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News and Photos
updated February 23, 2010
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Scouts Enjoy a Winter Day in
Erie, PA! added Feb. 15, 2010
GSUSA National Board Ratifies Policy to Allow Girl Scouts to Raise Funds for Haitian Relief Efforts added Jan 22, '10
Scouts Participate in Survival
Skills Training
The Mercer Area Girl and Boy Scouts teamed up with US Army MSG David
Bannerman and his cadre of John Carroll University ROTC cadets for the
second in a series of Survival Skills Training Workshops at Girl Scout
Camp Elliott. The January 16 training focused on Winter
Survival. The phrase of the day, "there's no style points for
dressing in the cold...". More photos from the event can be
viewed on-line.
Troop
sends homemade cookies to Soldier stationed in Iraq. added December 7, 2009
Girl Scouts from Troop Cadette Troop 30609 and some of their Girl, Cub and Boy Scout siblings spent an afternoon over the Thanksgiving break from school baking cookies to send to Iraq. The scouts made almost 12 pounds of homemade treats which are now on their way to 1LT Sarah Weber, who is currently stationed in Iraq, and who the Mercer Area Girl Scouts have been supporting since she was deployed in early 2009. With the Girl Scout cookie sale starting soon, 1LT Weber is sure to have even more cookies headed her way in the coming months!
News: added November 9, 2009
Girl Scouts Get Busy! submitted by Maureen Conner, co-Service Area Manager added October 30, 2009
Photos: Removing phragmites at Presque Isle State Park, Small Craft Boater Safety Course, and at the "Earn the Water Drop Patch" program at Allegheny College.
Photos: Troop 30040 leading a Flag retirement ceremony at the Outdoor Cooking Program, and Scouts who attended the Photography Program with the presenters from SRU.
Happy Earth Day!
Girl Scouts from several of our Troops attended the Earth Day Program at Munnell Run Farm on Saturday, April 18 where they helped plant trees and learned about alternative energy.
Twenty Four Hour Girl Scout Power!
Cadette Troop 30609 with the cakes that they decorated on April 18 as part of the Sugar Artist Interest Project. View a Smilebox Slideshow of Troop 30609's 24 hour adventure!
updated February 23, 2010
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Annual Thinking Day Event Held added Feb. 23, 2010
Twenty five scouts attended our annual Thinking Day event on Sunday, Feb. 21st. The girls learned about Mexico, Haiti and South Africa as they visited several stations, going home with a Haiti SWAP and a South African necklace. Troop 30202 won the pizza party, donating the most pennies for the reliefefforts in Haiti. Two bins full of food were also collected at the event for the Sharing Shed. The event ended with everyone sampling the food that Troop 30609 had made from several different countries - the Philippines, Germany, Haiti, South Africa and Kuwiat. Thank you to Chris for organizing this event again this year! View more photos here.Scouts Enjoy a Winter Day in
Erie, PA! added Feb. 15, 2010
Troops 30609 and 30040 had a great time in Erie on Friday, Feb. 12! The girls learned how to cross country ski and then hit the trails at Asbury Woods Nature Center with Steve Wasiesky, the center's Environmental Education Coordinator. After skiing the girls completed a service project by exchanging the old ski poles that were on the racks for the new ones that Asbury Woods recently purchased with a grant from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. From Asbury Woods, the girls headed to the Soldiers and Sailors Home on Erie's east side, where they handed out some of the 150 Valentines that all of the Girl Scout Troops from Mercer hand-made for the residents over the past few weeks. Finally, the girls enjoyed dinner at Smuggler's Wharf on Erie's icy bayfront where the best part was sharing dessert!
YouTube video of the girls Cross Country Skiing. Note: You will be redirected to the YouTube site.GSUSA National Board Ratifies Policy to Allow Girl Scouts to Raise Funds for Haitian Relief Efforts added Jan 22, '10
Scouts Participate in Survival
Skills Training
The Mercer Area Girl and Boy Scouts teamed up with US Army MSG David
Bannerman and his cadre of John Carroll University ROTC cadets for the
second in a series of Survival Skills Training Workshops at Girl Scout
Camp Elliott. The January 16 training focused on Winter
Survival. The phrase of the day, "there's no style points for
dressing in the cold...". More photos from the event can be
viewed on-line.Girl Scouts from Troop Cadette Troop 30609 and some of their Girl, Cub and Boy Scout siblings spent an afternoon over the Thanksgiving break from school baking cookies to send to Iraq. The scouts made almost 12 pounds of homemade treats which are now on their way to 1LT Sarah Weber, who is currently stationed in Iraq, and who the Mercer Area Girl Scouts have been supporting since she was deployed in early 2009. With the Girl Scout cookie sale starting soon, 1LT Weber is sure to have even more cookies headed her way in the coming months!
News: added November 9, 2009
- Congratulations to Cadette Girl Scout Kaitlin A. Conner of Troop 30834 who placed 1st in the VFW's Patriot Pen Contest at Mercer Elementary School.
Girl Scouts Get Busy! submitted by Maureen Conner, co-Service Area Manager added October 30, 2009
Photos: Removing phragmites at Presque Isle State Park, Small Craft Boater Safety Course, and at the "Earn the Water Drop Patch" program at Allegheny College.
