Scouts Canada 25 Year Anniversary of Beavers 2nd Beaver Bank

"A" Colony
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News from Spring 1999, Fall 1999, 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, New items.

April 27, 1999 We welcome Ringtail (Jonathan Ritchie) in to our leadership team. Jonathan has been active in our 98-99 program and brings 10 years of scouting experience from his youth involvement with 1st Dartmouth.

May 15, 1999 We are pleased to announce that the Victoria Park trip we had 13 Beavers & siblings accompanied by 3 leaders and several parents & relatives.

May 29, 1999 Closing Campfire at Rusty's, 3 of our busy beavers took the magical swim up to become cubs.
- We welcome Hawkeye (Ray Peddle) in to our leadership team. Ray is new to scouting, however he was with us in Truro and is looking forward to the 1999-2000 season.
- Bubbles (Kim Sedgwick) announced her intentions to move to B Colony
- Rusty (Bill H) announced his intentions to move to C Colony
- Big Brown Beaver is also leaving the colony

July 1, 1999 Canada Day Parade,we had a realy good time 15 beavers, kits and cubs rode and followed our float for 4km singing and laughing

July 17, 1999 Beaverbank Fun Day Parade, we made a few changes to our float and invited 'C' Colony to share in our fun and excitement, and wow we won a trophy for "Best Community Effort"

Sep 28, 1999 Bubbles (Kim) is staying with A Colony.

Oct 2, 1999 4 Beavers, 3 White Tails from last year, and 2 siblings joined in the Colony Carnival at Mount Uniacke House. We found every item on the scavenger hunt.

Nov 2, 1999 Investiture Night, We invested 5 beavers and 2 leaders, we where pleased with the parental participation.

Jan 1, 2000 "Parent Consent Forms" must be filled out signed and dated for all events or activitied not held at our usual meeting place (Our Pond) Beaver Bank Monarch Drive Elementary School. This is a Scouts Canada requirement. Consent Forms will be supplemented with a "Physical Fitness Certificate". Thank you for your cooperation.

Jan 25, 2000 The bad weather didn't keep 5 beavers from bowling.

Feb 1, 2000 Investiture Night, We invested 3 more beavers. Thanks to parents for there participation.

Mar 21, 2000 Beaver Buggy Racing, we had great fun racing our Beaver Buggies, were pleased to have some Scouts and Cubs show us there cars and trucks.

Apr 11, 2000 Show & Tell was a big success Beavers brought Fish, Salamanders, Trucks, Digimon, Poke'mon, Transformers. What a variety.

Apr 18, 2000 We welcome a new leader, Rainbow (Dina Ritchie) to our Colony. Dina has been a parent helper on many outings and has decided make a greater commitment.

May 3, 2000 WOW what a great turn out for Scout Trees. Nearly everyone attended, the Terrain was rough but the we all had fun.

Jun 11, 2000 Here we are at camp. Its the end of the season, and Bubbles realy is moving to 'C' Colony in the fall. We will all miss her. It rained hard last night but no one got wet. Its a good thing camp was so close to Hawkeye's house, every one slept in there tent but at breakfast we all sought shelter in Hawkeye's warm dry kitchen.

Jun 18, 2000 Congratulations to Hawkeye, Ringtail and all the other candidated who completed Wood Badge II at Gilwell 2000.

Jul 1, 2000 Another great parade, We showed every one on the parade route that we were proud to be Canadian and members of the Scouting Brotherhood.

Sep 19, 2000 1st meeting of the 2000/2001 season, we have 12 new Beavers and we welcome a new leader also. Smokey(Floyd) formerly from 'B' Colony has decided to share his time and experiance with us. A "Great" chear to Smokey for his ongoing commitment.

Sep 26, 2000 We welcome a new leaders Sunshine (Cheryl Brann), Sunshine is an experianced Guider,she receintly moved to Beaver Bank from Truro.

Oct 14, 2000 6 Brown and Blue tail beavers participated in the Area Colony Picnic. We shared in the fun and food with 6 other colonies all from the Sespenaak Area. Thanks to Scouter Joan and her team for an excellent event.

Oct 24, 2000 What a major success Apple Day was for A Colony. 17 Beavers several siblings and an outstanding 11 parents turned out to share our apples with the community. This is a excellent example of familly participation in the Beaver program. Congratulations to all who were involved.

Nov 18, 2000 Congratulations to Rainbow and all the other candidates who completed Wood Badge I.

Dec 2, 2000 A hearty group of Beavers and siblings braved the cold on our bottle drive. The proceeds will go to help our older counterparts (the scouts) attend CJ2001. Congratulations to all who were involved.

Dec 5 2000, We had a suprise visit from Santa today. He has great timing, we were working on our tree orniment and he brought us refreshmants.

Jan 27 2001, All 8 of our White Tail Beavers attended the Area White Tail Camp, sorry I mean "All 8 Tender Pads". 28 Beavers in total found out first hand what it was like to go to Cub Camp. More than just a camp, the program included training to prepare them for cubs, tying knots and they even earned their first Cub Badge.

Apr 10 2001, Those beaver buggies realy move on our new race track.

May 12 2001, Here we are at the Fun Forest Camp.

Jul 1 2001, Here we go again, this is our 3rd Canada Day Parade. The parade is getting bigger. This year there was another Scout entry and also one from the Guides. Look closely at our float there is a Guide member sharing in our fun.

Jul 9 2001, CJ01, Some of the Beavers and Tenderpads are on a trek to visit CJ01 the 10th Canadian Jamboree. This is there adventure.

Sep 12 2001, We are off to a good start this year with 11 new Beaver Kits registered, if every one returns from last year we will have 23.

Sep 18 2001, Although we bid a fond farewell to Sunshine who has chosen to pursue her carier in Guiding , we welcome a new leader into our fold. After much debate the beavers named Rusty (John Brann), who I must say does fit the part.

Oct 9 2001, We had two very important topics to discuss today, the first was to name another new leader. Tic Tac (Raymond Grove) was named after he gave us his "brown squirl" demonstration. Then we read a story about escaping from a fire and practiced what we learned.



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