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Girl Scouts to merge five NC councils into one
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Published: April 27, 2009
The Girl Scout Hornets' Nest Council officials announced at a luncheon Thursday that the 47-year-old council will merge with four sister councils in central and western North Carolina to become the Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont council.
The Oct. 1 merger was ordered by the national Girl Scouts organization in 2005 as a way to economize councils and make them more uniform, said Katherine Lambert, Hornets' Nest executive vice president.
The Charlotte council, serving about 15,000 girls, will merge with smaller councils in Gastonia and Hickory, Lambert said.
"We all share the same media markets ... the same papers, the same radio stations, yet we are two different organizations with two different cookie bakeries," she said. "The merger will economize in the back office side of things and put additional resources toward girl services."
A new board and CEO will determine the headquarters for the merged council after Oct. 1, Lambert said.
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