Kateriland Neighborhood Girl Scouts

KATERILAND NEIGHBORHOOD LEADER/CO-LEADER ROSTER FOR 2004-2005

Neighborhood Manager Kelly Fusinski
Email: kfusinski@yahoo.com
24899 Wilmot Ave.
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-778-7714

Daisy 438 & Brownie 425 Jennifer Makohn
Email: jmakohn@yahoo.com
24534 Greenbrier
Eastpointe mi 48021
Home: 586-7762868

Daisy 438 & Brownie 425 Jamie Huber
Email: hubermom3@aol.com
24891 Roxana
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-498-9750

Brownie 833 Jennifer Bachmann
Email: jenntoddbri@hotmail.com
Home: 586-777-4743

Junior 464 Jennifer McCall
Email: MuralsByMcCall@aol.com
24881 Warrington
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-778-6781

Brownie 004 Connie Compton
22169 Tuscany
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-773-2193

Brownie 004 Andrea Churchill
22898 Firwood
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-779-0747

Junior 173 Cher Nagey
Email: Windmera@comcast.net
17828 Toepfer
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-776-3438

Junior 173 Diana Buckner
23055 Rein
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-445-8248

Daisy 486 Marge Sumner
Email: audiomagicrec@wowway.com
15661 Chestnut Ave.
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-776-4903

Brownie 189 Wendy Daniels
Email: wendy-daniels@sbcglobal.net
22792 Piper
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-779-6468

Brownie 189 Jeannette Allen
22801 Piper
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: (D)586-772-1414
Office: (E)498-8320

Brownie 430 & Junior 440 Lynda Rubino
Email: LLRBOOBOO@aol.com
22754 Donald
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-773-7672

Brownie 430 & Junior 440 Mary Sutton
Email: artifice@mindspring.com
15369 Collinson
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-774-0859

Junior 440 Katie Neill
Email: katieneill73@hotmail.com
22402 Brittany
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-779-4992

Daisy 365 & Junior 204 Jan Patty
16851 Carlisle St
Detroit Mi 48205
Home: 313-371-6260

Daisy 365 Karen Hueft
23079 Roxana
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-777-7635

Brownie 467 Donna Kidwell
22100 Blackburn
St. Clair Shores Mi 48080
Home: 586-771-7540

Brownie 467 Lois Gridley
Email: campmom@gmail.com
24644 Mabray
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-775-1413

Brownie 467 Sue York
Email: smile_york@yahoo.com
29529 Pinto
Warren Mi 48093
Home: 586-751-3462

Junior 204 Kathleen Ricard
Email: kathleen.ricard@abnamro.com
23715 Teppert
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-779-3811

Daisy 944 Tanya Barthlow
Email: tbarth74@aol.com
23115 Normandy
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-447-1302

Daisy 944 Kelly Mattox
Email: kmattox@wideopenwest.com
16279 Semrau
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-779-7978

Brownie 368 Stephanie Grunow
Email: dgrunts@hotmail.com
23759 Donald
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-772-2526

Brownie 437 Shari Hart
Email: Sharon.hart@globalcrossing.com
23007 David
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-772-2089

Brownie 437 Brenda DiDonato
Email: whatup48021@aol.com
23075 Donald
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-776-5974

Daisy 486 Kim Byrd
Email: Byrdmum@aol.com
Home: 586-775-0522

Daisy 486 Amy Lagocki
Email: alagocki4585@woway.com
Home: 586-779-8550

Daisy 486 Lisa Major
Home: 586-775-5718

Daisy 486 Theresa Heron
Email: whatever2@wideopenwest.com
Home: 586-764-1258

Daisy 486 Sue Clark
Email: scottyjo@wideopenwest.com
Home: 586-779-3564

Junior 440 Katie Neill
Email: katieneill73@hotmail.com
Home: 586-779-4992

Brownie 437 Susan Lewis
Email: pslouie695@msn.com
23156 Donald
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-773-4929

