2nd Woodend Black Forest Scout Group Newsletter – October 2017

Venturers
Well done to the Venturers who donated their school holidays to work at this year’s Cuboree; Oscar, Richard, Lachie, and James – their efforts much appreciated by the Cubs. Dale has signed all our Venturers up to the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme so the kids are working to achieve this along with their Venturer Award and eventual Queen Scout Award.

This weekend sees 10 of them attend an intensive Leadership program, before they later paddle down the Glenelg River South Australia over the extend Cup weekend.

It helps when your Leader is a former canoe champion! We may have to put weights on him to slow him down! This is followed by the Shooting & Surfing Camp on 1st December 2017 – fantastic!

Kate & Jess participating on the Rail Trail…

Scouts
Our Scouts gathered over the school holidays to participate in the majestic Murray to Mountains Rail Trail – 100 kms of sealed roads between Wangarrata, Beechworth, Rutherglen, Bright and Wandidgong.

This term sees the Scouts enjoying the great outdoors with the Cohen Shield this weekend, followed by Gilweroo in Mt Martha on 17th November, and then a Surf Camp in Anglesea on 1st December.

Scouts times have changed for this term (Term 4 2017) and is now 6.30-8.30pm Mondays.

Scouting cycling adventure in North East Victoria

Cubs
13 Cubs from 2nd Woodend teamed up with cubs from New Gisborne, Macedon and Riddells Creek to enjoy a fantastic week under canvas at Cuboree. The Cubs embraced the action-packed program, including mud slides, catapult battles, Puffing Billy and awesome nightly entertainment in the outdoor amphitheatre.

The most wonderful aspect of Cuboree this year was the way in which our Cubs engaged with Cubs from other packs, and with the young people from different scouting sections – scouts, venturers and rovers – who each played a significant leadership role in delivering the event.

Pictured left are the Cubs with Victorian Chief Commissioner Brendan Watson.

A note from our Management Committee…
The coming 9 months will see considerable change in our Leader structure, with Mark, Matt and Gavin all leaving the Cub division and moving up to become Scout Leaders as their own children progress. Effectively this means by mid next year we will not have any Cub Leaders unless there are parents among you who will step forward and sign up either as Leaders or as registered parent helpers who are prepared to maintain the Cub section.

We have 30 cubs so out of that pool of adults it is not unreasonable to expect parents to step up. The transition will be gradual, with Mark finishing at the end of this year, Matt at the end of term one, and Gavin at the end of term two. Please consider this as a worthwhile option not only to participate more actively in this fabulous program with your child, but to also ensure the sustainability of our Group.

All enquiries should be made to Phil who greet you with open arms!