Events Calendar 2008-2009
Family Ice Skating
Sunday, September 21 For more information, see our Forms and Resources page.
Clean Communities Day
Saturday, October 25

Clean Communities day will be held for Girl Scouts. You will be given an area to clean up with your troop. It usually takes and hour or so. It is a service to the community and a great activity for the girls. The girls have been given the following areas to clean:-Borough Hall (which includes the soccer field, the fitness trail, the pool area, and the DPW dumpster area)-Beechwood -Deerfield

If you want to participate, but cannot arrange to do it on Oct 25th, you may do it with your troop sometime before Oct 31.

The town has scheduled a pizza party in the Deerfield Cafeteria for the girls that participate. Come anytime between 11:30 to 1:30 on Oct 25th. The party is for all who participate, whether on that day, or before or after that day.

Mary Sartorio has all the supplies needed for each troop, along with a thank you gift for each girl from the town. Whether you are going to clean on the actual day or on another day, please rsvp to her so that she can assign you an area and arrange for you to pick up your supplies at her house. When you rsvp, please tell me your troop #, the number of girls in your troop, what day you plan to participate, and the best way for her to get back to you.

Nut Sale
September 20 - October 15 Nut Sales packets for any troop interested in selling nuts are available from Kathleen Healy. This year each troop can earn $1 per nut & candy item sold. You do *not* have to order by the case. All girl orders are entered online by the troop's nut manager, the only "paper work" involved is permission slips and the check!

New this year: DAISY troops CAN sell nuts (cookies too!).

All orders AND money is due to Kathleen on October 17th. Nuts & candy will be delivered between November 19th and November 22nd. If your troop *is* interested in selling nuts and candy please email her your troop #, the number of girls in your troop and a contact person in charge of nuts. Katleen will put together the sales packet and leave them in a bin on her front stoop and set your nut manager up with a password for the ashdon farms website. It's fairly self-explanatory.

If your troop is *NOT* interested please email Kathleen your troop number so she can cross it off the list! Thanks!
Happy Selling!
Badge Day - Daisies, Brownies and Juniors
Saturday, November 15
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
 
Badge Day - Cadettes and Seniors

Sunday, November 16
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

  
Mitten Tree
Friday, December 5
3:15 - 4:30 pm
Beechwood Cafeteria

At the Mountainside Mitten Tree sing-along the Girl Scouts come together to practice the holiday songs we will be singing at the tree lighting and to also collect knitted outerwear ( i.e hats, scarves and mittens) to donate to the needy. The scouts pin their donations to a tree at the rehearsal.

The cost for this event will be covered by the town CAC fee previously collected. Be sure each girl brings either a pair of gloves/mittens, hat, or scarf to donate to the tree. All items will be donated to Saint Joseph's shelter in Elizabeth. Snack, drink, and craft will be provided. Please rsvp with the number of girls in your troop attending NO LATER THAN 11/21 to jenn_doll_07452@yahoo.com.

**If you have any additional CAC fees to turn in ($15/girl) please do so ASAP. You can drop them off to Jennifer Doll**
Holiday Tree Lighting
Saturday, December 6
4:15 pm
Borough Hall
We need ALL scouts and a parent.
Father - Daughter Dinner Dance
Friday, January 30
6:30 pm - 10:30 pm
The Westwood

 

Cookie Sale
January - April

 

Thinking Day

Friday, February 22
3:30 pm
Deerfield Cafeteria

 

Thinking Day is a day set aside to remember all the scouts and Girl Guides throughout the world. Traditionally, each troop takes a country, researches it, does a craft, makes a flag, provides a food item, etc.
Birthday Bingo
Sunday, March 15
3:00 - 4:30 pml

 

Evening hike and bonfire
Friday, April 24
Trailside

Memorial Day Parade
Monday, May 25
Westfield
 
Encampment at Hoover
Friday, May 29 -
Sunday, May 31
 
Court of Awards
Tuesday, June 9
7:00 pm
Our Lady of Lourdes
We will be honoring the accomplishments of the girls who have earned the Community Service Award, Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards, 5 or 10 year pins. We will also have a brief ceremony for any troop that would like to bridge.