Welcome to American Heritage Girls Troop OH3124

Please take some time to look through our blog and find out what we are all about.  In general, this webpage is for new families looking for information.

Some things to notice:

1. Please feel free to contact me at hope.coordinator.oh3124@gmail.com if you need any assistance.
2. All of our needed paperwork can be found in the links on the right.  Here is what we need for all new girls:
• The dues when paid before August 17 are only $25, plus $26 for National membership.  After August 17, they go up to $50.  Here is a list of the paperwork that we need:
3. 1. Parent Participation Pledge
   2. Health & Medical
   3. High Adventure Medical signed by a licensed provider for all girls in grade 4 and up, recommended for grade 2 & 3
   4. Troop meeting permission slip
   5. Girl Registration Form
   6. Consent, Waiver, and Release Agreement
   7. $26 NATIONAL Registration
   8. $25 for troop dues
    
   Please let me know if you have any questions.  We are excited for every girl that God brings into our troop.
    
   Blessings,
   Cynthia

Location Change for March Service Project

I just received an email from Dawn Godfrey, the founder of Baskets of LIFE.  She was unable to reserve a room at the church for this Saturday, so she's going to have everything set up for us to work at her house instead.

 Her address is:  236 Wyndham Dr, Maineville, OH 45039

 Here is a link to directions on how to get there from Hope Church. 

Directions for Baskets for LIFE==

 I've also attached an updated permission slip with the new location.  Please bring this with you on Saturday.

 I apologize for any inconvenience.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

 I'll see you on Saturday.

 Thank you very much,

 Lydia

March Service Opportunity                      

What:  Packing Easter baskets for hurting children through the baskets of LIFE Ministry.

Our troop has a fun opportunity to help pack Easter baskets for abused, neglected, orphaned, fostered and impoverished children in the Cincinnati area. For the past 13 years, a Maineville-based charity called Baskets of L.I.F.E. (Little Inspirations for Easter) has been collecting toys and candy, packing them in lovely baskets and delivering them to any charity, home, agency that requests them.

 When:  Saturday, March 16, 2013 from 10-11:30 am

Where:  Christ’s Church at Mason – We’ll meet in the lobby.  (CCM is across the street from Hope Church.)

Click here to sign up for Baskets of LIFE

Click here to go Baskets of LIFE's Facebook page


Click here for the permission slip


 

  April Service Opportunity

What:  Scouting for Food                                         

When:  Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 10am to 4pm

Where:  Deerfield Kroger, 5100 Terra Firma Dr. Mason, OH 45040

Please wear your full uniform and help local families in need by collecting food donations for the Mason Food Pantry.  Please note that this is not a drop-off event.  Girls must be accompanied by a parent.

Click here to sign up for Scouting for Food

Click here to go to Mason Food Pantry's website.

Bring a friend with you Saturday!!!!!

Girls, you are invited to bring a friend with you to tie blankets at this Saturday's service project. 

All the information about the Service Project is on the blog below along with the link to sign up.

 

Thank you.  See you Saturday!

Lydia

February Service Project: Making Blankets for Soldiers

February Service Project:  Fleece Blankets for Soldiers

When:  Saturday, February 23^rd from 1-4pm

Where:  Higher Ground room at Hope

What:  Making No-sew fleece blankets with associates from Kohl’sCares for Soldier's Angels Blankets of Hope

How:  Click here to sign up

We will have a limited amount of fleece available.  If you would like to bring your own, please bring two coordinating pieces of fleece, 2 yards each.  The colors do not have to be neutral.  Patriotic themes are a good choice.  JoAnn’s often has sales on their fleece.

At the next meeting we’ll also be collecting funds to ship the blankets.  With the blankets being so big & bulky the expense to ship them adds up quickly.  Please consider bringing in your loose change to help send our blankets to those who need them.

-Lydia

SCRIP ORDERS

SCRIP PROGRAM......

