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From:
Julie Murphy
Service Unit Manager
Fanwood- Scotch Plains Community of Girl Scouts
HELP NEEDED! We
need a Fanwood-Scotch Plains Service Unit Coordinator for the Family
Support Partnership program (formerly known as Annual Giving & Gifts
for Girls & a lot of other names). They are running this in the FALL
this time; they are offering 5 training sessions beginning July 30
that our coordinator would need to attend one. This time, troops get
back 25% of all donations, and the Service Unit gets a kickback if
90% of our troops' participation! Call or
email me with ideas for who
can take this on!
Also, if anyone is interested in organizing a Girl Scout
recruitment/ info booth at the Farmers’ Market in Scotch Plains on
Saturdays, please contact me.
Here are some tidbits picked up from the Council Delegates meeting.
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The council program
calendar for the upcoming year will be available on-line August
1 and you can start signing up for programs then. The paper
version will come in the mail a few weeks later. The on-line
version will probably show up on the new
GS Heart of NJ
website; there may also be a link from the current
Washington Rock website.
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The CEO of the new GS
Heart of NJ council has been selected & will start July 28. Her
name is Susan Brooks. I saw her presentation at the “meet &
greet” session a few weeks ago.
And now this message from
our Service Unit Registrar, Debra Slaugh:
“Troop leaders: Thank you for your help with registration this
spring and summer. We have completed registrations for 76
troops. That means 717 girls and 230 adults have registered for
the next year. We are off to a great start for next year. I can
still continue to add forms and have them count as On-time
registration until 7/15. Those who register on time will receive
the new council strip for free.
I want all the leaders and school organizers to know how much I
appreciate all that you have done to make this go smoothly. I
know how hard it is to call back and get emergency contacts and
all those little points that parents forget to fill out. Thank
you to those who had to make two trips to my house.
I am working on typing up your troop rosters and hope to have
them out by the end of the month.
For those who are going to continue to add girls, please
remember to send me those forms. They do not go to council
first. This just gives me one more trip to make to collect them
at council.”
Hope you’re all having a
great summer! (It was nice to see a lot of you at Dairy Queen last
week; they have Thin Mint Blizzards thru the end of July!)
Julie Murphy
On to Council news, visit
http://westfieldnj.com/girlscouts/newsfromgswrc071608.htm
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Open Service Team Positions
While you’re relaxing this summer, think about who can help fill
some spaces on our Service Team. All of these jobs can be filled by
someone who is not a troop leader (in fact, it’s better if we can
find non-leaders for these.) We need:
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Organizer for Coles
School - This job happens mostly in the fall & spring. Attend
FSP Recruitment Night in the fall, work with new K-1st grade
parents to form new troops, help them get paperwork done. In the
spring, get registration forms out to troops & back to the
registrar (Debra Slaugh). In between fall & spring, find troops
for any new girls who come along. If you can think of anyone who
might fit this description at Coles, please contact
me or
Debra Slaugh.
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Chairperson(s) for
the 2nd & 3rd grade Father-Daughter Dance - There are
extensive files on what has been done in the past; this can just
involve asking all the same suppliers to “do it again.” This job
could be shared by 2 people. Contact
me with any possible
names!
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Chairperson(s) for
Disney on Ice & Ringling Bros. Circus - These events are handled
together because they both happen at the Izod Center (formerly
Continental Arena, formerly Brendan Byrne Arena) but could be
divided between 2 people. Get flyers out to troop leaders,
collect money from troop leaders, drive to Izod Center to pick
up tickets & patches, get tickets & patches to troops. Contact
me with names of any
candidates.
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Service Chairperson
for FSP - This person is needed to: (1) tally up all the
hours on all your Service Reports, for which we get grant money
that pays for (most of) the buses at encampment; (2) update our
“master list” of organizations/contacts for potential service
projects; (3) possibly organize some kind of town-wide service
project. Contact
me.
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FSP Service Unit
Coordinator for the Family Support Partnership program (formerly
known as Annual Giving & Gifts for Girls)
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Girl Scout Promise
On my
honor, I will try:
To
serve God* and my country,
To help
people at all times,
And to
live by the Girl Scout Law.
* The word "God" can be interpreted in
a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When
reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word
"God" with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate.
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Girl Scout Law
I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and
caring,
courageous and
strong, and
responsible for what
I say and do,
and to
respect myself and
others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a
better place, and
be a sister to every
Girl Scout.
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