April Showers 2012

SAVE THE DATES!!!

Girl Scouts, their troop leaders, families, and friends can help families in need through participating in Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri’s premier community service program, April Showers!

The first weekend, April 20, 21, and 22 is devoted to the door-to-door distribution of bags.  Traditionally our troop uses the Friday after school to distribute bags.  So, WEATHER PERMITTING we will meet at Guffey at 3:45 p.m. on April 20 to get our neighborhood assignments.  I need as many adults as possible to help deliver the girls to the neighborhoods so that they can distribute bags. 

On the second Saturday, April 28 (rain or shine), girls return and collect bags filled with personal care items. Girls should only collect from residences where bags are left outside. Again, I need as many adults as possible to get the girls back into the neighborhoods to collect the bags.  We will then deliver the collected items to the Saline Valley Fire Station.  The morning is typically done by noon at the latest.



April Showers Bag Pick Up

UGN!  Did you see the forecast for Saturday?  A high of 46 degrees and rain...really?!? 

Anyway, we have to pick up bags this Saturday.  So the plan is this:

Meet at school at 9:45 a.m., dressed weather appropriate. 

We will head up to the streets where we dropped off the bags last week, and pick up any donations that are left outside.  After collecting the bags we will drive the bags and all the girls back to Deb W.'s house.  Debbie has offered her garage for us to mark out bar codes and separate our donated items.  If the weather is appropriate, the girls can play for a bit.  We should be done well before 12:00 p.m.

As the day gets closer, hopefully we will see a change in the forecast.

As always, contact me with any questions/comments!

April Showers - Bag Drop Off

April Showers Bag Drop Off is scheduled for this Friday, April 8, right after school.  Unfortunately, I still do not know the neighborhood we will be in.  I am hoping to get that tomorrow afternoon, I will fill everyone in as soon as I know.

If you can help us out with supervising the girls dropping bags on doorsteps, that would be wonderful.  The more parents we have, the more groups we can break into, and the faster the area is covered.  If you are helping us out, please let me know ASAP.  We will pick the girls up from school and meet in the commons area. 

If you are not able to attend, but your child is, please let me know that as well.  I will also need for you to send a note to school, so that I can sign them out of parent pick-up. 

PIZZA PARTY following.  Immediately following completion of the bag drop off, everyone (adults included)are invited back to my house for a pizza party.  If you are unable to help out, but your daughter is attending, everyone will go back to my house and you can pick up from there.

Again, as soon as I get info regarding our area, I will forward that on.  But in the meantime, if you could let me know who is coming and if I should sign your daughter out on Friday, I would appreciate it.