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A nonprofit program for

4th, 5th, and 6th grade girls


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.

A group of Sixth Grade Girls with a


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).

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