PAGE B4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, February 16, 1977

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SCOUTS CANADA

SCOUT -~ GUIDE WEEK

Scout-Guide Week is held
each year from the Sunday
before February 22 to the
following Sunday.
Why February 22? The
answer is simple. Both Lord
and Lady Baden-Powell
were born on that day. The
date, therefore, is a
memorial to the late Chief
Scout of the World and a day
on which to honour the Chief
Guide of the World — two
people whose work shas
affected the lives of millions
_of people throughout the
world.

By observing this week in
a worthwhile way, we can
help Scouts and Guides
better understand the

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principles which 25 million
members
throughout the world share
in common.

This in itself is sufficient
reason to hold Scout-Guide
Week. But, there is another
very important reason —
public relations, During the
winter, early darkness and
the resulting indoor
meetings cause people in the
community to be less aware
of Scouting and Guiding.

Scout-Guide Week is a
chance for us to show people
that Guiding and Scouting
are alive and

flourishing....twelve months
a year!.

Guides Valerie Deters and Robin Ehses on a

snowshoeing expedition.

Two thousand |
campers

BE PREPARED

What do 2,000 campers,
invited from ali the member
countries of the World
Association of Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts plan to do
_while camping in Cape
Breton in 1977? They plan to
have fun, make new friends
and participate in a few of
the numerous choices of
service and leisure ac-
tivities for women in society
today.

Why 2,000 people in one
camp?

An encampment of this
size creates the en-
vironment of sharing with
citizens of a wide world. The
program becomes more
significant with input from
all creeds, races and
nationalities. A special
excitement is developed as
youth from many countries
talk to each other. Their
message of friendship and
peace is loud and clear.

A program is to be offered
which includes: small
groups talking with out-
standing citizens of the
world, cycling, horseback
riding, waterfront ac-
tivities, orienteering,
dancing, bagpipers, singing,
orchestras, fine arts, ar-
chery, Canadian han-
dicrafts, religious services
for all and tours of Cape
Breton.

In-Camp service projects
are being developed.
Guiding is an organization
of service and the Guides
would like to leave a
tangible “‘thank you" for the
hospitality and cooperation
of the Nova Scotians.

The camp will be open
daily to visitors who will
also be able to share in the
variety of activity through
displays and demon-
strations by the campers
and community
organizations.

Guiding and UNICEF

In keeping with their basic
principle of helping other
people, the Girl Guides of
Canada cooperated with
UNICEF last fall in
publicizing their Hallowe’en
“penny collection”,

Leaders of the Guiding
organization across Canada
were given the information
necessary to help their
groups of girls assist in
UNICEF's annual fund-
raising project.

Canadian churches, as
part of their Christian
Education. program, ac-
‘tively support 2,625 Scout
groups — representing 52.5
percent of all Scout Groups
in Canada.

As part of their com-
munity education work, 173
local Home and School
Associations actively
sponsor Sccut Groups in
Canada. ‘

The practice of holding
“Scout-Guide Week" in
Canada is not new, During
the 1940's we cooperated in
holding “Boy Scout - Girl
Guide” Weeks. “By 1949,
however, there were so
many special “weeks”, that
itwas felt that ours would be
lost, so it was dropped.
The Girl Guides then
started observing a
Canadian “Thinking Day”
on February 22 (a concept
originally developed in
1946). The Boy Scouts of-
ficially dropped the. week,
but groups and districts
continued the practice and
in the early 1950’s, in
response to local demands,

‘Boy Scout Week was of-

fictally recognized.
Although officially
discontinued, many com-
munities .continued to hold
combined Boy Scout-Girl
Guide Weeks. Even in 1970,
news — clippings were
received which ‘used the
original newspaper mats. In
the late sixties there was
evidence of an increasing
pattern of Scout-Guide
ecumenical services.

History

These factors, along with
the belief that both Guiding
and Scouting had much to
gain from pooling resour-
ces, led to exploratory
meetings between national
public relations personnel of

th organizations. Scout-
Guide Week, as we know it,
was introduced in 1970 for a.
year period. In late 1971 4
second 3-year period was
approved. In 1974 it was
agreed to continue Scout-
Guide Week subject to one

ear’s notice to discontinue

y either organization.

Scout-Guide Week in the
past six years has met with
varying degrees of ac-
ceptance acvoss Canada.
There has been excellent
cooperation and results in
some areas and little or no
cooperation in other areas.

Nationally, the per unit
cost of producing posters
and support material has
been reduced, for example,
one set of art instead of two

sets, larger printing runs

resulting in lower “‘per unit”
costs.

