Community Service Project Underway

The girls have voted and have chosen to help our community animal clinics for their community service project.  We met Sunday and filled cotton socks with rice to be used as warmers for the animals following surgery at the Animal Birth Control Clinic.  We discussed the local laws regarding our pets' vaccinations, care, and treatment.  For the remainder of the month of May, each Junior level girl is tasked with organizing and implementing her own individual towel and detergent drive to benefit Waco's Animal Birth Control Clinic.  Each girl can choose where to do the drive, whether in her neighborhood, church, school, etc. and will be collecting towels.  All sizes are needed: bath towels, hand towels, washcloths.  They can be used, new, stained, torn, etc.  The only requirement is that they be CLEAN.  In addition, ABC Clinic needs donations of detergent to wash the loads of towels they use daily (any brand is welcome).  {I noticed Dollar Tree sells a bottle for $1.}  I gave each girl a posterboard to get started and encouraged them to use a drop box in multiple locations to facilitate drop off of the donations.  Please encourage their participation in this very worthy cause, it is never too early to teach them about doing good works for others!
The first week of June we will be visiting the ABC Clinic and presenting them with all of our donations.  We will then spend the afternoon learning all about what the clinic does for pets in our area.  We will view animal parasites under a microscope, observe animal surgery, help with daily clinic chores, love on some friendly animals, and get to be "vet for a day" in appreciation for our hard work.  The date will be announced shortly.
This Saturday, the Waco Humane Society, is having their annual fundraiser, Paws in the Park, at Indian Spring Park from 11am-2pm.  There will be lots of fun events and more information about how to take care of our pets.  I encourage each one of you to participate in this event if possible.
If you have any questions, let me know.

meeting on Sunday

We will have a meeting Sunday from 3:00-4:00pm.  We will be starting a project that benefits the Animal Birth Control Clinic in Waco.  Please bring a package of NEW men's tube socks.  We will be making heating "pads" that will help the animals when they have surgery there.  In addition, we will be visiting, touring, and volunteering there during the first week of June.  Please let me know which day of the week that your daughter can be available to participate.  It will be a great experience for the girls which will take place from noon- 4pm.  See you Sunday!

Meeting this week

We will have a one hour meeting this Wednesday April 4th from 6:15-7:15pm to work on our troop tshirts and our SWAPS (ask your daughters if they remember what this stands for).  Camp is only a few weeks away--April 21st!  If you took your tye-dye shirt home, be sure to bring it to the meeting on Wednesday because we will be adding something new to our shirts so they will look fabulous for camp!

Cameron park day

We had a great time Saturday and earned 5 new badges!  More info to come but you can see below that we learned about geocaching and even placed our own troop time capsule-which the girls decided we should visit and make better every year.

INNOVATE at Cameron Park Zoo

INNOVATE at Cameron Park Zoo

Upcoming TROOP FUN DAY 03-31-12

Our TROOP FUN DAY is fast approaching!

Next Saturday (March 31st) we will begin our activities at NOON at Miss Nellie's Pretty Place in Cameron Park.  You can drop your daughter off then pick her up at 4:30 in the same spot.  Each girl should wear comfy clothes, tennis shoes, and sunscreen.

Each girl should bring:
1. refillable water bottle
2. a birthday snack/dessert to share with the troop to celebrate Girl Scouts 100th Birthday
3. a new white tshirt
4. $10 to pay for 5 badges we will earn during our FUN DAY

We will have a Girl Scout Birthday party, 2 special guests to interview, finish up our SAVVY SHOPPER, GIRL SCOUT WAY, and COOKIE CEO badges, go flower hunting and earn a FLOWER badge, begin our PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE badge by exercising a bit, go hiking and earn a GEOCACHING badge, and make our SWAPS (Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere [a Girl Scout camp tradition]), play, and tye dye our tshirts for Camporee on April 22nd. 

Wow!   that's A L O T!  You don't want to miss it!

(Our daisy scouts and brownie scout will be joining us too and earning similar petals/badges)