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Welcome to the website for Waltham Girl Scouts. Please add this page to your "Favorites" so that you can find it easily next time. Scroll to the bottom of this Home Page for a listing of upcoming events (or click on Calendar on the menu at left). To view some of the menu items at the left you may need to create a username and password. Click on the menu item at left "Create username/password" for step-by-step instructions. Thursday, December 10 Cookie Crunch! Jan. 10, 2010
"Cookie Crunch 2010" is our townwide cookie kickoff celebration at Great Hall on January 10, 2010, from 1 to 3:30 pm. Waltham Girl Scouts of all ages are invited to attend an afternoon of fun activities to help get this year's cookie season off to a great start. Girls will have a variety of stations to rotate through, playing a Cookie Trivia game, making Thank you cards for their customers and posters for their booth sales, running a pretend booth sale, and best of all, eating ice cream topped with crushed Girl Scout cookies. The cost is $3 for registered Girl Scouts. Leaders: You don't need to come as a troop, but we'd like a headcount (by Jan 4) of the number of girls from your troop who will be attending. The flyer and permission slip are available below. Please spread the word and help make this event a big success!
Handout: Cookie Crunch 2010 Wednesday, December 2 Annual Square Dance: Feb. 6, 2010 This year's annual Father-Daughter Square Dance will be held on Feb. 6, 2010, in Our Lady's Auditorium on Trapelo Road. This is one of our best-attended townwide events every year. Every girl should have a partner (if not her father then another caring adult). The dance starts promptly at 7 pm, so plan to get there a little early to check in. The cost is $5 per person and the proceeds go towards our Waltham Girl Scout Scholarship (given each year to a high school graduating Girl Scout). Bring a snack. Cold drinks will be provided. Western attire is encouraged! See the handout below: Handout: 2010 Square Dance Flyer Wednesday, December 2 2009-2010 Service Unit Meetings (a.k.a. Leaders Meetings)
Here's the schedule for our Leaders Meetings for 2009-2010. All meetings are at 7 pm and are held in the Large Conference Room at Cedar Hill (unless otherwise noted):
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September 22 -- Great Hall (this is a change as of 9-21-09)
October 14
November 30 -- Beehive Cabin (Leaders Meeting and Cookie Training)
December 8 -- Meeting to discuss the Cookie Kickoff Celebration; being held in The Rookery (to the left of the store/Council Office)
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January 5 -- Cookie Crunch final plans, brainstorming in small groups by age-level, plans for Encampment
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February 4
February 22
March 24
April 27
Monday, October 5 Notes from Sept. 22 Leaders Mtg
Here's a recap of our first Leaders Meeting of the year, held on Sept. 22 at Cedar Hill. (Email Mary Ellen Smith if you have any questions about any of this mersmith62@hotmail.com):
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We outlined our plans for townwide events for the year, open to Waltham GS of all ages (unless otherwise noted):
We talked about new townwide events:
There were a lot of new leaders. Plympton has 4 troops now. The new leaders asked a lot of questions about everything, which was great.
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We passed around a draft of this year's Troop Directory (and it's been emailed to leaders who couldn't make it to this meeting). We hope to have a final Troop Directory to hand out to everyone at our Oct. 14 Leaders Mtg.
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QSP magazine sales and candy/candle sales are under way. This is a great way to earn money for your troop treasury early in the Girl Scout year. Beverly Buckley handed out packets/order forms for everyone. Call her if you want to participate (781-891-8247). Due back to her by Oct 23. All orders will be input online by the girl's themselves (or their parents). Contact Mary Ellen Smith with questions about the online order forms (mersmith62@hotmail.com).
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Holly Williams, leader of Senior Troop 71815, is our new town registrar. Call her/email her with questions (hwilliams56@gmail.com or 781-647-0147). Early bird patches aren't in yet.
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Kristin Perez, a Brownie leader at Plympton, is our new town Cookie Chairwoman. She will be contacting all leaders as we get closer to cookie season (which begins with training for Troop Cookie Managers on Nov. 30).
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We had light refreshments and we shared some ideas (and supplies!) for several button crafts.
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Check out the menu at the left for Service Team contacts, an updated Links page, ideas for service projects, and the Calendar for all scheduled events. See below for a list of all the Leaders Mtgs scheduled for the year.
Wednesday, October 14 Agenda & Brief Notes from Oct. 14 Leaders Mtg
--Brownie Try-it Workshop: Nov. 15, Great Hall, 2:30-4:30 pm, two Try-its (GirlSports and Let's Pretend); flyer will be available to download soon.
--Cookie Kickoff Townwide Event: Possibly on Jan. 10 (Great Hall?); ice cream and GS cookies and a chance to earn cookie-related badges for all levels of GS. We need to plan/organize the badge workshops. We have someone looking into getting ice cream donated (or at reduced price) and someone getting paper goods, spoons, bowls, etc. Troops would donate a couple boxes of cookies for toppings. Still lots to plan.
--QSP Magazine Sale and Candy/Nuts Sale: All orders must be input online by Oct. 23. Here's the link for parents and girls to start entering orders online: http://girlscouts.qsp.com/index.aspx?siteid=12&faccountid=425610139. Contact Bev Buckley if you have questions (781-891-8247). Brownie Troop 71801 is doing the booth sale at Petco on Oct. 24.
--Annual Square Dance: Feb. 6, 6:45-9:00 pm; Our Lady's Auditorium; all levels.
--Winter Encampment: Feb. 26-27? (Date TBD); for Juniors and above.
--GS Sunday: March 7; hands-on science event; for all levels.
