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VISTA Meeting Detail
November 2006 Leaders Meeting
Meeting Agenda:
Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.
St. Athanasius Church, Hartke Room, 1615 Lincoln Street, Evanston
G.S.I.C.C. VISTA 8 Leader Meeting Agenda – November 16, 2006
EVANSTON GIRL SCOUT INFORMATION
VISTA MANAGER CONTACT INFO:
REGISTRATION AMBASSADOR CONTACT INFO:
LEADER MEETING DATES – The leader meeting dates for the year are January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19 and May 17.
REGISTRATION REMINDERS – 2006-2007 registrations should be turned in to the Registration Ambassador ASAP. Please don’t hold on to your completed registration forms if you are waiting for any stragglers. If your troop is registering now please be sure to do a Family Partnership presentation. Any donation amount is important! Please review the race/ethnicity information before you submit the forms. If parents leave this blank please fill it in to the best of your ability.
Some other things to remember…
1. Please ask for forms if you run out. Do not use adult forms to register girls or vice versa. Ask for more forms. The information collected on the girl and adult forms is different. Also ask for dues summaries. Anytime registrations are submitted, a dues summary must go with it.
2. The Registration Ambassador cannot process registrations without a Chase deposit slip for the Illinois Crossroads account. You need to get three copies of the validated deposit slip. Two are turned in to the Registration Ambassador and you should keep the third one for your troop records.
3. Data entry has been turned off for all existing troops as of November 1st. If you are adding new members, please submit the paperwork and deposit slips to the Registration Ambassador and the data entry will be done by the Registration Ambassador or one of her two gracious helpers. Data entry for existing troops will resume in the spring.
We will obtain passwords and access for leaders of new troops after they have signed the e-council waiver form.
NEW LEADER ORIENTATION – The next New Leader Orientation session is scheduled for Monday, December 4 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Adult Recruitment Ambassador’s house. If you or any of your co-leaders want to attend this orientation, please RSVP. All new leaders are required to complete New Leader Orientation.
BROWNIE/JUNIOR TRAINING – Brownie and Junior leader training will be held in Evanston after the first of the year. Watch your e-mail for more information about this. Leader training is also available through the Council website (www.ilcrossroads.org) and by self-study workbook.
FALL PRODUCT SALE – The pick-up date for nuts and chocolates is this coming Sunday, November 19th any time between 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. Fall Product incentives will be arriving a couple days later. Troops who ordered incentives will be notified when they arrive. Due date for yellow and pink FT-1 forms and validated nuts/chocolates deposit slips is Thursday, December 7.
COOKIE SALE – If your troop cookie parent is not able to attend tonight’s training, there will probably be two additional training sessions after Thanksgiving. The Cookie Ambassador needs to have the name and contact information for your troop cookie parent. Please send this information to her.
CPR AND FIRST AID TRAINING – We hope to schedule CPR and First Aid training sessions for January. Watch your e-mail for more information
FIFTH GRADE OVERNIGHT – A parent from Troop 189, will be coordinating the 5th grade overnight this year. The overnight will be held at the Wild Rose Program Center on February 24-25. More information will be sent out via e-mail in December.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
December 2 (Saturday) – Junior GS Swim Party at McGaw Y – 2:00 to 3:00 or 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
December 17 (Sunday) – Ski Trip to Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, WI. (Back-up date is January 28.)
January 21 (Sunday) – Northwestern Women’s basketball game – 2:00 p.m. at Welsh-Ryan Arena
February – Have a Heart service project
February 24 to 25 – 5th Grade Overnight at the WildRoseProgramCenter in St. Charles, IL.
March 3 (Saturday) – Daisy/Brownie ice skating at the Skatium – 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.
March – Girl Scout Sing-a-long?
March 24 to 25 – CampDuncan Overnight in Ingleside, IL
April 21 (Saturday) – Earth Day/Clean up the Park service project
May – Canoe trip on the Fox River (6th grade and older)
INFORMATION FROM COUNCIL
SERVICE PROJECTS/PUBLICITY – The PR director at the Hub wants to know if any troops are doing service-related projects between now and Dec. 31 that can get media attention, i.e. a photographer can be sent to capture the moment.
The following information is needed:
1. Describe the Girl Scout activity? Please be specific.
2. Where and when will it take place? (Date, time, location)
3 a)What troop(s) are involved?
b) What is the troop number?
c) How many girls are involved? What are their names? Grades?
d) Please name the leaders
4. How did this project come about? Please be specific.
5. If you are working on this Girl Scout project with other non-Girl Scout members of the
community, please identify those individuals, and provide their e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
Please send the requested information to the Public Relations Ambassador for Evanston Girl Scouts.
GIRL SCOUT HOLIDAY POLICY – When scheduling troop activities, please keep in mind the GSUSA holiday policy. Religious holidays are listed in the calendar section of the Panorama update.
