Scouting Statewide May 2003
VENTURING ON . . . news from Venturing SA
How long is it since you have had a look at our website? Mike Turner does a great job at keeping it updated BUT we need photos. We would love to have photos of any kind of Venturing activity from any Unit on the site. So, when you go on your next camp, hike or activity take photos and send them to Mike so he can put them on our website. We would also like your feedback on the site and you can do that by emailing via the site to Mike. The more feedback and suggestions we get, the better the website will be. So remember to take your camera along and take loads of happy snaps and send them in to Mike.
Venturer Maroon Bucket Hats: I have placed an order for these, so any Units wanting these hats - which will be able to be worn with your Unit T-Shirt your formal uniform and anywhere you want to wear them, please send into HQ attention Kate Ryder an order for how many hats you want and a cheque to cover the cost. The cost is $5.00 a hat!!! You won’t get that price anywhere else and those who were at the Info Night will have seen the proto type. The hats come in small, medium and large/extra large. If you want to know the cm size for these please email me and I will give the breakdown to you.
Easter Venture: I have just returned from visiting Camp 2 at EV. This fantastic activity would not have happened this year without the dedicated few that organised it and to them I send a big THANKYOU. This year there were over 50 participants but the infrastructure of Leaders and helpers to organise the event reached over 100! While I was there a promotional video was being prepared and very well choreographed as well and you will be seeing this during the next 12 months. Easter Venture is a great time to get away for four days and have a great experience with your mates. You also get Easter Eggs and if that is not an incentive to attend - I don’t know what will excite you! Please find out about next years EV and get together a group of your Venturer mates and have a great time - you will be seeing publicity about it in the coming months. Try something new, be daring but be prepared!!!
SuperSplash: Yes - it is time to start thinking about this year’s event. Last year it was a load of fun and we want that to be the case again this year. If anyone would like to be involved with an activity that has been done before or if you come up with another fun event for the Venturers to do - please get in contact with me and we will talk. I would really like to see the pole soccer there, which was at the Cuboree - so I will be looking into that as an activity as well. Anyone who has a large dining shelter and or a marquee available - please let me know as we need these kind of facilities for dining and movies etc.
Which way did they go?? I would just like to add my bit about the Sea Scout Regatta which some of you might have read about in last issue of Statewide. I have been known sometimes to get caught up in the flow of things (which isn’t so good sometimes!) and the Regatta was the perfect example. Andre Botha had invited me to present a new Venturer Trophy at the Regatta and I was really excited about doing that. I was also asked to take part in one of the races as well - so my brain was not really in the thinking mode it was more like "I am going to go in a boat a row - WOW how exciting!!" Not even knowing which way is the front of a boat or even how to use an oar! In the following weeks, emails and SMS’s were exchanged between Andre and myself and I just assumed that because Andre came from Port Noarlunga that that was were the Regatta was going to be held! I must have been asleep in the meetings where the Regatta was being discussed - or more likely talking! And I just went with the flow. I was a bit embarrassed when I had to ask Andre "don’t we turn this way to go to Port Noarlunga?" as I thought he had just got a little geographically embarrassed and that was where the fun began. The rest is history as you might say and it was the brunt of jokes over the weekend. I had an absolute ball that weekend and wonder whether rowing and sailing might be more my style rather than hiking and trekking once I finish my stint as BC? So in the end I would like to thank everyone who made my stay an enjoyable one and to Andre for driving me to and from Barmera. If I might be so bold as to suggest I come along next year, I might know which way to go!!!
PS. Please don’t change the venue, Graham Cox, you will only confuse me again J .
Anyway, life this year has begun at a reasonable pace and I look forward to seeing many of you at events, activities, meetings and courses.
Yours in Venturing
Kate Ryder - Branch Commissioner Venturer Scouts.
