Four areas where I really need your help.
1. If you are getting this email and you don't want to be, please let me know. If you aren't the leader, but have a new leader, I need to know that. If your troop has disbanded, I really need to know because I have to know what happened to the girls (did they go to a new troop) and any money left.
If you don't want to get any more emails, you need to go to our website, www.rockfordgs.com, and click on the link under Our Mailing List. The link says "click here to sign up" but once you click on it, you are given directions to unsubscribe.
2. School Night for Scouting is this Tuesday, Sept 22 in all the Rockford Public Elementary Schools from 6 – 8 pm. Please review the list of school reps and helpers for that night. If you can help at one of the schools, please let me know. If you are a leader of older girls who went to that school, we need a few older girls to help out. (If I have the information wrong, please let me know ASAP!)
Belmont: Organizer - Jennifer Meadows
School Night: Kathleen Bell & Jenn Bell [Needs leader helper]
Cannonsburg: Organizer - Tina Vriesenga
School Night: Tina Vriesenga [Needs Older Girl]
Crestwood: Organizer – Vacant
School Night: Beverly Dickinson & Jessica Dickinson [Needs leader helper]
Lakes: Organizer - Jen Shook
School Night: Jen Shook with Sandy Feutz [may need older girl]
MeadowRidge: Organizer - DeAnna Anderson or Co-leader
School Night: DeAnna Anderson or Co-leader [needs leader helper and older girl]
Parkside: Organizer - Wendy Wheeler
School Night: Wendy Wheeler and Vicky Pratt from GSMISTS [needs older girl]
Roguewood: Organizer - Lorri Romesberg
School Night: Lorri Romesberg with Michaele Demarest & Kristy Neill [needs older girl]
Valley View: Organizer - Missy Vitkauskas
School Night: Missy Vitkauskas with Nedra Harju [may need older girl]
If you are signed up to run school night and need sign up sheets or talking points or display info or cookies as a treat, call me.
3. Recruitment: With School night comes the biggest recruitment effort we do. Our service unit needs a Recruitment Manager. This person will work with the school organizers to place girls into existing troops, create new troops, communicate with interested parents (who may respond through school, our website, council, etc). I'll help you and the school organizers will help. But someone has to manage it and track it. I work full time and am Service Unit Director. I have three kids and Jessica is events coordinator, so I'm working with that as well. I'll be honest that this is a busy position, especially in the fall. Vicky Pratt and I will mentor and help you. You don't have to know all the answers. Maybe two of you can team up and split the schools or the age levels. But without this position filled, and filled ASAP, I don't know how we will get these new girls into troops. Someone needs to step up.
4. Fall Product. The annual Fall Product sales start in October. The Fall Product training for the service unit can be prior to the October meeting. But the fall product training for the Service Unit manager is this coming Saturday, Sept 26. We need a fall product manager and we need one NOW. Vicky Pratt from council will really be able to help this year. She only has 4 Service Units this year, as opposed to 8 last year. The program is the same as last year, so no new twists. Please step up. Ideally, a team of two or three is best. If no one coordinates this, we will lose so much for the troops and the service unit and the council and the girls.
You all do so much already just by being leaders. Maybe you have a parent in your troop who is awesome at paperwork and finance. He or she would be great with fall product. Please help me fill these gaps in our Service Unit Leadership Team.
Thanks!
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Beverly Dickinson
Rockford Neighborhood Girl Scouts
874-8926
304-2615 (cell)
beverlyd@charter.net
Please visit www.rockfordgs.com for the lastest info on Rockford Girl Scouts.
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