The holiday policy states that: “No Council, region or VISTA should schedule a one-time event or training program on a religious holiday for which any public school district within the Council has a school holiday. A Council, region or VISTA event or training program may be held on a religious holiday if it is duplicated at another time. Offering the event or training multiple times will respect inclusion and ensure that no one is excluded from participation.”
LEADER TRAINING – Information about training sessions offered by Council can be found in the calendar section of the Panorama update.
FEATURED EVANSTON GIRL SCOUT TROOPS
In each leader meeting agenda, we will be featuring the Girl Scout troops from two different schools. We hope that leaders of other troops will find it interesting to hear what these troops are doing and might pick up ideas for activities and trips.
Daisy Troop 98: The Daisy Girls Scouts recently earned the blue centers for their tunics in an Investiture ceremony. We then celebrated by decorating wonderful wooden pumpkins. A sincere thank you to them and to leader Kristen L and our new leaders Joan L and Christine O for getting our troop off to a great start.
Brownie Troop 22: The Brownie troop has recently acquired two new leaders! Special thanks to Eileen M and Karen K for rising to the occasion and volunteering to be our new Brownie leaders! The first troop meeting will be held on Thursday, November 30.
Junior Troop 522: We went canoeing at Emily Oaks to start the year off. The girls are interested in finishing the Signs they started last year. As part of the requirement for the Sign of the Sun, which encourages girls to explore their values, we did the High on Life badge, partly by touring the Evanston Police Station and talking to the officer in charge of the K9 unit.
Three of the girls organized the Halloween party, where the troop made eyeballs, fingers, tongues, and fangs from food. They have been making their own treats during every meeting so the Halloween snack makings were a natural outgrowth of that. At other meetings, they have made vanilla milkshakes, and cut up various fruits to share.
All the girls except for the one new to our troop earned their Leadership awards last year. They have started their research into their Bronze Award project, which is to package and sell the educational board games a couple of the girls designed last year for their Leadership awards. In preparation for that, we’ve done the Money Sense badge and will be doing the Business Wise badge at our next meeting.
Cadette Troop 99: Cadette Girl Scout Troop 99 went on a 25 mile bike ride in Michigan! Our Cadette troop went with other Evanston Girl Scouts to participate in the Apple Cider Century Cycling Adventure Trip in Three Oaks, Michigan, on Sunday, October 1, 2006. After a chicken dinner at a local Three Oaks church, the Girl Scouts stayed Saturday night at Girl Scout Camp Soni Springs outside of Three Oaks. On Sunday morning, to fuel up before the ride, riders enjoyed an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast cooked by the firemen at Three Oaks fire station. The bike ride took between 3-5 hours and went through the beautiful Michigan countryside. After the ride, the ACC provided a spaghetti dinner for all riders. All the Girl Scouts who participated found the experience truly rewarding!
Cadette/Studio 2B Troop 38: Our sixth-grade Troop 38, from ChuteMiddle School, is committed to the principles of global friendship and international understanding of WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). We begin each meeting with the Girl Scout promise in English and Spanish. Our favorite troop dish is Chinese broccoli beef, which the girls enjoy making in the wok, chanting the "Eight Immortal Flavors" of Chinese cookery. This year, we have visited the Dia de los Muertos exhibit at the MexicanFineArtsMuseum, followed by lunch at a nearby taqueria, and dessert from a panaderia. We are planning a Kwanzaa cookie party, featuring traditional African-American foods. We are looking forward to trips to the DuSableMuseum, and to the new AbrahamLincolnMuseum in Springfield. Our girls also enjoy athletics. We attended the Girl Scout Day of the Northwestern women’s soccer team, and played broomball with the other Evanston middle school troops. We plan on seeing some women’s basketball at Northwestern and also perhaps a Chicago Sky game. Speaking of the sky, there is strong interest in an excursion to the Adler Planetarium. We are learning how broad our horizons can be!
Cadette Troop 2467: Although more than half of the seventh graders in our troop attend one school, we have girls from several other schools. Our primary focus this year is working on the Cadette Leadership Award which is the first requirement for the Silver Award. We have spent most of our time so far this year preparing for a “Brownie Badge Day” where we will run try-it activities for three different Brownie troops. We also participated in the middle school broomball activity and we are planning to go roller skating during winter break.
2. The Registration Ambassador cannot process registrations without a Chase deposit slip for the Illinois Crossroads account. You need to get three copies of the validated deposit slip. Two are turned in to the Registration Ambassador and you should keep the third one for your troop records.
3. Data entry has been turned off for all existing troops as of November 1st. If you are adding new members, please submit the paperwork and deposit slips to the Registration Ambassador and the data entry will be done by the Registration Ambassador or one of her two gracious helpers. Data entry for existing troops will resume in the spring.
We will obtain passwords and access for leaders of new troops after they have signed the e-council waiver form.
Brownie Troop 22: The Brownie troop has recently acquired two new leaders! Special thanks to Eileen M and Karen K for rising to the occasion and volunteering to be our new Brownie leaders! The first troop meeting will be held on Thursday, November 30.