Junior 435 Connie Yates
Email: ccrayates@aol.com
23705 Normandy
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: (D) 248-637-4936
Office: (E) 586-778-6472

Junior 435 Stacie Flonta
Email: danielflonta@yahoo.com
24236 Shakespeare
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-778-1898

Junior 435 Deann Rowley
Email: deannrowley@comcast.net
24326 Melrose
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: (D) 586-822-8005
Office: (E) 586-777-9523

Cadette 592 Rita Votta
Email: boogalowski@cs.com
21431 Crusade
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-777-9782

Cadette 592 Jennifer Huntsberry
Email: jjh_rph@yahoo.com
18220 Rosetta
Eastpointe Mi 48021
Home: 586-775-7166

Membership Specialist Kelly Donnelly
Email: kdonnelly@girlscouts-macomb.org
Girl Scouts of Macomb County-Ots
42804 Garfield
Clinton Township Mi 48038
Office: 586-263-0220 Ext

Melanie Robinson
Email: ciecadonna@yahoo.com

Cheryl Ford
Email: cmf223@hotmail.com

Cyndy Cohen
Email: cohencats@aol.com

Kim Byrd
Email: Byrdjum@aol.com

Lori Bradley
Email: llynnbrdly@yahoo.com

Leona Blessing
Email: lnb81457@hotmail.com

Andria Brown
Email: hotdonna23@yahoo.com

Kateriland Neighborhood Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts of Kateriland

Hair today, wig tomorrow

Eastpointe girl aims to collect 100 donations for Locks of Love

April 28, 2005

''You can't go back now!'' the 10-year-old girl with the short, curly hair and the big, bright smile said teasingly as her friend took a seat. Behind them loomed a woman with scissors and comb in hand.

Eastpointe resident Amber Fusinski was about to celebrate her 10th birthday in a unique way: by donating her long, light brown locks to Please Care, Share Your Hair. The campaign was conceived by the smiling young hostess, Alexis Olechowski, also of Eastpointe.

Alexis' drive got under way earlier this month outside Trader Joe's grocery store in Royal Oak. She organized the event with a little help from her mother, Jennifer McCall, a Trader Joe's employee, and grandmother Halina Paluch, a hairstylist who snipped the donations, including Amber's.

The seeds of the campaign were planted in the summer of 2001, when Alexis met some children at a Girl Scout camp who had lost their hair to cancer.

''I really wanted to do this for the kids who have cancer,'' Alexis said. ''They were very nice, kind and no different than you or I. I felt bad for them and wanted to help them.''

Last December, Alexis' hair was every bit as long as Amber's, falling halfway down her back. Some time earlier, Paluch, the owner of Halina's Hair Salon in Sterling Heights and a stylist for 36 years, had told Alexis about Locks of Love. The not-for-profit organization provides natural-hair wigs to children with hair loss due to alopecia areata (an autoimmune disorder that causes permanent hair loss), cancer and other diseases.

Alexis, a fifth-grader at Forest Park Elementary School in Eastpointe donated 12 inches to Locks of Love four months ago. But when she learned that the charity needs hair from several people to make just one wig, she wanted to do more.

So Alexis came up with the name -- Please Care, Share Your Hair -- and began planning a hair donation drive.

For sanitary reasons, Alexis, McCall, Paluch and another stylist who works with her, Leslie Tomasiak, set up a makeshift salon in an area outside Trader Joe's. Colorful balloons, artificial palm trees and silver streamers lent a festive air to the scene.

That's where Amber, somewhat apprehensively, made her donation and her mother, Kelly Fusinski, followed suit. So did 26-year-old Fraser native and Trader Joe's employee Jennifer McDonald. And so did McDonald's friend Hillery Delikta of Mt. Clemens and Delikta's niece, 5-year-old Maria Grillo.

The debut event of Please Care, Share Your Hair yielded well over 200 inches of brown, black and blond hair from 20 different female donors ranging in age from 5 to 50-something, each one donating Locks of Love's preferred minimum of 10 inches or more.

