It's Recruitment Time 2015! Here are some locations. Share, share, share!

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Girl Scout Recruitment events for the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana are coming up! Know a girl who wants to join, or are you someone who would like to help out with a troop in Warren, Barren, or Grayson County? Or nearby?
 
Let them know about these fun Girl Scout recruitment events.

Here are the upcoming Recruitment Times and locations:

o Tuesday, September 1st Barren County High School 6-7pm.

o Thursday, September 3rd, Glasgow High School 6-7pm.

o Tuesday, September 8th South Warren High School 6-7pm.

o Thursday, September 10th Warren East High School 6-7pm.

o Tuesday, September 15th Greenwood High School 6-7pm.

Come one, come all!

Questions? Know girls or adults who are interested?

 Email or call Jennifer Johnson, Membership Specialist, at the Caveland PLC jajohnson@gskentuckiana.org or (270) 495-4093.

Go, Girl Scouts!






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New events - - the Kentuckiana Cluster 2 Trefoil Guild - - more. Back to Troop, and fun...

It's Back to Troop Time!

Troops are having their first meetings right now, and it's a super busy time for many.

There are new events now listed on the Official Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Calendar and Unofficial Calendars (link above at the blog site), so check them out when you can. My email is lizann447@yahoo dot com if you would like an invitation to her blog (this is a copy of it...)

Save the Dates...
Some dates you may need to put on your calendar are:

The next Warren County Service Unit Meeting - - Tuesday, September 8th: NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Bob Kirby Branch Library - 6-8

Sept. 17th (Thursday) Troop Pathway Orientation - Caveland PLC 9:30 - 11:30(?) Trainer: Tracey Dodson

Sept. 24th (Thursday) Go Gold! Workshop - 6-8 PM, Caveland PLC. Beth Carroll, trainer.

Sept. 26th (Saturday) is a Trainer Meeting near Louisville at (Camp Shantituck?). Details to come.

Oct. 6th is the FALL FORUM at the Caveland PLC. RSVP if you can come and meet Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Board Members and the CEO, ask questions, and get answers!  This is a great event, and you can make a difference by attending. Here is the description: "Fall forums are held annually in all parts of the council to give adult members and girls ages 14 and older a chance to talk with council leadership. The council president, board members and CEO will attend the forums.  We’d like for you to be there, too!  Bring all your success stories, suggestions and great ideas!  Please put one of the following dates on YOUR calendar for the fall.  You may attend any forum that is convenient for you." "...For: Adult Leaders, Adult Volunteers, Seniors, Cadettes, Ambassadors" - "Come and bring a friend..." YOUR RSVP IS IMPERATIVE FOR THIS EVENT - PLEASE RSVP dclark@gskentuckiana.org 

Added: October 10th is the International Arts and Adventure Troop's Recruitment Event at Camp Houchens from 11-8. Look for signups and flyers soon.
 
October 13th (Tuesday) is a Warren County SU Meeting. Location to come.

October 26th is the Area 17/Caveland Fall Area Meeting at Houchen's Camp. We eat at 6 p.m., and the meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. (This is earlier this year). Come vote and meet other volunteers in our area.

More important dates to put on your calendar are listed on the official and unofficial calendars. 

The Kentuckiana Cluster 2 Trefoil Guild  
...will be meeting again soon. This is a group of Girl Scout leaders and volunteers, plus adults who were Girl Scouts as girls. They have a Facebook page, and are talking about when to meet next. If you are interested, here is the Facebook page:

KYANA Cluster 2 Trefoil Guild (For Area 17 and Beyond...)

Come vote on the Doodle poll for the time and day that's best for you for our next meeting. 

