Girl scouting was founded in 1912 by
Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts' membership has grown from 18
members in Savannah, Georgia, to 3.7 million members throughout the
United States, including U.S. territories, and in more than 90
countries through USA Girl Scouts Overseas.
Girl
Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who
make the world a better place.
• GIRL SCOUT
PROMISE•
On my
honor, I will try:
To serve God and my
country,
To help people at all
times,
And to live by the Girl Scout
Law.
At present
our council is the Limberlost Council which consists of the
counties Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Steuben and
Wells. In Oct. of 2008
the council will be merging with three other councils (Singing
Sands, Tribal Trails and Indiana Lakeland) to form The Girl Scouts
of Northern Indiana-Michiana, NIM. Additional counties served will
include: Carroll, Cass Fulton, Howard, Miami, Pulaski, Wabash,
LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall, St. Joseph, Starke, Elkhart,
Kosciusko, Noble, and Whitley in Indiana and Berrien, Branch, Cass,
St. Joseph, and Van Buren in Michigan. The newly merged council will
serve 22,630, who will be mentored by 5400
adults.
I am a Girl
Scout leader and am the registrar for my local Service Unit. My
daughter is a Cadette.
She has earned her Bronze award and will soon be working on her
Silver award. She will
then be able to earn the Gold award as which is the highest award
that can be earned as a Girl Scout. It is the equivalent of the Eagle
in Boy Scouts.
The
Leadership and Learning Center (Girl Scout office) was opened in
2006 and will be the headquarters of NIM.
The cache you
are looking for is a decon container which contains a council patch
and a Girl Scout cookie pin for FTF.
If you have a
favorite Girl Scout cookie feel free to share that with me in your
log.