The founder
of Scouting _

“Qn February 22, 1857,
Robert Stephenson Smythe
_Baden-Powell (rhymes with
Maiden-Noel) was born in
England. His father died
when he was only three
years old. His early training
came from his older
brothers who taught him to
swim, hike and sall, At
school, Robert Baden-
Powell was known for his
cartooning, which he did
with either his right or his
left hand, for acting and for
spending his free time in the
woods near the school. He

would snare rabbits and.

cook them over a smokeless
fire and leave no traces
afterwards for his
schoolmasters to check on
him. At the age of 19 he
joined the Army. He was
soon posted from England to
serve in India. While
working with Indian soldiers
in the northern mountains,
he was very impressed by
the abilities of the scouts
and guides of certain
regiments in India.

Later; his Army career
took him to Africa. During
the Eoer War, B.-P. was
able to employ many of the
scout tactics that he had
learned in India. In 1907 B.-
P returned to England
where he decided to conduct
an experimental camp for
hoys on Brownsea Island.
Boys from well-to-do and
poor families were mixed at
this camp and enjoyed their
experiences equally well.
B.-P. then started writing a
series of articles entitled
“Scouting for Boys”. There
was such an enthusiastic
response that an office had
to be set up for Boy Scouts.
B-P. was sent back to
Africa for a brief period of
Army duty.

In 1909 B.-P. returned to
England and arranged for a
rally of Scouts at Crystal
Palace in London. Eleven
thousand boys arrived at the
‘rally and a handful of girls
dressed in Scout hats took
their place in the review. B.-
P., being a bachelor, was a
bit upset and asked them to
go home. However, when
the girls pleaded with him,

declaring that they did not
wish to miss the fun that
their brothers were having
in Scouts, B.-P. asked his
sister, Miss Agnes Baden-
Powell to take charge of
them. He chose the name
Guides for the girls. .

The first countries
registering Guides were
Canada, Australia, Finland,
Poland and South Africa. In
1912, B.-P. met Olave St.
Clair Soames on board a
ship which was taking him
to Jamaica, India and other
points around the world. In
October of that year the
were. married in England.
Lady Baden-Powell s
the same birthday as her
husband, though they were
23 and 55 years old
respectively. They had
three children: Betty, Peter
and Heather. When the
children were old enough to
be left with their nanny,
Lady B.-P. teok an ever
increasing interest in Scouts

and Guides. Together they &

travelled around the world,
meeting new groups of
oung people and their

eaders. In 1920 the first -

international Scout meeting
— called a Jamboree — was
held in England. B.-P. ‘was
acclaimed World Chief
Scout at this rally.

Ten years later, in 1930
Lady B.-P. was made World
Chief Guide.

Guides started in Canada
in 1910 in St, Catharines,
Ontario. Companies were
registered in Vancouver,
Victoria and Winnipeg

uickly afterwards. The

st official Guide camp
was held at Lady Pelatt’s
estate near Toronto (the
Casa Loma).

Lone Guides were started
in England in 1920, but
British Columbia had the
first Lone Guides in Canada
in 1920. ~

Guiding grew and spread
all over the world. In 1940
there were three million
registered members.

In (941, at the age of 84, B.-
P. died in Kenya, Africa and
Lady B.-P. returned to live

in London, England.

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Helpful Brownie Diane Defers

1977
Scout Jamboree

The National Com-
missioner of Boy Scouts of
Canada,
William Carr, has an-
nounced that Cabot
Provincial Park in Prince
Edward Island will be the
site of the Canadian Jam-
boree, July 2to July 11, 1977.

General Carr, contingent
leader. of the 1300 Scouts,
Venturers and Scouters who
went to Nordjamb '75, the
World Jamboree in Norway,
noted that it was one of the

eatest experiences in his

e.
He expressed the feeling

that the only way that this -

‘ience could

Nordjamb ex
would be to

be surpass

have 15,000 Scouts, Ven-
turers and Leaders join him
at the Canadian Jamboree
in 1977.

Generai Carr suggests
that Scouts and Venturers
plan as their personal goal

Lt.-General .

Members of the Thornhill Guide Company at work.

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for 1977, to ‘join him at the
Jamboree. Separate
Jamboree programs are
being developed for Scouts
and Venturers — programs

that are in keeping with the :

abilities of each ‘of these
program sections.

Plans have been un-
derway for almost a year by
a committee of the National
Council so that all Canadian
Scouts can be assured of a
challenging and exciting
program and that the
program will be backed up
by a smoothly operating
team.

