Scouts Apple Day - Stoney Creek News
- It's time for Hamilton's Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers to shine up the regions finest apples and present them at your favorite merchant's doorstep.
- http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/scn/news/news_900075.html
Merit Badge for Lobbying
- Summer camps and boy scouts go together like peanut butter and jam. But that combination could soon cost the scouts a lot of money if the provincial government doesn't step in. By Sean Holman.
- http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/10/11/4566605-sun.html
An Apple On Apple Day Goes A Long, Long Way - Cambridge Now
- Who wouldn't want to give these kids a couple-a-bucks for a crisp ontario apple. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be handing out apples (hoping to get a donation) on Thursday and Friday evening (October, 11, 12) and on Saturday (October 13) morning at variou
- http://www.cambridgenow.ca/npps/story.cfm?id=846
Campfire trouble - Amherst Daily News
- Scouts struggling to find volunteers. Remember when Scouts did good deeds, helped friends and neighbours, shared stories around the campfire and just enjoyed being kids?
- http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=63204&sc=58
Scouts pop up short of record - Calgary Sun
- More than 500 boy scouts looking to pop their way into the Guinness Book of World Records came up just a few kernels short — not that critters at the Calgary Zoo minded.
- http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/09/16/4500251-sun.html
Opportunities abound through scouting - Langley Advance
- Today scouting is far different from what was begun as the Boy Scouts a century ago by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in England.
- http://www.canada.com/langleyadvance/news/story.html?id=310be2b3-1c5b-4391-a032-c4b19bb92864
Girl Guides looking for a new camp - Kootenay News Editor
- The directors on the Board of the Regional District of East Kootenay will be making a decision this week on an application by the Cranbrook Girl Guides. The organization has asked that the zoning of a piece of property in the Cranbrook area be changed fro
- http://www.kootenayadvertiser.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=17&cat=23&id=1058656&more=0
There is so much you can do through scouts - Niagara Falls Review
- Outdated public image doesn't describe skills, adventure group offers. By Alisom Langley.
- http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=680139&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Another Brownsea season winds down - Peterborough Examiner
- The 41st season of on-the-water Scouting at Brownsea Base drew to a close on the evening of Aug. 16 with the familiar family barbecue at the Beavermead Park dining shelter.
- http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=666948&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Olive Tree Foundation Announces Grant to Scouts Canada - IQRA
- Olive Tree Foundation has announced that it will provide a grant to support Scouts Canada in developing a video that will encourage the creation of Scout groups in multicultural communities across the country.
- http://iqra.typepad.com/read/2007/08/olive-tree-foun.html
Rubber ducks invade the Thames; 7,500 yellow quackers float in river for charity - Chatham Daily News
- Some nice weather and a strong current helped the ducks make good time on Saturday. The 18th annual Rubber Duck Race, held on the Thames River, was organized by the Chatham Kinsmen and Kinette clubs in support of the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation, a
- http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=660069&catname=Local+News&classif=
Scouts celebrate 100 years - Niagara Falls Review
- When a young girl fell down a hill and broke her ankle in a remote Kingston park, Mike Baskin knew exactly what to do.
- http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=657708&catname=Local%20News&classif=News%20Live
Scouts Canada donates $10,000 to valley project for restoration - Mountain News
- The City of Hamilton was presented with a cheque for $10,000 from the Hamilton area scouts Aug. 1. to be used towards the Red Hill Valley Project Ecological Restoration Program.
- http://www.hamiltonmountainnews.com/hmn/news/news_856621.html
Scouters gather from around world - Peterborough Examiner
- When the Centennial Jamboree opened in Camp Tamaracouta at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 there were thousands of excited leaders and youth realizing that they'd finally arrived. The months of fundraising and planning were over and they looked forward to a
- http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=647713&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Joining in the celebration of Scouting - Campbell River Mirror
- How do you sum up an event that keeps you going day and night, introduces you to hundreds, if not thousands of people and celebrates 100 years of serving youth?
- http://www.campbellrivermirror.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=6&cat=48&id=1041757&more=0
Scouts honoured at 100 - London Free Press
- You wouldn't know it by looking at them, but the Boy Scouts turn 100 next week.
- http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2007/07/28/4374779-sun.html
More than 8,000 at Scouts Canada centennial jamboree - CBC.ca
- More than 8,000 scouts, leaders and volunteers from as far away as Africa started arriving Thursday at Quebec's Camp Tamaracouta, near Saint-Jérôme, for the Canadian Jamboree celebrating scouting's centennial year.
- http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/07/26/scouts-jamboree.html
Long-awaited jamboree under way - Peterborough Examiner
- For more than a year, Scouting youth and adults have been preparing for the Centennial Jamboree which marks the 100th anniversary of Scouting around the world.