Here it is: DOODLE POLL LINK 
 

My ad on the Pixie List
Check it out - I am available to help local troops out now with Songs and Games and more. Here is my listing: Volunteer Available - via the Pixie List

A New Girl Scout Troop in the Council...
The International Arts and Adventure Girl Scout Troop is now registered. Yay! The troop is accepting girls from the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana council who are in 7th - 12th grades. They meet at the International Center in Bowling Green, KY. Contact Amanda Day amandaday63@hotmail.com or Shanika Feagins shanika.feagins@gmail.com for more information. They are organizing a Uniform Closet for the girls right now. Let them know if you can help at all, as a Troop Committee Member, badge consultant, etc. etc.

Have a great week!

Betsyanne

Hello, Girl Scout leaders and volunteers! This is an exciting Fall. There is a LOT happening here and all over the council.

The Warren County SU Meeting
Events, events, events plus Recruitment
Welcome, new readers
New Thumb Drives, VE Addendums, and Calendars, Board Member needed,
New Newsletter from Tracey D.
"Floating, Free, and Fabulous!" - butterflies...
and... Sensitive Issues... got any?

I love the tent pix (above). Though I have never peeked through my tent and looked at a skunk. But I did see one up North once. We gave it lots of room. And it didn't get scared. Unlike when it or a relative met a dog that was next door one summer. Long story.

The Warren County Service Unit Meeting
We had SO many people at the meeting last night we almost did not fit. This is a good sign, I think. Troops got Incentive T-Shirts (Early Bird, I think) and Tracey shared lots of news. We found out Lost River Cave is looking for Girl Scouts for service projects, and that if you go as a TROOP to the Boat Ride, you can go for $5 per girl. This is a GREAT deal.

Some volunteers do not have the Shield the Vulnerable online course taken yet. This is a MUST, because now anyone who has not taken it cannot work with the girls. Period. Until they show they have taken it. It was suggested to keep a list of who has taken trainings plus their expiration date in the Troop Folder(s). Also, if anything happens, and your adults have not taken this class, Council will not back you.

Recruitment is happening starting tomorrow. Troop members signed up to help. They could also use girls to help in uniform with crafts and more.

Warren County Schools (NOT City Schools) are now charging a $330. per year Custodial Fee for troops meeting in their schools. A volunteer suggests writing the School Board about this or (Mike?) Wilson.

If your troop is registered before Sept. 1, they may order Toffee-Tastic cookies through E-Budde. How many to order? You just guess, and may pre-order as many as you want from September 8th - September 25th. You will pick these up with your initial order.

I heard that events are now cut off at 3-4 weeks before an event (?) I will double check about this. It used to be a week before last year. But now we have a new computer system. So I'd call or email about it to find out for sure. AND register early for events, just in case. I have also heard that there is no automatic "cancellation" that will be on the event pages this year, at least right now, so call the PLC or the event person to make sure it is still happening before you go, at least right for now. They are fixing glitches all this year.

Troops are encouraged to bring their girls to the Service Unit meeting to talk about awards like Bronze, Silver, or Gold. Let Tracey know you are coming. She is at SUM

I got to teach the game "Concentration" at the meeting. It brought back memories. I will teach it better next time. I think I went too fast.

We heard about upcoming events, including the Mother-Daughter weekend and the Hot Rods Overnight event that already occurred. (See the UNofficial Calendar for dates, some trainings and events at the link above at this blog.)

We need to have an Adult Board Member nominee for this area. If you know someone who would make a good Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Board member from this area, let Sue Lewis, who is on the GSK Board Development Committee, know at slewis45@inbox.com.

Troops do not need to refill their ACH forms this year, but new troops must fill them out.

Troops at the Service Unit meeting received a thumb drive, an Addendum, and a Calendar. These are 1 per troop.

Welcome, new readers! I will try to invite more people here soon from my Girl Scout list.

