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Scouts 5 Day Canoe Trip in La Verendrye

This year’s 5 day canoe trip was Circuit 15 in La Verendrye, a massive nature preserve about 3 hours north of Ottawa that is almost twice as big as Algonquin Park. The 32nd started doing these longer trips almost 10 years ago now because they are more demanding and a greater challenge than the shorter 3 day weekend trips. This allows for a greater opportunity for Scouts to learn about self-reliance and teamwork. The 5 day trip involves packing up camp and paddling every day to a new campsite. This and the longer nature of the trip including portaging really brings out the team spirit in everyone as they all learn to work together. We met at the school at 8:30 am and were packed and on the road by 9. This year there were 11 Scouts and 5 Scouters. With a stop for gas in Maniwaki it was just over 3 hours to get to Le Domaine, the park office. We got ourselves checked in and unloaded, and just after 1:30 we were hitting the water. We had only about 4.5 km to go to our campsite...

Frontenac Provincial Park - Reloaded

Our weekend is best summed up by a quote overheard from a conversation between two first year Scouts when we were about half way in on Saturday : "this ain't no cub camp!". Indeed, it was a challenging self-contained hike-in camp which had us carrying all of our gear 8km in on Saturday, and then back out on Sunday. Frontenac Provincial Park is a backwoods-only provincial park with campsites accessible only by canoe or hiking in. This weekend Scouts completed the second leg of their adventure in this park, a two-part camp where they practiced the "plan, do, review" methodology of the Canadian Path but added their own twist - plan, do, review, do-again. After the first camp a month ago Scouts examined their gear and food choices to come up with a plan to allow them to accomplish a self-contained hike-in camp deeper into the backwoods of this provincial gem. We spent several weeks between the two camps going over shelter options, gear options, and food opt...

White Tail Beavers from the 32nd Ottawa (Thursday) deliver their donation to the Parkdale Food Centre They call it a Northern Lights Quest. Each year, Beavers in their final year of the program complete outdoor skill badges, volunteer hours and contribute to making the world (and their community) a better place through a community service project. Here are six of the nine Beavers who raised $314.45 for the Parkdale Food Centre through a lemonade stand and bake sale at the Hintonburg Community Centre this spring. This is in addition to $300 raised for the centre by Beavers and Scouts from the 32nd Ottawa this past winter. Manager Karen Secord generously provided a personal tour of the centre to show Beavers how their contribution would be put to work helping families in their community. Beavers get stuff done!

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