The BC Guide House is moving to a new location. To mark the occasion they are looking for designs to make a commemorative crest. Do you have a good idea? Now’s your chance to submit a design. 
The winning crest will be shared with everyone who attends the BC Guide House open house in September. The member with the winning design will get her crest framed as a prize along with some great Girl Guide swag.

To enter the contest, the design must include the following:

• the new trefoil design (check Guides cananda website)
• 2018-2019
• A depiction of a house or building; and
• the words “Grand Opening” and “BC Guide House”.

Submissions in JPEG, TIFF or PDF format should be sent to GuideHouseOpenHouse@bc-girlguides.org no later than Friday June 22, 2018.

We’re hosting a Neighbourhood Clean-up Party environmental service project tonight! Come in uniform as we’ll be out in the community.

Also, summer camp forms are here! Check out the forms below for information about summer camp at Camp Olave from July 6-8.

• SG1-Camp Olave SiYayLum 2018
• SG2-Camp Olave SiYayLum 2018

Camp costs $70 to attend. You can use your cookie cash! Forms and payment are due no later than our last meeting of the year, which is Wednesday June 6.

Remember, we’re kayaking this weekend. If you’re attending, take a look at the Calendar posting for the list of what to bring, and let us know if you have any questions about gear.

Lastly, any outstanding cookie money is due tonight.

For those going to camp this weekend:

• meet at the Horseshoe Bay foot passenger drop off at 8:00 am on Saturday
• Don’t forget the group gear you took home tonight, and the food you signed up to bring for your meal!
• Don’t forget to pack a lunch for Saturday. There will be time for a hot chocolate or snack on the ferry over, but it will be too early for lunch.
• E-mail or text Karla if you have last minute questions or ideas!

Updates for May 23 meeting:

• We’re wrapping up camp with a quick debrief and repacking the gear, so bring back all of the borrowed gear you’ve got out on loan! This is important as it needs to be returned to West Coast Area on Thursday.
• We’ll be finishing our sock monkeys, so don’t miss out!! This will be the last chance to work on your monkey in a meeting.

Summer camp updates:

• We’ve got summer camp at Camp Olave earmarked from July 6 – 8th (more on that to come ASAP!)
• Denise Dhalian’s Pathfinder group has invited girls from our unit to attend District Camp with them from August 11 – 18. Check out the 2018 Aug District camp Pathfinders info sheet guests for more information!

2018/2019 Pathfinders Year:

• The unit is now FULL for next year, so if you haven’t registered, put yourself on the waiting list ASAP!

Hooray! It’s May!

On May 16, we’re having a packing party to prep for Newcastle Island for those that are coming to camp this weekend.

Not coming to came? We’ll be planning our end-of-year meeting and working on our SOCK MONKEYS!!!

Please bring back any outstanding cookie money you’re ready to turn in!

If you didn’t get a chance to make detailed notes during our backpacking meal tasting session tonight, take a look at this Pathfinder Backpacking Food Tasting sheet (with photos) we updated! You can use this to make some notes about your favourite items, and check out where you can buy them for yourselves!

See you next week!