Butterflies... floating, free, and fabulous.
We all thought about butterflies and heard a story about butterflies at the SU meeting too  - - - and also were asked, how are they like our wonderful Girl Scouts? We thought of lots of words for what describes a butterfly - beautiful, colorful, changeable, morphing, flighty, and sometimes annoying (!) But it was fun to think of all the great qualities our Girl Scout girls have. Then we heard the story of how somebody tried to "help" a butterfly get out of her cocoon and really didn't help it at all, because being freed too early did not let the butterfly develop the muscles it needed to be able to fly. And how because of this, it's sometimes it's better to let the girls try themselves, even though they could fail or take a long time doing something. It's harder for us to watch them fail, but better in the long run for the girls to try to do things themselves. It helps them learn so much better, so they can finally fly and become the adults they were meant to be.

Neat story.

Oh - almost forgot.

Sensitive Issues - do you have them?
The Warren County SU Mgr, Tracey, says, "Do you have a sensitive issue? If you ever have a sensitive issue that you can't bring up at the Service Unit meeting, just let me know about it. I have experience dealing with sensitive issues, and I can come up with solutions." Thanks, Tracey! PS Her main email is sum.warren.ky@gmail.com. This goes to her and maybe 1-2 of her team too. An FYI. I don't have her phone number, she may prefer emails. If you want to talk on the phone, ask her if she is OK with that by sending her an email.

Until later,

Betsy

Our next SU meeting, some Girl Scout dates, send your info. to Tracey D., more.

Hi, all!

It has been a VERY busy end of summer for me. A new troop for older girls is forming for BG and whoever else wants to join in the GS of Kentuckiana too. I am helping get it started, and will be on the Troop Committee too. It is the International Arts and Adventure Troop. We have interested girls and are registering girls and leaders very soon. We can't wait to get our Troop Number.

If you are interested, or know a 7th - 12th grade girl who is interested in joining, or an adult who would like to help out, just contact Amanda Day, 270-791-3290 and amandaday63@hotmail.com or Shanika Feagins at the International Center of Kentucky at 270-781-8336, ext. 320 or shanika@wkrmaa.org.

I have an UNofficial Calendar, and have listed some events for our area and also other events you may be interested in on this blog entry. It is a page here, just click on it (above as a page link.)

Our Service Unit Mgr. for Area 17, Tracey Dodson, is asking for information on events and news for the area. Send this information to her right away, in the next couple of days if you can.

The Louisville Festival of the Arts link is now live AND the Registration form has now been added too. It is for all levels.

It is Sat Nov 14 2015, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST  - and is first-come, first served for tickets. This is a very popular event for all areas that can travel to Louisville.

This event is Saturday, November 14th and is very popular. https://www.gskentuckiana.org/content/gskentuckiana/en/events-repository/2015/_2015_festival_of_th.html  You can download a Festival of the Arts brochure NOW.

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A partial list of other dates is below.

(IMPORTANT: this is a partial list. For a more complete list, check the OFFICIAL Girl Scouts of Kentucky calendar here: ALSO: double-check each event, and call the Girl Scout office the day before if you are taking a training, to find out if it has been cancelled or not.)

NEW: Save the Date, and plan to attend if you can: FYI: Annual Meeting for the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana is April 15-16, 2016 in Owensboro.

NEWEST: Recruitment meetings are:

√ Fall Recruitment is happening now. Below are the Parent Meetings with location/times. Please reach out to Jenni and let her know which meeting(s) you can help with. Remember, volunteers like YOU help recruit new girls and adults.

o   Thursday, August 20^th Bowling Green High School 6-7pm.

o   Tuesday, August 25^th Grayson County High School 6-7pm.

o   Thursday, August 27^th Warren Central High School 6-7pm.

o   Tuesday, September 1^st Barren County High School 6-7pm.

o   Thursday, September 3^rd, Glasgow High School 6-7pm.

o   Tuesday, September 8^th South Warren High School 6-7pm.

o   Thursday, September 10^th Warren East High School 6-7pm.

o   Tuesday, September 15^th Greenwood High School 6-7pm. 

Recruitment is focused on these counties this year: Warren, Barren, and Grayson.

Call Jenni if you can help at any of these events.

