Some of our Rovers recently volunteered at a multi-agency fundraising dinner to help raise money for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. The proceeds from the full house go to the Canadian Red Cross, and will assist the International Red Cross in delivering their much needed support on the ground in Japan.
On January 9th, the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group had the pleasure of listening to Dr.Kenneth Chow, an invigorating guest speaker. He is an accomplished leader in the field of dentistry and maxillofacial surgery. He is also a volunteer basketball coach, a professor at University of British Columbia, a regular at the Vancouver General Hospital, and […]
Kenald Yu, David Li, Jared Merrell and Kevin Li presented at the annual UBC Student Leadership Conference on January 8th. It was great to meet and greet so many students passionate about leadership. They came from as far as Winnipeg and even New Zealand to attend this conference! As part of the “Rethinking Leadership” theme […]
Knights Before Christmas, the second of a series of socials put on by the Rover Life team, was held on December 19th, 2010 in the warm and inviting Grand Room at King’s Landing. Really, it was just an excuse for Rovers across the Lower Mainland to get together during the Christmas season to meet new […]
During her tour of Canada’s Councils, Janet Yale took an hour out of her time to have a visit with our Rover Scout Group. The ten lucky members of our Rover Scout Group who were in attendance got to hear about her communications, advocacy, regulation, and most recently corporate background, and her ideas for moving […]
Congratulations to all the participants of our Climate Change Awareness Workshop! For those of you who didn’t make it, we put on the workshop we perfected in the Philippines, covering: What is Climate Change? Causes and Consequences Your Carbon Footprint Waste, Recycling, Composting Resources for Scouts Building a Climate Change Program Whether you attended the […]
The 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group had the pleasure to have Della Smith of Q Workshops present and share her knowledge in meeting facilitation. Because the Rover Scout Group meets only once a month, we can appreciate the importance of running efficient and effective meetings. Although we don’t have many issues dealing with rude, disrespectful audiences, […]
So it has been a week since the last of us have come back from Asia and not only are we adjusting to getting back to our regular work and school life, but also back to 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group duties. Yesterday we had a project management workshop and our monthly management meeting back to […]
2nd update from Jason Lin on Vimeo.
Campfire was fun, especially when Pinky Au, Kevin Li, Clarice Fu and Brandon Ma got pulled up in a skit thinking they were to be recognized for their contribution only to find out it was a big joke by Scouter Henry Hutalle. We sang our standard Paddle Song/Land of the Silver Birch medley, and watched […]