Make A Difference
Day is the most encompassing national day of helping others
–a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Everyone
can participate. Millions have!
Created by USA WEEKEND Magazine,
Make A Difference Day takes place on the fourth Saturday of
every October. This year it is Saturday, October 22, 2005.
USA WEEKEND has a Web site with
ideas and insights to help you and your troop and/or family
plan a GREAT project to help others. Check out the Web site
at http://usaweekend.com/diffday/index.html. If you cannot participate
on Saturday for religious reasons, you may do your project on
Sunday.
GSSJC has available in the Council
Shops a patch for Make a Difference Day. Girls throughout the
Council may select a project and do it on the fourth Saturday
to earn this patch. Girls do NOT count this service for any
other council or GSUSA awards if they earn this special patch
for their project.
For 2005, GSSJC will be hosting
a Make A Difference Day event at Camp Misty Meadows. Plans include…wait!
We don’t have any plans. …SO the first plan is to
recruit a Mother (or adult female relative)/Daughter Girl Planning
Board to meet monthly to plan an exciting and wonderful event!
Girls can be third grade Brownies in the fall through girls
registering for their last year as a Girl Scout.
Victoria Soto, GSSJC Service Projects
Coordinator, invites mother (or adult female relative) and daughter
teams to apply who are:
- Have Saturday, October 22, 2005 available
- Interested in planning an event
- Excited to learn about new and different
service projects
- Willing to contact community agencies
To apply to serve on the Mother
(or adult female relative)/Daughter Girl Planning Board, complete
the application and return to the Girl Scout Office, 3110 Southwest
Freeway, Houston, TX 77098 by Wednesday, June 1, 2005 or send
to Melinda Gaskill by fax at 713-292-0330 or e-mail at mgaskill@sjgs.org.
Event registration information
will be in future issues of The Golden Link and on the council
Web site’s Council Information Network.
Questions? Please
contact Melinda Gaskill, GSSJC Program Manager, 713-292-0232
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