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Girls Scouts combat graffiti in South Tucson and honor city with a mural

Friday, May 17th, 2013

When: Saturday May 18th, 2013 6am -1pm

Where: Corner of 27th St and 5th Ave in South Tucson

Girl Scout Troop 645 will be helping to paint a mural dedicated to the City of South Tucson on Saturday in their efforts to combat graffiti in South Tucson while providing an example of street art that can enhance the community. The project will begin at 6am and continue until early afternoon on the same day that the city will be observing the 20th annual memorial to the life of John Valenzual, who was the first office to die in the line of duty in South Tucson. The wall will incorporate his service to the community. The girls have chosen to do this as part of their Bronze Award which is the highest award 4th and 5th graders can earn.

The girls have been busy the last few months in the community working towards this goal. They have done research on how street art is a great deterrent to taggers, as well as creating an nice environment that encourages people to get outside and walk and exercise in their community. They then shared this information with the community at a local health fair. At this fair the girls also conducted surveys of the community as to what they would like to see and where in South Tucson. The community was very positive in it’s responsive that they would like to see more street art in South Tucson, and many locations were suggested. The next step was finding a location, which after meetings with South Tucson city government officials, a wall was identified for their mural.

Local artist Germaine Pesquiera has volunteered his time to help the girls with this project and create a mural depicting the South Tucson community which will proudly showcase the best of South Tucson. We hope that this will create a further sense of pride in the community, and at the same time be an example of how aerosol art can be expressed in a positive way that enhances the community.

Funding for this project was made possible through community partnerships with the South Tucson Police department and Williamson’s heating and cooling.

Girl Scouts is an organization which provides Girls with all the skills they need to be great leaders now and in the future. Through their experiences the girls gain in Courage, Confidence and Character, while making the world a better place. The girls came up with this idea and have worked very hard to make it a reality.

Contact: Pilar Ruiz, 358-2853, pilara1@attg.net

 

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Girl Scout Troop 172: Lighting up pets for safety

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Contact: Melissa Minerich, co-leader
Girls Scout Troop 172
(520) 977-6808
melissaminerich@gmail.com

 

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Troop 172, made up of 11 yr. old girls from Sam Hughes and Basis Tucson schools are helping protect pets from getting hit by cars and getting lost. They will be handing out flashing lights to pet owners at Cyclovia on April 28, 2013. They chose this community project as part of Troop 172’s Bronze Award Project. The girl’s love of animals and wanting to protect them led them to organize this community outreach project.

The Troop worked together to implement their project by organizing committees to do marketing, design, research, distribution and media. The Troop of ten girls developed a marketing piece to hand out with the lights to educate pet owners on the importance of keeping their pets visible at night so they don’t get hit by cars or lost during walks. They wanted to use $200 they raised through their cookie sales to purchase the lights but instead, the lights were donated by a local promotional company, Williams & Associates.

As volunteers at Cyclovia, the girls will be directing Cyclovia event participants to venues and handing out their lights. Look for them along the Cyclovia route.

For more information about Junior Girl Scout Troop 172 Bronze Award community project, contact Melissa Minerich at mminerich@pagnet.org

 

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Global Education for Girls

Friday, April 12th, 2013

By Kristi Pallack

As Girl Scout staff, we are always trying to increase our knowledge base and continue our youth development education. As part of this, I find myself on several webinars a week, some hosted by GSUSA, some hosted by outside organizations. This week, I attended a webinar that talked about the Girl Scout global experience, cultural education, and enhancing the GSLE by working with community organizations. To get the most out of badge work and journeys, it is great to be able to bring in outside speakers and organizations to work with your girls.

Collaboration Examples

Daisies
When getting to know the Daisy Flower Friends in Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden, invite a language teacher or international student in to teach girls words, read books, or play global games (high

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Brownies
While Brownies learn about girls around the world in A World of Girls, take a field trip to a local cultural institution or museum and participate in an educational program that teaches girls about another culture.

Juniors
While Juniors investigate buildings in the Get Moving journey, invite a member of Engineers without Borders in to talk about how energy is made and used in another part of the world.

Cadettes
Cadette’s doing the Amaze journey may travel to a Hostelling International hostel and participate in the cultural kitchen program where they meet people from other countries and reflect on that experience.

Seniors
While learning about food issues around the world during Sow What, encourage Girl Scout seniors to check out the Peace Corps’ Global Food Security web pages, or better yet, invite a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in to talk about his/her experiences.

Ambassadors
Ambassadors working on Your Voice, Your World may meet with female international visitors or Sister City visitors to learn about advocacy and the issues women confront in other parts of the globe.

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Service Opportunity

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Have fun helping Joseph’s Pantry serve the needy.  Since this community is all in this together, help the people who need support.  We are girls from Troop 645 and we are helping the poor using donation drives, volunteers, and keeping the traditional Girl Scout swaps involved.  Please join us by donating instant coffee, tea bags, hot cocoa, instant oatmeal, cup–O

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Somerton, AZ Girl Scouts make a difference

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

On November 15, 2011, 43 Girl Scouts hosted a recycling drive in their community. The girls learned how to recycle and reuse coffee filters and made them into Thanksgiving place-mats. They also transformed empty plastic soda bottles into night lights. The girls collected used goods to recycle like eye wear, cell phones, ink cartridges, blankets and more.

