Opening Night and Time Change!

Opening night is Tuesday September 24th at 6:30pm. Yes 15 minutes later so the race after work is not so tight! Whew! We will be at the Gym in St. Jerome Elementary School (4330 Spratt Rd). Please be sure to sign in your beaver when you arrive and sign out after your pick up. A Beaver Leader will have the sign in/out sheet.

Important Dates: Some up coming important dates are September 28th (Capital Cleanup in Mountain Meadows Park) and October 15th (Investiture). Details for both of these events to come!

Registration Night!

Hi Beavers and Beaver Mothers and Fathers, 

Hope you had an awesome summer and are ready for a stellar year of beaver fun and excitement! The beaver leaders are busy starting the dam and already have many exciting events planned for an action packed beaver year!

Registration Night is at the Community Centre (4310 Shoreline Dr) from 7pm-8pm on Tuesday September 10th. Beaver Leader Sunshine will be there to help you register and tend to any questions you might have! Again you can always register at www.myscouts.ca!

Remember the best place to keep posted of Colony A activities is this blog! Keep posted more to come soon! 

Late summer update.

Hello Everybody, a quick blog update from the mid point of August.

A Colony leadership is changing,  and yet to be finalized - we are currently working on establishing the team and plan for this coming session.


Interested in joining? www.myscouts.ca is the place to sign up. Sign up is quick and painless and will get the ball rolling for youth to join and/or renew into the Scouting movement. There will also be an information night where you can stop in and ask question and meet the team, details will be posted once it is confirmed.

2013 Registration

Hello Folks - been quiet over here since we wrapped up a number of weeks ago now.

Just a quick note this AM. Early registration provides a $10 discount - if you want to take advantage of that you only have until end of day today. I wanted to pop on here and let you know.

www.myscouts.ca is the spot, (login on the left) with the email address that you used to register your son last year.

You can go ahead and register at any time between now and Sept, but the cost will bump up to $200 as of tomorrow.

Cheers.

D.

Swim Up - Rain or shine.

From a previous post......

Wednesday May 22 - 1st Manotick "Swim Up" ceremony, at Claudette Cain Park. This is an annual event, to recognize the youth as they 'swim up' to the next level of scouting. Some of our white tail beavers will be 'swimming up' and joining Cub packs in the fall, this is where that happens. You'll spot more info on the 1st Manotick group site by clicking here.

I've just been told that it is rain or shine, we'll see you in the park @6:30 tonight!

Note: Claudette Cain Park is the city park beside the river, across from Moncion's grocery store.

D.

May 21 - End of Year Funhaven Party!!

Hey folks, we talked about this with the Colony last week ..........the excitement was obvious :)

It's end of year party time, and last year was so much fun we doing it at Funhaven again. If you need directions (it's behind IKEA, off of Pinecrest) click on the 'Visit' tab on their website.

Pizza and drinks will be served. Our group booking is from 6PM - 7:30.

Direct from Funhaven, here are some points to keep in mind.

• Socks are a health and safety requirement of our Jungle Gym/Ballocity area. Please ensure your group all have socks, or they will be available for purchase at the facility for $2 per pair.
• Running shoes are a safety requirement for the Climbing Wall, and will definitely make your Laser Tag experience more comfortable! 
• Guests need to be taller than 44 inches to ride the Bumper Cars, and they need to weigh more than 45lbs to experience the Climbing Wall.

NOTE: Swim up BBQ is in Claudette Cain park Wed night. I'll post more details in another post.

For those of you camping with us this coming weekend- expect a blog post on Wed night to talk through the details.

See you tomorrow!!

D.

2013 Beavers. Remaining meetings/events.

He Everyone. Three marquee events ( +one more regular meeting in the Gym) remaining on the 2013 beaver calendar. I need your help pulling together all the details to get our Colony fully registered an accounted for at each of these events. ........Please email me your reply to the yellow highlighted sections below. Thank you :)

Tuesday May 14 - Regular meeting in our Gym. Well, outside of our Gym if possible. If the weather participates we'll be out back having fun in the schoolyard. If it's unseasonably cool, we'll have our last regular meeting in the Gym.

Tuesday May 21 - End of year Pizza Party, at Funahaven :) Details to follow.


Wednesday May 22 - 1st Manotick "Swim Up" ceremony, at Claudette Cain Park. This is an annual event, to recognize the youth as they 'swim up' to the next level of scouting. Some of our white tail beavers will be 'swimming up' and joining Cub packs in the fall, this is where that happens. You'll spot more info on the 1st Manotick group site by clicking here.


Needed - If your son is planning on attending Cub's in the fall, please let me know ASAP (Early registration forms will be available shortly). As parents and siblings are invited to attend Swim Up as well (Free bbq!) we need a headcount. Please let me know how many in total from your family will be attending Swim Up on the 22nd.

May 24, 25, 26 - All Sections Camp. - Only one of our five leaders are confirmed available for this full weekend event .....and that would be me (Dan). The show will go on, but as we are short leadership coverage, it will be mandatory for this event that a parent attends with their Beaver. It is worth noting that it is extremely rare for beavers to attend with out a parent even with full leadership coverage, so only one leader should not change much for this weekend. You have the option to arrive on Friday night, or Saturday morning. Details posted here.


Needed - Please RSVP to me via email with: Your (Accompanying parent's) full name. Your Beavers full name. Your planned arrival date (Either Friday or Saturday).

With these events planned, this will wrap up our 2013 A Colony beaver session.  .......what a lot of fun we've had :)

A couple of updates this morning for everybody.

• Bowling tonight, out at the North Gower Bowling Alley. Details in my previous post.

• "Swim up" our year end formal ceremony is Wednesday May 22 at Claudette Cain Park as mentioned previously.

May 7, 2013 - Bowling!

Hey Folks, we've been informed that our Gym is not available to us this week - there is a school function booked.

Instead of meeting in the Gym, we've booked the North Gower Bowling Alley (Google Map Link :) .....Yup, we're taking A Colony bowling. Details will follow, I just wanted to get this posted tonight to provide adequate "heads up" for next week's plan.

EDIT details!!:

We've booked the North Gower Bowling Alley from 6 to 7:30. It's going to be a very casual, fun filled evening of bowling and not much else. There is no cost for the event, but please be sure to bring indoor shoes.

I'll post more details later this weekend.

D.