AM 1240 WJON » Girl Scouts http://wjon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 02:34:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Girl Scouts Marks 100th Birthday with Party at MOA http://wjon.com/girl-scouts-marks-100th-birthday-with-party-at-moa/ http://wjon.com/girl-scouts-marks-100th-birthday-with-party-at-moa/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:05:51 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=81877 The Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys is turning 100 - and it's hosting a weekend celebration at the Mall of America to mark the occasion. Events on Saturday will include a presentation by the Raptor Center, Zumba dancing and an Iron Cookie Challenge.

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]]> http://wjon.com/girl-scouts-marks-100th-birthday-with-party-at-moa/feed/ 0 Stearns History Museum This Date In Central Minnesota History – March 12th, 1912 http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-12th-1912/ http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-12th-1912/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:43:07 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=9760 It was on this date 99 years ago that the girl scouts started. Now that first meeting was actually held down in Savannah, Georgia. But it didn't take too long before girls the in the St. Cloud area formed their own chapter of the Girl Scouts.

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]]> http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-12th-1912/feed/ 0 Photos of early St. Cloud Girl Scouts courtesy of the Stearns History Museum Some Girl Scouts To Sit Out Cookie Sale In Protest http://wjon.com/some-girl-scouts-to-sit-out-cookie-sale-in-protest/ http://wjon.com/some-girl-scouts-to-sit-out-cookie-sale-in-protest/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:52:01 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=6816 Some Minnesota Girl Scouts say they will sit out an upcoming cookie sale to protest plans to sell off some of their camps. Financial pressures and declining membership have led the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys council to sell four of its 12 camps.

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