Closing Announcements
As we are unable to announce individual event cancellations or closings on TV, please refer to our webpage for updated information. Check our events calendar for events that have been rescheduled. You can also try our listing at www.weatherclosings.com |
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Cookie Marketing
If you have a Twitter account, be sure to follow us (GSWestOK) and re-tweet our cookie marketing messages -- and tweet your own!
Join our Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma Facebook group and post cookie marketing messages there.
Visit our YouTube Channel (GirlScoutsWestOK) and view the cookie video contest entries.
Have you seen the new cookie video on our homepage? Check it out.
Take pictures of girls in your troop or community selling cookies and submit to your local paper. Be sure to identify the girls pictured and always end with: For more information on Girl Scout Cookies, visit www.gswestok.org. |
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For CPR/1st Aid Trainers
When completing a course record form, be sure to list Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma in the box titled "Training Site Information." If you don't, the billing will be incorrect and your class participants' certification will not be forwarded to the proper location. If you have any questions, email Jaimie Siegal.
GS-West Certified CPR/1st Aid Trainers Available for Courses:
Loretta Hinkle, Robbin Watson, Kathy Alvarez, Sheila Brakebill, Teena Brittain, Renee Gauger, Gay Oberste, Deanna Shaw, Helen Horne, Tammy Crawford, Judy Brannan, Toddie Rollins, Sherrie Bouchereau, Annie Lovett, Donna Ritter, Verdana Toyekoyah, and Jo Johnson |
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Leadership is THE Girl Scout Program -- Pathways are the Roads to Get There
As you plan your "leadership experiences" for your girls in 2010, remember that activities and events aren't the Girl Scouts program -- they are the pathways to the program. Girl Scouts has one program -- Leadership! |
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Job Openings
Current openings include Camp Pathway Coordinator to be responsible for coordinating all aspects of leadership program delivery for the Camp Pathway. For more information on this and other job postings, and to apply, click here. |
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Get Ready For National Green Week
National Green Week 2010 is Feb. 1-5. You can be part of this event by planning a "green" activity -- initiate a recycling project at your school, plant a garden, replace light bulbs with energy efficient ones at your school or church, or do a lot other "green" projects. Let us know what you plan to do for Green Week. Take pictures of your project and submit to Deborah Gooding. |
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Serve on our Outreach Committee Focus Groups. For more information, email Lisa Johnson. |
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Cookie Sale Is Here!
Keep watching the cookie page on our website for updated information, including the cookie booth locater button and all request forms for the season.
GS-West also is participating in the "Vote for your Favorite Cookie" online contest through the Oklahoma State Treasurer's office. This is the second year for the program, where the Girl Scout who sells the most cookies in the state will get a $1,529 college scholarship account.
The troop that gets the most people to vote for their favorite cookie will get $529. Click on the "Decisions Decisions" banner on our website's main page.
Girl Scout Cookie Video Contest! We have received a couple of video entries so far. Watch them at www.youtube.com/girlscoutswestok. The best entries will be posted on the GS-West YouTube Channel, our Twitter site and our Facebook page. The winning entry will receive a new Flip Video Camera! The deadline to enter has been extended to Feb. 10 Click here for contest rules!
Signage: Remember to pick up a stack of cookie yard signs when you pick up your cookie orders.
Billboards: You may notice some cookie sale billboards like the picture above around the OKC metro! Spot the billboard and win a prize! Send your pictures of one of the billboards to Deborah Gooding. You could win a surprise! |
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Membership Drive Starts Today!
With all the activity going on around Girl Scout Cookies, Friends of Girl Scouting, calendar events and a lot more, Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention in the public -- so now is the time to reach out and invite new girls and adults to join!
GS-West Membership Drive will be Feb. 1 through March 15. This is a great opportunity for all the Service Units to earn great incentives while bring more members to our organization. Here's what you can earn:
- New girls registering during the Drive will receive a $2 discount on membership fee.
- Girls who bring a friend who joins Girl Scouts will get a "friendship patch.
- Service Units reaching the #1 Goal by Feb. 28 will receive a $50 shop gift certificate (expires Sept. 30).
- Service Units reaching #2 goal by March 15 will receive a $5 coupon for each girl in their SU to use towards any council event by Sept. 30 OR use of a council camp property at no cost for a weekend of their choice (between April 1-Sept. 30 based on availablity).
- The Service Unit exceeding Goal #2 by the greatest number will get $150 to be used in recognition of the people that help grow membership in their area.
Take this challenge and help share the leadership experience of Girl Scouting in your community and school!
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Explorology For Students
Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman
Oklahoma Science Adventure for Grades 6-8. Registration deadline is Feb. 26.
Paleo Expedition for Grades 9-11. Registration deadline is March 26.
Read more here. |
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We Need Your Uniquely ME! Stories
We're looking for stories of how girls changed their own view of themselves and their self-esteem after going through Uniquely ME! If you have used Uniquely ME! with your girls, please submit your stories to Deborah Gooding by Feb. 5, 2010.
View and download the age level activites and evaluations, and facilitators guides, click here. |
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