Girl Scouts: Busy Next Week! Also, looking to February, and a response needed

Hi everyone!

Just a reminder that next week is getting busy!  (I can't believe how fast everything is moving.)

FIRST, this Wednesday (1/8) is a planning meeting right after school.  We'll have to look at our plan for a Feb. group activity, and also start coming up with segment ideas for our troop movie--maybe even enough to start filming the following week?  (Note:  Planning meetings end at 4:30)

SECOND, this coming Wednesday 1/8,  is ALSO the Cookie Kick Off Party at GMS in the evening.  We'l move right from the meeting to setting up for the Cookie Party in the GMS MPR.  Girls are welcome to stick around and help set up (that would be awesome!) and I'll order pizzas and dinner to eat during the set up time so we don't miss supper.  Otherwise your scout can also go home and come back for the party--since we're the big kids, we get to run the show.  Here's the link to sign up to let me know who'll be there to help--don't worry scouts, you'll only have to run a station for half the time if you want to play for the other half!   https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-cookie6  (Shifts are 6:00-7:00, or 7:00-8:00, and parents are welcome and encouraged too!)  

THIRD, February 14th is Girl Scout CraftCon 2020 where troops will teach each other various crafts that they've had fun learning (we're teaching the clove-orange-air fresheners) HOWEVER, I just saw that there's a Forensics meet that night, which means a lot of our troop won't be able to attend, which means that we will be DOUBLE relying on the girls that aren't in Forensics to be there and represent our troop.  So if you're not going to be at the Forensics meet, please save the date to learn and teach some fun crafts (that just might double as awesome Valentine's gifts for mom and dad!)

FOURTH, a former scout's mom was concerned that her daughter didn't get credited in the Life in the Village Magazine for the poster she made to advertise the walking audit event.  The magazine will be publishing a "correction" to credit that girl for the poster design.  Since I think it would be incredibly unfair to single out a scout who isn't even a scout anymore to get credit on the walking path project that she barely even participated in , I'm going to suggest that all the girls who participated in the project so much more--enough to earn their Silver Award credit--should also get credited by name.  But before I do, I would need your permission for their names to be published.  It'll likely just be a simple blurb, like "Girl Scouts receiving their Silver Award for their work on the Walking Path Improvement Project include __________________________ " but they will get their names in print I hope!  So, can I have them include the names:  Kendra Persike, Ellen Walser, Katie Bruss, Teagan Amenda, Carrie Jansen, Genevieve Skibicki, Collette Booth, Eva Meyer, and Quinn Steinmann?

Thanks, and See you Wednesday!