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CCJ’10 – Finally HERE, and running NOW!

Monday, July 26th, 2010

After 18 months of planning, CCJ’10 is finally here. Somewhere around 375 Youth, 111 of their Leaders, and around 165 Offer of Service Volunteers are finally living at Camp Everton. With Camp opened by our Camp Chief (Tony Copperthwaite), and help from many, including the Dragon Dancers, events start in earnest today. First 3 busloads headed for the waterpark at Bingeman’s, everyone else at events in camp (rocketeering, orienteering, archery, I could go on). Hurry up and have fun, first day’s almost over!

For me, the week was a success when the first kid, moving at high-speed, said “The Dragon Dancers were awesome, got to go”, and yup, she was gone.

You’ll see a few pictures here, if you’re a parent, or volunteer from a Group attending, you can find the blog from the camp at http://ccj10.scouter.ca (and you already have your userid & password).

Truly an awesome group of Leaders and Volunteers!

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Registrations Are Now Open for the 3rd CEC Fall Campore

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

The 3rd Annual CEC Fall Camporee will take place Oct 1-3rd, 2010 at Goodyear Memorial Scout Camp. The website (http://cecfallcamporee.scouter.ca ) has been updated. If you are a unit wanting to attend or an Offer of Service (OOS) wanting to assist, you will find the registration forms are now available to be downloaded from the website.

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Wood Badge Part II – Course is Now Full

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The Wood Badge Part II course scheduled to be held at Blue Springs on April 9-11th and Camp Everton on April 30-May 2nd is now FULL.

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Pass on a Good Turn

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

In the next day or two, Scouters will be receiving the January/February 2010 edition of Scouting Life magazine and on page 7 they will find an article about our first “Pass on a Good Turn” Campaign.

This campaign is easy.

  1. Do a good turn
  2. Pass on your wrist band to the person you do the good turn for.
  3. As the person to “pass it on” – do a good turn and pass on the wrist band, and keep it going.

Every member doing a good turn means that 100,000 good turns will be passed on. If every person who receives a wrist band does a good turn, we’ll have 200,000 good turns. Of course, if every wrist band got passed on 5 times, we’d be at 500,000 good turns. That would sure get some notice.

Wrist bands will be distributed to Groups through the Area Commissioner.

Good luck passing on a good turn.

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MyBackCheck.Com – A further update

Friday, February 5th, 2010

We have had to update the MyBackCheck procedure because having people fax their ID to us is not giving us a good enough quality to send to MyBackCheck. They have rejected some. We have revised the procedure asking people to scan (and email), mail or hand deliver.

We have also added a line that Group Commissioners, Group Registrars, Area Commissioners, Area Registrars and Council Field Executives can now verify the ID on the ID Verification Form before it is returned to our office for processing. This will meet the legal requirements.

Click -HERE- for the complete procedure as currently updated.

Marg Routledge
COAC

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Scouts Canada’s Disney Friends for Change Clean-Up Challenge

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Scouts Canada is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Disney. The Disney Friends for Change Clean-up Challenge will be a pilot project in April and May of this year, available primarily in areas of the country that have Disney Stores.

Scouts Canada members in and around the following centres (within approximately 1 hour’s drive) are eligible to participate in this opportunity:

Burnaby, BC
Edmonton, AB
Calgary, AB
Winnipeg, MB
Toronto, ON
Willowdale, ON
Mississauga, ON
Scarborough, ON
Hamilton, ON
Vaughan, ON
Barrie, ON
Halifax/Dartmouth, NS
St. John’s, NL

In the weeks leading up to and following Earth Day (April 22, 2010), we challenge your section or group to organize a local clean-up project. We encourage you to focus your clean-up near a river, lake, or other waterway. We ask that clean-up projects take place between April 1 and May 21, 2010. Disney will provide garbage bags and gloves for your clean-up, and this will be coordinated with the Disney Store in your area. Participants in registered clean-up projects will be eligible for prize draws from Disney, including passes to the new Disney movie, Oceans, that will be released on Earth Day.

Following completion of your clean-up, please e-mail photos to mjames@scouts.ca. Please submit your project registration form (attached) by Friday, February 5, 2010, to Melissa James – e-mail to mjames@scouts.ca or fax to 709.364.1639.

Thank you for your consideration. We hope your sections and groups will participate in this exciting environmental partnership.

By all means contact Melissa James at mjames@scouts.ca should you have any questions.

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MyBackCheck.com process updated to provide greater security.

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

We now have MyBackCheck up and running. The only changes will be that in order to complete the application:

MyBackCheck will send you a message to complete an ID Verification Form (that they will send you). You are required to complete Section #2, sign and forward to this office (Fax: 416-490-6911) together with copies of two pieces of government-issued photo identification. We will complete the rest of the form and forward it to MyBackCheck. Acceptable photo ID is: Driver’s License, Passport, Foreign Driver’s License, Canadian Citizenship Card, Canadian Permanent Resident Card, Certificate of Indian Status, International Student Identity Card, Firearms Acquisition Certificate, Canadian National Institute of the Blind Identification Card, Military Family Identification Card. A Health Card is NOT acceptable. If you do not have a second piece of photo ID a birth certificate is acceptable.

A  process sheet will be posted to the COAC Registration website on Monday. Once the COAC receives the “Service Order Form” staff  will complete the appropriate part of the form and fax it to MyBackCheck. This satisfies the requirement of the RCMP.
At the current time individuals are only able to complete the Criminal Record Check but once the concerns of the RCMP have been met and they are again able to complete the vulnerable sector screening (which we anticipate within 2 weeks) they will go back, at no charge, and complete the vulnerable sector screening. In the meantime, we will accept the Criminal Record Check.

Hope this helps and thank you all for your patience as we work through these new requirements. It has been very frustrating!

Marg Routledge
mroutledge@scouts.ca
COAC – Scouts Canada

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Oakville Area Support Team Meeting

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Oakville Deputy Area Commissioners to meet with Council Commissioner/Interim AC on Tuesday October 27th

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Senior Sections CEC is recruiting!!!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Hi all,

The Senior Sections CEC blog is powered by information that is provided by many people. 1 or 2 people can not find or know everything out there related to Venturers and Rovers in the CEC. Currently I am hoping to find several other people to help find events and add posts. Youth or Advisors are welcome. Contact me at seniorsectionscec@gmail.com

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