| Term 1 2009 Scout Newsletter |
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Happy new year to you – may 2009 be a year of happiness, good health and lots of Scouting! Jock and I are back in the swing of things and we are ready for an exciting term ahead! Unfortunately Adam Griffiths is tied up for a while with work, but will be back with us towards the end of the term, and Harley Allkins is enjoying his sabbatical – Pip hasn’t arrived yet, but will make his appearance soon! This term’s program has been drawn up, and will be circulated during next week. It is fun filled, and has a “Pirates of the Carribeanish” spin – all in preparation for our young pirates who are taking on the Muddy waters of KonTiki (weekend 6th – 8th March 2009)! KonTiki is 49 days away – should we be nervous or excited? Excited of course as the arrangements for KonTiki are being Handled by Stuart Reid and Alistair Fenton. Yippee! Of course, as the Scouters, we will oversee the arrangements, but Alistair and Stuart are undergoing training by organising and co-ordinating Craighall’s involvement in this event – and will emerge wiser, better trained leaders to tackle their next task. If you are nervous – don’t be, keep the nerves for when your son is organising KonTiki! You will receive various communications in the next weeks (the first of which should be handed out tonight), detailing the arrangements and requirements for KonTiki, and the various training days / work days in the run up. Please respond to these communications, and diarise the events / note the details thereof. As always, we don’t have much time before we tackle the road to Springs for KonTiki, but we will overcome this obstacle. For KonTiki we need your full support – and we are sure that we can count on you! Please remember that you are most welcome to come and spend the weekend with us. The one item that I must draw your attention to at this stage is the Kontiki fees. We have not as yet set the camp fees for KonTiki, but will let you know details by next Friday. We estimate that they will be in the region of R 250-00 per Scout. We need to collect this money as soon as possible, and obviously find out who will be attending KonTiki. We have therefore agreed that we will offer a 10% Discount to everyone who pays their KonTiki fees on or before Friday 30 January ’09. We will require confirmation and payment for KonTiki by the 20th of February - any person who has not paid by that date will not be able to attend KonTiki. Please let us know as soon as possible! The only other District event term is BP Sunday – in recognition of the founder of Scouting Baden Powell. The District event is scheduled for 22nd February, and we will let you have further details soon. I am in the process of updating the Scout database, and would like to ask you to let me have all your details via e-mail. If I need any further details, I will have your correct e-mail address, and will be able to contact you to obtain the information. As always, I will need contact details for both parents, and the Scouts. Give me as much info as possible! The complete and return the Annual Scout consent form as soon as possible. The form can be found here. Yours in Scouting
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