Jennifer Johnson

Membership Specialist

(270) 495-4093 / jajohnson@gskentuckiana.org

Check each date by going to the official GSKYANA Calendar page, in case of errors or cancellations.



Be sure to double-check EVERY event and the DATE of the event you are interested in attending, just in case.

Note: It is suggested that GS of Kentuckiana events be done with paper registrations until further notice.

FURTHER NOTICE: Via Heartland Connections 3/28/15

Online Registration

How It Works
We are currently working with a temporary website registration process.  We'll have this system through the end of 2016.  Please have patience with us until the full system comes online.

1. You register online through the website.
2. Anne emails Janis a spreadsheet of registrants on Tuesday and Friday.
3. Janis adds registrants to rosters, merges data onto a form, and emails the Volunteer Services Specialists and others the registration forms.
4. They then review the forms and their rosters to make sure that Janis added them to the correct event.
5. Once we know an event will take place, they will process the payment at that time.  Credit cards do not process automatically, but must be completed by them.
6. They will also notify the registrants that the event is taking place.  You should not assume the event is taking place until you receive this confirmation.
7. If you have not heard, please contact the local Volunteer Services Specialist for more information.

They are still working on the new website.

2015-2016 Events and News 

Most events on this Calendar are Girl Scout events, some are not.

Also VERY Important: Please double-check all dates with the GS office before attending with your troop.  The date or location could change, so double checking is doubly important. 

August 2015

August 11th is a Brownie Grade Level Training in Madisonville.

August 12th (a Wednesday) is the Julia Bache Lessons from Rosenwald Schools Exhibit Opening at the Louisville PLC. RSVP.

August 13th is a Brownie Grade Level Training in Glasgow.

Aug. 14-16 is the Highview Camporee (registrations are already closed for this event). 

August 15th is a Service Unit Team Kickoff Meeting for Pennyroyal.

Added: August 15th is also a SU Team Kickoff for So. Indiana. 

August 18th is the first SU meeting for Warren County at 6 p.m. at the Caveland PLC.

August 22nd is a free Water Safety Workshop at Barren Ridge, 10-2.

August 23rd is a free Small Craft Safety class at Barren Ridge, 9-4.

August 27th is Magnut Training for Caveland.

August 31st is a Daisy Level Training in Madisonville, 6-8 p.m.

August 31st is a Troop Pathway Orientation class 6-8 p.m. in Madisonville.  

August 31st (a Monday) is also a Songs and Games Training at the Caveland PLC from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Contact Betsy Sheppard.

 

 September 2015

September 1st is the deadline to register a troop to be able to pre-order Toffee-Tastic cookies.
Questions, please contact Brooke Slone at bslone@gskentuckiana.org or Karen Smallwoood ksmallwood@gskentuckiana.org.

September 1st (a Tuesday) is a Songs and Games training at Caveland PLC from 5-7. Contact Betsy Sheppard.

September 5th is Girl Scout Day at Kentucky Kingdom/Hurricane Bay. 

September 7th is Labor Day.

Sept. 10th (Thursday) is a FALL FORUM at First United Methodist Church in North Vernon, Indiana.

September 10th (a Thursday) is a Brownie Grade Level training in Glasgow.  

September 10th is also a Daisy Grade Level training in Glasgow.

September 11,12, and 13th is the Area 10 Fall Camporee at Camp Shantituck. 

September 12th (Saturday) is a TPO Orientation at the Caveland PLC 10-11:30 a.m. 

Sept. 13th is Grandparent's Day. 

September 13th (Sunday) is a First Aid and CPR Class at Camp Houchens from 10-3.  

Sept. 13th is also a Fun in the Sun with Kappa Delta event for all levels from 2-4 at the Kappa Delta Sorority House in Bowling Green, KY.

Sept. 14th is Rosh Hashanah

Sept. 14th is also a Grade Level Training in Glasgow for Brownie Level, 6-8 p.m. 

