Girl Scouts: Progress? Need help? Questions?

Hi again!

Just following up last meeting again to see how it's going with the tasks the girls assigned themselves, and an update/question about camping. 

First:  here were the jobs the girls volunteered for, are they coming along ok?

Jobs:

1)  Eva:  Contact Mrs. Fonte and Burish to see how they found people to help for Clean and Green

2)  Katie:  research local ice skating opportunities and see if they are open during COVID, and are taking appropriate COVID precautions.  (Starter list:  Eble, Wilson Park, Pettit, Pleasant Prairie RecPlex)

3)  Quinn:  Find some good front ine workers to write letters to.

4)  Evie/Ellen:  Will do more jobs around the campout as it approaches.

5)  EVERYONE:  Send any blackout dates that you will be UNAVAILABLE during January/February so we can schedule a campout when everyone can go.

Second:

The girls mentioned possibly going to one of the two scout campgrounds that were being closed and sold this year.  Those camps are being "Sundowned" in December, so if we wanted to hit one of them (Potawatomi Hills, and Winding River) it might have to be in the next couple weeks. 

Would a camp out at one of those two camps be possible for a reasonable number of girls the weekend of November 21-22 or 28-29? No commitment yet, just checking options. 

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On Thursday, October 29, 2020, 5:47 PM, Aleks Skibicki <kwaterk1978@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Here's the quick recap of the ideas the girls came up with, what they decided we should do, and who's in charge of getting things started.

First there were two "business" items:

1)  Nut sale--you have until Friday to enter paper orders in your online account yourself, or until Monday to get the card info to me to enter for you.  Online people can order through Monday as well.

2)  Service Area activities--The Greendale/Greenfield/Hales Corners area asked for input on ideas for things the scouts in that zone could do as a group.  From the list of ideas the girls thought that a zone-wide Litter Clean Up Challenge, drive in movie night, online craft teaching webseries/channel, or online mask fashion show would all be fun things for a large group of scouts to collaborate on together.

Moving on to ideas for just our troop.  Here's our brainstorming, and that'll be followed by the ideas the girls picked out from the brainstorm to actually pursue:

All ideas:

1)  Write thank you letters to frontline workers

2)  Rake yards/help community members that need it like "clean and green" in GMS

3)  Winter campout (possibly connected to another activity like tubing, ice skating, or horseback riding.

4)  Ice skating locally

5)  Doing craft kits together but online (so we each get a kit to do, and we all go online at the same time to do it.)

6)  Cooking challenge or each cooking something to share with the others.

Final three:

1)  Winter Campout--Late January/February so there's snow and ice for us to have fun with.  Include other activity (activities) like ice skating or tubing.

2)  Ice skating locally

3)  Raking yards/community clean up for people that need help

3b)  Write thank you letters to front line workers.

Jobs:

1)  Eva:  Contact Mrs. Fonte and Burish to see how they found people to help for Clean and Green

2)  Katie:  research local ice skating opportunities and see if they are open during COVID, and are taking appropriate COVID precautions.  (Starter list:  Eble, Wilson Park, Pettit, Pleasant Prairie RecPlex)

3)  Quinn:  Find some good front ine workers to write letters to.

4)  Evie/Ellen:  Will do more jobs around the campout as it approaches.

5)  EVERYONE:  Send any blackout dates that you will be UNAVAILABLE during January/February so we can schedule a campout when everyone can go.

Extra:

Girls asked for the penpal link for seniors again so here it is:

http://www.readytocare.com/take-action/pen-pal

These are some fun ideas!  I look forward to seeing how the girls make them happen!

Aleks