Gift Wrapping Sign Up

The neighborhood has secured Sports Chalet for gift wrapping again this year.  It's a fun, easy way to make a few dollars for the troop or to get some service hours.  If you're interested, check your email for the sign up link. You can sign up as parent or leader/girl pairs or just sign up your daughter.  Girls should wear their vests when working the booth.  

Here's the Facebook post on the booth: 

Time to sign up for gift wrapping! Last year the girls who worked made about $11/hour for their troops. If you don't need money for your troop, you can wrap for service hours. Girls may sign up individually or leaders may sign up as a troop by contacting Hayl Daughtery. 

The booth will be open on the following dates and times for 2015! We need as much help as we can get. Message us with your times/dates.

12/12, 11am-7pm
12/13, 11am-7pm
12/14, 3pm-7pm (Tentative)
12/15, 3pm-7pm(Tentative)
12/16, 3pm-7pm(Tentative)
12/17, 3pm-7pm(Tentative)
12/18, 3pm-7pm
12/19, 10am-7pm
12/20, 10am-7pm
12/21, 10am-7pm
12/22, 10am-7pm
12/23, 9am-7pm
12/24, 8am-6pm (food provided all day!)

Annual Meeting Delegates

We’re getting ready for the 2016 Annual Council Meeting! It will be held Saturday, April 16, 2016 form 8 am until 2pm at a NEW LOCATION! The meeting will be at Chateau Luxe, 1175 E. Lone Cactus Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85024 (www.chateauluxeaz.com). 

If you are a Girl Scout aged 14 and older, you can represent Pima at this meeting.  We need 12 delegates for the meeting. Please send your name, address, email address, and troop number to pima.neighborhood@gmail.com by January 11, 2016.

THINKING DAY 2016

 

Pima Neighborhood

Thinking Day 2016

WHAT: Each year on February 22, World Thinking Day, girls honor their sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts by taking time to give thanks for their international friendships and remember that Girl Scouts of the USA is part of a global community—one of nearly 150 countries that are members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). 

WHEN & WHERE: February 21st, 1:30-4:30 pm
Horizon Park Community Center

15444 N. 100th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85260

COST: $1 per girl and includes a patch and passport.  No charge for leaders. 

ATTENDANCE LIMITATIONS: the space will only accommodate 150 participants.  Slots will be filled on a first-come, first-paid basis and then registration will be closed.  Please submit your check made out to Pima Neighborhood with the registration form below.

Please bring only leaders and co-leaders to meet Safetywise ratios. In most cases, that means no more than TWO adults should attend with a troop.  

DIRECTIONS: Each troop needs to pick a country and prepare (and decorate) a booth that includes information, a food, a craft, a SWAP, and a physical activity (game or song, generally) related to their country.  Girls will be issued passports to travel from booth to booth, so a stamp or sticker is needed to have to mark those passports.   Your country choice will be confirmed as soon as you turn in your registration form.

SCHEDULE: 

Set up: 1:30 to 2:00

Rotations: 2:00 to 4:00

Clean up: 4 to 430

The following countries have been claimed so far: Holland, Canada, France, Italy, England, South Korea, Germany, Egypt, China, and Russia

Attendance count: 105, plus about 20 adults

REGISTRATION FORM

Troop #____________________ Level__________________________________

Leader Name______________________ Phone Number____________________ 

Leader Email_______________________________________________________ 

Number of Girls______________ X $1 = ________________________________ 

(Make checks payable to Pima Neighborhood) 

1st Country Choice________________2nd Country Choice__________________ 

December Agenda

Please bring any gently used items from last year's Thinking Day booth to share with another troop who may want to use them for this year's event (Swaps, boards, handouts...)

MSE Report

Sister Troops -- Last call for patch; $1 per patch

Presidential Volunteer Service Awards --  being ordered in December --Troop 1870
Gift Wrapping -- Troop 1870

Halloween Candy Donations quick report -- Diana

Vista del Camino Adopt a Family quick report -- Holly

Cookies Dates -- questions and updates;  2015 Patches 

Guided Hiking Tours for Girl Scouts -- Barbara

Garage Sale next month

EVENTS

Tonight!! Leader's social at Diana's.  Please join us at 8:15. Address was sent via email or check the service team roster.