Sept. 14th: There is also a TPO class this day in Glasgow from 6-8 p.m.  

Sept. 17th (Thursday) is the Louisville FALL FORUM at the Louisville PLC from 6:30 - 8 p.m. EDT.

Sept. 17th (Thursday) is a Troop Pathway Orientation (TPO) class at the Caveland PLC at 9:30 a.m. 

September 17th is a TPO Training at the Caveland PLC. Contact Beth Carroll for signup.

Sept. 18th will be a Camp in Part A class at Barren Ridge Camp from 6-9:30 p.m. 
 
Sept. 19th will be a Camp In Part B class at Barren Ridge Camp from 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Sept. 19th and 20th will be a Camp Out training at Camp Barren Ridge from Sat. 3:30 p.m. to Sunday 12 p.m.

Sept. 19th is also a Troop Pathway Orientation at the Caveland PLC from 10-11:30 a.m.  

Sept. 21st is the FALL FORUM AT THE Paducah PLC, from 6:30 - 8 p.m. CDT.

Sept. 21st is Bronze and Silver Award Training

Date: Mon Sep 21 2015, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at Pennyroyal.

Sept. 22nd: Yom Kippur begins.

Sept. 23rd is the First Day of Autumn.

Sept. 23rd if First Draw for the Festival of the Arts.

Sept. 24th (Thursday) is the FALL FORUM at the Elizabethtown PLC from 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. EDT

Sept. 24th is a Gold Award training at the Caveland PLC. Contact Beth Carroll. 

Sept. 25th (Friday) is the Super Hero Overnighter at Greenwood Mall

September 26th is a Daisy Grade Level  training in Glasgow.

Sept. 26th is also the Field  Day Carnival, put on by GS Troop 6, at Camp Shantituck.

September 26th is the last day to turn in Training Dates for Spring for GSKYANA trainers.

Sept. 26th is also a Trainer's Retreat Day for all trainers at Camp Pennyroyal for trainers.

September 29th (Tuesday) is a Troop Pathway Orientation class at the Caveland PLC at 11 a.m. 

September 29th (Tuesday) is also a Troop Pathway Orientation Class in Glasgow from 5-7 p.m. 

Check both the official and UNofficial KYANA Calendars for more information. Email lizann447@yahoo.com to get an invitation to the private blog with the UNofficial calendar on it if you wish. Later!

Short Notes from the Caveland Service Unit Kickoff 2015, Warren Co. SU Mtg. news, more.

School is almost in Session!

Bowling Green City Schools start on August 4th, and
Warren County Schools start August 11th.

Betsy’s Short-ish Notes from the Caveland Service Unit Kickoff

A Governance Task Group will talk about the Area Governance Model and see if it is working.

October 18^th a Girl Advisory Board might be starting.

The Annual Campaign did well.

They need each Service Unit to have an Annual Giving Chair.

There will be no Volunteer Essentials book this year, it will be on a disk. There will be one packet per troop given out.

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Money: They will be allowing limited Games of Chance this year. The troop must fill out a Permission Form and have it OK’d by Jackie Ford in order to do this.

A new Outdoor Progression Chart will be available later.

The SAC was upgraded. It is 170 pages on a flash drive. New activities are:

Indoor Skydiving

Indoor Trampoline

Recreational Tree Climbing

Shooting Sports

And

Stand-up Paddleboarding.

A hard copy may be available for $2 or $3 each later at local PLC’s.

The Pixie List is now online. It will replace Community Connections. It will be a self-policing site. Email if unappropriate messages are on there. Send to Pixie List Watchdog.

Darla says there are 50 girls working on their Journey Awards this year.

Supplies for the (free) Free Being Me program will be available at local PLC’s.

Karen Smallwood and Brooke Sloan are doing Product Sales and Retail.

August 27^th will be Training on Product Sales (Magnut) (For SU Managers?)

Also troops can go to another training. There are 16 new products for Fall Product.

There will be a new Cookie Booth Survival Kit.

