We put Coleson in scouting when he was 9 years old and he has never looked back. I started volunteering a year later....I have looked back. I quit for a couple of years then jumped back in. I started off helping the leaders with Cub Scouts and then was registrar for for the group three more years. I registered this year as fundraising coordinator. I just couldn't stay away!
It's the camaraderie between leaders, parents and youth that I missed so much. I'm sure I gave the group commissioner a sideways look when he asked me if I was interested in volunteering back in 2010. I'm not the camping type but I found that one doesn't have to like camping in -40 degree weather to enjoy scouting! What a bonus! Paperwork and organizing things is more my bag anyway.
Warning: One may develop wonderful friendships with other members and parents of the group.
14th McKillop Scouting Group has an Investiture day at the beginning of every Scouting year where we invest all the new members. It's quite the ceremony! This year it was at Park Lake and all the families were invited to witness and be involved in the great event. Later, we all went to the corn maze a few kilometres down the road, got lost for awhile, petted some farm animals then enjoyed a weiner/marshmallow supper over a beautiful camp fire. Many youth and leaders made a camping weekend of it at Park Lake.....they find any excuse to go camping....but many of us just went for the day. It was so much fun.
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