February 21 – Downtown walk

February 22 is World Thinking Day – a day to celebrate the global Guiding movement. To mark the occasion, we will be headed downtown to do a walk with a Guide unit. We will be a day early to see the buildings lit up in blue, but we will bring our own lights in the form of the lanterns we made this week. Here are the details: 

Drop Off: 6:30pm at 29th Avenue Station. Note there are a few entrances to the station. Please meet at the entrance closest to 29th Ave and Atlin Street (NOT the entrance next to the park). If you can’t find us, text Amanda.

Pick up: 8pm at 29th Avenue Station.

Pathfinders should bring the lantern that we made this week and a Compass Card if they are over the age of 12. Pathfinders should be dressed to be outside for over an hour. This includes hats, gloves, warm socks, warm layers, and raingear if it rains. And if they have a Pathfinder scarf, that should be worn over their jacket. 

Bottle Drive for the CWFF

Thank you for bringing in your returnables last week!

We are using this bottle drive to raise funds for the Canadian World Friendship Fund (CWFF) – and fund that helps support opportunities of members to travel. It is one of our service projects for the year.

If you weren’t able to bring in your returnables last week please drop them off at any Return-It Express locations using the account Girl Guides of Canada Southridge District account information listed below. 

To use the system:
·      Place your refundables into a quick-tie large clear plastic bag
·      Take to Return-it Express depot print labels & place one label on each bag so it’s visible.
·      To print labels, enter phone number 604-435-2542 on the keyboard at the depot; it prints up to 12 labels at a time.
·      Put your bag in the bin/location reserved for the Express program (ask employee).

If you do this, please let Christa know what date you dropped off the bags and how many, so she can connect with the District to get the funds moved over to the CWFF. 

Thank you!

SCIENCE!

Happy 2024 everyone.

Our first Pathfinder meeting will be all about SCIENCE! There will be fun experiments that may get a little messy so please do not wear your best outfit or something that can’t get dirty.

See you then at our regular time and place.

Skating at Hillcrest!

For our last meeting of the year, we will be headed to Hillcrest Community Centre to go ice skating!

Meet us at Hillcrest Community Center on December 13 from 5:45pm – 7:45pm.

The public skating session goes from 6:00 – 7:30pm so this timing will let us get organized and ready to go once the rink is open.

Please bring skates and helmet if you have them, if not there are rentals onsite.

Dress for skating (jackets, hats, mitts) and wear your uniform.

Finally, the unit will be covering the cost for this event.

Enrolment & Canada Cord presentation

On Wednesday, December 6 we will be having our enrolment ceremony for Pathfinders who are new to our unit this year. We will also be presenting Canada Cords to our Pathfinders from last year who earned this award. A definite reason to celebrate!

Pathfinders should wear their uniforms including their pin tab, if they have one.

Parents are welcome to join us for the ceremony from 7:45 – 8:30.

West Coast Area Crest Design Contest

Here’s an opportunity to let your creativity shine. West Coast Area – which we are apart of – is looking for a new design for their crest. Do you have the winning design?

West Coast Area Crest Design Contest
Open to all youth members in West Coast Area. 
Crest designs must contain a white or blue trefoil, and the text “West Coast Area” 
Designs must symbolize Guiding in West Coast Area.
All designs must conform to brand standards.
We reserve the right to make small changes to ensure compliance or for production reasons. 

Deadline for sending in designs: December 4th at midnight
Send submissions to bc-westcoastac@girlguides.ca with the subject line “crest contest” include your NAME, UNIT (9th Vancouver Pathfinders) and DISTRICT (Southridge District).

Tonight: Camp debrief, games and a craft

We will be meeting in our regular location this evening, November 8, starting at 6:45pm.

On the agenda:

  • Camp debrief – we will spend some time debriefing what we loved at camp, what we would change, what we may want to try next time. We will touch base on everything from hosting a joint camp to the kit list.
  • Craft – we have a craft that we didn’t bring to camp that we will spend some time doing this evening
  • Games – there is always time for games! We will play a few this evening.

Forms for camp

On November 3-5, the 9th Vancouver Pathfinders are heading to camp with the 1st Vancouver Rangers!

At this cozy camp, we will stay in cabins at Kwi Kia, make crafts, have campfires, explore the forrest and oceanfront, play games, cook delicious things, and generally have fun.

We will meet at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal at 4:45pm, then take the 5:30 ferry to the Sunshine Coast. From there we will take the bus to Camp Olive. Pathfinders will need to pack so they can easily carry their gear from the ferry, to the bus and then walk it in to our campsite. Pick up will be at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal at 1:45pm on Sunday, November 5th.

Forms and a kit list can be found here: https://9thvancouverpathfinders.ca/forms/

Completed forms and payment are due on October 18.

If you have any questions, reach out to a Guider.