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GIRL SCOUT ADVOCACY DAY
March 9, 2010
Girl Scouts Samantha Watson from Person County (back left) and Alexandria
Gerald from Guilford County (back right) met with Representative Rosa Gill (left
front) and Secretary Linda Carlisle during Girl Scout Advocacy Day
Raleigh,
NC: Governor Beverly Perdue has proclaimed the week of March 7-13 as Girl Scout
Week in North Carolina. Girl Scout Week is the
commemoration
of the birthday of Girl Scouting, when Juliette Gordon Low began the
first Girl
Scout Troop in Savannah, Georgia, in 1912. The week honors the 98th
anniversary
of Girl Scouting in the United States, which falls on Friday, March 12.
On Tuesday, March 9, as part of Girl Scout Advocacy Day, Linda
Carlisle, North Carolina’s Secretary of Cultural Resources and a Girl
Scout
volunteer herself, presented the proclamation to a group of North
Carolina Girl
Scouts and women legislators.
Advocacy Day was also a chance for
20 teen
Girl Scouts from across the state to join women legislators at the
General
Assembly to share a box lunch and talk about girls’ needs, interests,
and
experiences – and the issues that are important to today’s girls and
young
women. The girls also learned first-hand what issues are facing the
North
Carolina Legislature, what it’s like to run for public office, and how
the women
balance their family and their professional lives.
Also during
Girl Scout
Week, girls from across the state are serving as appointed Pages in the
Governor’s Office, giving girls an opportunity to learn about state
government
and having Girl Scouting represented by its most important members –
girls – in
this public and prestigious service.
 
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