--Troop Directory is finalized; contact mersmith62@hotmail.com to get a copy.
--Three Brandeis students came to our meeting; interested in helping leaders with meetings, townwide events, possibly hosting some workshops at Brandeis. There are a total of 10 Brandeis students who are interested in helping with Waltham Girl Scouts. More info is available in the Troop Directory.
--We have two other adult volunteers who are interested in helping with troops. See the Troop Directory (or contact mersmith62@hotmail.com for more info).
--We have several girls (Daisies, Brownies, one Junior) who need to be placed in troops. Contact Holly Williams if you're able to take one or more more girls (hwilliams56@gmail.com).
--Lots of opportunities for volunteers: see GSEM website for more information by clicking here: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs081/1101360655460/archive/1102715720319.html.
--Next meeting: Nov. 30, 7 pm, at Beehive Cabin (see Locations for directions/map). This is a combined Leaders Mtg and Cookie Training for all troop cookie managers.
Saturday, September 12 Registration for 2009-2010
If you're interested in registering your daughter for Girl Scouts this year, we're having registration at Our Lady's on Trapelo Road on Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 6 to 8 pm. If you can't stop by on Wednesday, please contact us at WalthamGirlScouts@hotmail.com and we'll get back to you.
Monday, August 31 Service Team Meeting: Sept. 1, 2009 We've scheduled a Service Team meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 1, in the lobby of Our Lady's auditorium. The Service Team consists of the GSC (Peg Juppe), the registrar (Holly Williams), treasurer (Bev Buckley), secretary (Mary Ellen Smith), fall sales manager (Bev), cookie manager (Kristin Perez), school coordinators, and anyone else who'd like to help plan our Service Unit activities this year. Thursday, March 19 Update Your Training and Service Record!
We need all adult volunteers to update their training and service records so that we can properly recognize each of you at our year-end leaderes dinner on May 26. Please download the handout below, fill it out, and email or mail it to Mary Ellen Smith by May 18.
Handout: Adult Training, Service, and Recognitions Wednesday, September 10 Updated Links Please check out the "Links" item on the menu for updated links to the new Council's website, training for leaders, forms and resources, programs and events, and other information for 2008-2009. Wednesday, September 10 Training for New and Experienced Leaders and Volunteers
New leaders need to take the following training:
(1) GSUSA online orientation (2) GSEM Orientation (run by Debbie Seale for new Waltham leaders) (3) Leadership Essentials (4) Age-Appropriate Level Training (for leaders of Daisies, Brownies, etc.) All experienced leaders are required to take the Leadership Essentials training this year. This training program will get everyone up to date on the new "Girl Scout Leadership Experience" that is being rolled out by GSUSA and GSEM. A list of training dates for Leadership Essentials is available at the GSEM website (see Links on the menu) or by clicking here for the Catalog of Volunteer Training Opportunities. Brownies at the Try-it Workshop at Stonehurst
Jennifer Meader, the Director of Education at Stonehurst (the Robert Treat Paine Estate), hosted a Brownie Try-it workshop on Sept 15 and according to the handful of girls and leaders who were there, it was a lot of fun. The workshop began outdoors on "Whale Rock" (or "Glacier Rock") with Jennifer pointing out characteristics of the landscape and how that was incorporated into the design of the house. The girls then had a tour of the inside of the mansion, studied a floor plan, and created a truss similar to the iron truss that holds up a major part of the house. The workshop concluded with a trip up the servants' staircase all the way to the attic! Click here for a link to their website: Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate or contact Jennifer Meader (781-314-3290) for more information. Click on Locations on the menu at left for a map. Click on Photo Albums to see pictures from the workshop. Waltham Girl Scouts in the News
Check out these articles that appeared in the News Tribune:
January 10, 2008: Cookie Monsters
June 7, 2007: Girl Scouts take root in the city
Also, click on "Albums" on the menu at left for more pictures from various Waltham Girl Scout events. Girl Scout Science Sunday (March 2008)
Special thanks to all the leaders who helped organize and run this event: Kathy Carey and Dawn Costorf (Float My Boat station), Fiona Pilette and Cindy Babstock (Eat Like a Bird), Elizabeth Bowling and Holly Williams (Stack 'em Up), Patty Campbell and Tammy Graham (Set It Straight), Rose Miller and Bobby Pellant (I'm All Thumbs), and Kathy Lindsay and Colleen McCretton (Acids & Bases). Thanks also to Lisa Thomas for creating the passport and registering everyone, Judy Bisson for ordering the patches and getting all our paperwork done, and Peg Juppe for organizing the venue and running the overall event. The link to the origami website can be found here www.origami-club.com/en/ (and under Links, on the menu at left). Click on "Photo Albums" on the menu for more pictures.
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Patriots Trail Council, Spar and Spindle Council, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Council have merged into one council, called "Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts." The merger became official on February 1, 2008. Ruth N. Bramson has been named the first CEO of the new Council and Ruth officially assumed her responsibilities on Friday, February 1. For more information on the new Council, check out the brand new website here: http://www.girlscoutseasternmass.org.
Wednesday, February 20 Winter Encampment 2008
Registration Information for Troop Leaders for Fall 2008
Every leader should have received an Early Bird registration packet last spring. If you didn't, please contact Kathy Carey at zenakahlo@aol.com or 781-647-3310. Here are Kathy's step-by-step instructions for completing registration. (Note: The date for Early Bird registration has long since passed, but you can still get your registrations to Kathy so that we can get everything in order for the Fall.) In your packet you will find the following:
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