9th Vancouver Pathfinders

This week, we will be doing group cookie selling at the Metrotown Skytrain Station from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. The drop-off/pickup location will be the corner of Telford and Beresford. Pathfinders should wear their uniforms and come prepared to be outside, regardless of weather.

Tonight’s meeting is a cookie extravaganza, with a cookie baking challenge! Come prepared to do some baking.

We will also be sending home two cases of the Spring Girl Guide Cookies with each Pathfinder. Additional cases may be available at the next meeting, for anyone who wants more.

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. 

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!

At this week’s meeting we will be talking about ‘Money Sense’! Our activities will focus on building our financial literacy skills.

As a reminder, we are currently conducting a bottle drive. Pathfinders are encouraged to bring clean, refundable cans and bottles in clear plastic bags to either this meeting (February 7) or next week’s meeting (February 14).

With all the snow out there, we will be cancelling Pathfinders this evening (January 17).

Enjoy the snow!

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.

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.

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.

We will be meeting in our regular location this evening, November 15, starting at 6:45pm. Tonight’s meeting will involve some reflective program work, games and crafts.