It is SCRIP time again!  Last year your SCRIP purchases resulted in over $200 profit for our troop!   Let's try to top it in the second half of the year.   As an incentive, each month there will be at $10 gift card drawing from the families placing orders for that month.  Feb orders due at first meeting - 2/11 and the order will be in by 2/25.   

Order forms are in the SCRIP folder at meetings or can be ordered online.

Contact Cindy Williams if you need assistance.   513-469-6151



January Service Project Info

JANUARY SERVICE PROJECT:  Matthew 25 Ministries
 – Saturday, January 26^th 10am-noon

Girls & their families are invited to come & serve at Matthew 25 Ministries.  We will meet at their location in Blue Ash.  Our two hour time will include sorting donations & a brief tour of the work they do.  For more information, check out the following links.

Matthew 25 Ministries Website

Directions to Matthew 25 Ministries

Please note that this is not a drop off event.  Be sure to review Matthew 25’s Child Volunteer Policy below so that you are aware of their guidelines.

Click here to sign up!

Matthew 25 Ministries’ Child Volunteer Policy

There are many jobs in the warehouse that children of all ages can do. They are welcome under the following guidelines:

All children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

• Children under 8 – 1 adult for every child

• Children 9-11 – 1 adult for every 2 children
• Children 12-16 – 1 adult for every 3 children
• 16 and over – may work alone, but if in groups of more than 5 an adult must be present

-Thanks, Lydia

February Service Project Info

February Service Project

Fleece for Soldiers

In February (date TBA), we’ll be making fleece blankets for soldiers through Operation Thank You.  If you would like to donate fleece or bring your own to work on that day, each blanket will need 2 coordinating, 72 inch long pieces of fleece.  Please choose soft or natural patterns & colors.  For safety reasons we are asked not to use brights or reds.

-Lydia

FREE FREE FREE! MONEY FOR THE TROOP

We have now enrolled in two new ways that YOU can  help our troop without spending one extra dime.  Not only do we have Kroger Community Rewards, but now we have Meijer Community Rewards!  Click on the link on the right to learn more about this great program.  One more way for our troop to receive "free" money!

Also, on the right, you will see an Amazon.com link.  When you shop Amazon this fall, please enter through this portal.  When you do, the troop will receive a portion of the proceeds that you spend.  Easy as pie!

Thank you all for your support!  We are striving to make our troop financially stronger without asking parents to give more.  You give so much already.

Blessings,
Cynthia and Karen

Design our Troop T time!!!!

Calling all members!  Once again, we want YOU to have the opportunity to design this year's troop T-Shirt!  Just think how cool it would be to see everyone wearing YOUR design this year!  The mother of the girl who's design is chosen will also get a free T-shirt!  Here are the details:  

 You may submit your designs one of three ways:

1.  electronically to tlshome2001@gmail.com; 

2.  mail them to:

Tammy Starry

230 Indian Pointe Drive.

Maineville, OH 45039

3.  Final option:   drop them off at the first AHG meeting in January.  This will be the deadline for all submittals.

Moms, we would love to have YOUR daughter give it a go.   Please encourage them to put down on paper what THEY would like to see their fellow members wearing this spring.  Last year's was very cool.

If you need a theme to work from, this year's troop badge will be covering "All God's Children". 

Guidelines to follow: 

*  Sketches will be welcomed as we can get help with making it "camera" ready; we are mostly looking for ideas, not professional artwork

*  Say what print color you want to use
*  Tell what color of T-shirt you want your design on
*  Be sure to include AHG OH3124 or American Heritage Girls OH3124 as part of your design

For idea purposes and design choices, you can go to:  "yourartpages.com".  You can choose images you would like to use, put the identification name/number down on paper where you'd want that image, and the printer can lay it out for us.  If you would like a certain font, you can go to "dafont.com" and choose a font name to submit as well.  If you prefer to submit your own artwork,  just do outlines, again so the printer can get it copied easier.  

