Diocese sponsors Spiritual Activity Day
for Catholic Girl Scouts

The Galveston-Houston Diocese Committee on Girl Scouting will hold a Spiritual Activity Day for Catholic Girl Scouts from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 2 at the Girl Scout Center, 3110 Southwest Freeway. Girls, grades 2 - 12, are invited. Activities will include working on religious awards: The Family of God for grades 2-3; The I Live My Faith for grades 4-6; Mary, the First Disciple for grades 7-9; and The Spirit Alive for grades 10-12. Seniors who complete The Spirit Alive and also receive The Gold Award are eligible to receive The Bishop’s Gold.

Registration is $10 and includes event patch. Books are $5. Participants should bring a sack lunch and cold drink. Besides the event patch, the new patches for each of the four religious recognition programs are available and can be purchased for $3. Anyone who attended either of the 2003 events and has not received her patch will be given it at this time.

The annual retreat will be February 11-13 at Camp Casa Mare. Brownies and Juniors will gather on Saturday, February 12 from 9 a.m. until after the closing Mass at 4 p.m. Sixth grade Juniors who are bridging to Cadettes are invited to stay until noon on Sunday. Cadettes and Seniors should stay from 7 p.m. Friday until noon on Sunday.

Note: This event is not sponsored by Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council.

Equestrian Gate

Meeting the HerdOpening Flag Ceremony

GSSJC dedicates Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Equestrian Center at camp

To commemorate the $1 million capital and endowment gift of the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation and to thank the McNairs for their invaluable support in helping to expand and improve the Girl Scout equestrian program, Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council unveiled the entrance gate to the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Equestrian Center in a ribbon cutting ceremony on June 17 at Camp Misty Meadows in Conroe.
Janice McNair and McNair Foundation Executive Director Joanie Haley attended the event along with other invited guests. The group experienced camp in true form as they loaded onto a peoplemover at Podville and rode to the new fishing village at Camp Agnes Arnold. Campers staying in the fishing village gave the group a tour of the village and presented McNair with a framed picture. Then it was off to Camp Misty Meadows to attend the camp’s opening flag ceremony performed on horseback. CEO Mary Vitek thanked the McNair Foundation for its support in front of an audience of 100 campers and a representative from the SPURS (Super People Using Riding Skills) group gave a shadowbox to McNair proclaiming Janice McNair an honorary SPURS member.
After the ceremony, McNair and guests took a short trail ride and then joined Girl Scout campers for lunch in the lodge before loading back onto the peoplemover to Podville for their return trip home.