Empowering girls through fitness, Spring/Summer 2017 reading good books and community service service
Spring in Review Bangor Savings Bank Run and Read into
Our 5th spring season in Fit Girls Foundation Summer Camp 2017 and our sessions surrounded four Community Matters themes: Happiness, Healthy More Choices, Love You and the Community Around Us. Thanks to all the Maine folks who voted for Fit Girls in the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation's Community Matter More campaign. This $5,000 gift means so much for our upcoming programming. Fit Girls is so much more than a running and reading program. Our volunteers work hard at delivering positive messages helping to instill self- Some of the wonderful books and confidence through a spirited, materials we used included: Rosie enthusiastic, thoughtful Revere Engineer, Gerties Leap to curriculum. These girls strive to Greatness, and Strong is the New accomplish much and the support The Secret Garden Pretty: A Celebration of Girls we received this spring is huge! Being Themselves. The girls A Garden of Friendship Quilt finished their six weeks and with will be raffled off at the Fit and some of the funds raised in their Fun 5K on October 21st. The quilt spring Read-a-thon, Fit Girls made was created at summer camp a $500 donation to the with the help of artist, Mardy Androscoggin Hospice House and Bogar and friends, Nancy also participated in their 5K run in Cureton and Sarah Chamberlain. Auburn in May. Raffle tickets will be available Fit Girls is proud to partner with through the Fit Girls or by calling the Lets Go initiative through 645-9648. Tickets are 3 for $5.00 or Franklin County Community $2.00 each. Tickets will be Coalition. 5210 is a great program available at the Fit and Fun 5K. and Lets Go Maine provides our girls with thoughtful resources which are incorporated in our curriculum.
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self-esteem activity Upcoming FALL 2017 Fit Girls and Spandits Partner to Celebrate Beginning September Anniversaries 4TH ANNUAL 2017 FIT AND FUN 5K TO For 4th and 5th grade girls In celebrating both of our 5th year Mondays- Cape Cod Hill 9/11 anniversaries, Fit Girls and Spandits! BENEFIT FIT GIRLS are partnering to share their Tuesdays Academy Hill 9/12 enthusiasm for young girls and Thursdays Cascade Brook women to be the best they can be. 9/14 The business philosophy at Spandits! (6th grade girls meet Thursdays aligns with the message that is shared Saturday, October 21 at Fit Girls in each running session: To 10:00 am Wilson Lake after school at Cascade Brook) do your personal best. Thank you Bib pick-up and Day of Sign-ups for fall Fit Girls Spandits! registration (8:30-9:45) at Open Houses. Watch for Fit Girls flyers. - Entry fee: $10.00 - Great t-shirts for first 50 registrants - Awards: first finishers female/male in each age group - Bib raffle following race - Timed race and walk - Open to all runners and walkers - To pre-register (go to link below): Volunteer, Sarah Reynolds, shares her time with our girls. She and all our Happy Fit Girls proudly wearing their form.jotform.us/61146197292156 volunteers make our girls feel Spandits headbands important. Our Fit Girl Volunteers We are so grateful to Franklin Rock! Savings Bank and Western Mountain Financial Services for Fit Girls of Wilton Maine encourages girls to aspire to their their sponsorship of this event and to potential. Reading and running go hand-in-hand, both opening Bangor Savings Bank Foundation doors for girls to have healthy bodies and healthy minds. for a Community Matters More grant. Our Board of Directors supports the Fit Girls of Wilton Maine mission and believes that every girl has the opportunity for growth in friendship and self-esteem. Fit Girls was so To Donate: We welcome donations and you may do so online on our beneficial because it website: www.fitgirlsofwiltonmaine.org or by making a check gave me courage to try payable to Fit Girls and sending to: new things. PO Box 493 Wilton,Maine 04294 - former Fit Girl
Fit Girls of Wilton, Maine is a Maine non-profit corporation and qualifies as a
tax-exempt organization under Internal Revenue Code Section 501 (c)(3).