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Girl Scouts Gives Girls Hope
According to the National Census Bureau, about 14 percent of families and 18 percent of individuals within our service areas live below the poverty line, ranking this region at 39th in the country. We want to help change those numbers and bring not only help but hope to girls and their communities in need. In…
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Girl Scouts Make Sense: The Zipper Story
Standing in a small classroom filled with children’s toys is an unexpected find: a wooden tunnel with three thousand blue zip ties attached. At five feet, each side lined with eight beams of hand-strung zip ties, it’s especially striking as the light from the window illuminates the color. Named the Zipper, it serves as a…
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A Heart for Volunteers
Angie Beach, the new south area director for Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA), understands well the joys and struggles of being a Girl Scout volunteer. Before accepting a job in the Customer Service department at GSCSA seven years ago, Beach served as a volunteer for seven years while her daughters were Girl Scouts.…
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Annual Hiwassee River Raft Race
The Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians had a great year at the 32nd Annual Hiwassee River Raft Race! This year fourteen rafts had nearly perfect weather for the annual run down the Hiwassee River on their homemade floats. The rafts were built using lashing and knot-tying skills, bamboo, and inflatable tubes. Each raft…
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Girl Scouts Lifetime Member Advocates for Girl Scouts in the Knoxville News Sentinel
In the Press: Sydney Gabrielson, Girl Scouts lifetime member, defended Girl Scouts in a recent guest column in the Knoxville News Sentinel. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the environment that Girl Scouts provided through outdoor adventure and thought-provoking discussion laid the framework for my success. It was disconcerting to read the article and…
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GSCSA Welcomes New Vice President of Communications, Gretchen Crawley
Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA) is proud to welcome Gretchen Crawley to the team as the new Vice President of Communications. With more than two decades of experience, Crawley will oversee the marketing and communications department beginning in September. Crawley, a Knoxville native, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1993 with a…
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The Purple Lady Goes Green for Girl Scouts
Sonia Young, popularly known as “The Purple Lady,” will be honored at this year’s Chattanooga Trefoil Society Luncheon. The complementary event will be held at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club on Thursday, September 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For reservations, please contact Marguerite Hogan, at 800.474.1912 or by email at mhogan@girlscoutcsa.org. Our Trefoil…
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Girl Scouts Create Recycled Bench for Animal Shelter
The Oak Ridge service unit (SU) collected over 1,000 pounds of plastic caps during the 2018 membership year. Once the caps were all collected, the SU members drove to Evansville, Indiana to have the caps melted down into benches. The Girl Scouts within the unit decided that their benches could be best utilized at the…
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Claudia Byrd to be Honored at Kingsport Trefoil Society Luncheon
At our annual Trefoil Society Luncheons, we recognize women in our council area who are either Girl Scout alums and/or have exemplified our mission to be women of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. This year at our Kingsport luncheon on Thursday, August 30, we will honor local leader Claudia…
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Sandy Martin to be Honored at Knoxville Trefoil Society Luncheon
Each year during our Trefoil Society Luncheons, we seek to honor women of distinction in our council area who are either Girl Scout alums and/or identify with what it means to be women of courage, confidence, and character, who makes the world a better place. This year at our Knoxville luncheon on Wednesday, August 8,…
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