Cadette/Senior Troop 758: Helped to collect food for the Agape food pantry and will be participating in the Thinking Day activities. The Cadettes just finished doing their Dreams to Reality Badge and will be continuing to work on badges and pins that are related to their silver award. The Seniors in the troop are finishing up their prequisites for their Gold award so they can eventually start working towards the Gold award hour requirements. The Girls in the troop are planning to go bowling at a lock-in with other Cadettes and Seniors soon. They are also planning a trip this summer to Pigeon Forge for shopping and to Gatlinburg to see a new museum there. They are also planning on going to an Indian village in Cherokee NC.
Cadette Troop 3026: This troop got their training to be a program aide this past summer and helped at a few Camps this past summer.
Brownie Troop 641: is made up of nine very active and dedicated young ladies. We meet twice a month for two very productive hours. This year we have participated in Cuddler for Kids in Crisis, Our community�s Christmas Parade, and a magic show at the Public library. We have donated 2 books to the children�s dept. of our community library. For a community service project, we have adopted Dark Horse Hollow. We are responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the park. We have also completed two try-its so far: manners and her story. The girls also independently work on other try-its. Each have completed an average of 4 try-it�s a piece. We are all anticipating a great year in Girl Scouts.
Brownie Troop 945: This troop is working on their My Community try-it. They have visited a nursing home and took the elderly hot chocolate and treats for Christmas. They wrote Christmas cards to troops overseas. They collected canned foods for the local food pantry. They went to see the Nutcracker in Bristol with 2 other troops. They are planning a Skating Valentine party for February. They have had their cookie meeting and each girl has set a goal to sell atleast 140 boxes of cookies each. They are planning to do a really nice trip at the end of the year. They participated in the Cuddler�s for Kids in Crisis campaign by making ornaments for the Girl Scout Christmas tree and by donating stuffed animals. They also participated in the Christmas parade. They are also getting a penpal troop that they will write as soon as they are assigned the penpal troop to correspond with.
Junior Troop 541: This troop has 2nd and 3rd year Juniors and first year Juniors. The 2nd and 3rd year Scouts are working on the community and toymaker badges. To earn these badges, they have been busy. They planted a tree at their elementary school, collected foods for a local pantry, made bookmarks for a children�s reading group at their public library and learned about fire safety from their local fire dept. Some of the things they have done to earn the toymaker badge is they each made a wooden doll house, made their own board game and a toy out of recycled material. The 1st year Juniors are working on the dance and prints and graphics badges. All the Juniors from this group, enjoy painting and doing Arts and crafts. Various dancers have come to their meetings and demonstrated their dance steps for these girls. This troop also participated in their community Christmas parade.
Junior Troop 399: This troop is working very hard to earn their Bronze Award. The girls have each earned 16 hours a piece towards their Bronze Award in Community Service. They helped at a Food pantry in their community. They also had a canned food drive and accumulated 35 cans of food for the pantry. They have participated in Operation Christmas Child where they had to fill shoeboxes with things for children overseas. The girls bought the stuff for the shoeboxes with their own money. Then they got sponsers to help with the shipping and handling. The girls filled 8 boxes to send overseas.
The girls also participated in the Cuddlers for Kids in Crisis campaign by donating stuffed animals, putting a box for stuffed animals at their school and made Christmas ornaments for the Girl Scout Christmas tree. They have earned their sign of the rainbow, Sign of the Star, are working right now on the Sign of the World, and will work on the Sign of the Sun when they finish the Sign of the World.
The girls have become totally community oriented by doing various service projects. �By doing this, they are working on the My Community badge and the High on Life badge. They have also completed the drawing and painting badge. They are 11 badges away from completing all of the Junior badges. Congratulations to Troop 399 for all their hard work! Later on this year, the girls will be working on Zink the Zebra badge.�This badge will teach the girls about cancer and how to help others who may be different because of sickness.