 Have any questions?  Contact Tammy at tlshome2001@gmail.com

 Hopefully, CHRISTmas break will be a good time to sit down and design this year's masterpiece!  Have fun with this and Merry CHRISTmas! 

 Tammy Starry at tlshome2001@gmail.com or 513 683-8951.

We have so much to be thankful for during this 2013 Holiday season!  Truly God has blessed us in every way.  We have a number of announcements that are very important, so please read through:

 

1.        For Monday’s meeting

a.       All girls:  We will be making ornaments, decorating cupcakes, and doing messy things.  Please do NOT wear your uniforms!

b.      Pi/Pa girls:  You are meeting off site at Mrs. Sargent’s house

2.       We need paper milk and juice cartons!  We need to collect at total of 29 of these!  Please bring as many as you possibly can to the meeting on Monday.

3.       We need EVERY GIRL to participate in the December service project.  Please make sure that you sign up through the link on the blog at www.oh3124.blogspot.com  This is a TROOP project.  It is a HUGE project that needs your help!

a.       Pi/Pa Girls:  If you would like to come, we really need your help with the younger girls

4.       Come see Martha Haney (Explorer 4) dance in Russian, a fun, energetic
dance, in the Nutcracker. She is also in the Party scene and a tin soldier
in the Battle scene. Former troop members, Ellen Haney and Christiana
Youngquist will also be dancing, in solos, as Clara and as the Sugar Plum
Fairy. Here's the specifics:

Saturday, December 8, 2012
2:00 or 7:30 pm
The Little Miami High School
3001 U.S. 22 (Mongomery Rd)
Morrow, 45152.

$15/adult, $10/student

Hope to see you there,
The Haney and Youngquist Families

5.       URGENT TROOP NEED:  We really do need a family or two to step up and oversee the clean up after meetings.  Since no one has stepped up, this has fallen to me and my girls.  This is extremely difficult!  I can’t meet with families who need my attention AND take care of troop clean up.  If you have not yet volunteered for something in the troop, We REALLY NEED YOU!  It only takes a few minutes, but makes such a difference for the troop.

6.   URGENT TROOP NEED    We also need someone to oversee the troop t-shirts this year.  So far, again, we have no one, so we have done nothing about t-shirts.  This is part of the dues, so it needs to be done.  It takes very little time over all, perhaps a couple of hours at most.

 

I think that is everything for now.  Have a truly blessed Celebration of our Lord’s birth! 

 

Merry Christmas!

Cynthia & Karen

AHG Family Skate Night

Greetings Families!

 

Each year, one of the highlight events is the Family Skate Night!  All of the information that you need is on THIS FLYER.  Please contact Karen Speed if you would like to attend.  This is a fantastic Bring A Friend opportunity!  Please be sure to invite a friend to come and learn about AHG.

 We need to have your form no later than the first meeting in January on 1/14 if you wish to attend.

 If you have any questions, please let us know.

 Blessings,

Cynthia Tann

Hope.coordinator.oh3124@gmail.com

Dec 17th Service Mtg sign up

Please click on the following link to sigh up to help at the service meeting on the 17th.

http://www.helpersignup.com/viewsheet.php?type=2&sheet=2c86a6dd1da94fa865a3f66471a6427a

CARTONS NEEDED BY DECEMBER 10 MTG!!!!

Please help us collect paper milk/juice 1/2 gallon cartons!

In order to make a uniform and eye pleasing gift basket for the staff at Hope Church, we are asking each family to donate one or two 1/2 gallon juice/milk paper containers at our meeting on Monday, December 10th.  The Explorer 4 girls will upcycle them into Christmas gift containers at our Service Meeting on Monday, December 17th.
 