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This scouting year has started out with a variety of
activities
for scouts of each age level. In the summer, the Scouts
attended an
Invasive Species Program at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center and then
helped out the DCNR by removing some pesky phragmites from
the lagoon on Presque Isle. Scouts marched in the Mercer
Victorian Day
parade and learned what it was like to be a young lady in the
1800's.
The PA Fish and Boat Commission teamed up twice with us- once to
certify us in small craft boater safety and to also make us junior
anglers. Scouts handed out programs at every Friday night band
concert
in the Mercer Square and of course there was Boot Camp in August.
If
you haven't already seen the photos or video, check out the website at www.mercergs.org/BootCamp.html
Congratulations to Troop 30040 for completing their Silver
Award
Project- a Teddy Bear picnic to recruit new little girls to
Scouting.
It worked- we have a huge batch of new Daisy Scouts! Thank you to
Chris Heffron who is leading both the Daisy and Brownie Troops- feel
free to offer her assistance.
This fall the Scouts attended an ecology and water
conservation
program at Allegheny College, passed out theater programs at the
Slippery Rock University Performing Arts Series and earned their
photography badge and interest project award with the help of some
former Girl Scouts they met while on the Slippery Rock campus- thank
you Abby, Heather and Nikki.
We have received word from US Army 1LT Sarah Weber that
all 25
care packages from Boot Camp have arrived at their base in Iraq
and
were greatly appreciated. All troops are now preparing their next
batch of Christmas packages to let Sarah and her fellow soldiers know
they are appreciated and not forgotten.
Finally, all of the Mercer Area Girl Scouts (MAGS)
troops learned
a few new tricks about outdoor cooking. We are not sure if we
should
be proud or scared, but the whole Brownie troop had their
fires going
by the second match! Thank you to Troop 30040 and leader Viki for
performing a flag retirement ceremony. Thank you also to Boy
Scout Troop 83 for letting us use their camp for the program.
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Photos: Troop 30040 leading a Flag retirement ceremony at the Outdoor Cooking Program, and Scouts who attended the Photography Program with the presenters from SRU.
Happy Earth Day!
Girl Scouts from several of our Troops attended the Earth Day Program at Munnell Run Farm on Saturday, April 18 where they helped plant trees and learned about alternative energy.
Twenty Four Hour Girl Scout Power!
Cadette Troop 30609 with the cakes that they decorated on April 18 as part of the Sugar Artist Interest Project. View a Smilebox Slideshow of Troop 30609's 24 hour adventure!
- Photos from Thinking Day: Candle-lit Thinking Day Ceremony, Buckets of pennies, Scouts playing a game from Greece. The pennies will be donated to the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund.
- Congrats to Julia from Troop 40 whose
guess of $250 for the pennies that were
collected at Thinking Day was closest to the $237.07 that was
collected!
Send-off for LT Sarah
Some of the Mercer Area Girl Scouts and Leaders spent a Friday evening with LT Sarah Weber of the US Army and her daughter Paige. Sarah has been a great supporter of Girl Scouts, spending time at both Trefoil Trails Day Camp and GSWPA Boot Camp this past summer. Sarah will be deployed next month to Iraq and several of the the Mercer Area Girl Scout Troops have donated all of their Gift of Caring Girl Scout cookies to her Army Reserve Unit from Greensburg, PA. By spending some time with Sarah and listening to her talk about her experiences in the Army, the scouts and leaders were able to get to know her better and learn about what she will be doing while she is deployed. By talking to Paige, they also learned what it is like getting ready to have a parent deployed. The Girl Scouts will continue to support Sarah and her fellow soldiers this summer by collecting items for care packages from the participants at this year's GSWPA Boot Camp.
Tech Squad
Junior Troop 30834 learned first hand how to build simple machines, including making their own circuit board games from a NASA trained female engineer. This program was part of the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) movement to encourage girls to enter the technology fields They also built their own balloon cars, an even better paper clip, and learned how a clock radio worked by taking it apart. Did you know that every female astronaut was also a Girl Scout?
Cadettes Help at local University Event
Cadette Troops 30040 and 30609 from Mercer spent a Friday evening ushering at The Vanaver Caravan's Pastures of Plenty at Slippery Rock University. This event was part of University's 2008-2009 Performing Arts Series. After the production the girls had their picture taken with some of the performers. The Scouts will return to the University in May to usher for the family show “If You Give a Pig a Pancake and Other Story Books.
Pajama Party hosted by Brownie Troop 30094
A big thank you to everyone who attended the Pajama Party on Friday, January 23, and to our special guests - Mrs. Jewell, Mrs. Langdon, and Mrs. Sigmund - for making the event even more fun! The 71 pajama-clad scouts in attendance had a great time playing the Pajama Pants Pop game, dancing to the tunes of DJ Lindsey, making crafts, and listening to some bedtime stories. Most importantly, through the donations received at this event, 99 new books and 57 pairs of new pajamas were collected for the Children's Aid Society of Mercer County. Thank you to everyone for their donations and for their help in making this event such a big success!
Mrs. Jewell from the Mercer Area Library sharing a bedtime story with the Girl Scouts.
Read about some of our fall activities updated Oct. 24, 2008
Photos from some of our fun summer and fall activities!
WLD Ranch archery range and horseback riding
Having some fun at Camp Elliott and GSWPA Boot Camp
Learning the Chinese Dragon Dance and at the PA Fish and Boat Commission Canoe program