Two years ago, Somerton didn’t have any Girl Scouts. Today, their troop of 43 girls is working hard to make a difference in their community.

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Chief’s Challenge: Reach Out & Read

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Dear Girl Scout Troops:

I have a challenge for you for our 100th Anniversary! I challenge 100 troops to collect 10 NEW books for Reach out and Read! Reach Out Read provides books to Doctors so that they can provide books to families with small children. The troops that agree to take the challenge will have until December 31, 2011 to complete the goal of collecting ten new books for the program. All troops participating will be invited to the CHIEF’S CHALLENGE pizza party on Sunday January 15th at 11:00am at Peter Piper Pizza on Broadway Blvd. in Tucson!

This challenge is now closed –  stay tuned for Chief’s Challenge #2!

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Reach Out and Read-Southern Arizona

Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona supports Reach Out and Read programs in Cochise, Pima and Santa Cruz Counties and the Tohono O’odham and Yaqui Nations.

Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based program that promotes early literacy and school readiness in pediatric exam rooms by giving new, developmentally and culturally appropriate books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud. Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona prepares our youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together.

Reach Out and Read builds on the unique relationship between parents and medical providers to develop critical early reading skills in children, beginning from birth through five years of age. More than 60 pediatric and family practice clinics in Southern Arizona serve 43,000 children and their families through the Reach Out and Read early literacy intervention. Families served read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten better prepared to succeed, with larger vocabularies, stronger language skills, and a six-month developmental edge over their peers.

Types of books needed:

  • Soft touch board books
  • All board books
  • Picture books (for example):
  • Berenstain Bears
  • Little Critter
  • Dora the Explorer
  • Mia and Miguel
  • Any by Eric Carle
  • Dinosaur books
  • Early Chapter books (for example):
  • Junie B. Jones
  • Nat the Great
  • Magic Tree House

Reading to children will give them a good start on the road to good reading behavior. Books will give them access to a world of possibilities. When volunteer readers are present in waiting rooms, it helps establish reasonable calm and quiet, which is very beneficial in a healthcare setting.

How can you help?

Donating new and used books to El Rio will help volunteer readers and children have access to reading materials. The majority of books distributed at our clinic sites are books geared toward children aged newborn to eight years old.

Reach Out and Read is a specially integrated healthcare/literacy program. It helps families and communities encourage early literacy skills so children enter school prepared for success.

Within El Rio Community Health Center’s clinic sites children aged six months to five years are given a new book at well-child checkups. Parents also get guidance from their child’s doctor on the importance of reading aloud for their child’s brain development and the importance of sharing books. Because they have the necessary tools in hand (books), parents then feel empowered to read aloud more often to their children and thus take an active role in their development.

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Chickens here, chickens there, chickens chickens everywhere!

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

by Richelle Harris

Dreamseeker SU had their encampment April 1 – 2, 2011.  Saturday morning began with a hike up Picacho Peak.  Back at camp we had a Super Star “Do Dad” hide several Geo Caches.  The girls needed little direction….whipped out their cell phones, downloaded GPS Apps, and we off plugging in Longitude and Latitude marks.    They were so excited about their new found skill that they were trying to convince Volunteers to take them on a Geo Caching Road trips.  That evening Marbles, “The Queen of Dutch Oven Cooking”, led the girls in creating a full meal to include: a stew with all the fixings, garlic bread, and a dump cake. It was an amazing time.

The Casa Grande Chicken Chicks program has been going strong.  Today, courtesy of Home Depot, we were given a huge load of culled wood.  With that, 12 Juniors built a 10’x 10’ x 6’ coop that was divided into two spaces to include 2 mounted nesting areas with 3 hen spaces or should I say suites.  One Girl Scout was so proud of the door she framed that she returned later that day with her Grandparents to take a picture with her coop and framed door.  Next weekend…bring on the paint.   The Hannah Montana Coop will have nothing on the GS Hen House =)

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Make it Girl Led!

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Before sitting down at the computer and entering the information, try one of these activities or your own activity to get girl involved!

Daisy, Brownie, Juniors:

Annual Troop Review

  • BE PREPARED! Review receipts, forms, and bank statement prior to the meeting. It may be helpful to right the category on the top of the receipt; Meeting supplies, badges, community service/ take action project.
  • Bring the receipt for the year and have the girls help you sort them into categories; dues, meeting supplies, badges, community service/take action projects. You can make containers/boxes for the girls to put them in. You could use old Kleenex boxes, diaper wipe container, yogurt container, or envelopes.
  • Next, help the girls or give each girl a chance to calculate one of the categories and enter the totals on the Troop/Group Annual Finance worksheet. You can break the girls into groups and have the complete a section, or give each girl a chance to fill in a line on the worksheet – try enlarging it at an office supply store.