Online magazine sales will go into “Buddy” the online area. There will be an Online Avatar activity for the girls..

Do ACH after each troop starts.

Another incentive for Fall Product and cookies – troops can receive a $75.00 Shop Certificate.

There are Rewards changes this year because of IRS rules. They are not cutting incentives, instead they are making a few tweaks in them.

Amusement Park Tickets can’t be purchased with Kentuckiana Credits this year. But they are still OK for this year (old ones).

The Theme for this year is “It’s All Worth Sharing.”

There is a Daisy Bell Cow plush animal and a plus small and large Giraffe this year.

Cookies are $4 a box this year. The profit goes up to .60 per box for troops.

May 20-21 is the Down Home Camp, and it is only for Cookie Winners from different areas, one per level.

Call first before going to your PLC, just in case.

Our council is looking into speeding up orders for the council shop.

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Properties Pricing

Price and forms are in the final revision stage and are not ready or analyzed yet. They will be on the camp pages later.

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The new online camp registration system will allow you to better see when people go home from a camping trip and what dates are open. The signup will all be online will fillable forms. It will be up this Fall. Volunteers may be asked to try it out with “pretend registrations” to see if it will work OK.

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Ginny Pfohl talked about the Camp Houchens Butterfly Habitat area next to the Camp, it will be going on for the next 3 years, and is a good Service Project opportunity.

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Nutty – Magnut

8-13 will be our delivery date for Service Unit Drops..

Digital Cookie patches – these have not been given out. Volunteers were told to ask about these so they can pull up the numbers and get the patches to the girls.

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Agendas will be one month in advance. In December, March, June, and July, there will be no agendas.

Debit cards are a necessity for troops now.

The SU Summit is October 20^th.

Mary Osterman spoke about Awards and Recognitions. The Awards and Recognition booklet is being redone this year. Especially read over the first (cover) page when you get it. Also, the due dates may be changing and also the descriptions of the awards and they may all be done online if you can, but you can also have the choice of filling them out on paper.

She also let people know that their records may not be on file. <So send them in ASAP>.

They hope to put people’s records on file this year on the new computer system.

Generally, they try to only give one award per person per year. Forms must be filled out completely.

Watch for the new booklet.

Juniors have a deal at Lost River Cave for troops (not families). Troops can go on the boat tour and cave tour and it is only $5 per person, and usually $16.95.

Save the Date for Mother-Daughter (01 and 02 only) Weekend October 16 and 17 at Houchens. Ginny Pfohl is doing it in place of the Leader Weekend she used to do.

There were huge online registrations this year for Early Bird. Now troops can register for On-Time Registration. You can do it at the office, or on your own computer. If you use paper (and most now do not), you must fill everything out or they will not be sent on. If somebody does not have email, you can now put “no email available” in that space.

Financial assistance is available, but limited this year.

The Service Unit and Staff Binder has financial reports in it. This will be at each Program and Learning Center.

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A new Shop Retail Card will be available. It is $20 per stamp and then when 10 are filled out, you get a $20 credit.

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If an item from GSUSA’s shop is on sale or clearance, the Kentuckiana shop can not honor it.

Get with Brenda and let her know if you are on “The List” for not taking Shield the Vulnerable training and you have actually taken it. She will help track your record of taking it down.

Caveland’s goal is 1,362 girls and adults.

Right now we are at 41% of goal. We have 556 girls and 331 adults. This is good.

New helpers in the office are Jennifer Ottersbach, a Girl Scout taking Spanish, Outdoor Rec. and NonProfit major classes, is a Lifetime Member of Girl Scouts too. (She was in the Campus Scouts last year). Her nickname at camp is Mouse.

The other helper will be Nicole Williams, also a WKU student, taking Biology and Chemistry, and a Lifetime member. What is funny is, her nickname is Minnie.

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In September, Jenni will be on maternity leave.

There is a new financial aid form. Ask Jenni about it. If you need recruitment materials, ask her too.

