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FROM THE DESK OF

Jayde R. P. Your NEW P. R.

Westmer Girl Scouts Cadette Troop #3185

Troop President & Event Coordinator ~ Page Editor

GIRL SCOUT WEBSITE http://pages.ivillage.com/girlscoutsrule/

EMAIL ADDRESS westmer_girl_scouts_rule@yahoo.com

2004 PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER DUTIES

The Group & Cadette Troops have elected four girls who will work together as a committee on this office (& page). It will be these Officers Duties to let the Public know what our Troops are up to. I am the Head PR person and Editor of this page, my name is Jayde. My three assistance are Cheyenne A, Larissa & Whitney.

We will be working with the Two Troop Recorders JR = Lindsey S & Kirstie & Cad = Patti, to try to make scrapbooks and write articles about all our Adventures during the 2004 Troop year. We hope you enjoy reading our PR articles and looking at our pictures IF we ever figure out how to upload/download them right...........(I think we have it)

                                                 Thank You!

                                                  Yours in Girl Scouting

                                                         Jayde

Proud Swappers...lol

GSMV World Thinking Day Event 2/21/04

Girls in front of our Swedish Display with "My Swedish Mom"

Preparing for the rush!

Our Girls helping at Swedish display

Helping stamp passports with the Swedish Stamp

Learning about other cultures

Standing in long lines was the only bad thing...but it was worth it once we got there

Watching Entertainment

Spending time with Family

COMMUNITY SERVICE-Helping with Community Baskets

CHRISTMAS COMMUNITY SERVICE!

In less than one weeks time we put in over 100 Total combined Community Service Hours. Me, Sam and Patti all put in enough hours (25 hrs EACH) to get our Cadette Community Service Bars.

Check out some of the stuff we did

CAD/JR's BAKE GOODIES FOR BAKE SALE

All the money earned was used to buy gifts for adopted family

Bake Sale Volunteers

AFTER SHOPPING SPREE

Surrounded by gifts bought with Bake Sale Money

SANTA'S HELPERS

Cadette's Help with Christmas Community Service ~ Deliver Fruit Baskets to Elderly/Shut In's

SANTA'S HELPERS

Submitted by: Jayde R. Paul (Jan 8, 2002)

Cadette Troop #3185 Public Relations Coordinator

These Westmer Cadette Girl Scouts are pictured here helping with the New Boston Community Christmas Baskets. It's a tradtion for these girls to do as much community service during Christmas as possible. Jayde and Patti have been helping with community service since they were in Daisy Girl Scouts, eight years ago! For the past five or six years they have helped with the New Boston Christmas Baskets and they did again this year too. They delivered plates of fruit to the Elderly - Shut Ins in the community. The girls sang Christmas Carols at each door as they delivered the plates. After all the plates were delivered they took gifts to "New Boston residents" of the LynnCrest Nursing Home in Aledo and stayed to visted with their adopted Grand Parents.

Each year the girls adopt at least one needy family in the community and raise money to help make their Christmas a little better. This year the Cadette Troop invited the Juniors from Group Troop #5158 to help them. Everyone pitched in to make cookies and candy for a bake sale. Goodies were sold at the New Boston Bank, Grocery Store and Bingo. The goal was to make $100.00 and they made that plus more thanks to the wonderful people in our community. The girls used the money to go shopping for their adopted family. Then the next day they dressed up like Santa and his elves and delivered the presents to the very excited little ones.

This year they once again held their annual MITTEN TREE. A tree was placed in the New Boston Grocery Store to collect mittens and gloves. These will be donated to the Elementary and local Churches for kids who don't have gloves or lost their gloves. Together a combined total of over 100 hours was spent helping people in the community. Kids helping kids...that's what these girls are all about!

THE ULTIMATE CADETTE CHALLENGE

The Cadette Challenge is an award that Cadette's have to earn before they can work on their SILVER AWARD. On Nov 16th & 17th mom took Corrie, Me and Patti to an overnight workshop where we along with about 100 other Cadette's and Senior Girl Scouts earned our Challenge pins. We had a great time learning things like massage therapy, self defence, how to do braids and lots of other cool things.

