Saturday, January 30, 2010

Group Working Bee

The Group Working Bee started at 8:30am on Saturday, 30 January 2010. Matt, the only Rover in attendance, met new potential Rover, James, and talked about Rovering, basic principles of Scouting, the Scout Law and Promise and the Saints.

Work done included pruning the ivy vine growing around the Rover and Venturer Den, Russ Davie possum-proofed the Rover Den, much weeding, environmental management and maintenance to the main flagpole, along with earthworks around the small green flagpole area.

Yanni and Hamish were there from the Venturers, along with Mark.

The Bee concluded at 1pm.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Inter-Crew Games Night #2

As winners of the previous games night, the Tandara and Camira Rovers organised the next round at the Tandara Den in Eastern Heights. There competing were: Alex and Boo from Tandara Rovers; Petah and Rachael from Camira Rovers; Peter from Stafford Rovers; Natasha from Everton Park Ranger Guides; and Iain, Jordan, Matt, Sam, Stephen E. and I from St John's Wood Rovers. By the end, Alex determined Stephen to be the winner of the night, due to his efforts and enthusiasm. So Stephen has kindly written his views of the night (and now has the honour of organising Inter-Crew Games Night #3):


After 45 minutes of driving between dens, and viewing some fantastic civil engineering projects along the way, we arrived. We began with a quick parade, and then played some getting-to-know-you games involving toilet paper, where by we all ended up sharing facts about each other (in my case I was made to disclose an entire life story)! We then continued to play a team building game, involving splitting into two teams and attempting to move your team over a rope 1.5m in the air using nothing but a chair and man (and woman) power! After epic commando rolling and some extreme team work, one of the teams managed to get everyone over. We then continued to play a epic game of Red Rover! After doing all the good work we did in burning calories in our games of running around, we wasted it all by going to McDonald's for some filling food and refreshing beverages.
All in all is was a fun night of meeting other Rovers, playing games Joey-style and then having an educational meal at McDonald's discussing Economic theory!


See you all next time!


-Rachel and Stephen E.-

Monday, January 25, 2010

Guard the Rotary Citizenship Ceremony Setup

On the evening before Australia Day, at 11pm, JJ and I (The Captain) headed down to the local Wittonga Park to help protect the Rotary's Citizenship Ceremony Setup for the next Day. All went off without a spot of bother. Headed home after the change of the guard at 6am the next morning.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Woodgate Discussion

This was to be the night for discussing the trip to Woodgate and consequent camp. Details were finalised and numbers were supposedly confirmed, however several people were unable to attend (where they had, on this night, said they could come). This, in combination with lack of transport, meant that the trip to Woodgate was unfortunately cancelled at the last minute.