CAMPING
NEWS
Area Camp Adviser: Brenda Wilson
MAY
CAMP 2009
Groups come to camp self-contained with all gear/supplies necessary to take part
in the camp - tents, stoves, food etc.
MAY CAMP'09 OVERVIEW
We have crash landed in space and
we must survive in this alien world.
Two hour challenges (developed and
run by camp staff) will run from Saturday morning until
Sunday evening.
‘QUARKS’ will be awarded at each
challenge. The patrol with the most ‘quarks’ on
Monday wins.
The four challenges are organized
into themes:
* COMFORT ZONE
* EXPORING &
OBSERVING
* SHELTER
*COMMUNITY SPIRIT
The weekend will also include
Space Orb, ‘Group Meal’, Scouts'/Guides' Own, Night Wide - Game,
Group
Projects, Games
& Activities, Campfires and lots of FUN !!!
COST: There is a $10.00 charge for
the camp. This includes a pin or crest.
Most units charge an additional $40.00 for food and supplies.
Lunch on
Monday (hot dogs) will be provided.
Camp sites will be assigned upon arrival.
SAFE
GUIDE: Guiders, please
note: May Camp is a yellow event.
Each
unit is responsible for completing their own Safe Guide forms.
Your Safe Guide forms must reach Guide Office 14 days before the event.
SAFE GUIDE HELP
Activity: May Camp’09
Activity Start Date: May 15, 2009 1pm
Activity end date: May 18, 2009 1pm
Name of facility: Camp Carter
Address: 3350 New Harris Road, New Harris, C.B. B1X 1T2
Phone: 902-674-2271
Follow the links below to print the
information sheet and unit registration
form.
INFORMATION SHEET
REGISTRATION FORM KITLIST _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
FRIDAY: Arrive between 1pm and 7pm.
Headquarter Staff will assign campsite.
You prepare your supper and meet your neighbours.
10 pm Leaders Meeting -
'BIG TENT'.
11:00pm Bed and Quiet Time
SATURDAY: Breakfast and dress in uniform
8:30am Flag Break
9:00amTeams Register
10:00am - 12:00 Morning Project Period: "BRAVE NEW WORLD"
12:00 Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Project Period
5:00pm Supper
7:00pm - 8:30pm "SPACE ORB"
9:00pm Campfire
Following campfire, "NIGHT ADVENTURE" for older members but only the brave.
11:00pm Lights out and Quiet Time
SUNDAY:
Breakfast and dress in uniform
8:30am Flag Break
8:30am Scouts'/Guides' Own
10:00am - 12:00 Morning Project Period
12:00 Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Project Period
5:00pm COMMUNITY SUPPER. Each group bring a 'One Pot Meal' to the Chapel Area
to feed their group and for judges to sample. Trade recipes and socialize with
your neighbours.
7:00pm - 8:00pm Evening activities. "SPACE ORB" continues.
9:00pm Campfire followed by "NIGHT ADVENTURES 2"
11:00pm Lights out and quiet time.
MONDAY:
Breakfast and dress in uniform
9:30 am Flag Break
10:15am "SPACE ORB" FINAL. Leader NO STARS vs Youth ALL STARS
Break Camp - All to participate!
11:30am Lunch in the 'Big Field' provided by headquarter staff
12:30am Closing Horseshoe
INSPECTION: This will go on
all weekend. Emphasis will be on a safe, clean and happy campsite with all
working
together as a team. Inspectors will remain anonymous until Saturday morning!
(click link to print inspection sheet).
INSPECTION
UNIFORM:Any form of uniform
is acceptable. Scout ies and Guide scarves should be worn. A Camp hat of some
form is necessary.
PARTICIPATION
All units are expected to participate
in all activities. The planning staff work hard to make May Camp
a successful event but it will not be much fun without full, enthusiastic
participation of all.
See you at May Camp 09!
PRINT SCHEDULE
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PLANNING YOUR OWN CAMP?
Are
you looking for camp themes?
There are
two booklets on Becky's Guiding Resource Centre
filled
with camp themes and ideas!
Book 1 - 39
pages CLICK
HERE
Book 2 - 117 pages
CLICK
HERE
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A
TRADITIONAL CAMPFIRE
A campfire is a
ceremony with a definite beginning, middle and end.
The
pattern used for planning an effective campfire is as follows.

The
campfire is organized in this way to create a "mood".
You start out softly, and build in
volume and energy until you reach the peak of
the campfire. Then, like the flames of the
fire, you slowly die down until the
closing
is reached. The campfire is especially magical when the flames of the
fire mirror
the songs being sung - loud and sparkling for the action songs and
yells, slowly
burning during the slow songs, and dying to embers for the vesper
and taps.
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Ashes of
Friendship -A Campfire Tradition
from: GuideZone
Legend
has it that Lord Baden-Powell would always take a small amount of ashes
from
the
campfire and spread these ashes into the next campfire. The main purpose
of
these ashes is to bring to all Scouts and Scouters the International aspect of
the
world brotherhood of Scouting.
Ashes
taken from a campfire are sprinkled into the
flames of the next Campfire. The
next morning, when the ashes are cold, they are
stirred and each Girl Guide and
Scout takes some with her to mix with her next
campfire. If more than one Girl
Guide or Scout brings ashes to the campfire, the
lists are combined, the dates
and places of all campfires are recorded and passed on.
As Girl Guides and
Scouts travel, the ashes circle the globe.
It
is traditional that
only those present at the ceremony carry ashes from that
ceremony.
The Ceremony
We
carry our friendships with us in these ashes from other campfires shared with
friends in other lands.
May
the joining of the past fires with the leaping flames of
this campfire,
symbolize once more the unbroken chain that binds
Guides and Scouts
of all nations together.
With
Greeting from our brothers and sisters around the
world, I will add these ashes,
and the fellowship therein, to our campfire.
'Will
anyone with campfire ashes please come forward and join me?'
(Wait
for others)
'The
ashes I spread into this campfire carry memories of past campfires dating
back
to <year>.
I
will now charge these ashes to this campfire'.
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WAGGGS
Camping Cookbook HERE
SIT UPON
made with old denims
HERE
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