Arranging for 15,000
peaple ta travel to Prince

ward Island from every
part of Canada is a massive
undertaking. To ease the
strain on the ferry system it
is planned to have arrivals
and departures phased over
two day periods. .

SCOUT=GUIDE WEEK

~HALF-A- MILLION

STRONG

Thinking Di

by Lori Kirby

Thinking day is a day
when all the Brownies,
Cubs, Girl Guides and Boy
Scouts think about the birth-
days of Lord and hady
Baden-Powell which bot.
happen to be on the same
day of February 22. The
Americans _ established
Thinking Day in 1926. The
idea was for the whole world
to think of nice and friendly
thoughts through the day. A
few years later a Belgian
Guider had another idea,
Since a birthday is a time to
give presents, why not give
some. Now on Thinking
Day, each Brownie, Cub,
Girl Guide and Boy Scout
will give a small coin in the
currency of his or her
country to a central fund.
But Thinking Day is mainly
about Brownies, Cubs, Girl
Guides or Boy Scouts
thinking of the two people
who began the clubs that we
take part in.

by Laurie-Ann Baker |

Thinkin Day is
celebrated by Guides,
Seo ts and Girl Scouts all
over the world. We
celebrate it on February 22,
Lord and Lady Baden-
Powell’s birthdays. Their
birthdays were both on
February 22 except Lord

Baden-Powell was 32 years
older. They were the
founders of Guides, Girl
Seouts and Scouts. We
started: celebrating it in
1996. A few years later a
Belgian Guider had an idea,
since we give presents on
birthdays, why not give
presents like coins to prople,
who need assistance in
Guiding and Scouting.
Guides, Girl Scouts and
Scouts accepted the idea

‘enthusiastically and now

each year quite a lot of
money is given.

I like Thinking Day. It
ives me a good feeling to
elp people andit makes one

think how lucky we are
having so much. We have
enou to arrange field
trips, buy things for crafts,
ete. Thinking Day for me is
a day to think of the people
who need help and that we
are helping them. Thinking
Day. just gives me such a
good feeling.

by Valerie Deters
Scout-Guide week is held
each year from the Sunday

before February 22 to the’

following Sunday.

Both Lord and Lady
Baden-Powell were born on
February 22and that is why
we have Scout-Guide Week
before that day. February 22

Canadian Guiding
overseas |

To the daughters of
Canadian Armed Forces
personnel abroad, our
Companies and Packs on
Foreign- Soil mean “Girl
Guiding” and a link with
their Canadian sisters, as
well as contact with Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts from
U.S. Armed. Forces. bases
and ‘other European
countries. wee

What fun it must be to
camp out in an ancient
German castle, to be part of
a torchlight parade in
Baden-Baden and to share
in the excitement of visiting
new lands and. meeting new
people! And these are only
Some examples of the ac-
tivities of
Brownies, Guides
Rangers in Europe.

and

Canadian °

An exciting addition to the
group, is a Canadian
Brownie Pack sponsored by
and opened in our Embassy
in Moscow, Russia. The
girls are from many
countries and are very
enthusiastic. They have
even camped under canvas
at Uspenskoye Beach.

Many of the personnel are
periodically returning to
Canada of course. Suc

the nature of the group.

However, with the
cooperation of the Armed
Forces, the continuing
support of the National
Executive and Council and
the usual enthusiasm and
dedication of the Guiders,
Companies and Packs on
Foreign Soil will continue to
enjoy the best of Canadian
Guiding.

Ecology

A POPULAR ISSUE
IN GUIDING
FOR DECADES!

To those involved in
Guiding, ecology means
more than hiking through a
forest or identifying a few
bird calls. Concern for the
environment has been part
of the program since the
organization first began.
Emphasis is put on full
appreciation of nature and

e measures that must be
taken to preserve what we
now . enjoy.
However, the Girl Guides
of Canada - Guides du
Canada go one step further
than appreciation and un-
derstanding. They actually
do something to improve our
ecological state, All across
Canada you will find
Brownies, Guides and
Rangers participating in
community “clean-ups”’;
encouraging other campers

to leave their campsites
clean and take. the
precautions necessary to
prevent disaster; respecting
wildlife; setting a good

example by using the trash:

can rather than the ground.
If ecology had been the
concern of society as long as

_ it's been a part of the Girl

Guide program, perhaps we
wouldn’t have so much to be
concerned about today.

Scouting is an integral

part of the youth work of the
Salvation Army and ‘the
Mormon Church. It is en-
couraged as a youth
program by the United
Church, the Anglican
Church and the Baptist
Federation of Canada.

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