Confection Selection is a fund raising event for the Tri-City Pregnancy Center sponsored by Grace URC. We sell home-baked goodies by the pound and all the proceeds go to the Pregnancy Center. This year we are attempting to boost both amount of goodies and the traffic through the event (which will be held in Grace’s sanctuary) as a build-up for next year, when we plan to host it at the Kennewick Grange on Union by the library.

There are several ways you can help with this event:
Bake goodies: fudge, frosted sugar cookies, peanut butter balls, brownies, peanut brittle, gingersnaps, snickerdoodles…. any cookie or holiday treat you enjoy making! Time spent baking these treats counts as service hours for AHG. You can drop off your baked goods here at the church in the kitchen the week prior to the event, to Mystie (off Road 68 in Pasco) on Thursday or Friday, or here at the church Saturday morning BEFORE 8am. Please cut any bar cookies before dropping them off and label your goodies with their name and if they contain any nuts.

AHG girls grades 6 and up may help out at the event as greeters and behind tables, helping customers fill their clamshells. We could use help between 8am and 2pm, or any length of time in between. Please bring a lunch or lunch money if you’ll be working over lunch time.

If you attend a church other than Grace, and would be willing to put an invitation announcement about Confection Selection in your church’s bulletin or a flyer for the event in your church, please let Mystie know. I have the text for the announcement and flyers, also.

Mystie can be reached by typing her first name (spelled correctly!) @starvale.net

Please wear:
Uniform
Layered clothes to keep warm
jacket
hats & mittens if needed
bring two bags of candy

Parents and siblings are welcome to walk along.

Thanks and see you there!!

IF IT IS RAINING HARD WE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE.

CHECK THIS SITE TO SEE WHAT THE STATUS IS IF THE WEATHER IS QUESTIONABLE

Also, if you have any vest, sash , shirt, or pants that you would like to sell label your items with your name, phone number , and price. There will be a table available for you to place these items during the meeting. . Please remove any patches from a vest or sash that you are selling but leave the starting patches which include the troop number 3130 and the American flag patch.

Thanks and hope to see you there.

This Thursday, June 8th will be our Court of Awards Ceremony. This is where the girls will receive their badges and awards for this past year.

Here is the schedule for Thursday June 8th:

4:00-5:30 Girls come to AHG with your uniform and a flash light if you have one.

We will be practicing the ceremony.

5:30-6:00 Pizza time for the girls. They will be eating pizza together before the ceremony provided by the troop.

6:00-7:00 Parents please come and watch the ceremony. Join us afterwards for cake and coffee.

This is our last scheduled AHG weekly event.

Please call if you have any questions.

734-9392

Thanks,

Tonya

Registration for Tri-City Academy of Dance Workshop on May 20 1-4pm $10

May 18 AHG 4:00-5:30
Board of Review for PI/PA

Candle Sale Pizza Party from 5:00-5:30 . Our troop made over $1000.00. Good work girls!!!

Troop Picture—PLEASE WEAR YOUR UNIFORM

May 20th- Dance Workshop at Tri City Academy of Ballet in Richland Washington. 1:00-4:00 $10

The company dancers will demonstrate and teach the girls ballet, tap, jazz and talk about theater etiquette and more.

Sign up and pre-register on May 11th

Location
The Tri-Cities Academy of Ballet is located at 21 Aaron Drive at the very entrance to Richland just off Interstate 182 and Highway 240. It is across from Columbia Point and Winco.

May 21st
AHG Sunday- Girls wear your uniforms to Church

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May 25th Zintel Canyon Hike 4:00-5:30
Please bring your daughters to the park at 7th and Vancouver. Drop them off at Vancouver Park. It has tennis courts and bathrooms.

We will then carefully cross Vancouver street and hike in Zintel Canyon

Make sure you sign a permission slip when you drop them off.

Wear appropriate hiking clothes.

June 1st – Leaders meeting,

June 8th
Court of Awards

Girls meet from 4:00-5:30 to practice the ceremony.

Please wear your uniform.

The girls will eat from 5:30-6:00

Ceremony from 6:00-7:00 Parent please attend

F riday June 9th

AHG sleepover at the Tri City Court Club 6:30pm-8:00 am on June 10th

Cost $20

We will swim, rock climb, play gym games, and have a movie in THE ROCK. .

1st and 2nd grade Tenderfoots may sleepover with parent chaperone.

3rd grade and up may sleepover. 25 person minimum.