- http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=629757&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Local scout joins 40,000 in London - Chilliwack Progress
- Steven Burgoyne has a date with the Queen of England. He’s not sure if she’s actually going make it, but early next week the local teen will be at Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world.
- http://www.theprogress.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=39&cat=23&id=1030762&more=0
Sask. contingent headed off to Que. - Regina Leader-Post
- Some 250 Scouts, Venturers and their leaders from Regina, Saskatoon, Weyburn, Fort Qu'Appelle, Nokomis and Swift Current are heading to Quebec for Scouts Canada's 11th Canadian Jamboree.
- http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=52fde6b0-7a22-44ab-bfc8-211093ca59d7
Jamboree celebrates 100 years of Scouting - Montreal Gazette
- Scouts arrive en masse in laurentians Week full of competition and badge collecting.
- http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=17bfdb46-fdcc-4454-ab5a-558922e02a43
Volunteers Honoured - Caledon Citizen
- Group commissioners from Alton, Bolton, Caledon, Caledon East and Mono Mills all received a pin and a certificate signed by The Honourable Mike Colle, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
- http://www.caledoncitizen.com/news/2007/0801/community/041.html
Scouts and Guides set for a new century - Vancouver Sun
- The movement popularized by Lord Baden-Powell celebrates its centenary next year with a resurgence. By Gerry Bellett.
- http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=cb9e7161-4a2f-4645-bd98-667a5c3a58ac&k=57609
Did you ever wear green garter tabs? - Soo Today
- Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.
- http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=26316
Worldwide Sunrise Ceremony Marks 100 Years of Scouting - CNW Telbec
- Over 28 million Scouts worldwide celebrate; thousands attending CJ'07 are honoured with the presence of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's great-grandson, Adam Baden-Clay.
- http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/August2007/01/c3023.html
Scouts celebrate centennial - Regina Leader-Post
- There wasn't any knot-tying or badge-sewing, but Wednesday's fresh and pleasant morning witnessed a khaki-clad community gathered to celebrate a centennial. By Joe Couture.
- http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=0a65bf91-8c42-41ed-9ec5-726bec3b360d
Dorval Honours the 100th Anniversary of the Scouts Movement - Le Messager Lachine Dorval
- The City of Dorval is proud to dedicate the Dorval Circle floral arrangement to the Scouts movement, in this its world-wide centennial celebration year.
- http://www.messagerlachine.com/article-126494-Dorval-Honours-the-100th-Anniversary-of-the-Scouts-Movement.html
Scouting's new motto: Be prepared for diversity - Globe and Mail
- The group of young adventurers known as World Organization of the Scout Movement is growing up - and according to those in charge of its Canadian following, it is aging for the better. By Geoff Nixon.
- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070802.wscouts02/BNStory/National/?query=%22scouts+canada%22
Venturers win adventure award - Peterborough Examiner
- The 1st Lakefield Sea Venturers were honoured to be presented with the 3rd Place Amory award in Canada at the Kawartha Waterways Area Centennial Camp in front of youth and leaders from all five sections, their peers, their friends and fellow Scouters. By
- http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=610464&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Scouting turns 100 - The Labradorian
- Local troop receives commemorative medals, will attend Centennial Jamboree. History has taught us that a simple idea or experiment can eventually turn in to something much larger with the potential to change the face of the world. By Kenn Oliver.
- http://www.thelabradorian.ca/index.cfm?iid=2631&sid=22829
Not a joiner? Join the club - Vancouver Province
- Scouts Canada, now celebrating a centennial and a parallel effort to boost membership, has 102,000 members across Canada, including adult volunteers. At its height in 1963, membership was more than 315,000. By Chris Cobb.
- http://www.canada.com/theprovince/features/saturdaymagazine/story.html?id=ceafd4b8-5f4a-4799-9443-7e64baba5a60&k=71507
Cairn, plaque for Scouts - Caledon Citizen
- aledon council recently supported the installation of a cairn and plaque on the Caledon Trailway near the Highway 10 pedestrian bridge in honour of Scouts Canada's 100th anniversary.
- http://www.caledoncitizen.com/news/2007/0620/Front_page/002.html
Historic Kawartha Waterways camp held - Peterborough Examiner
- Late in the afternoon of Friday, June 8, the winds whipped trees, branches fell and rain pounded the Serpent Mounds as Scouters were beginning to arrive to set up for the first all-section camp the Kawartha Waterways had ever attempted in the same place a
- http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=572266&catname=Local%20News&classif=
Scouts Canada Foundation Honours Scholarship Recipients - Marketwire
- The Scouts Canada Foundation today announced it will award its annual scholarships to outstanding students involved in Canadian Scouting. Criteria for selection included academic achievement, demonstrated Scouting history, involvement and achievem