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Tag: guiding

Canada Cord

September 28, 2013
Rainwater

Angela received her Girl Guides of Canada Canada Cord at a ceremony held at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga. The Canada Cord is the highest achievement that can be earned by a Pathfinder.

Each girl would go up and say what their favourite guiding memory was.

A cool photo of Angela walking out of the hall.

Angela with her Canada Cord and a carnation.

Here is Angela with fellow Pathfinder Heather and two of her leaders, Guider Sue and Guider Jenn.

Afterwards we walked over to Celebration Square next to City Hall.

Not much activity for a 4:00 on a Saturday afternoon. It was also Doors Open Mississauga.

Angela walking through the fountain.

The Marilyn Building.

Susan, Angela and Claudia.

Angela with her awards. Just realized now that her Canada Cord pin is covered. Congratulations Angela!

This is the blurb from Wikipedia on the Canada Cord requirements:

To earn the Canada Cord award, a Pathfinder must complete 20 select modules (about 4 activities each usually) participate, plan and lead 3 camps and/or leadership events, earn her community service award by working 15 hours of community service, participate in two Ranger meeting bridging activities, lead three bridging activities for younger girls (Usually guides or brownies, but occasionally sparks) complete a first aid course given by a recognized agency, and earn her citizenship certificate by doing 8 activities out of the be a model citizen module.

Treetop Trekking

May 26, 2013
Rainwater

Angela and the other third year Pathfinders were able to go to Treetop Trekking at Horseshoe Valley Resort. Here are the girls getting some instructions from one of the guides.

Angela only about three feet off the ground.

It was off to the Purple course to start.

Angela on one of the early zip lines.

They had to swing over to the next platform. Here is Angela getting over.

There were paths under all of the courses, so we walked around watching them for awhile.

Then we headed back to the car for some lunch and a nap.

Here is Angela.

Chloe was a tired dog at the end of the day.

Angela waiting to move on.

The Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum) were in bloom. The seeds of a trillium are dispersed by ants.

Angela on one of the zip lines.

Angela way up.

The girls were doing the Big Zip as the last thing, so Claudia was able to join them. Here she is getting suited up.

The Big Zip is 983ft long and you can get up to speeds of 40 km/h. There goes Angela.

When Susan paid for Claudia, the girl gave her the resort discount and then she called her back and wrote 2X on her wrist band so she could go twice.

Angela and the 3rd year Pathfinders after a tiring day in the trees.

A video of Claudia zip-lining down the Big Zip.

Claudia beaming after going down twice.

Angela’s Advancement

May 22, 2013
Rainwater

Angela had her Advancement Ceremony from Pathfinders tonight. Not quite as elaborate as Gillian’s was a few years ago. They joined with some of the other area guiding groups. The leaders have decided to continue on until this years first year girls (including Claudia) finish up. They will not be taking on any additional girls in the fall.

Angela with her leaders. She is moving on to Rangers next year. Angela has completed her Canada Cord and she’ll receive it at a ceremony in September. Well done Angela!

Angela and Claudia with their leaders.

Rattray Marsh Clean-up 2013

April 13, 2013
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Today was the annual clean-up at the Rattray Marsh. There were a lot of volunteers helping out.

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Angela and Claudia’s Pathfinder group were one of the volunteer groups.

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This was definitely a rubber boots activity.

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Each year we have been doing this, there seems to be less and less garbage, or other people are getting there earlier.

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The 281st Mississauga Pathfinders (at least those who came out).

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A dreary day in southern Ontario.

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Chloe had a great time on her walk. She was pretty tired when she got home.

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The Rattray Marsh in Mississauga.

Claudia’s Pathfinder Enrolment

February 27, 2013
Rainwater

Claudia had her Enrolment ceremony for Pathfinders. Here she is receiving her pin.

Unfortunately afterwards her leaders talked about how they may be closing the unit after this year. We’ll have to wait and see, Angela moves on to Rangers next year, so it is just Claudia that will have to find a new unit if they can’t find new leaders.