Discussion:

BEFORE

  • How much do you think it takes to run a troop?
  • Where does the money in the troop account come from?
  • What do we need to buy for the troop? Weekly, Monthly? Yearly?

AFTER

  • How much was our cookie proceeds?
  • Were you surprise at how much/little we spend?
  • How much money is currently in the troop account?
  • How do we want to spend the money? Save the money?

Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors

Annual Troop Review

  • Divide the girls into small groups, give each group a pile of receipt and ask them to separate them in to meeting supplies, badges, community service/take action projects categories. This can be a simple as being prepared and writing on the top of the receipt what category it belong in, circling “clues” on the receipt that would help the determine what category it belongs to ,or just letting them figure it out.
  • Then come back as a group and complete the workshop. Suggest someone be the scribe, the one who will right the information on the Troop/Group Annual Finance worksheet.

Discussion:

BEFORE

  • How much do you think it takes to run a troop?
  • Where does the money in the troop account come from?
  • What do we need to buy for the troop? Weekly, Monthly? Yearly?

AFTER

  • How much was our cookie proceeds?
  • Were you surprise at how much/little we spend?
  • How much money is currently in the troop account?
  • How do we want to spend the money? Save the money?

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The Neverlanders

Monday, March 28th, 2011

by Rita Billiard

Some places have what is known as a Campus Gold or Alumni Girl Scouts but in Sierra Vista, Arizona, which is part of the Cochise County Service Unit of the Sahuaro Girl Scout Council – we have what is known as “Neverlanders Girl Scout Troop #1224″.

To borrow a line from the Golden Girls, Sophia Petrilo, – “Picture this” for as a Senior Girl Scout at the time, Laura was walking across the wooden bridge to the level of Adult Girl Scouting – as per the custom she stopped in the middle of the bridge to tell what she liked best about her past years in Girl Scouting and what she was looking forward to do in the next level. She looked out at the audince and stated, “There’s been a change of plans, I’m not bridging. I’m moving to Neverland!”

Luckily it doesn’t stop there – for in June of 2008 the girls as Cadettes and Seniors were on their big summer trip and they were discussing how much they were going to miss their times as Girl Scouts together whether it be the regular meeting, other activities as a Girl Scout troop or going camping. Now their top notch leader, who I am sure Juliette Gordon Low would have definitely approved of as a Girl Scout leader came to the rescue. Maybe even Juliette would have hand picked Mrs. Wheat who said, “why not form a new troop of Young Adult Girl Scouts?” After a discussion the “Neverland Girl Scout Troop #1224″ became official with the symbol of ‘Tinkerbell’.

The girls used their camp names for much of their identity as Cadettes and Seniors and especially to their sister troops of Junior GS#419 and Brownie GS#104, so we have “Digby” (aka: Victoria), “Mickey” (aka: Laura), “Tweety” (aka: Amanda) and “Thin Mint” (aka: Natashia).

All members of Neverland #1224 are eligible to participate in all Girl Scout events but they must be a registered Girl Scout. As it happens, Victoria, Laura, Amanda and Natashia are all lifetime members.

Natashia is a Silver Awardee and Victoria, Laura and Amanda have earned their Bronze, Silver and Gold achievements. A relationship is encouraged with Cadette/Senior #1224 and if possible with Junior GS Troop #104 and Brownie GS troop#419. This would include but not be limited to visiting them when home on school breaks, attending functions whenever they can, letters/notes, being mentors for Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards – and especially being that true sister Girl Scout.

“Neverlanders” being high school graduates are presently in college and out of town most of the year, but when in town they encourage younger girls to stay in girl Scouting and learn to take advantage of what all that Girl Scouts can offer them. As the girls graduate from high school cross the bridge to adult Girl Scouting and they meet the requirements they too can become a member of the neverland Girl Scout Troop #1224.

Recently, and to start the new year off, Girl Scout troops 1224, 419, and 104 took part in the flag burial ceremony at the Veteran’s Memorial Cemetary on Fort Huachuca, Arizona with Neverlanders Victoria, Laura and Amanda leading the ceremony. Yes, Neverlanders can say “Once a Girl Scout, Always a Girl Scout.”

I am really pleased and proud of how these young ladies are showing the younger girls that there is life after Senior Girl Scouts! – Rita Billiard

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Brownie Troop Gives Back

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Brownie Troop 1084 had a shopping trip to the Scholastic Book Fair today!!  They used some of their cookie profits to buy books for their classrooms and the Thunderbird Resource Center!!  They were able to purchase 16 books for the second grade classrooms and 6 books for the Thunderbird Resource Center – WOOHOO!!!!  Each book they bought will be labeled with a special sticker inside so that everyone who reads it will know it was bought by Troop 1084!  They were able to use $172 from the profit the Troop made selling Girl Scout cookies to buy all these books and they know that their library will benefit even more from their purchase!!

Do you have a Cookies for a Change or Gift of Caring project that you want to tell us about? send an email to Kristi, share it on our Facebook Wall, or leave a comment below!

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