7 November, 2002
This Week: we focused on communications and signals. We talked about telephones and how to use them including how to make a long distance phone call in an emergency. We mentioned 1 -800 and 1 - 900 numbers (and the dangers of the latter!) We mentioned how to call home using a pay phone but since there are none of these at the school were not able to practice it. We built string telephones, decoded a Braille message and were shown how to ask a deaf person for directions to the washroom using American Sign Language. We also did a craft on mounting and identifying some of the leaves picked up in last week's hike.
Badge Work: Cubs completed Blue Star #A5 (the Braille message item).
We did have a supplemental Badge Testing session at which the following Cubs earned: Thomas (Handicraft, Team Player, Aboriginal Awareness), Alex (Swimmer, Skater), Garrett (Collector - but he still has to bring it in!), Bryan (Trail Craft), and Jeff (Skating, Team Sport and Cooking - to be awarded next week)
We are making up a register of all the badges that Cubs have earned from previous years so, when you can, please send Rakshaw (mikevdburg@rogers.com) an e-mail listing all of your Cub's badges earned to date so she can update our records.
Next Week: This will be a regular meeting focusing on Astronomy and the Solar System. To allow the Beavers to access the chairs in our half of the gym for their induction we will switch places with them next week. Please note too, the information on the Kanata Holiday Parade. (Note too if your Cub is interested and if the sky is clear, the massive Leonid meteor shower just before midnight 18 November - should be 5,000+ meteors per hour as the earth passes through the Tuttle comet orbit).
Yours in Scouting
Mark Tunnicliffe (599-8941)
