Encompass Issue 46 - October 2012 - Kawana Scouts

ADVENTURE IN THE BAY
On Saturday 8th
September a group of
parents and children
from Bardon Cub Scouts
and Scouts competed as
family groups in the
2012 Adventure in the
Bay kayak orienteering
compeon run by Queensland Canoeing. The event starts and
finishes at Jacobs Well and is a Rogaine (navigaon) style acvity on
water. Teams consist of 3 or 4 people in 2 or more kayaks or
canoes. Teams are given a map at 8am for a 9am departure and
have to visit as many markers in the Jacobs Well and local waterway
area as possible to gain maximum points and return to the finish
line before 4pm. The group, divided into two teams and paddling all
together was Mark Cavanagh, Liam Tobin, Judith Eason , Will Eason,
Nieve Tobin, Finn Tobin, Lucy Menzies, Phoebe Menzies and Chris
Menzies.
AGOONOREE 2012
September 22 saw over 400 Scouts, Guides, Venturer Scouts, Rover
Scout and Leaders converge on Baden Powell Park for the 32 nd
Agoonoree. Agoonoree is a camp run by Scouts Queensland that
caters for Children with special needs. The week long camp occurs
in the first week of the September school holidays each year. The
Queensland Agoonoree was started back in 1980 aer three
Members of Scouts Queensland went the 1979 Nippon (Japan)
Agoonoree. Aer coming back from the Nippon Agoonoree Peter
Blatch, Geoff Doo and Andrew Dufficy went on to create the first
We had a very good me and
considering our longest training
paddle was 2 ½ hours, youths and
adults handled the 7 hour event
very well. In 2013 Bardon Cub
Scouts and Scouts are planning to
put a number of teams into the
event. We challenge any or all
Brisbane Region Cub Scouts and/
or Scouts to compete against us. The event will be held at Jacobs
Well in September 2013. Details will be available closer to the event
date at www.qld.canoe.org.au or via email to
mark.thurgood@canoe.org.au. Bardon Cub Scouts/Scouts event
coordinator is Chris Menzies at sue.cameron3@optusnet.com.au.
TOOWOOMBA CARNIVAL OF FLOWERS
Toowoomba recently celebrated their Annual Event of Carnival of
Flowrs. The young people pictured on the Darling Downs Region
Carnival of Flowers parade float are (back) Corrina Swinton
Rangeville Scout, Grant Wood Darling Downs Rover Crew, Melissa
Ferguson 2nd Toowoomba
Venturer Scouts, Alysha
O'Dwyer Drayton Cub Scout
and Raffi Greenleaf Rangeville
Joey Scout. The float had a
walking group of about 150
youth and adults.
ever Agoonoree.
The theme of the 2012 Agoonoree was Ancient Greek Olympics
acvies included a giant maze,
movie night, rave party disco, giant
slide, gladiator training, abseiling,
rock climbing, carnival day and many
more. For Camp Chief Melita Goff
the 2012 camp was her first year
leading the camp. Melita says “the
best part of Agoonoree is seeing the
smiles on the faces of kids partaking
in the acvies. The camp is very
rewarding not only for the special
needs children but for all campers
who aend the camp. I would
encourage anyone who would like to
be part of this very rewarding
experience to apply to be a part of
the 2013 camp. Young camp veterans Tammy Richards (15 years at
camp) and Shaun Sandilands (14 years at camp) say “we come back
to Agoonoree each and every year to see the patrol system in acon
whilst assisng each other. Agoonoree becomes like an addicon
and once you come to the camp once it becomes an essenal part
of the calendar each year”. Although the 2012 Agoonoree only
finishing a couple of weeks ago, the Agoonoree Commiee have
already started to plan for the 2013 camp. Expressions of interest
for the camp will be out in early March 2013 and will be nofied
through the Agoonoree Website –
www.agoonoree.scoutsqld.com.au , the Agoonoree Facebook page
– www.facebook.com/agoonoree and via encompass. Applicaons
fill fast, so it’s best to get in early to avoid disappointment.
See you at Agoonoree 2013!
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