1st Merrickville Report for Area
Meeting April
20, 2006
Events To
Date
- Scouts built Scout trucks.
Now working on forestry.
- Cubs built miniature
catapults, went to Ron's archery in Smiths
Falls.
- Cubs had a junk yard war,
building little robots from a brown bag of parts from Active Surplus in
Toronto.
- Beaver sleepover at
Brockville museum very successfully. Highly
recommended.
- Beavers did World day of water, wilderness survival,
hike.
Future
Events
- Hobbies &
Wheels.
- Pitch-in
Canada. Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts to clean litter from around the
village.
- Cub spring camp at
Whispering Pines. Swiss Family Robinson theme.
- Scout spring camp
at Whispering Pines. Canoeing.
- Scout canoe
practice.
- Scout NiteVent at
Whispering Pines.
- Beavers swim-up to
Cubs.
- Beaver astronomy,
T-Ball, Alpaca farm.
Miscellaneous
- Website
http://www.1stmerrickville.ca. Lots of pictures, documents, event
information, etc.
- Producing CD with our yearly slide show and all our
photographs. Versions for each of the past
three years. To be sold to the parents for
$5.
Hobbies &
Wheels
Cub Area Camp
Impeesa
- Operation Bootcamp!
- Information package distributed to all packs. Akela's
contacted by telephone and information package posted to the two packs that
hadn't received it.
- Estimated attendance is 90-120
Cubs.
- Considering inviting a few packs from outside Valley
Highlands: Oxford Mills, Kemptville,
Spencerville.
Issues