Thinking Day is this week - Monday Feb. 23

Just a reminder that our meeting will be held on MONDAY February 23. This will replace our regular Thursday meeting on the 26^th. Please email me to confirm whether your Guide will attend this special meeting. In addition to the items below, please bring indoor shoes and dues. A bag to carry everything is a good idea too.

The Thinking Day event will be held at St. Leonard’s Elementary School (5344 Long Island Rd. in Manotick). This is where we met for Thinking Day last year. Girls should arrive between 6 and 6:15; the meeting will start at 6:15 and wrap up by 7:45.  A leader from our unit will be there to greet the girls just inside the school’s front doors.

At this year’s meeting, the girls will be working on the Girl Guide national service project, “Words In Action”. To do this, we will be having a book exchange with the other groups. We will also be collecting donations for a “backpack” drive. To round off the evening, we will be having a campfire in honour of Guider Pauline, who died of cancer.

For the book exchange, the girls are asked to bring one book to trade at the book ‘store’. For the backpack drive, we are asking girls for any of the following donations:

>> New or gently-used backpacks

>> New or gently-used books

>> Pencils

>> Erasers

>> Pens

>> Pencil cases

>> Lined notebooks

>> Post-it notes

>> Rulers

>> Protractor kits

>> Calculators

>> Puzzle books such as crosswords, word searches, Sudoku, mad libs, etc.

4th Riverside South Guides will be assembling the backpacks to donate at one of our meetings in March.

Sparks Campfire: if your Guide does not have the campfire leading badge and would like to earn it on March 3rd at the Sparks meeting, please let me know. The Sparks meeting runs from 6:15 to 7:15 at the Community Center.