I attended my first local Girl Scout meeting in a very, very long time tonight. I used to be highly involved in local events. I know that I served in a variety of roles including leading Junior and Cadette troops, registrar for the service unit, cookie cupboard manager (I stored the cookies in my bedroom), and council trainer. That was all very long ago, when I was in college. After that I moved away to Texas and then Illinois. While I’ve been involved as a helper behind the scenes for my sister’s Daisy troop and council product sales, I haven’t had any official job in years.

Tonight’s meeting was about the council’s plan to restructure the local service units into communities (lingo provided by GSUSA). It seemed like a good blank slate, so to speak, so I thought I’d see if there was something that I could contribute in the new plans for our local communities. The idea is that 2.5 service units are going to unite in one community. It’s a challenging revision to the systems that were in place, but there was a lot of positive energy in the room.

I hope that there’s something that I can do in the new system. I know my shortcomings—I’m horrible at the organizing work, and no one sane would ask me to manage the financial positions (I hate math). My ideal task would be to work on blogging, social media, and a website that communicates with adult volunteers, girl members, and their families (as well as others in the local community who are interested). I would LOVE to do that kind of work.

The one thing we are sure of at this point is the name of our new organizational structure: Girl Scouts of Radford City and Montgomery County (GSRCAMC).