Trefoil Project to Support Connecticut Girl Scouts

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Living the Girl Scout Promise and Helping Others

Girl Scouts Host Toys for Tots Drive

Nearly 200 Girl Scouts who reside on the Peninsula in Hampton Roads participated in the seasons’ Toys for Tots drive. They collected 672 toys to donate to the Marine Corps program. To help promote the drive and get more girls involved, the Peninsula service units held a friendly competition with the prize being bragging rights. On Saturday, December 15, Corporal Emily Hutchins, the Newport News Marine Corps event coordinator for Toys for Tots, was on site at the GSCCC Peninsula Service Center to accept the donations for distribution. She left with a van filled, from stuffed animals and baby dolls to toy cars and trucks.


“We have over 2,000 families that we are helping this year, each one with two to five children," she said. "We try to make sure that each child gets a couple of toys and that each family gets a board game or two. Collection drives like these have a great turnout. The Girl Scouts did a super job."

Some Girl Scouts troops budgeted money from their fall product sale proceeds to go shopping for the Toys for Tots drives. Other girls got their families involved and came to drop off toys with their parents and siblings.

This is just one of the many community service project efforts area Girl Scouts have been involved with over the past few months. From making hundreds of toiletry kits for children and donating them to the Hurricane Sandy victims to helping the Salvation Army with their gift program, Girl Scouts were eager to help others.

Samoa Soiree Joins Facebook

GSCCC’s signature event now has its own Facebook page! Like Samoa Soiree on Facebook for all sorts of updates! You will find photographs from Samoa Soirees in the past, announcements about participating restaurants this year (expect some new Peninsula restaurants!), silent auction sneak peeks and other behind the scenes updates. If you have attended the Samoa Soiree in the past, we’d love to have you share your experiences on our page! Also, keep a lookout for contests throughout the upcoming months!

You can also join the Samoa Soiree event page on Facebook and share it with your friends!

GSCCC on Pinterest

GSCCC has joined Pinterest, a website where we can organize and share things that we find in photographs on the web. It’s a virtual pin board!

We’ve already pinned all sorts of things, like ideas for swaps and crafts, Forever Green initiatives, recipes inspired by Girl Scout cookies and more!

If you already have a Pinterest account, it’s easy to follow us! Just go to our Pinterest page and click the red “Follow All” button in the center of the screen towards the top. If you don’t have a Pinterest account, it’s easy to sign-up, or you can view all of our pin boards without an account, just click the same link above. It’s that easy!

We hope you will check out our Pinterest page and follow all of the exciting ideas we find for you to use!

You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up-to-date on the latest Council happenings.

GSCCC Recognizes Famous Former Girls Scouts

Girl Scout Council of Colonial honored twelve local Girl Scout alumnae at a November luncheon. This annual Famous Former event is an opportunity for the Council to recognize women who exemplify the values of Girl Scouts and who are making a difference in their communities. From the arts to the sciences, there are thousands of women leaders who attribute their leadership successes to their participation in Girl Scouting. These outstanding women inspire girls and send a strong message that girls can be leaders.

The Girl Scout Research Institute has found that women who were Girl Scouts display significantly more positive life outcomes than women who were never Girl Scouts. In fact, 64% of today’s women leaders in the United States, including in civic, corporate and political settings, were once Girl Scouts. In a world where only 21% of girls believe they have most of the key qualities required to be a good leader, it is more important than ever to reach out to girls and provide them with strong female role models. The Famous Former Girl Scout Luncheon is an opportunity for key women leaders in the community to be reconnected with the the Girl Scout Leadership Experience and become mentors to tomorrow's leaders!

Pictured from left to right are honorees who attended the luncheon: Community Activist Andria McClellan, Community Advocate Mary Ellen Maxwell; Edenton Town Manager Anne-Marie Knighton; Ticatch Financial Management President Marian Ticatch; Urban League of Hampton Roads President and CEO Edith White; Elizabeth City Visitors Bureau Director Charlotte Underwood, Jackson Lewis Attorney Melissa Howell; Chrysler Museum Emeriti Education Director  Ann Vernon; United Way of Greater Williamsburg Executive Director Sharon Gibson-Ellis and GSCCC CEO Tracy Keller.

Not pictured: Honorees Sharon Durrette-Hunt, President of Enspyr, LLC; Dr. Carol Simpson, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Old Dominion University and Rosemary Trible, first lady at Christopher Newport University.

