St Johns Wood Scouts

The ABC will be airing this documentary on ABC TV 1, this Tuesday at 10am and repeated on Wednesday at 10.30am.

After the great success of our Venturers at last year’s VenMX, claiming the winning trophy for the first time in many years, it is time again for the Venturers to rally for the most challenging competition hike of the year.

Carrying on with the tradition of the Rover Crew, our current ‘Saints,’ Emile, Owen and Matt, are joining in with this year’s, assisting in the running of Checkpoints.

If you would like to take part in this very worthwhile activity check out the VenMX site.

Check out the photos from VenMX 2007 below.

BIV SITE 3–The final destination on the banks of the Brisbane River

Sitting around the campfire

The Saint John’s Wood Winning Team!

Mapping Ahead

This coming Tuesday, 22 April, I have organised a visit to the Gallipoli barracks, Enoggera. There we will be visiting the 2/14 light horse regiment museum. The unit will also display an ASLAV (armoured personnel carrier) for the cubs to crawl over and an active soldier to speak with the cubs.

We will meet at the den at 6:20, to leave promptly at 6:30.

We will arrive back at the den at 8:00 pm.

Please dress in full uniform, neat and tidy, with scarf.

The soldiers suggest that we minimise the number of vehicles, so I’ll phone a few parents to transport. Those parents will stay for the night and transport back to the den.

No cost.

A few other items coming up:

Thursday 24 April (yes, two nights in one week!). Sleepover at the den, and then Anzac day march on Friday morning. I’ll have a note next week, but please reply to this email to let me know if you are coming or not, so I can organise catering. The cost will be $10.

If the cubs attend both activities (museum & march), they earn the special badge “their service, our heritage”.

I am now using the group website, www.stjohnswoodscouts.org. You can read notices, see photos of cubs and the other sections.

A full term 2 note will come out as soon as I have time to write one.

Regards,

Alan Brake (Akela)

Coming up:

24 April Anzac Day sleepover and march - start 6 pm; finish about 10 am

6 May Mother’s night

13 - 15 June camp

A highlight of the term was our sleepover. For many cubs, it was their first sleepover at the den in March. First the cubs cooked dinner for themselves on fires they built and then we had some wide games in the park and then on Sunday, we participated in Clean up Australia day. After that, the Joeys joined us for an activity with the local SOWN (Save Our Waterways Now) coordinator, Dick Harding. Dick talked to the Cubs and Joeys and then we planted 100 trees, shrubs and grasses. After that we went for a bushwalk and observed where people had helped, and damaged, the environment. The cubs showed a very high standard of good behaviour - well done.

Other activities this term have included our District Cub swim carnival, a swim badge night, fire lighting and toasting marshmallows, knots and lots of games. Thanks to the Scouts who have come down to participate in our evening programs.

Akela

Photos show: (left)Leadership course - Reilly W

(Right) Cubs have a great time at the district cub swim carnival in the many novelty events.

Get ready for Roventure 2008!

It’s that time of year again when Rover Crew’s from across South-East Queensland decide that their Venturer Unit’s aren’t so smelly and invite them to be their guests at the one and only Rover/Venturer activity of Roventure.

This year it’s actually being called ‘RowVenture’ as the camp is themed around the famous words of our founder BP in saying that you should “row your own canoe.” Bearing this in mind water activities, pirate discos and canoing are aplenty this year with fun applied liberally across the whole weekend.

If you are interested, which you naturally all would be considering how much fun Hamish had last year when The Gap Rovers took him along, then have a read of the flyer and get your folks to sign off on the Application Form both of which can be found on the Queensland Rovers site, and don’t forget to bring them along on Friday night with a crisp $50 note and Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt. (For your information Emile will be playing the part of Bob for the weekend, Owen will be playing the part of Fanny, Bill will be the narrator and I will continue to cast whosoever else into appropriate roles at mine own discretion).

For the sake of keeping count of numbers (in the fashion of three preceding two, two preceding one, etc.) if a weekend of exuberant, unmitigated, overflowing, gushing, rapturous, unashamed, unmasked f-u-n gets you excited then send the Rover Crew an email immediately expressing your primitive desire to have fun! Our email address is… rovers@stjohnswoodscouts.org

This is what f-u-n looked like at Roventure 2007..!