Congratulations Claudia!

Rattray Marsh Clean-up

April 14, 2012
Rainwater

Angela’s Pathfinder group were volunteering at the annual Rattray Marsh clean-up this weekend.

We park at jack Darling Park and walk over.

Chloe came with us this year.

A shopping cart that someone pulled out.

We walked a different route than last year.

Angela and Claudia looking for garbage.

Flowers were in bloom.

A nesting swan.

Down on the shingle bar.

Spring Cleaning

April 9, 2011
Rainwater

On Saturday morning, we headed down to Rattray Marsh Conservation Area for some spring cleaning. Angela’s Pathfinder group was there to help clean the marsh and surrounding trails.

Lake Ontario

While the girls were waiting to get started, a reporter from the Mississauga News asked them a few questions. Their interview is on-line at the Mississauga News.

Angela and Claudia being interviewed

Here is the part of the article with Angela and Claudia.

This lesson continues today with the many young people who participate in the clean up including 13-year-old Angela Tanabe, a member of the 281st Pathfinders, and her sister 10-year-old Claudia, a member of the 257th Girl Guides.
The pair were among a large group of kids from various scout troops who not only worked towards earning badges today, but also got a lesson in environmental protection and citizenship.
“If we leave the Marsh to get dirty, there will be no place for the animals to live,” Angela said.
The area is home to many environmentally sensitive habitats and wildlife including blue heron, salamanders, beavers, deer, snakes and turtles.
“We are helping the animals,” said Claudia, who was excited to participate for the first time.

Claudia

Angela and Claudia picking up garbage.

Cleaning the trails

After the trail, we headed down to the beach (shingle bar), there was a crazy Canada goose that kept coming up to people.

Crazy goose

Braces: Round 2 and Fractured Fairy Tales

February 3, 2010
Old-Rainwater

Today we started round two of braces. I took Angela this morning to get braces on her top teeth. She was pretty excited about getting them on. Here she is before we left.

Angela pre-braces

And here she is with them on. She gets her bottom ones on at the beginning of April.

Angela with braces

Tonight all three girls were going to Gillian’s Pathfinder meeting. Gillian’s group was putting on a play for all the area Sparks, Brownie and Guide groups. Gillian and the other third year Pathfinders put the show together as part of ther Canada Cord requirements. That’s Gillian in the middle. Their play was called “Fractured Fairy Tales”.

Gillian

It was a good show and they put a lot of hard work into organizing it for the past couple of months.

Pathfinders

Guide, Pathfinder, Guide

The Girls

What’s the chair about? At the school we were at, they had boxes of new folding chairs. As Chair of our school council, one of my goals is to do a fundraiser to help purchase new chairs for our school. Our school still has the wood seat and metal leg chairs that most will remember from their days at grade school. They are wobbly, they have cracks and are all round uncomfortable. My idea is to have families donate a chair and then recognize them by creating a plaque with names. Originally I thought we could put the plaque right on the chair, but it probably wouldn’t last that long. I’ll let you know this goes.

A chair

Return From Camp

October 25, 2009
Old-Rainwater

Angela and Claudia went camping with Guides this weekend. They are now in the same group, so that makes it a little easier on us (actually Susan) for meetings and camps. Here are the two of them airing out their bedrolls after coming home from camp.

Angela

Bedrolls

Their camp was at Camp Wyoka, so they were sleeping indoors.

Bedrolls

Camp Closing

May 31, 2009
Old-Rainwater

We were all invited for lunch at Angela’s Guide camp. This was the last year for the leaders, they were retiring after more than 20 years as leaders of the 257th. They managed to recruit some new leaders for the group.

Gillian

Claudia

Debbie and Margot the leaders and their daugthers.

Margot and Debbie

Debbie and Margot

A final song.

Closing

Susan and Margot.

Susan and Margot

Gillian and Mrs Woods.

Gillian and Mrs Woods

A group photo of all the 257th Guide unit.

Group photo