Upcoming Events!

March 5, 2009:

**Girl Scout Meeting from 6pm - 7pm

Registrations for Mall Overnight are due!!

The Mall Overnight is scheduled for March 21, 2009. Cost is $15.00 per girl. This includes a ticket to the movie, dance, late night supper/snack, patch, and "up-all-night" FUN!! Any troop that adds on three NEW girls will have their names put into a drawing for a free Limo Ride!! See all the details on the registration form that was sent home with your Girl Scout!! FYI... I will be there with our troop!

March 19, 2009:

**No Meeting -- Washington Wonders of Art and Science Fair

March 21, 2009:

**Mall Overnight @ Southern Hills Mall

9:30PM - 6:00AM

March 23, 2009:

**Turn in Cookie Money to your leader!

Drop off between 6PM - 8PM at 2809 S. Glass!!

Thank you!!

April 9, 2009:

**Girl Scout Meeting from 6PM - 7PM

April 18, 2009:

**Spring Recruitment Event!!

Swimming Party @ the Siouxland Y

6:00PM - 9:00PM

This year's Spring Recruitment Event is a Swim Party at the new Siouxland Y in South Sioux City! The cost is $6.00 per girl. Girls in Troop 273 who sold 100 or more boxes of cookies will get in FREE! This was an incentive to sell lots of cookies and will their admission will be paid by troop funds!! All girls will get a snack and a drink.

April 23, 2009:

**Girl Scout Meeting from 6PM - 7PM

May 15, 2009:

**Court of Awards Ceremony... time TBA

This event will be held at Grace United Methodist Church up by Morningside College. The girl scouts of Troop 273 will also be "bridging" over to become a Junior Girl Scout!! The girls will receive all their earned "Try-It" patches at this ceremony!

A Note from the Leader...

Our troop did an awesome job selling cookies! We had 100% participation! The troop total boxes of cookies sold is 2,150!! Awesome job, Girl Scouts!!

***March 7th -- Cookie Delivery at Immaculate Conception School, 3719 Ridge Avenue. Exact time of delivery will be announced the week of March 2nd. You must be present at this time to pick up your cookies!

***March 7-22nd -- Cookie Delivery and Money Collection.

***March 23rd -- Money due to your troop leader.

Our first Community Service Project -- Supermarket Saturday -- was a huge success!! The girl scouts did a wonderful job! Thank you to all who participated!! Over 4,000 lbs. of food was donated to the Food Bank through this project -- the biggest donation to date ever!!

Our next Community Service Project will be for Cancer Patient Care Bags -- Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa is partnering with the American Cancer Society. When dropping your girl scout off at the next meeting, please take a hand-out that explains the project. Please donate appointment books, crossword puzzles, fun activity pads, coloring books, etc. We will put the bags together at one of our next meetings! Any questions, please feel free to ask!!

Thank you...
Gay Parker, Troop Leader

Community Service Project...

Our Super Market Saturday community service project was a huge success!! Every shopper that came into the store was friendly and courteous while the girl scouts told them about why they were there and what they could do to help! The girls had lots of fun and will be sure to be involved in more community service projects in the future! Here are some pictures from the day!:

February 5 -- Manners...

Tonight our meeting was all about manners! We talked about using our manners when we are sitting together as a group at our meeting... how we used our manners when we were out selling girl scout cookies...

After talking about the different ways in which we should always use our manners, we got to split up into groups and take turns "acting out" a situation involving manners!! This was a lot of FUN!! We had a situation where a grandma called to talk to a grandchild on the phone, and another situation where we had to introduce a new friend to our old friends!! These situations taught us about who to address first when introducing people and showing respect for others! What a great meeting!!