Cookie Rally - January 8 -- Lee

Songfest - January 10 -- Lee
Thinking Day - February 21 -- Diana/Troop 2256  (Click link for registration form)
Leader's Gala - April 4 -- Michelle/Julie/Diana
Camp Basic - April 9-10 -- Troop 2010 

Annual Meeting Delegates - April 16 -- Diana

Spring Encampment at Willow Springs - April 29-May 1

Brownie Father/Daughter Dance - April/May -- Holly
Summer Day Camp - tentatively June 20-24 -- Troop 2256 and cast of thousands 

*Volunteer slots are filled but you can be put on a waitlist
Mother/Daughter Event - TBA - Kristen (366)

Level Break out to discuss troop trips

Cookie Booth Do's and Don'ts

DO

Cancel any booths that you will not use.  If you can't make a booth offer it to a fellow Pima troop (i.e. sister troop) or send a note to Pima Neighborhood before cancelling so we can keep the booth in our neighborhood.

Take written proof of booth scheduling from Ebudde with you.

Do arrive five minutes before your booth start and leave promptly when your time is over.

Leave the booth space cleaner than you found it. Take all your trash with you.  

Bring your own equipment and supplies (tables, chairs, tape, signs, etc).

Enter all your self-scheduled booths into Ebudde for approval.

Check in and out with the store manager and give him/her a thank you note.

Follow store set-up rules.

Follow any directions given to you by the store managers and employees.

Wear Girl Scout identification.

Keep less than $100 in your cash box.

Have girl health forms with you, as well as a MS-27 emergency card for reference. http://www.girlscoutsaz.org/content/dam/girlscoutsaz/documents/forms/ms-27-emergency-procedures.pdf

DON'T

Do not contact Basha's, Food City, AJ's, Walmart, Sam's Club, Albertson's, Safeway, Fry's, or ASU.  Booths for these places are only scheduled by council and are available via Ebudde.

Do not fill store garbage cans with empty boxes.  Take them with you or break down and throw into the store's dumpsters behind the stores.

Do not sit on or use store merchandise (for example, do not sit on patio furniture that is for sale).

Do not eat or allow your girls to eat at a cookie booth.

Do not let girls sing, shout, or chant.

Do not bring bags from other stores to a booth. (No Fry's bags at Walmart, for example).

Do not bring non-Girl Scout friends and/or siblings.

Do not staff your booth with more than four girls at a time.

Do not take bills over $20.

Do not take checks.

Do not ask store managers to mediate any conflict.

Do not argue in front of customers, girls, or store employees.

A Note from your Cookie Cupboard Goddess

Please fill out your cookie cupboard card NOW.  

Take a picture of it with your phone.  This is what you can show as a back up if you forget your card.  (Most people do as some point in the 8 weeks of cookie sales!)  

When you come and get cookies from the cookie cupboard, bring your card or your phone with a picture of your card and your driver's license.

Please remember that there are limits to how many cases of each flavor you you can pick up each day at the cookie cupboard.  Generally, that means 2 cases each of Trefoils, Savannah Smiles, and Do-si-Dos, and 5 cases each of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tagalongs.

Cookie Rally!

Friday January 8, 6-7:30pm 

Mountainside Middle School Cafeteria

CONTESTS: 

- Best blinged booth 

- Best blinged wagon 

- BEST COOKIE SONG 

 … and MORE! GREAT PRIZES!!!

• Sample the new cookies!
• Play Cookie Bingo!
• Practice your Sales Pitch
• Learn about the new Digital Cookie 
• Vote for your favorite Cookie
• Learn to set your Sales Goal
• Get Ideas for Gift of Caring, Troop Trips, and Troop Activities
• Crafts
• Cookies
• Fun!

GET EXCITED ABOUT COOKIES!!! 

Sponsored by troops 2064, 2010, and Pima Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts 

COST: $1/GIRL (includes patch!) 

Please make checks to Pima Neighborhood. Register by 12/18/2015 or turn in at the neighborhood meeting. 

Send to: Lee Kline 

(See emailed flyer for contact information)