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Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson’s Spirit Day will be celebrated council-wide on Saturday, April 24, 2010.
This is an ideal opportunity for getting together with your troop or community and sharing the fun and enthusiasm we all find in Girl Scouting. An excellent result of Spirit Day is visibility, so plan on doing something fun — a troop or community get-together, a service project, whatever you and your girls would like — to help make folks aware that the Girl Scouts are green and growing in your area.
The Planning Form will tell us what you’re planning on doing for Spirit Day so we can alert the media.
Spirit Day 2009 Awards
Congratulations to Girl Scout Brownie troop #10463 of the Millbrook Girl Scout Community who received the first place recognition for Best Visibility and to the Briarcliff/Pocantico Girl Scout Community which was recognized for Best Creativity for GSHH’s Spirit Day 2009 at the Fall Membership Conference on September 20, 2009.
Troop #10463 collected 500 used/unwanted t-shirts and made them into reusable tote bags which they distributed for free at the A&P in LaGrangeville. Their efforts received notice worldwide on several Internet websites, in the Poughkeepsie Journal, on the radio, and, most notably, on Martha Stewart’s website!
The troops in Briarcliff/Pocantico creatively involved their whole community in "Briarcliff/Pocantico Goes Green with Girl Scouts", a day of activities including a guest from "Top Chef: Season 1" teaching girls how to make healthy snacks, making rag dolls with the help of the Greenbabies company, having the high school science department set up a solar oven workshop, presenting a speaker from Columbia University’s horticulture program who talked about composting, and, in general, promoting: natural cleaning products, water conservation, recycling, alternative energy, and buying Fair Trade coffee, among other "green" practices.
First runner-up in visibility was the Mount Vernon Girl Scout Community who spent Spirit Day beautifying Wilson Woods Park and in creativity was troop #00016 of the Goshen Girl Scout Community who painted the free-range cat room at the Goshen Humane Society. Congratulations to all who participated in this year’s Spirit Day. |
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