Other Recent News

8th Whitby wins Oshawa Camporee

8th Whitby took the Out-Of-Town "Top Patrol" honours at the 2001 Oshawa International Challenge Camp. The "Out of Town" Trophy will be permanently displayed in the trophy case at the Samac Scout Shop. In recent years this award has been won exclusively by visiting American patrols. This is the first time that 8th Whitby has won the trophy, placed first overall, and received an "A" Camper level.

Food drive: Another 210 pounds in February 2001

Scouting sections have been collecting food donations from their members thoughout the month of February. We collected another 210 pounds from 1st Whitby, 9th and various District personnel. We recently found out that 3rd Whitby had collected 55 lbs. in November and 5th Whitby had also collected 40 lbs. Between the two food drives this brings our total to 1286.5 lbs. (almost one pound per member). Thanks go to all the youth, leaders and group committees for organizing this with their members. For more information on the food drives, check our Whitby Scouting for Food page.

We would like to thank the following groups for participating in our November Whitby District Food Drive in November: 1st Whitby, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 15th and the District Executive. You did our District proud. Our members donated 1021.5 pounds of food! The food has been donated either to St. Vincent de Paul, Free Methodist Church or Westminster United Church. It was emotionally uplifting to see the amount of food that was donated and to know that it will go to people in our community who are in need.

18-wheeler and Kub Kar races

Lots of pictures are available. See the photo page for details. There were some really amazing, creative designs and exciting fast cars. Mayor Brunelle was present at the Feb. 25 district finals and was persuaded to start the final races. (Regional finals are cancelled this year, but will be back next year.)

Scout 18-wheeler races ran on Feb. 10. Pictures of some of the winning Scout trucks are available. There were certainly some creative designs and some interesting theme entries from some troops (a multi-hole golf course spread over several trucks and a lot of aquarium/terrarium entries, too).

Scout/Guide Week Flag Challenge

Spot the flags: To help you identify the flags around town, 15th Whitby demonstrate their Scout and Cub flags and 6th Whitby shows their Beaver flag.

All Groups and Sections were challenged to fly their group or section flag(s) in a public and prominent location during Scout/Guide Week, Feb 18-25, 2001.

The intent of this Challenge is to have some fun, do something perhaps a little "off the wall" and show pride in the Scouting movement.

1st Whitby's flag was flown at the Whitby Municipal building all week, with an official flag raising ceremony with the Mayor held on Feb. 22 (B.-P.'s birthday) with youth and adult members from each section present. Read more about the flag challenge >>

Back Row: John Pandelidis, Greg Luke, Dave Coupland, Dave Mizzi Centre Row: Ian Granville, Graham Luke, Ian Baker Front Row: Darren Mizzi, Chad Bolton, Alex Pandelidis

Chief Scout's Award recipients

In a November 18 ceremony in Bowmanville, six Whitby Area Scouts received their Chief Scout's Awards. This award is the highest award in the Scout section and earning it requires Scouts to first earn several other badges and to complete projects of service to the the community. The award is given to Scouts on behalf of the Chief Scout of Canada, an honorary title accepted by each of Canada's Governors-General for the past several decades. The Chief Scout's Award was created in 1973 by Roland Michener, who was Chief Scout at the time.

Whitby's Blastoff was fun and informative

On Thursday, September 21st, Whitby Area hosted its first ever Blastoff night. There were mini-training sessions providing updated material for Group Committees and Sponsors, while program Scouters learned about the upcoming Scouting for Food challenge and two new Scouting programs - Scoutsabout and Extreme Scouting.

Our new regional mascot, White Pine Wally the Wolf, put in an appearance, and several youth members got together for a Youth Forum session, followed by a soccer game. A door prize draw saw many people go home with excellent prizes, many courtesy of Trail's End Popcorn.

Over 80 people both youth and adults young-old, new leaders, group committee and returning ones were in attendance.

Youth forum was represented with over 9 new youth interested in forming the network needed to get the input from the kids.

Group committee were tested to their knowledge and scored 100%. No doubt, Whitby's recent group committee workshops deserve much of the credit.

Youth recieved some nice prizes and Barb's Food Drive exhibit was astounding. If we don't get 10,000 pounds of food in the region, it is not from trying. Whitby has challenged West Durham and the fight was accepted. Look out.

Ganaraska, Cobourg, Victoria County districts were all there to learn and make their blastoff a success.

Help us find the 1973 time capsule

We're looking for the 1973 time capsule. Do you know anything about it?

A time capsule was buried at a district Cub camp on the weekend of June 15-17, 1973. We're looking for it this year, but we need more pictures from the 1973 camp. Were you there? Can you help? Call the Mayor's office (668-5803) if you have any information. (Mayor Brunelle was district commissioner at the time.) Almost a dozen people with several assorted metal detectors went looking on July 5, but we've had no luck so far.

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