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A Newsletter for Our Volunteers
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Feedback and More!
"Run's House"
Programs & Trainings

December 4
Orientation (Robbinsville)
New Leader Robbinsville
Orientation to GS CHSC
AHA CPR EB

December 5
New Leader (Pennsville)
Orientation To GS CH

December 6
Advisor Trg. Pennsville

 December 7
FUNawendiwin
Create-A-Gift ( NF)

December 9
FUNawendiwin
Green Apple: Geocaching (Mercer County Park NJ)
Silver and Gold
Brownie Try-It My Body (Cherry Hill)

December 11
Overnight Adventures (CHSC)
Brownie Try-It Dancercize (Cherry Hill)
AHA First Aid (EB)
Transition to Junior (West Windsor)
Advisor Training (CH)
Silver & Gold Award

December 12
Brownie Try-It Dancercize (CH)

December 13
Brownie Try-It Dancercize (CH)
Advisor Training Mays Landing

December 14
Geocaching Junior Badge and High Tech Hide & Seek

December 17
Transition to Brownie Junior Training (CH)

Changes to the Calendar
December 3
Green Apple: Body Image Cancelled

December 9
Silver & Gold Wkshp. Filled and Closed
TIPS (ED) Filled and CLosed

December 15
High Tech hide & Seek (Oak Spring) Filled and Closed






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Things to Do,
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Jubili Beads & Yarns

South Jersey's "Craft Central Station"-the BEST place for your Girl Scouts
to have a GREAT time while working on badges!  From Daisies to Brownies to Juniors
and up, bring your troops to us for beaded jewelry-making, knitting, crocheting, weaving,
polymer clay, and much more!  Open 7 days.

713 Haddon Ave.  Collingswood, NJ   08108  
Ph:  856-858-7844  
 www.jubilibeadsandyarns.com

For more places for your troop, please visit GSCSNJ
Things to Do, Places to Go
 
Girl Scout Cookie Time!
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Every year millions of Americans anxiously wait for a Girl Scout to come to their door selling those irresistibly delicious Girl Scout Cookies we all know and love.

Order Taking:
January 17th to January 23rd
Direct Sale:
January 24th
 
Issue: 3 December 2007
Dear Girl Scout Friend,

It was only two short months ago that we became ONE, but look at how strong we have grown. We have become so much in a few short weeks, thanks to the support of you, the dedicated volunteers for GSCSNJ. Just look at all we have accomplished:

  • A website that answers to the needs of our new Council
  • Three online newsletters, Discover, Connect and Take Action
  • Numerous leadership opportunities for girls in 9+ counties in New Jersey
  • A fantastic group of volunteers whose helping hands stretch past all boundaries
  • Indoor and outdoor trainings offering the best strategies and techniques for each level
  • An exciting Evening of Monopoly--GSCSNJ's first fundraiser
  • We held an amazing Council Kickoff at Camp Inanwendiwin's Annual Fall Festival with hundreds in attendance
  • New Green Apple Enrichment Workshops, geared towards enhancing the Girl Scout trainings for volunteers
  • A successful QSP/Nut Program
  • Several Gold and Silver workshops aimed at helping girls and leaders
  • Cookie program workshops to assist in the preparation for our January sale
  • And so much more...
If we can do all this in two months--8 weeks--imagine everything we will accomplish next year. Together we fulfill our mission to build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

From all of us here at GSCSNJ--from Middlesex to Cape May--we wish you and your family a safe Holiday and a Happy New Year.
 
New Interactive Forms for the Web!
Want to Share a Suggestion?
Do you have something to share with the Council? Visit our new Feedback section of the website to share your comments or suggestions with GSCSNJ.

Do you have a Girl Scout with a great story to share? Have her submit her story and photos to our Girl's View, where girls can share their Girl Scouting experiences with our web community. Girl Scouts can also make programming suggestions for future leadership opportunities! To submit to a "Girl's View" or a program suggestion, please have your Girl Scouts visit the homepage of our For Girls & Teens.
 
 Girl Scouts "Run's House" Premier
Simmons Voluteer Ad Vanessa & Angela Simmons Become Girl Scouts
On November 29 at 10:00PM (ET/PT) MTV viewers watched Vanessa and Angela Simmons become the newest members of the Girl Scout family! On this episode of "Run's House", cameras follow Vanessa and Angela Simmons - daughters of Rev. Run (aka Joseph Simmons of Run-DMC) as they meet with the Girl Scouts for the first time, discover the opportunities available for giving back and encourage others to join the organization.

Simmons 2 Viewers will have the chance to follow Vanessa and Angela online through their official Girl Scouts page- www.girlscouts.org/vanessaandangela- as they spread the word on Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Programs at Girl Scouts. The Simmons sisters, Rev Run and their mom Justine, a Girl Scout alumna, have recorded a variety of television Public Service Announcements (PSAs) & interviews for the cause.

"There is a real lack of people encouraging young ladies to be leaders," says Vanessa Simmons, on her new role at the Girl Scouts. "Promoting entrepreneurship and financial literacy is important. Girls need to be business-minded so we have more female leaders in the world." Adds Angela Simmons, "And starting now is the best thing girls can do. Selling cookies is a business and you develop those entrepreneurial skills at a young age."simmons 3

"It's hard to find positive images for girls in the mainstream media," says Kathy Cloninger, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA. "That's why we are proud to partner with the Simmons family. Vanessa and Angela Simmons have demonstrated what being a positive role model is all about. We hope they will encourage other young professionals to volunteer at the Girl Scouts- whether it's once a month, on weekends, or whatever your schedule allows. Our girls need role models and positive mentors like Vanessa and Angela in their lives."





We hope you enjoyed this issue of Discover- A Newsletter for Our Volunteers. The deadline for submission articles for Discover is the 20th of every month. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year!
 
Sincerely,
 Natasha, Donna and Melissa

The Communications Team
Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ, Inc.
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