5 Easy Steps to Help:

1.  Buy your families milk and/or juice in paper 1/2 gallon cartons
2.  Enjoy your milk/juice
3.  Rinse the 1/2 gallon carton in mild soap and water
4.  Take the clean carton with you to our next Troop Meeting on Monday, December 10th
5.  Smile knowing you made a difference
 
We need 29 milk/juice half-gallon containers by Monday, December 10th.

SCRIPS Program

AHG Families

 

Thank you for all the families that ordered Scrip this year.   Just in Oct/Nov, we have raised nearly $200 in profit with 13 families participating!    This is a huge blessing to our troop and will help keep our fees lower.   Many of you took advantage of using Scrip to cover your Fundraising Fee and didn't have to sell a thing:)   If you are one of the families who ordered, please continue to do so!  If you haven't tried Scrip yet, please consider it in December for all those Christmas gift cards that you give and for any other purchases you plan to make.  

 

To help with this, I'll be taking orders at the first December meeting (12/10) and have gift cards available to you by Friday 12/14 that same week!  Visit shopwithscrip.com for a complete list of retailers (including many online like Amazon) and restaurants.   Look for my earlier entries on this blog for the details on how to order Scrip.   If you have any questions, please call me at 513-886-8851 (cell) or 513-469-6151 (H).

 

Thank you for supporting AHG through Scrip!

Cindy Williams

Scrip coordinator

Items needed for meeting on November 26

Good Evening Everyone!

 

As we celebrate this Thanksgiving, we know that we have so much for which to be thankful.  Truly God has blessed us immeasurable!  As we look ahead, we are working on planning the December service project.  Your girls’ leaders will be talking with them at the next meeting on November 26.  In a nutshell, we are doing a special Thank You to Hope Church for all that they do for our troop.  There is so much they do that no one ever sees.

 

We are going to be making gift baskets for all of the staff.  For this to happen, we are wondering how many of you have baskets sitting around your house that would be perfect for this project.  They can be any size or shape and they don’t even have to be baskets!  They could be just nice Christmas gift containers.  We are then going to fill these with gifts made specially by each unit.

 

Next, a quick reminder to have your kids sort their toys and bring in gently used toys for the next meeting.  These toys will go to the Hope sister church, River of Life in Over the Rhine.  Parents will be able to come and pick out gifts for their children.  This is a very special way for the girls to give Christmas to needy children right here in Cincinnati.

 

We hope that we will have an abundance of toys and baskets at the meeting on November 26!

 

Blessings,

Cynthia & Karen

More Ways to Help Our Troop!

We have now enrolled in two new ways that YOU can  help our troop without spending one extra dime.  Not only do we have Kroger Community Rewards, but now we have Meijer Community Rewards!  Click on the link on the right to learn more about this great program.  One more way for our troop to receive "free" money!

Also, on the right, you will see an Amazon.com link.  When you shop Amazon this fall, please enter through this portal.  When you do, the troop will receive a portion of the proceeds that you spend.  Easy as pie!

Thank you all for your support!  We are striving to make our troop financially stronger without asking parents to give more.  You give so much already.

Blessings,
Cynthia and Karen

Timberhill Service Project Info

Link for service project info.

Scout's Honor Weekend @ Newport Aquarium

Newport Aquarium's Scout's Honor Weekend is November 3rd and 4th.  Tickets are by presale only *before October 31st* for a specific day and are at a reduced price for the scout and family.  Special event pricing is $11/person (General admission pricing is normally $23/adult & $15/child over 2yrs. Children under 2 are free.)   Various "Exciting Additional Experiences" are being held, all of which have their own pricing separate from the NA admission.  Each scout will also receive a patch for the event.  Please refer to the attached enrollment form to purchase tickets and for additional information.

T2/3 & Pi/Pa Unit news page updates

The Tenderheart 2/3 and Pi/Pa Unit news page has been updated with a leader bio. Please click on the Tenderheart 2nd & 3rd Grade News and/or the Pioneer/Patriot 7th-12th Grade News tab at the top of the blog to access this information.