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Season's Greetings
from Lafayette Girl Scouts
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DISCOVEREE 2010
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 for $7 each.
Volunteer Positions Needed: Workshop leaders, DISCOVEREE Assistants (girls in grades 7-9), Day-of registration assistants.
When:
Feb 06, 2010, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Location:
Alvarado Middle School, Union City
Open to:
Adults, Girls Grades 10-12. Please no children
Cost:
$30 per adult (before 1/15; $35 after 1/15), $7.50 per class for girls.
Contact: Sandi Mulkey
How to Register:
Registration is now open
Sign up early for the best classes.
Register here.
See the brochure for more information.
First Aid & CPR Level I
Recertification and Level II Certification are available at Discoveree 2010!
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DECEMBER
1 Cookie Training
1 Early Destination Applications Due
4 Order Deadline - Cookie Tablecloths & Shirts
12 To Kids from Kids Community Service
16 St. Mary's Girl Scout Night - Women's Basketball Game vs. CSU Bakersfield
JANUARY
7 LCT Meeting
11-12 Powell's Fundraiser
15-31: Cookie Pre-Sales
26 Winter Leader Meeting
28 St. Mary's Girl Scout Night - Women's Basketball Game vs. Pepperdine
FEBRUARY
1 Diablo Day Camp Registration
4 LCT Meeting
6 Discoveree
16 Late Destination Applications Due
22 World Thinking Day (new!)
26 DDC Patch Contest entries due |
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For more information go to www.Lafayettegirlscouts.org
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Each year on February 22, girls participate in activities, games and projects with global themes to honor their
sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in other countries.
The theme for World Thinking Day 2010 is girls worldwide say "together
we can end extreme poverty and
hunger."
World Thinking Day is part of the WAGGGS Global
Action Theme (GAT) based on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
which aim to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.
Girls voted and selected Germany,
Kuwait, Peru, the Philippines, and
South Africa to represent the five regions of World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)-Europe, the Arab region,
Western Hemisphere, Asia/Pacific and
Africa.
World Thinking Day not only gives girls a chance to celebrate
international friendships, but it is also a reminder that Girl Scouts of the USA is part of a global
community-one of nearly 150 countries with Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts.
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 2010 and what your troop can do, click here.
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In February 2010, Lafayette Girl Scouts plan to have a World Thinking Day event.
The last one we had was in 2008. We are looking for Junior and Brownie Girl Scout troops to sign up for booths by choosing a country in the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides and creating a table display about that country.
We are looking for Cadette GS troops to create an interactive area to teach girls about WAGGS and the 4 World Centers. Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts can earn leadership or community service hours by working on this event.
This year's theme is "end extreme poverty and hunger" and we will have activities about that.
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Community Announcements
St. Mary's College Women's Basketball is pleased to announce two Girl Scout Nights! Any Girl Scout in uniform gets in for $1!
Wednesday, December 16th @ 7pm vs. CSU Bakersfield
and
Thursday, January 28th @ 7pm vs. Pepperdine
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