Upon a chilly and rainy Saturday morning, over 100 scouting volunteers took part in the Grey Cup parade in downtown Vancouver. As the members marched along Burrard Street bearing assortment of flags, tents and canoes lead by our national flag, everyone could feel the energy in the air. As part of the 180th Pacific Coast […]
One of the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group’s goals this year is to provide more services to local community organizations in the Lower Mainland. In the spirit of this initiative, eight members of our Rover Scout Group volunteered on November 19th at the Salvation Army Harbour Light “Feeding Ministry”, essentially a “Food Line” that provides healthy […]
For our international service project in May 2012, we will be working with a children village (兒童村 – one of the eight main ones in China) near the City of Xian. The children village has close to 90 children living there. The buildings were donated by some American companies such as Amway, etc. Our contact in China […]
By: Aaron D’Souza Students are faced with innumerable distractions nowadays. The attention span of people in general seems to be getting shorter with the stimulation of senses that comes from having the internet at our fingertips. Focusing on doing one thing at a time has become a great challenge, and especially to students who want […]
The winner of our October 2011 PERSIST Award is Elizabeth Leung. Liz joined our Rover Scout Group about four years ago, when she was only 16 years old. Liz is reliable, hardworking, and always eager to help. She is currently the project manager of the Young Rovers portfolio. This month, she single-handedly published a research […]
This weekend five of our Rovers will be attending the BC Rover Moot (a camp open to 18-26 year olds and their advisors) which will have close to 50 people in attendance. We are going to present a workshop on personal development plans (shortened to PDP’s) and mentoring. This has been core to our Rover […]
From the perspective of a first time meeting chair Written by: Stephanie Chan “What is a meeting chair?” The typical answers would be that the meeting chair is the person you see standing up front who generally runs the meeting and introduces the next presenter on the stage. True, but that is a boring […]
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Two great videos are ready for your enjoyment! We premiered them to the Girl Scouts at our farewell dinner on Monday evening, and wish to share them with you. Girls Scouts of Japan at Camp Byng The first video showcases many of the activities we ran for the 31 Girl Scouts of Japan, and for […]
Just this past weekend, the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group hosted a joint camp at Camp Byng involving Scouts from several groups within our local Scouting council, Fukui Girl Guides from Japan, and also a group of 30+ new-to-Scouting participants. It was no easy task coordinating between all the different groups of people with various Scouting […]