North Carolina Coastal Pines joins Girl Scouts around the nation in their goal to make the world a better place and to celebrate Girl Scout Week. The week honors the 98th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States, which falls on Thursday, March 11.

Other events include:Girl Scout Sunday, March 7 and Girl Scout Sabbath, March 13 give girls an opportunity to attend their place of worship and be recognized as a Girl Scout. If a place of worship is the group sponsor, girls may perform a service, such as greeting, ushering, or doing a flag ceremony.

These days can also be a time when girls explore other faiths. Celebrating these days also gives Girl Scouting opportunities to thank places of worship for their contributions to the community and to Girl Scouting, and to share how today's girls are discovering their personal paths to leadership through Girl Scouting.

Girl Scout Advocacy Day is March 9. Between 15 and 20 Girl Scouts from throughout North Carolina will serve as pages in the Governor's office during the week of March 7-13, acknowledging advocacy day. The week also celebrates the creation of the first Girl Scout Troop in Savannah, Georgia and the birth of the Girl Scout movement.

In honor of 98 years of service to girls and the community, fellow Girl Scouts will join the pages for lunch in the 1200 courtyard of the Legislative Building on Tuesday March 9 from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. Girls will have the opportunity to meet legislators and discuss current issues one-on-one and how they might impact them, as well as what the life of an elected official is like.

The Girl Scouts also will commemorate March 12,1912, when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first 18 girl members as Girl Scouts in Savannah.