This workshop was designed as a FUN way to look inside of ourselves and learn to be the best we can be while we earn the Challenge...THANKS MEREDITH ~ we had a GRRRRRREAT Time! We enjoyed this workshop so much that we are working on one for our Service Unit! Hope to hold it in the late Spring!

Here are a few pictures we took during the weekend. Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed our weekend!

CADETTE CHALLENGE WEEKEND

Us having fun after the Lock-In

We also made home made soap

and used it in our STRESS LESS KITS that we made to donate to a local womens shelter.

Putting together STRESS LESS Kits

Feels Good to be able to Help Others!

Learning Self Defence

was a great time.....

OOOOOOOOO!

Let me at 'em!

Mastering The NumChucks

PUTTING SKILLS TO USE

All Kicked back and Relaxed after Self Defence & Massage Therapy Classes

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OPENING CEREMONY

Girls from GSMV performed skits & dances throughout the Event

GSMV WORLD THINKING DAY EVENT

Our girls studied Sweden for this event. We made a big display with all the info we found. Some of our Girl Scouts used Swedish Scouting Symbols for thier swap designs. Here are some pictures showing the fun things we did at this special event

Making Crafts

Trying new things

Making New Friends ~ Swapping our Swaps

Trying new foods

Some food was good and some......we didn't like!

Enjoying Refreshments

We all had a great time learning about the Different Countries and thinking about Girl Scouts all over the world.

Sharing our Heritage with our girls was the best part of the day!

WESTMER GIRL SCOUTS ATTEND

COUNCIL "S.T.A.R." EVENT

Gril Scouts are not just for little girls as this event proved! On Sunday May 4, 2003 Jayde and Tiffany B along with their mothers attended the S.T.A.R. Event hosted by Girl Scouts of the Mississippi Valley, Inc. It was held at the Four Points-Sheraton in Rock Island, Illinois. The S.T.A.R Event, formerly known as "The Honors Tea" is a special awards ceremony held to honor local Girl Scout recipients of Special Teen Awards and Recognitions. Hundreds of Teens were honored for their work on Community Service Projects, service to Girl Scouts and many other gifts to their community. As well as those earning Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Two college Scholarships were also awarded to girls who demonstrated outstanding service to Girl Scouts and their communities.

Jayde along with several other Mercer County Cadette Girl Scouts were honored for their hard work as members of the 2002 - 2003 Cadette Congress. The Cadette Congress is a group of Cadette Girl Scouts, that meet several times a year to plan an event or trip offered to all Cadettes in the Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council (GSMV). GSMV is split into three geographical areas, and there is a Cadette Congress and Senior Senate in each area. Elections for President, Vice President, Historian, Secretary and Treasurer are held each Spring. We are part of AREA III - Which includes Henry, Knox, Mercer, Rock Island and Warren Counties. During the 2003 Troop year Jayde held the office of CO-Historian/Secretary for Area III.

This year Area III Cadette Congress planned and held two events. The first event was held in Novemeber at Wildlife Prairie Park in Peoria. The girls spent the night at the park as they earned their Wildlife Interest Project Patches they learned about the night time habitates of local animals through hands on workshops and a night time hike through the park. The second event was held in March at the Junior Theater in Davenport, Iowa. Cadette Girl Scouts from all over the Council gathered to earn their Performing Arts IPP's as they got a little taste of "Theater Life".

This years S.T.A.R. Event was planned and presented by Senior Girl Scouts Sara A and Jacqui L along with a special S.T.A.R. Event committee. Thanks to all of these Leaders of tomorrow for paving the way for those girls brave enough to follow in their foot steps.

S.T.A.R. Event for our STAR SCOUTS!

PLEASE bear with us! We thought we figured out how to add pictures to our website, but it turns out they won't always load. We are new at this so until we figure out how to make it work there may be a lot of mistakes. If anyone has any advice for us please email our Leaders! Thank You!!!

ALSO ~ Be sure to Check back often and read my new Articles!

Jayde