(Edgemont, Evanston, Hamptons, Hidden Valley, Hanson Ranch, Kincora, Nolan Hill, Sherwood and Sage Hill)
September is a very busy month for Girl Guides. Units are starting their Guiding year, welcoming new girls into the unit, playing get-to-know-you games and learning their Promise and Law. The older branches (Guides/Pathfinders/Rangers) will be trying out kayaks on a local lake in NW Calgary and have numerous camps booked—fall is a great time of year to take advantage of the (usually) warmer weather. The younger branches will typically be booking sleepovers/residential camps in Sept/Oct.
To keep us even busier and on our toes, we also will have chocolatey mint Girl Guide cookies delivered the second or third weekend of September. Watch out for us in local stores and door to door. It is our main fundraiser and we thank you in advance for buying our yummy cookies and helping to support our activities! We have been selling cookies for almost 100 years, and it all started in Regina:
“In 1927, a Girl Guide leader in Regina baked and packaged cookies for her girls to sell as a simple way to raise money for their uniforms and camping equipment. Little did she know that she was starting one of Canada’s best-loved traditions – Girl Guide cookies!”
If you’d like to register your daughter, please visit www.girlguides.ca and use the unit finder to find an open unit in your area. If you cannot find a unit in your neighbourhood, it might be because the unit is full (you can modify the search—try searching “all” units; the default is to show only units with space available). You might want to consider becoming a leader—with more leaders, we can take in more girls. For more info, please email [email protected] for more information.
