Notice: 2007-Aug-01 Scouting Breakfast

Scouting Breakfast – August 1st 2007
Wednesday, 1 August 2007 – The Dawn of a new Century for Scouting around the World
On 1 August 1907, Scouting’s Founder Robert Baden-Powell blew his kudu horn on Brownsea Island at 08:00 to open the world’s first Scout camp. Soon thereafter, Scouting began to quickly spread around the world [...]

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This Week 2007-Feb-28 (Wednesday) : Family BBQ

Cub’s moves to the Wednesday night for this week as the Joey’s host the Family BBQ in Alister Knox park; starts at 6:00pm

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Notice: 2007-Feb-24 Founder’s Day

FOUNDERS DAY 2007
Founders Day occurs on 22 February each year. In the Centenary year, Founder’s Day will fall on a Thursday. Victorian Branch will celebrate Founder’s Day on Saturday 24 February 2007 with a public family fun day.
The site for the family fun day is the Treasury Gardens in the City of Melbourne [MEL 2G [...]

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Brownsea Island – The first Scout camp

Brownsea Island is looked on as one of the starting points for Scouting, and this year is the 100th anniversary of the camp.
The Brownsea Island Scout Camp was the world’s first Scout camp, and is regarded as the formal birth of the worldwide Scout movement. Robert Baden-Powell ran the camp from August 1 [...]

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This Week 2007-Feb-22 : This is your life – Robert Baden-Powell

Worldwide in nearly all Scout associations, Founders’ Day is celebrated on 22 February which is BP’s birthday.
Who is BP?
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scouting Movement. [...]

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Wombats? – a Cub does not give in to themselves

Our Cubs will remember Lachy from our JOTI/JOTA camps with 1st Chelsea Heights Cubs;
Wombat finds new digs
Susie O’Brien
February 09, 2007 12:00am
IT’S a fair bet that this is the only wombat named after shopping tycoon Sidney Myer, but then he started life as a display in a Myer Christmas window.
Yesterday, thanks to Make-A-Wish and Myer, [...]

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This Week 2007-Feb-14 : Chinese New Year – Year of the Pig

恭喜发财 Gōngxǐ fācái
We welcome in the Chinese New Year – celebrating the year of the pig. Lion dances, dragons, music, fireworks (… well poppers) and food.
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The new year begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar, which usually falls [...]

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This Week 2007-Feb-07 : Welcome Back – Wet Night

Welcome back for the first night of 2007! Tonight we will play some water games and we will have a few water activities – so prepare to get wet.  Before you worry too much about breaking the water restrictions (seeing we are on stage 3 restrictions) we will be using some of Akela’s tank water.
Bring [...]

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2007 Term 1 Program

Our Pack’s 2007 Term 1 Program [PDF] is now available. This contains our activities for Term 1, and an outline of our Term 2 (although Term 2 is yet to be finalized).

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Cub Camp I 2007 :: Start Your Engines!

Our first camp for 2007! To be held on the weekend of the Melbourne Formula One carnival. Our theme will be * Start Your Engines! *

LOCATION: Camp Warringal, Bruces Creek Road, Whittlesea North (Melways 610 M10).
COST: $60- per Cub (to be paid by 8th March 2007)
Transport Arrangements: Parent are to arrange transport for their Cubs
COMPLETED [...]

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