Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States, that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states.
Originally a logging camp, the scouts purchased the land and first had campers in 1929. The 1,560 acres (6 km 2) camp serves over 2,300 scouts each summer. Scouts attending Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan have the opportunity to work on merit badges, attend programs, and boat, swim, or fish on Lake Killian. Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan also operates a nationally accredited high ...
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
GSCNC owns and operates eight camps. In 2017, Girl Scouts introduced a new high ropes course at Camp White Rock, which includes tight ropes, cargo and raider bridge and a 300 ft zip line. During the summer months four camps are used as sleep-away camps. [citation needed] Camps: Camp Aquasco is 172 acres (70 ha) in Aquasco, Maryland.
Old Ben Scout Reservation (OBSR), located in Pike County, Indiana opened in 1985 on the site of an abandoned strip mine operated by the Old Ben Coal Company and was the council's current primary summer camp location, until a lack of funding forced the council to cease having summer camps there.
Girl Scout Cookie season began on Jan. 7, and with that came the news that two cookie varieties will not be sold after this year. Girl Scout cookies have been sold for over a century.
Girls' Guild was founded in 1939 as an affiliated girls' group of the Christian Service Brigade by Joe Coughlin and Betty Whitaker, 1st program director, on the request of Harriet Brehm, a sister of a Brigade member. In 1940, the Guild held its first summer camp at Fish Lake, Volo, Illinois. A new director took over in 1940, Viola Waterhouse ...
The original Camp Tom Wooten operated as a Boy Scout summer camp from 1934 until its sale in 1983. The new location operates as a camp for Cub Scouts. [87] Camp Tonkawa: Texas Trails Council: Taylor County, TX: Active: Camp Wisdom: Circle Ten Council: Dallas, TX: Active: Camp Zach White: Yucca Council: Sold: Chisholm Trail High Adventure Base ...