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Season's Greetings
from Lafayette Girl Scouts
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DISCOVEREE 2009
(Adult Education (training))
DISCOVEREE is a day filled with enjoyable and enriching workshops on a
wide variety of tips - songs, games and dance, arts and crafts, outdoor
skills, and troop/group program. Leadership Essentials and age level
sessions are also offered. It's a great day for learning and
socializing.
Lunch available at $7 each.
Volunteer Positions Needed: Workshop leaders, DISCOVEREE Assistants (girls in grades 7-9), Day-of registration assistants.
When:
Feb 07, 2009, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Location:
Alvarado Middle School, Union City
Open to:
Adults, Girls Grades 10-12. Please no children
Cost:
$28 per adult, $7 per class for girls.
Contact: Sandi Mulkey
How to Register:
Registration opens: November 1, 2008
Registration closes: February 7, 2009
Sign up early for the best classes.
Register through the Coyote Hills Service Unit
DISCOVEREE UPDATE:
First Aid & CPR Level I
Recertification and Level II Certification to Discoveree 2009. It is NOT in the
printed brochure but is being added to the on-line version. It is workshop 327
and is offered Sessions 3 and 4. Right now the workshop is limited to 12.
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MARDI-GRAS DANCE
Join us for a fun and memorable evening that will include snacks, dancing to
music provided by a D.J., portrait photo and an event patch!
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009
TWO SESSIONS:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm K-3 grades
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm 4-8 grades
Place: Lafayette Community Center
Cost: $10 per Person
For more information contact Sandra or click here.
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The World Thinking Day theme for 2009: girls worldwide say "stop the spread of AIDS, malaria and other diseases"is part of WAGGGS' new Global Action Theme (GAT).
The GAT replaces 'Our Rights, Our Responsibilities' as the WAGGGS Global Action Theme from 2009 onwards. It encourages girls and young women to make a personal commitment to change the world around them by linking to an important global agenda: the United Nations Millennium Development Goals MDGs).
Ending poverty was the historic promise made by 189 world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. It has eight areas of focus, known as the Millennium Development Goals. Through these interlinked areas, the aim is to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world as well as raise awareness among everyone about the situation. Today, 30,000 children die every day from poverty and neglect, and two billion people live without adequate food and basic needs. More than three million people will die of HIV and AIDS this year - many of them live in poverty.
How World Thinking Day began...
Each year on 22 February, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world celebrate World Thinking Day.
World Thinking Day was first created in 1926 at the 4th Girl Guide/Girl Scout International Conference, held at Girl Scouts of the USA's Camp Edith Macy (now called Edith Macy Conference Center). Conference attendees decided that there should be a special day when Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all around the world think of each other and give thanks and appreciation to their "sister" Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
The delegates chose 22 February as the date for Thinking Day because it was the mutual birthday of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, and his wife Olave, who served as World Chief Guide.
In 1932, at the 7th World Conference, held in Poland, it was suggested by a Belgian delegate that since birthdays usually involve presents, girls could show their appreciation and friendship on Thinking Day not only by extending warm wishes to each other but also by offering a voluntary contribution to the World Association. Olave wrote to all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts after this idea was adopted asking them to help support the Movement by donating just a penny.
This is how the World Association's Thinking Day Fund began. The fund helps offer Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting to more girls and young women worldwide. Your help is needed just as much today as it was in 1932.
To emphasize the global aspect of Thinking Day, members at the30th World Conference, held in Ireland in 1999, changed the name to World Thinking Day.
To learn more about World Thinking Day 2009, click here.
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