On August 27th, 20 rovers worked together to make 558 sandwiches to help the people of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Join us as we experienced a day of team work and giving back to the community!
Category: Community Service
By Sandra Lee Planning and managing a project is probably the most intimidating thing you could do in our Rover Scout Group. Our Scout Group specializes in training our Rovers the basics, but the lessons that come out of project management will always be different. What is learnt from managing a project will depend on […]
By Brian Asin This Labour Day weekend, members of the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group volunteered at TaiwanFest 2016 with an organization called OtherHalf-Chinese Stem Cell Initiative. This Canadian charity strives to increase the number of potential stem cell donors in the global stem cell donor registry. Though they do not limit themselves to […]
By Brian Asin A community service project to end the summer on the right note This past weekend, members of our rover scout crew initiated East Side Eats, the first of many community service activities planned for the last quarter of 2016. East Side Eats is a project that our crew holds close to our hearts, […]
By Sandra Lee “Across the country, Canadians have been saying that we should do more to help Syrian refugees. We must do more and we are. All Canadians will need to join together in welcoming and lending their support to this community in need.” – Hon. John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship As […]
By Sandra Lee “… One of the largest non-profit Canada Day celebrations.. [It is] a testament to the over sixty year tradition of commitment to this community by the residents which is as strong today as it was then”. –Steveston Festival History We are so lucky to live in Vancouver, a place that celebrates and […]
Paying taxes, obeying traffic signs, and voting in a government election are some of the things you do as a Canadian citizen. To be a model citizen, we should be contributing members to our community. Our Rover Scout Group is blessed with a great number of Rovers who carry their passions wherever they go. In […]
By Sandra Lee On April 26th, approximately 35 Rovers headed to Chinatown to prepare more than 800 sandwiches for those living in Vancouver’s downtown east side. As a part of Scout Canada’s Good Turn Week, this project was planned and led by Chenoa Liu and Cameron Butler who managed to get the word out about […]
On February 14, 2016, we hosted a Valentine’s Day fundraiser where a group of our Rovers went around Vancouver to sell roses. The fundraiser started from prepping and packaging the roses nicely the night before, to selling roses in highly populated places in Vancouver on the day of. As a final result, we raised a total of […]
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Recap: Can Drive
DRIVING SUCCESS: Our C.A.R.E. (Community Service and Rover Engagement) Department hosted an impromptu can-drive for our January conference. We were able to collect about 60 pounds worth of canned goods which were later delivered to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank! Good job Rovers! What should we do next?