1. Introductions: Kathy, Gina, Rhonda, Jennifer, Melody, Sam, Marsha, Sherry,

2. Financial status: 780.11

3. Council Rep. : Sam – cookie train leaders, double check reregistered,

4. Past events: Nov – Beach Party – 37 girls $43.00 donated to pantry plus food and products.

5. Cookie info: Gina – email cookie parent names to Gina. training date will be set when all paper work is in. sale starts jan 16. delivery march 2-6. booth after that date. booth sale in april gets 50 cents and no extra credit ie camp/prizes.

6. December – FROG caroling at senior center – Debbie
a. Date: Dec 6 9:30-10:30am
b. Location: Family Life Center – practice songs and have a couple of cookies.
c. Time: go to care center at 10 am in 2 groups
d. Songs – 2 groups 3 songs each: we wish you a merry xmas, rudolph, frosty the snowman, jingle bells, joy to the world, silent night
e. 1 dozen cookies
f. leaders not going to be there: Nikki, Melody, Jennifer,
g. Kathy will be there to get it started and sent on it’s way, but then I have something else I have to go and do.

7. future events:

a. January – Potluck/stage show (awards) – service unit – each troop do skit/song etc. Jan 17 @ Family Life Center… 5pm… leaders there at 4:30 and need some muscle to put up stage. church is going to let us use their microphone for that building $50. families bring own table service. each family bring a main course dish and brownies (45 girls) bring side dish Daisy’s, Juniors, Cadettes, and Seniors (27 girls) bring dessert. Flags – Sherry’s troop. Grace – 690 need to know skits/songs to make sure no duplicates – let Kathy know ASAP as it’s first come first serve if there are duplicates. kathy kool-aide in water jug.
i. Lisa =
ii. Jennifer =
iii. Debbie =
iv. Nikki =
v. Sherry =
vi. Marsha =
vii. Jean =
viii. Kathy =

b. February – FROW valentine tea – Marsha – Feb 7th
i. place?
ii. time 9:00-10am

c. March – Lock-in – service unit – Middle River Friends Church March 27-28. 6:30 eat before --- “Camp Rock”
i. 6 rotation groups – daisy’s, 889, 381, 524, 550, & (690, 599, 386)
ii. scavenger hunt while arriving
iii. give girls info on trail markings set up different colored markers to take girls from station to station. So when get done with a station they are told to follow the blue markers, then next station they have to follow another color.
iv. setting up tents and teach knots if need to kill time – check with Don Noonan,
v. make musical instruments (start saving craft supplies now – boxes, old beans, paper tubes, pringles cans, etc)
vi. singing camp songs
vii. cooking – dutch ovens? box ovens?
viii. teaching dance moves – someone from dance group in town want to ask dance instructor(s) to come? Or else is there someone who knows how to teach some dance?
ix. First aid – building stretcher, buddy carries,
x. movie: “Camp Rock”

d. April – working on – Nicki – need ideas – April 18 or 25
i. kites
ii. crafts
iii. picnic
iv. bike rodeo

e. May – bridging (awards) – Service Unit May 16 or 30
f. June – camp out – Kathy – troop flag competition
g. July – parade/booth???

Every event bring something for food pantry. Fun patches – Oct, Feb, July

8. troop update/info:
Jean Janssen is moving – Kathy will be contacting Jean and the girls and find out if they want to join another troop.
Rhonda Smith is moving at the end of the year – our oldest 3 troops will be down to 8 girls + girls from Jeans troop. Do we want to merge these troops? Leaders – something to discuss with the girls and something to discuss among us as well.

mini tree festival – Thursday and Friday night at community building… silent auction $ goes to christian community in action program and food pantry.

9. Leader Meeting Schedule for year: 6:00pm - Methodist Church.
Jan 5 Feb 2 Mar 2 Apr 6
May 4 June 1 None in July Aug 3