2nd Annual Clarence-Rockland Clean-up

On Saturday April 30th, we had the Clarence-Rockland town clean-up.
Needless to say we did not have a good turn out amongst beavers. Only 6 out of 25. At least there were some cubs and scouts and I think some venturers.

I admit, I arrived late and the clean-up was done but I had a semi-plausible excuse: I was at a Beaver Sharing Session. I did help out with cooking lunch and cleaning up after.

I know the weather was bad (rainy and cold) but only 6 beavers ? Gee.

Thanks for those who did show up.

Rusty.

Tucker House Clean-up

I'd like to thank all the Beavers (and parents) who showed up on Sunday. Well, thanks to everyone: beavers, cubs, scouts, leaders, parents, etc... but since I'm a beaver leader, I figured I'd thank the beavers 1st .... :)

It was nice to see all these people work together from little 5-7 year olds to 12+ years old. If I may be a bit blunt, it seems that it is always the same ones volunteering, especially in our colony. I know we all have busy lives and it is normal to miss some activities but not all the time ... anyways that was my rant for the week ...

We did all the necessary tasks in less than 2 hours. It would've taken Dave (the house caretaker) most of the summer to do this on his own.

This shows good team work, solidarity and is a way to say thanks for being able to use the facilities for free.

Rusty.

PS: Did some googling and found that Tucker House actually has a website: www.tuckerhouse.ca

Kub Kar Rally 2005

Date: Saturday April 2 2005
Location: Museum of Science & Technology
1st Rockland hosted this event

Final Results:

1st place
Hans Vivian-Winzel car# 3, 1st Rockland
2nd place
Andy Ross car# 24, 2nd Orleans
3rd Place
Brandon Manuel car# 15, 3rd Orleans
Snail Car
Patrick Young car# 17, 3rd Orleans

Design Awards

Most Innovative, Travis Morton car# 27, 14th Gloucester
Brilliant Design, Jonathan Grant car# 64 4th Orleans A
Humorous Design Leslee Twerdun car# 10, 1st Rockland
Out of the Ordinary Design Joshua Simpson car# 37, 1st Orleans B
Most Realistic Car Christopher Holtum 1st Orleans B
Plus 10 door prizes

We had 69 cubs pre registered and 58 of them attended the on race day.
The event in itself was a great success and I believe fun was had by all.
Many thanks go to all the leaders & parents who helped out that day.
I think that the way the races are done (who goes to what track) may need to be tweaked next year. Other than that all is good.
Many thanks to the following establishments who donated the many prizes we gave out that day;
Giant Tiger Rockland
Canadian Tire Rockland
LaserQuest StLaurent Blv
Fun Junction Triole St
Ray Friel Centre Orleans
Museum of Science & Technology
Team Bushido Martial Arts Rockland

Beavers - Cosmic Sleepover

This past weekend we had a sleepover at Cosmic Adventures ( website ). Why they call it a sleepover I'll never now ... sleep yeah right !!! ;o)

All in all the kids had tons of fun. Where else can you have 31 kids run, jump and scream without going crazy. We actually had 31 kids, 17 adults.

They have a really good program: evening snack, craft, movie, breakfast in the morning and a couple of games. The best part is that they actually ask us what WE want to do and how WE want to run our schedule. To give you an idea, this is how it went:

• snack @ 8pm
• craft @ 8:30pm (bird feeder)
• movie @ 10pm (Shark Tales)
• lights out @ 12:00
• breakfast @ 8am

In between they had free play, played "birthday" hat tag, had a scavenger hunt. The schedule is not written in rock either we can change things on the fly.

The adults seem to enjoy themselves as well. They (the 2 monitors) opened the cantine around 10pm when the children were watching the movie and cooked/prepared whatever we wanted. Hawkeye I think ate 2 large pizzas we had to stop him ... just joking.

I think for the price it ( a total of approx. $1000.00 ) was worth it. Take a look at some pics

Rusty.

PS: Thanks to the Chill and Akela for getting some of the Cubs involved and for bringing popcorn and drinks.

Beavers - Snake Night

Last Thursday we had a parent (Brian) come and demonstrate his snake collection. This was very informative and interesting. I think the kids (and parents) enjoyed themselves a lot (1st time we had them all quiet for the whole hour). Brian really knew his stuff (as if I would be able to tell if he didn't ... NOT) but most of all he was really good with the kids.

Thanks Brian you did a good job.

For more information on their collection go to the following website:

http://www.highwaterherps.ca/