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How to Plan Your First Outdoor Event: PMT1 RECAP

By Sandra Lee Ever want to plan something fun with your friends, but feel that you don’t have the capacity or the skills to run an event? Have you ever found yourself stuck with an awesome idea, visualize the potential of your end product, but can barely imagine the steps in between you and that […]

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Recap: Shoreline CleanUp @Garry Point Park

Nearly 60,000 registrants cleaned 2,000+ shorelines across Canada in 2015, removing almost 180,000 kg of litter from more than 3,000 km of shoreline. — Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup As a new member of our Rover Scout Group, Tina Liao was tasked to manage our annual Shoreline Cleanup Project to learn about 2 major aspects of […]

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Video: Shoreline Clean Up!

Produced By Jae-hui Song  Shoreline Clean up is one of our Scout Group’s annual projects that we pursue as our part of keeping our community clean. Every year, we are able to collect bags full of undisposed plastic and recyclable bottles, which actually isn’t an anomaly! Cleaning up shoreline garbage is just as easy as forgetting […]

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[RECAP] Public Speaking Workshop

By Brian Asin A class of Rover Scouts got together early Saturday morning at the Hastings Branch of the Vancouver Public Library to participate in a Public Speaking Workshop. The event was organized by Barton Lui, and facilitated by some of our very talented and insightful Scouters. Everyone got their first go at public speaking […]

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East Side Eats August 2016

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!

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[RECAP] East side Eats

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, […]

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Workshop: Monica’s New Insights

By Sandra Lee Every year, we give our Rover Scouts the opportunity to complete a personality profile that would help them understand themselves more and learn how to work with others. Prior to taking the Insights Workshop, Rovers are asked to complete an online quiz that they could take at home or at work, somewhere […]

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General Updates International Projects iProj Malaysia/Singapore 2015

Day 5: A Visit that Influenced Our Contingents' Scouting Life

By Lawrence Lai As a diverse group of Scouting members, we were exhilarated to be visiting the World Scout Bureau in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The day ahead inspired us to see the Scouting World in a whole new perspective. On May 6th, our contingent’s first stop before going to the World Scout Bureau […]

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Tomato Soup Day

By: Sandra Lee On Saturday, May 3rd, I volunteered at the Salvation Army Vancouver’s Harbour Light Soup Kitchen for the first time, and the experience was not what I expected. With the help of Rover Scouts of the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group and Venturer Scouts from the 138th East Vancouver Scout Group and 69th […]