Get Out Your Cookie Dough - It’s Girl Scout Time

Girl Scouts throughout the Inland Empire are gearing up for their annual cookie sale. Door-to-door pre-sales of the popular cookies begin Saturday. Booth sales and delivery to presales will take place April 5-26.

The cookie sale is an integral part of the Girl Scout program, designed to be a valuable learning experience for girls. This activity provides girls with the experience to gain communication skills and learn about customer service and safety. They also learn to organize, budget and set goals for their troop. More than 3,500 Girl Scouts are participating in this annual fund-raising effort. Proceeds benefit the Inland Empire Girl Scouts programs. The sale provides girls with a way to earn money for camp, program activities, events or supplies.

For information about Girl Scouts or the cookie sale, call 747-8091.

More fund-raising

A special performance of “Scotland Road” at Interplayers Ensemble will be sponsored by the Spokane Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. The event kicks off National Cardiac Rehabilitation week.

A heart-healthy dessert reception will begin at 7 p.m.

Spokane Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation, founded in 1978, is a community-based exercise and education program for those with cardiac illnesses or chronic lung disease.

This fund-raiser will offset costs for those individuals whose insurance does not cover this education program.

Tickets to the performance are $25, for reservations call 838-6059.

Family fun

If you haven’t already visited the Children’s Museum of Spokane in its temporary storefront location, 222 N. Post, check it out this week because the museum is due to close Friday. The Children’s Museum of Spokane is looking for a permanent downtown location. Donations to help fund the museum can be made by calling 534-2733.

Health notes

Local fitness instructors and their students are teaming to help fight heart disease at an event Feb. 2 from 9 a.m. to noon at West Central Community Center.

Activities include aerobics classes. Cost of participation is a $45 donation which includes a workout towel and water bottle.

For information, call Julie Baughn, American Heart Association, 536-1500.

Thanks expressed

The Inland Empire Council of Camp Fire Boys and Girls received a $1,000 grant as one of 171 organizations being awarded $164,933 from the Volunteer Action Fund of the American Express Foundation. Established in 1994, the fund awards grants to eligible organizations in which American Express U.S. employees volunteer.

The local Camp Fire organization will use the grant toward purchase of a communications system.

“Every contribution that is made toward helping Camp Fire address health and safety is critical to our council’s existence,” said Vi Martin, executive director of the Inland Empire Camp Fire Council. “The need for communication and its role in our community is especially important when one considers the growing number of children we are serving.”

Hutton Settlement elections

The new Hutton Settlement Board of Trustee officers for 1997 include: Carole Walker, president; Connie Stacey, first vice president; Sharon Cortner, recording secretary; Karen Damon, treasurer; Evelyn Morgan, corresponding secretary; Catherine Bernhard and Helen Hamblen, assistant corresponding secretaries; and Gail Stevenson, assistant secretary and treasurer.

Other board members include Catherine Bernhard, Corine Brown, Lani Ellingsen, Zelma Ellis, Nancy Henry, Catherine Hyslop, Ruth Jensen, Maxine Kopczynski, Janet Moffitt, Jo Ann Nielsen, Marion Phillips, Kay Stipe and Marilyn Stocker.

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