They were given flowers and goodie bags filled with treats from Trader Joe's, and a heartfelt ''Thank-you'' from the program's young founder.

Alexis and her mother will ship the hair off to Lake Worth, Fla., where the charity is based, and a few children in need of natural-looking wigs will get them free of charge.

Rebecca Monsour, Alexis' homeroom teacher at Forest Park, said Alexis is ''energetic, outgoing and a wonderful student to have in any classroom. Each day I see her helping her classmates.''

Paluch, the Poland-born woman Alexis calls ''Babcia'' (Grandma in Polish), began volunteering to cut hair for Locks of Love in 2001 and donated four hours of styling expertise at Trader Joe's.

Alexis said she was surprised and satisfied with the success of the first part of her campaign. But she isn't resting on her laurels; she's already busy recruiting more patrons through her church and her school in pursuit of her goal of 100 donors.

As for birthday girl Amber, she bolted out of the chair and ran to a mirror when Paluch finished cutting off a foot of her locks.

''It's SHORT!'' she exclaimed. ''I LOVE it!''

Girl Scout Cookies?®

Girl Scouts and cookies share a rich history. While recipes and box designs have changed, selling cookies remains an important part of today's Girl Scout program.

Why Girl Scout Cookies?

The activity of selling cookies is directly related to our purpose of helping all girls realize their full potential and become strong, confident, and resourceful citizens.

* Girl Scouts practice life skills like goal setting, money management, and teamwork?—and they have fun!
* Customers get a great product and get to support girls in their own community.
* All of the proceeds support Girl Scouting in the local community.

Learning Life Skills

Many successful business women today say they got their start selling Girl Scout Cookies. Girls practice useful life skills like planning, decision-making, and customer service. During cookie activities, girls are members of a team working towards a common goal, with each girl striving to do her best.

Every Girl Scout troop/group is encouraged to set realistic goals, such as planning field trips and community service projects, to accomplish during the year. The money earned from cookie activities helps the troop/group achieve its goals.

So when your local Girl Scouts come calling with this year's best-selling cookies, remember you're saying hello to tomorrow's business leaders.

Making It Count

All of the proceeds?—every penny?—from a local Girl Scout council's cookie activities remains in the area where the cookies are sold. This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop/group treasury and some of it indirectly by subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout program in the local area.

''Cookie revenue'' helps Girl Scout councils:

* Recruit and train volunteer leaders for each Girl Scout troop/group.
* Provide the financial assistance needed to make Girl Scouting available for all girls.
* Improve and maintain camp and other activity sites.
* Keep event/camp fees for all members to a minimum.
* Sponsor special events and projects.

Each local Girl Scout council sets the price per box, based on its needs and its knowledge of its local market. The price per box, therefore, may vary from one location to another and from one year to the next. Today's prices reflect both the current cost of purchasing cookies from a licensed baker and the realities of providing Girl Scout activities in an ever-changing economic environment.

*** For the safety and security of the girls who are selling cookies, Girl Scout Cookies are not available for purchase online.***

Baking the Best

The national Girl Scout organization, Girl Scouts of the USA, approves and licenses the bakers of Girl Scout Cookies. At the bakeries, the cookies are produced by American labor union members from American-grown agricultural products and wrapped in American-made packaging materials.

The approved bakers work directly with local Girl Scout councils. Each one of our 300-plus councils selects which baker it will work with and sets the price per box in its area. Currently two licensed bakers supply local Girl Scout councils with cookies for girls to sell: ABC/Interbake Foods and Little Brownie Bakers.

Contact your local Girl Scout council to find out when and where cookies will be sold and what cookie varieties will be available in your community.

Let Me Know What You Think!

Let me know what you think about this web site I created for the troops of Kateriland. I check this site every day and you could always let me know by leaving a message in the discussion area. If you want to add anything to this web site that you feel would help out the other troops in the area feel free to. This site is for everyone to use together, that's the only way we can make it work for the better.