Chaperones needed

Summer Activities

July21-22 AHG Backyard Campout in West Richland

Details TBA

Grace URC Wooten Weekend
August 4-6th

All AHG girls and their families welcome

Call Shawnna Morris 585-9754 for details

August 11-13th AHG campout at Emigrant Springs Campground and trip to the Pendleton Water Park

Call Stephanie Jones for details

543-4129

AHG Ballet/ Dance Workshop….$10 per girls

Please e-mail me or call at 734-9392

By Wednesday May 17th

What? Bowling

When? Tuesday, April 4 th at 6:30 p.m during Spring break week

Where? Celebrity Bowl 711 Vineyard Dr. Kennewick Phone
# 582-4343

Why? Because it’s fun!

How Much? $3.00 per person per game and FREE Shoe rental (We need at least 20 people for the free shoes rental)

Sign up on Thursday Or call 734-9392 or e-mail beanjarr4@charter.net

We completed the Social Skills and Etiquette Badge in December and will complete the Dance badge this month. As a class, we fulfilled requirements 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 for the Social Skills & Etiquette badge and requirements 1, 2, 3, 4 & 8 for the Dance badge. Please initial these requirements in your daughter’s book (if you joined after we had begun and would like to complete these badges, you may help your daughter complete them, as well), then have your girl bring her book to a meeting and I will sign them off.

If you have been working on additional badges outside AHG meetings, initial the requirements you fulfill and bring the book to me to sign off on. If you haven’t already notified Tonya of the additional badges you’ve been working on you still can have them signed off and announced at the Court of awards. The Troop’s badge “intention” form has already been turned in, so if AHG is out of the particular badge your daughter is working on it may be on backorder and not available, but it still can be announced at the Court of Awards in June. All badges that have been completed have to be signed off by May 4th. Any additional badges are $3 per badge.

At the end of March we will begin the Geology badge; it should be a lot of fun!

Our class now has 13 registered girls! We’ve moved our classroom upstairs so we have more room, and I need an extra set of hands or two during our class time. If you’d be able to stay once in a while or regularly, please let me know. I have a sign-up sheet that will be available today and subsequent weeks, until it’s filled up! I would prefer to have two parent helpers each week, but even one would make a big difference. Thanks!

If your daughters do any service hours outside AHG, they can still use it to earn their service stars. Let me know what the activity was and how many hours they worked. All community, charity, and volunteer work is counted, but housework and chores are not. Mrs. Davis has a sign-in record downstairs for tracking the Cookies for Kairos hours, but you can also email your Tenderfoot’s hours to me directly if you forget. If you baked or set-up for the Father-Daughter Ball, remember to count that time, as well.

I am enjoying this class and these girls; it is such a fun age. Thank you for being so diligent in bringing your girls; we have consistently had 100% attendance – that’s incredible!

Mystie Winckler
mystie @ starvale . net <–without the spaces

What is Kairos?
Kairos Ministries is a Christian organization that shares the gospel of Jesus Christ with those in prison.

Why do they need cookies?
March 16-19, Kairos is sponsoring a Christian retreat weekend at Purdys Correction Center for Women in Gig Harbor WA. . The cookies are used as refreshments during the weekend program. In addition, a bag of cookies is given to every person at the prison, including the guards and the warden.

Why should our AHG troop and GURC participate?
AHG (nationally ) has been participating in the “Cookies for Kairos” service project for nine of its ten and a half years of existence; last year our girls provided over 700 dozen cookies to this ministry. This is an opportunity to share God’s love with people who really need to hear about the unconditional love and forgiveness of Jesus. The fact that people care enough to bake these cookies is a powerful message for the participants.
Because the cookies represent God’s love, we ask that burned or broken cookies not be sent in.

How can our AHG troop/GURC help?
We ask each girl in participating troops make 2 dozen cookies according to the following guidelines:
- Cookies can be chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal (no raisins!!), sugar, M&M, Rice Krispie treats, or snicker doodles. Brownies can be sent in also. Slice and bake or mixes are okay. Store-bought are not!
- Each cookie should be approximately 2 inches in diameter
- ABSOLUTELY no raisins, icing or powdered sugar (prison’s restrictions!)
- Cookies should be placed in clear gallon-sized Ziploc bags of 2 dozen per bag. Mark the bag “2 doz.” for ease of counting. Please do not put cookies on paper plates. Do not decorate the bags.

Where and when do we bring the Cookie?
Please bring the cookies to the Grace Church kitchen between March 1st and 9th. Someone will be driving these cookies to Gig Harbor before March 16th. Unfortunately, we cannot accept any late cookies.

Please record the time your daughter bakes on the service hour record sheet when you turn in the cookies.

If you have questions please call Tonya Davis at 734-9392