Online registration has grown from 18% to 80% this last year.

The Staff are going to a Training in Cleveland, Ohio to learn about the Volunteer Toolkit and also more about the new website.

November 6^th is D-Day - - or when things should be online and hopefully working on the website.

The Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana website pages should be online and working in November.

Until then, we need to use the “Workaround” system still. Later, there will be rosters for K-5. We will be “rebuilding” for the next 3 years.

Troops will be able to use Troop Tracker (K-5?) and not have to use programs they are paying for right now.

The new website is maybe called the Opportunity Catalog now. Service Unit Managers are working with Staff on a Market Share Increase. It will help identify Troop Growth Opportunity.

Staff members showed 10 reasons to sell Fall Product and also Cookies.

Flyers and Information was given out. These included:

1.     A sheet about the Volunteer Toolkit

2.     A Caveland Learning center information brochure with hours and Staff names

3.     A flyer about the Opportunity Catalog

4.     A Kickoff 2016 Troop Year flyer

5.     5. An evaluation for the Kickoff

6.     An Annual Meeting flyer - - the block of rooms is on hold for $99 each. Rooms have refrigerators and microwaves, wifi and hot breakfast.

7.     The Pixie List info. (already online)

8.     Lost River Cave Programs for Juniors and Brownies flyers

9.     An "I Can’t Wait" notepad

10. A flyer about the new Girl Advisory Committee for 14 and up girls, deadline is Oct. 1.

11. Fall Product dates sheet

12. General – ACH Forms, Rewards, and Magnut, 2-sided

13. A Volunteer Essentials Addendum with updates (purple) for 2015-16

14. A GSK Event Sheet schedule as of 7-29-15, check calendar.

15. Program Update – who is doing what – this has changed.  It lists the Program and Training Team: Janis Kidd, Ashley Levine, Sally Wolf, Danica Van Volkenburg, and Carolyn Cromer. They have different things they each do, listed. Also Bronze, Silver, and Gold applications will only be electronic this year/online.

16: A Cookielicious card for an event in Louisville where girls compete with dessert recipes on Sunday, Feb. 7.

17: Some Girl Scout graces.

18: A Chair – Service Unit Annual Giving Volunteer Position Description – SU Annual Giving Challenge.

19. The flyer for the new International Arts and Adventure troop that I am helping organize, with Amanda Day. More info. is online and we have a FB page too.

20. The Super Hero All Nighter event at Greenwood Mall – there are some troops signed up for this on Sept. 25.

21. A list of Parent Meetings and Rallies for this area Warren Co.

22. New Leader Trainings sheet, 2-sided.

23. New Financial Assistance form with new info.

24. Community Style Open House Parent Meetings sheet – this has 6 Stations.

25. Conflict Resolution papers

26. Training Calendar – GSK University July 2015

27. Autumn Adventure Weekend with some courses listed.

28. The Adult Training by Request Form

29. The ABC’s of Volunteer Engagement (2 sides, green)

30. Councilwide Important Dates sheet  through June (orange)

31. Membership Incentives (2-sided).

Amanda Day spoke about the new International Arts and Adventure Troop now being formed for older girls, in 7^th – 12^th grade. This troop is open to all girls in the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Council. Contact her if you are interested in helping with the troop or the Welcome event on October 10^th. Her contact info is:

Amanda Day

amandaday63@hotmail.com

(270) 791-3290

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That’s it! Hope this is helpful.

-Betsy Sheppard

lizann447@yahoo.com

270-779-4152

For Warren County Service Unit Readers, here is our notice today from our SU Manager, Tracey.

"Hello fellow volunteers!

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful summer break and is looking forward to the coming troop year!

Due to the second Tuesday of August being the first day of school for many, the SUM meeting for this month will instead be on Tuesday 8/18 at the GS office on Lehman Ave.  After that we will continue to have the meetings on the second Tuesday of each month."