as "hands on" plus four more will be handed out as take-a-ways

The session will be 7-9PM with one being held in each Service Center. Find them on the GSHNJ Calendar and register online.

Have you heard that 2012 has been named the "Year of the Girl" by GSUSA?

Below is some miscellaneous information I have seen and thought I would pass on...

• Feeling adventurous - Girl Guides Australia invites Girl Guides/Girl Scouts and Leaders to the Australian Girl Guide Jamboree, "fanTAStic 2013" which will be held from 6 to 12 January 2013 in Tasmania. Participation is open to youth members age 12 - 17 and leaders / adult members. http://www.wagggsworld.org/en/events/20661

• Check out the special events planned at the Birthplace for 2012

• Still have you holiday cards? Save and Recycle Holiday Cards for Operation: Quiet Comfort. The holidays are over, but don't throw away all those cards! Cut off the front of the cards (less to shipping that way) and mail them to Operation: Quiet Comfort! We'll make them into new cards to be included in our 2013 holiday shipment to the military field hospitals in Afghanistan. It's never too early to help our wounded soldiers!

Send card fronts to:
Diane Schneider
1500 Carrington Park Circle #210
Morrisville, NC 27560

And if you have any questions about how your Girl Scouts can turn an Operation: Quiet Comfort project into a Bronze, Silver or Gold Award project, please contact Diane!

As usual any questions just let us know.
 

Chris Quesada (Manager - Service Unit 56)

Join the Fun of Girl Scouting

Fanwood and Scotch Plains girls in kindergarten to 12th grade can have fun all year long by becoming Girl Scouts. Girls have fun and enjoy activities with other girls of the same age while they learn by doing, make new friends, and learn about themselves and their world. Since the Girl Scouts will celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2012, this will be an exciting year in the organization.

The Fanwood-Scotch Plains Community of Girl Scouts will hold an informational meeting for adults and girls interested in joining Girl Scouts on Tuesday, September 20, 2010 at 7:00 pm in the cafeteria of Terrill Middle School (1301 Terrill Road, Scotch Plains).

Kindergarten and first-grade girls can join Daisy Girl Scouts. Older girls can join one of more than 90 Fanwood-Scotch Plains Girl Scout troops, which span from kindergarten through high school. A registration fee of $12 per girl or adult volunteer will be collected at the meeting.

The formation of new troops, especially at the Daisy level, depends upon adults volunteering to be leaders. Girl Scouting needs caring adults to provide guidance and leadership to enable the girls of today to become the confident young leaders of tomorrow. Free training is provided for all adult volunteers, and ongoing support is abundantly available. Volunteers are also needed to help with short-term projects such as fun events, badge workshops and cookie sales.

Fanwood-Scotch Plains is part of the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey Council, which covers 7 counties across central New Jersey. For more information about FSP Girl Scouts please call Chris Quesada at (908) 233-5943 or review this website. For information on Girl Scouts elsewhere in central New Jersey, call (908) 518-4400 or go to http://www.gshnj.org.

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FSPGS is looking for Adult volunteers

Want to lend a hand? We have many open positions on the FSPGS Service Team and we are always looking for leaders. Would you like to be a leader, perhaps an event organizer, or perhaps as a school organizer, or any other function?

Click here to complete the Adult Volunteer Interest Form

Someone from the Fanwood Scotch Plains Girl Scout Community Service Team will get back to you shortly.