Fall 2021 First Meeting and Other Stuff

Topics in this post:

• First In-person Meeting This Wednesday
• What times, where
• What to bring
• Pandemic measures
• Canoeing on Saturday
• Volunteer requested
• Welcome Howlers
• Investiture
• Chilliwack Lake Overnight Camp
• Patrols

 

First In-person Meeting of the Fall:

What Times and Where:

Our first meeting will start at 7:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm at Wesburn Park.  Here is the Google Maps Link for our meeting area: Parking lot next to the Wesburn Park Community Centre.

 

We will meet at the south end of the parking lot, same as we did in the Spring.  Beavers and Cubs will be meeting at different times nearby in the park.

What To Bring:

Please bring the following:

• These items are mandatory:
• Headlamp flashlight (so you can keep your hands empty – the sun sets at 7:40pm)
• Water bottle, filled
• Mask – you won’t be required to wear it outdoors except in special circumstances – you may wear it if you wish at any time
• Clothing appropriate for the weather – looks like there may be some rain
• Necker (Uniform if you have one)
• Small day pack for your stuff
• Paper or notebook
• Pencil
• Rope (we’ll issue every scout with a new rope)
• Optional items:
• Emergency kit
• Spare batteries (recommended)
• Pocket knife and permit (if you have a knife permit, AND ARE INVESTED)
• Personal first aid kit
• Camp chair – so you don’t have to stand

 

Pandemic Measures:

You know the questions you have been answering all along:

• If you are sick or
• Have been out of the country in the last 14 days (and are not fully vaccinated) or
• You have been in contact with someone who has or is suspected of having COVID-19

If you cannot say NO to all three questions, please stay home.

 

Since we are outdoors, masks are optional, except in special circumstances. Feel free to wear one. In all cases, please make sure you have one handy.  Scouters who need to work close with a scout (help with knots) will put on their mask.

 

Once we start to meet indoors at Willingdon, masks will be mandatory for cubs and scouts (optional for beavers).

 

In accordance with Scouts Canada’s stage 4, which we are currently in here in Pacific Coast Council, we will plan all activities so that:

• There will be limited sharing of equipment, only within patrols.
• Patrols are kept apart from other patrols with social distancing.
• Activities will be designed as much as possible to allow social distancing.

 

If you have not been vaccinated, or if your youth are over 12 and have not been vaccinated, please consider getting vaccinated.  This protects not only you, but it protects us, and all our youth.

 

Canoeing at Deer Lake:

We will be canoeing at Deer Lake park on Saturday September 11^th.  Meet at the parking lot at the east end of the lake.  Here is the Google maps link.

Volunteers Requested:

Most of the scouts will end their canoeing at 11:00 am, but we are looking for 6 volunteer scouts who know how to steer a canoe to stick around all day to take out beavers and 2 shifts of cubs.  Please note, if you are looking to achieve the Chief Scout Award, this time counts as volunteer hours.  I will take the first 6 who volunteer.

 

Canoeing Schedule:

Here is the schedule (green=troop, brown=beavers, blue=cubs shift 1, purple=cubs shift 2): 

·        9:00 am Canoes and scouts show up, unload canoes, prepare for canoeing

·        9:45 Start paddling

·        10:45 Bring canoes in

·        11:00 Beavers show up (only 4 beavers – 4 others went to pack)

·        11:15 Beavers go canoeing

·        12:15 Beavers come in

·        12:30 Beavers go home

·        12:30 Scouts (and scouters) eat their lunch and have a break

·        1:00 First shift Cubs show up

·        1:15 First shift heads out

·        2:15 First shift comes in, goes home

·        2:30 Second shift Cubs show up

·        2:45 Second shift heads out

·        3:45 Second shift comes in, goes home

·        4:30 Canoes put away – everyone goes home

 

Welcome Howlers!

I’d like to extend a special welcome to our new howlers, who are joining us from cubs.  We have assigned all of you to patrols and your patrol leaders will help you learn how we do things! We hope you have a lot of fun with us this year!

 

In the signature block at the bottom of this email, I have 2 links. One to the Group blog that has a group-wide calendar and group-wide posts. The other is to the Troop blog.  This information is contained there and you can check in with these blogs from time to time for updates.

 

Investiture:

New scouts need to be invested. We did not do this last year because of the pandemic and not being in a position most of the year to meet indoors.  You need to be invested before you can earn any badges, take a leadership role, or bring a pocket knife to camps and hikes (even if you’ve earned your knife permit).

 

You need to commit the following to memory in order to be invested:

 

Scout Promise:

On my honour,

I promise that I will do my best;

To do my duty to God and the Queen,

To help other people at all times,

And to carry out the spirit of the Scout Law. 

 

Scout Law:

A Scout is:

Helpful and trustworthy,

Kind and cheerful,

Considerate and clean,

And wise in the use of all resources.

 

You should also be familiar with these two:

Scout Motto:

Be Prepared

 

Scout Slogan:

Do a Good Turn Daily

 

Chilliwack Lake Camp:

We are planning an overnight camp at the 4-square camp at the South-east end of Chilliwack Lake. This is a slightly more than 2 hour drive from Vancouver, and the last half hour is an unpaved Forest Service Road.  The camp will begin on Friday night and we will return on Sunday afternoon. The cost will be low as this is their work weekend and we will be doing some cleanup work at the camp, so they are not charging us. We will ensure that we cover the cost of food and camp fuel.

 

This will be Friday September 24^th to Sunday September 26^th.

 

Each patrol will plan their menus and required equipment and buy their food. They will also cook as a patrol at the camp. Because of current Scouts Canada stage 4 restrictions we cannot use the lodge and will need to camp in tents..

 

More details, including a camp gear list will be provided – stay tuned.

 

Patrols:

We have worked with our leadership team to come up with patrol assignments. Here are the patrols. This Wednesday we will finalize these patrols and choose patrol names.

First Name	Last Name	Birth Year	Patrol	Rank	Invested
			A
Caelan	Black	2007	A	PL	y
Praise	Ward-Theiss	2007	A	APL	y
Daniel	Lee	2010	A	Howler
Ethan	Yeung	2008	A	New
Galin	Yeung	2009	A	New
Abraham	Lee	2006	A	APL/Vent	y
					y
			B
Darcy	Liu	2006	B	PL/Vent	y
James	Thom	2007	B	APL	y
Colton	Zhu	2008	B	APL	y
Ethan	Mak	2010	B	Howler
Joshua	Fan	2010	B	Howler
Max	Thom	2009	B
					y
			C
Nathan	Thomson	2008	C	PL	y
Zachary	Chung	2009	C	APL	y
Messiah	Nelson	2010	C	Howler
Lucas	VanderKwaak	2007	C	New
Howie	Xie	2009	C
					y
			D
Kyle	Symons	2007	D	PL/TL	y
Wesley	Macedo da Silva	2008	D	APL	y
Ethan	Lee	2009	D
Austin	Wang	2007	D	APL	y
Gabriel	Lee	2010	D	Howler