Juliette Gordon Low, Happy Birthday!

Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, was born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, Ga.

"Daisy," as she was affectionately called by family and friends, was the second of six children of William Washington Gordon and Eleanor Kinzie Gordon. Family members on her father's side were early settlers in Georgia, and her mother's family played an important role in the founding of Chicago, Illinois.

In 1911, Juliette Gordon Low traveled to England where she met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and became interested in the new youth movement. She returned to the United States just one year later to start the Girl Scout Movement – she made a historic phone call to a friend saying, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all America, and the entire world, and we're going to start it tonight."

She gathered 18 girls together to organize the first two American Girl Guide troops. Daisy Gordon, her niece, was the first registered member. The name of the organization was changed to Girl Scouts the following year.

Read more about Daisy and her life here.  Happy Birthday Daisy!

Girl Scout Day at Tidewater Gymnastics Academy, November 16 - Deadline November 9th

Saturday November 16, 2013

6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

$15.00 per girl - includes patch

All-Star Team demonstration at 7:00 p.m.

Minimum: 25 Maximum: 50

Get a great work out while you meet and hang out with other Girl Scouts. Come see what gymnastics is all about at Tidewater Gymnastics Academy, where fitness is fun!


Registration form, waiver, and payment are due by Saturday November 9, 2013.

To register and for forms, contact:

Jessy, Office Manager, TGA

829 44th Street, Norfolk, VA 23508

757-493-3600

info@tidewatergymnasticsacademy.com

Tidewater Gymnastics Academy

California Panorama

California Panorama, presented by Community Two Have your Girl Scouts ever wanted to travel to California? Here is their chance. Community Two is sponsoring the next travel pathway opportunity for the summer of 2014. Girl Scouts from GSCCC will travel to sunny California for an 8 day adventure.

Travel by airplane from Norfolk to San Francisco and then travel by motor coach down the coast of California to San Diego making several stops in between! Highlights include a visit to Alcatraz Island, riding a cable car, Los Angeles sightseeing, Universal Studios, San Diego Zoo and Sea World, just to name a few.

Program Fee includes:

• Round-trip transportation

• 7 nights hotel accommodations

• Air-conditioned motorcoach on tour

• Breakfast and dinner daily

• Full-time Smithsonian Student Travel Tour Director

• Sightseeing tours led by a licensed guide

• Visits to special attractions per itinerary

• Overnight security

• Educational materials developed by the Smithsonian

• Medical and accident coverage

• Travel ID Badges and student backpacks

For more trip and enrollment information, including a complete itinerary and current price quote, visit

www.smithsonianstudenttravel.com and enter tour #1251268.

For further questions contact the Community Two Travel Pathway Coordinator, Eileen Livick at queenleen221@gmail.com

This opportunity is available to any GSCCC Girl Scout who has completed 6th grade by the time of travel.

The Adult Learning Schedule is now Online

The Adult Learning Schedule that was previously printed in the GO! book is now available as a separate printable document online.  Having the Adult Learning Schedule separate from the GO! book allows more frequent updates to the schedule.  Classes are added regularly to assure that right classes are offered when and where they are needed most.  Continue on to learn more.

Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast is committed to providing volunteers with the education and support they need to be successful in their roles and to have enriching and meaningful volunteer experiences.

Classes are offered in a variety of formats, including online, classroom and outdoor workshops. 

Online

• Girl Scouting 101
• Volunteering for Girl Scout Series & Events
• Swim Watcher
• Troop Paperwork & Trip Planning

Classroom/Outdoor Workshops

To see a complete list of the classes offered along with their description, refer to the Adult Learning Schedule.   All currently scheduled classes for at least the next three months are listed.  Some of the Outdoor classes are listed for the next year.  New classes are being added all the time in all areas of the council, so check back often to find the course you need and want!Are you ready to sign up now? Online registration is available!

Update Your Volunteer Information

To ensure that we have the most current information in our database, all returning volunteers are asked to submit a Volunteer Information Update Form annually.  Completed forms can be scanned and emailed to volunteer@gsccc.org or delivered/mailed to: 

Volunteer Services Specialist
Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast
912 Cedar Road
Chesapeake, VA 23322

Towne Bank Girl Scout Benefits

Towne Bank is pleased to offer the following special banking benefits to the troops of Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast. See the attachments to find out more.