Girl Scouts

Happy 100th Birthday, Girl Scouts of America. Founder Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Ga. Today, scouts can earn a senior cook's Locavore badge. The Girl Scouts of Central Maryland (GSCM) celebrate 100 years of women's leadership at the sixth annual Women's Leadership Forum Monday night at the GSCM Seton Urban Program & STEM Center, located, 4806 Seton Drive between 5:45 p.m and 8:15 p.m.  A special one-woman show, "Women: Back to the Future, will be presented by acclaimed performer, Kate Campbell-Stevenson . " The event is open to the public; admission, which includes the performance, is $25 for adults; girls ages 14 and up are asked to bring two non-perishable items for Girl Scouts' annual Harvest for the Hungry campaign.   For tickets contact Maria (Johnson)

The United Way's 28th annual Haverst for the Hungry campaign is underway. The food-collection drive continues through Saturday. It's simple. You just leave non-perishable goods by your own mailbox and your letter carrier will pick up your donation and get it to the right folks. For more information and guidelines about what to donate, go to Harvest for the Hungry website . You can also donate money through Give Corps , and if you do you'll be eligible for a $20-off deal from Tapas Teatro . Other partners for the Harvest for the Hungry include Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, the United States Postal Service, WBAL-TV 11, The Baltimore Sun Media Group, Safeway and Girl Scouts of Central Maryland.

In the previouslies, Jeff points out that the men have won all the challenges thus far. Yup, the women have really not been doing well at anything. Fingers crossed that this episode will change that? I can hope, right? (And it's not that I'm all that big of a fan of Salani, it's just downright embarrassing for them at this point.) Once the women are back from Tribal Council, the men come over and invite them to their camp (the one with the tarps) because a nasty storm is coming in. The women claim that they will be fine, but they've obviously never camped during a storm.

Lion Brothers is outsourcing again. Unpaid child laborers will design one of the Owings Mills company's newest embroidered emblems. That's a good thing, in this case. If the factory of the future is about fast turnarounds on custom orders produced close to the customer, Lion Brothers' new Girl Scout badge is a small but telling indicator that U.S. manufacturers might have a place in the global economy after all. President Barack Obama's blueprint for reviving American factories should help retain and perhaps create manufacturing jobs at the margins.

Helen C. Roe, a retired secretary and Girl Scout leader, died Jan. 17 of complications from a stroke at her Severna Park home. She was 77. Helen C. Skelton was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill and on Eutaw Place and Chilton Street. She graduated in 1952 from Eastern High School. From 1980 until retiring in the late 1990s, Mrs. Skelton had been a secretary for the Anne Arundel County Department of Health, working at a clinic at Northeast High School. The longtime Severna Park resident had been a Girl Scout leader for more than 12 years.

Decades after they joined the Girl Scouts, Kirsten Enzinger and Janet Brown still have fond memories of times they spent inside the giant tepee at Annapolis' Camp Woodlands. "It was the place for orientation, the place for meals, the place for meetings," recalls Enzinger, who was a Girl Scout in the 1950s and 1960s and later an assistant troop leader. "It was our gathering spot. People were coming and going all the time. " The distinctive form makes it instantly recognizable to anyone who gets lost, said Brown, a Scout leader since the mid-1970s.

It was showdown time on the strip Saturday afternoon when Girl Scout Community 80 in Harford County held its Pinewood Derby. About 180 girls and their fathers gathered at the Bel Air Church of the Nazarene for the derby. The colorful cars were built by the girls with the help of their fathers.

Movies and crepes go together. The original Sofi's Crepes is still running next to The Charles, now a new Sofi's has opened directly across from The Senator. The new address is 5911 York Road, and the phone number is 410-727-5737. Tentative hours at the new location are Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. The Belvedere Square location is planning a Nov. 18 grand opening featuring live music and celebrity crepe-makers. Sofi's is donating 50 percent of its profits from the opening to Our Daily Bread for Thanksgiving dinners.  Across the street from Sofi's, on the same side of the block as the Senator, Jerry's Belvedere Tavern is going to town on Girl Scout Cookies.

Over the past month, Girl Scout Troop 4830 completed a beautification project in Jarrettsville's Hunt Field Community, enhancing a formerly barren traffic circle with flowering plants, bulbs and deciduous trees. This project, part of a year-long effort, was undertaken to meet the troop's Silver Award requirements, which include 50 hours of participation by each girl. Adopting the theme "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle," the five girls grew many of the plants from cuttings and seeds and made their own compost. Support was also received from the community, friends and family members of the participating Scouts.

Christina Antonini built a business before she started college, but charity, not entrepreneurial drive, motivated the 18-year-old freshman at Towson University. The Edgewater resident spent her teenage years designing, financing, building and outfitting a boutique and job-training center at a rehabilitation center for women in Crownsville. The project, which began seven years ago as an effort to earn the Girl Scouts' highest honor, has made Antonini one of 10 national winners of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.