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Pictures from our 2012 Winter Camp

mwong — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:40:18 +0000

Here are some pictures from the winter camp that we completed last weekend, held at Camp Wildman on Georgian Bay. The camp went well, and the weather co-operated by giving us a nice variety of conditions (including high winds and snowstorms just when they tried to make an outdoor shelter), which miraculously cleared up and turned into a bright sunny day for our drive home on Sunday.

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2011-10-23 Hilton Falls hike

mwong — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:13:10 +0000

Here are some pictures from our October 23, 2011 hike to the Hilton Falls Conservation Area.

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Pictures from our Fall 2011 Queen’s Park tour

mwong — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:20:49 +0000

Here are some pictures from our most recent Queen’s Park tour, held this weekend. The trip went well, we arrived back at IUC 20 minutes ahead of schedule, and the Scouts had a good time and hopefully learned something.

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October 2011 upcoming meetings

mwong — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:34:44 +0000

Here are a few notes on upcoming meetings:

1) As we told the Scouts at last week’s meeting, this week’s meeting on October 19 is going to be held at a bowling alley because the church is busy with their yearly rummage sale. We finally managed to get our reservation confirmed, so we can announce that we will be meeting at PlanetBowl at 5555 Eglinton Ave W, at the usual time from 7:00pm to 8:30pm on Wednesday. To help pay for shoe rentals and lane rentals, we’ll need each Scout to bring $12.

2) This weekend is our Queen’s Park Scout tour. There is no fee. We will meet in the church parking lot at IUC at 11:00am on Saturday October 22, whereupon we will take the Scouts downtown via TTC so that they learn a bit about navigating our city on the way to the tour. We will come back to the church for approximately 4:00pm.

3) Next week’s meeting on Wednesday October 26 will be our yearly Halloween party. The kids are encouraged to wear their costumes to the meeting, and to also be prepared to tell ghost stories if they know any. We will have snacks and games too!

Pictures from our 2011 Fall Camp

mwong — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:01:02 +0000

Click on the title to see pictures from our weekend camp at Goodyear Memorial Scout Camp near Orangeville Ontario. It rained heavily on Friday, but it cleared up in time to set up everyones’ tents. Saturday was a much more pleasant day, and Sunday it rained again, but not until we had packed up the tents, which worked out well for us. The Scouts had to “rough it” because there was no water or firewood, so we had to carry water from the reservoir to the camp on foot, and we had to forage for dead wood in the forest without damaging any living trees. But there were no complaints, and we had plenty of fun!

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Welcome to the 2011-2012 Scouting Year!

mwong — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:44:21 +0000

We just had our first meeting of the year last night, and it was good to see a lot of old faces and some new faces. We are holding our first fall camp very soon – the September 30 to October 2 weekend at Camp Goodyear. The fee will be $30 as usual, and we will be at the “Jack Pine” campsite, which is a nice round clearing in the woods and has a wooden shelter for cooking or severe weather. We need to know how many people will attend, so if you haven’t indicated whether you will attend on the sign-up sheet at last night’s meeting, please contact us via E-mail.

The next weekend event after that will be Apple Day, on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 to 16.

Pictures from the May 7 JOTT hike

mwong — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:01:48 +0000

Click on the title to see pictures from the May 7 “Jamboree On The Trail” hike. Thanks and congratulations to all who participated.

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May 7 JOTT hike

mwong — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:47:42 +0000

The May 7 “Jamboree On The Trail” hike is scheduled for 9:30am at Blue Springs Scout Reserve in Acton, Ontario. We will be meeting at the Chickadee Pavilion, in the

Map to Blue Springs Scout Reserve

Directions to Blue Springs Scout Reserve:

Take the 401 West past Mississauga and past Oakville until you get to Milton.
Take regional Hwy #25 north from Milton for about 10 minutes until you get to side road # 25
Turn left on side road #25.
Follow side road #25 west for about 5 minutes until you reach 6th Line Nassagaweya.
Turn right and drive for a couple of minutes. Blue Springs gate 3 will be on your left-hand side. The entire reserve is on both sides of the road, but we will be on the left-hand (western) half of the reserve, to your left.
Turn left into Blue Springs West (Blue Heron). There will be a parking lot just inside and to the left. Chickadee pavilion will be ahead. Here is a map of Blue Springs West.

The trip should take roughly one hour, so you will want to be on the road by 8:30am. The hike itself will be from 10:00am to 3:00pm. There will be a short lunch break, so bring a bagged lunch. There will be an opportunity to do tinfoil cooking over hot coals, so you might want to practice your tinfoil lunch preparation skills. Here is a handy guide which gives you instructions on how to make a tinfoil cooked lunch:

Packing list:

Lunch
Hat
Sunscreen
Bug repellent
Footwear appropriate for hiking
Drinking water
A jacket

The latest forecasts say that there will be no rain tomorrow, although one can never be too sure.

Pictures from the April 30 ScoutTrees event

mwong — Sun, 01 May 2011 08:37:14 +0000

Click on the title to see pictures from the ScoutTrees tree-planting event on April 30, 2011 at Bob Hunter Memorial Park in the Rouge Valley area.

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2011 Park Clean-up

mwong — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:07:01 +0000

A big thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s West Deane park clean-up yesterday. The weather did not co-operate, but everyone pushed through anyway, and we cleaned up a lot of junk despite the blustery high winds.