The swimming pool and summertime are always a key part of a child’s summer. But not everyone is up to date on their water safety skills. Girl Scout Ambassador, Maggie, put together a workshop to teach kids how to be safe around the water and in their pools at home. She hosted the Water Safety class on Saturday July 28 at the Wasco Veterans’ Hall for kids ages 6-10. The seminar was free...
Written by: Allison Hollender, GSCCS Delegate to the Girls World Forum 2012,Chicago IL Allison is a presenter at the 2012 Women Inspiring Girls Luncheon in Bakersfield on October 5, 2012.
It has been some time after the Girl’s World Forum in Chicago, and now I have had some time to digest the extreme amount of information that has been thrown at me during the week. The statistics,...
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Friends and Relatives of Girl Scouts…Donate $40 and receive one of our 100th Anniversary limited edition commemorative F.R.O.G.S. coffee mugs!
Click here for the F.R.O.G.S. coffee mug order form!
Fill it out and mail, email (tboothe@girlscoutsccs.org) or hand the form into your local council office.
*If you purchase a mug you will also receive the F.R.O.G.S....
Girl Scouts Bring a Friend Campaign is here! Learn how the Bring a Friend campaign works!
-Invite a friend who is not already a registered member to join Girl Scouts.
-Have her register for the 2012-2013 Girl Scout membership year.
-Attend a Troop meeting, Service Unit event or Council event
-Complete the flyer below, attach the flyer to your friend’s...
Join Girl Scouts of Central California South for our Summer Scavenger Hunt Contest. Help us reach 100 posts for our 100th Anniversary!
How to enter:
Girls 15 and under will need a parent or guardian to sign up for Facebook if they do not already have an account to complete the contest.
“LIKE” Girl Scouts of Central...
Post by: Danielle Cash
Fresno troop 2385 decided at one of their meetings they wanted to donate to the families at Ronald McDonald House Charities Central Valley and to the homeless at the Evangel home. So the girls setup a shopping trip! They spent 2 hours and over $440 on items for two charities. Then they organized the items they bought into two piles for the two different charities. The...
Post by: Lily Cortes
Lamont Girl Scout troop 507 went camping in July to Lopez Lake in Arroyo Grande. They used their proceeds from the Girl Scout cookie sale. The first day they set up their tents, made a bonfire and cooked delicious s’mores. While on the trip the girls learned how to fish, went to a local water slide park, sang songs by the campfire and saw many deer and wild...
Our CEO, Cathy Ferguson, shares her Olympic memories with KSEE 24′s A.J. Fox. She won both her gold medals in swimming in the 1964 games in Tokyo, Japan. She was asked to describe her Olympic experience in her own words. Here is the video of her interview!
Here are a few more videos with Cathy sharing her Olympic memories:
Click here for part 1 of the interview.
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Wendy was one of our 2010 Women Inspiring Girls Honorees in Bakersfield.Wendy passed away on June 17, 2012. She will be sorely missed and forever be remembered as an awesome role model for our girls, who always thought of others before herself. When she thanked us for naming her as a Women Inspiring Girls honoree, her thoughts were on others who had worked behind the scenes, and she wrote:...
Here are some pictures explaining how to wear your Girl Scout uniform! If you have any questions about the uniform please contact the Gold Mine Store at (800) 490-8653 ext 114. To purchase your Girl Scout Uniform visit our online store http://www.gsccs-store.org/ or stop into either Gold Mine Store.
Fresno – 1377 West Shaw Ave Fresno, CA 93711
Bakersfield – 1831 Brundage...
