Past+Events+2006

include page="MainTemplate" =Past Events 2006= So that you can look back, 20th Winnipeg Beavers is proud to give you our past events page -- 2006 edition.

2006 Sept-Dec

 * **Date** || **Description of Events** ||
 * September 18 || Our first meeting of the year at the Church. We will be getting to know each other with our name tag craft, "Happy Spider Web" game and "Friends of the Forest Story". ||
 * September 25 || We meet at the Church. Weather permitting, will head out on a hike to the forested area behind the Dakota Community Club. We'll collect leaves, play some outdoor games and end up back at the Church. Parents, please join us in the fun. We'll be reading the "Friends of the Forest" story and choosing some leaders' names, too. **Dress for the weather please.** ||
 * October 2 || We will be at the Church creating family portraits for Thanksgiving. We will also make our plaques with the //Beaver Law//, //Promise// and //Motto// that the Beavers can take home to learn. ||
 * October 9 || **Thanksgiving Day: No meeting scheduled.** ||
 * October 14 (11am-4pm) || **Special Event:** Day camp at Camp Amisk. This will be a linking activity with our Cub Scouts. Event runs from 11 am to 4 pm. There is no cost for Colony members. Parents and siblings are invited (cost is $2 per person). ||
 * October 16 || We meet at St. Vital Park Duck Pond for a scavenger hunt, games, and a wiener roast around the fire pit. Parents and families are invited to attend and join in the fun. Parachute and gym ball to make an appearance. **Please be sure to dress for the weather.** ||
 * October 23 || Investiture Ceremony at the Church. All Beavers will be invested as full members of the 20th Winnipeg Beaver Colony with their tails and new Beavers will receive their scarves and woggles. Coffee and juice will be served afterward and we're asking parents of 1st year Beavers to please bring a plate of baking for the evening also (no nuts or nut products please). Beaver families are invited to attend this event. ||
 * November 27 || **Lodge Flags.** The Beavers can better identify their fellow lodge members and leader. We will be playing games and read from our "Friends of the Forest" story too ||
 * December 4 || We will learn of the different celebrations that go on the same time as the Christmas season. We will get to do a craft of a symbol that reflects some other traditions that occur during this time of year. ||
 * December 11 || **Assiniboine Valley Railway** (3001 Roblin Blvd). Last meeting of 2006. We will be ending this week to prevent conflicts with school or church events. We will meet at 6:30 at 3001 Roblin Boulevard (just West of Assiniboine Park) for rides and hot chocolate around a fire pit. The 20th Beavers’ dues will pay the cost for this event for Beavers. Parents and siblings pay $3.00 for two ride tickets. __Please dress for the weather__. The people who run the railway ask for a **non-perishable food item** for Winnipeg Harvest. ||

2007 Jan-Aug

 * January 8 || Welcome back from the Holidays, Beavers. We meet at the Church to make a **snow globe** for our first meeting of 2007. ||
 * January 15 || We meet at the **Winnipeg Police-Service Museum**, **//130 Allard Ave//**. (off Bedson St. off of Portage Ave. in St. James). Please bring a loonie as a donation for this volunteer-run organization. ||
 * January 22 || We meet at the Church to make **Soup-can Lanterns** for an upcoming outing. Please bring a hammer if you have one. ||
 * January 29 || **Toboggan Night** at **St. Vital Park** is __**cancelled**__ because weather did not permit. We meet instead at the church for a night of games. ||
 * February 5 || Join us at the Church for our annual **Beaver Buggy Construction**. We will build and decorate our Beaver Buggies so please bring a hammer and $3.00 to cover the cost of the Beaver Buggy kit. We race them in 2 weeks. __**REMEMBER** to return **Polar Pond** forms so we can plan the event accordingly.__ ||
 * February 12 || We meet at the Church for some **Outdoor Winter Games**. We will be snowshoeing, skiing among other activities. __Please dress accordingly.__ ||
 * February 17 || **Saturday morning** is **Polar Pond** where we meet with other Beaver groups to celebrate 100 years of Scouting. We will supply lunch for this outdoor event for a small fee. Stay tuned for more details. __Be sure to dress for the weather as we will be outside from 10:00am to 2:00pm__. ||
 * February 19 || We’re back at the Church for **Beaver Buggy Races**. //Families//, please stay to cheer on the Racers! Pit service, coffee and juice will be provided. ||
 * February 26 || We will be visited by the **Sea Cadets** of the **HMCS Chippewa** at the Church to observe their exercises and to build friendship beads. ||
 * March 5 || We meet at **St. Vital Park** for a night of tobogganing with hot chocolate and popcorn around the fire. Please bring your __soup-can lanterns__ and __dress for the weather__. ||
 * March 12 || We meet at the Church for a sharing circle around our campfire inside (yes inside). We’ll read the final chapter of **//“Friends of the Forest”//** and have a sharing activity for our **Brown & Blue Tails** and a different activity for our **White Tails**. ||
 * March 19 || We meet at the Church for a night of **science experiments** for the Beavers. As the leaders will be running the experiment stations, we’d like any parents in attendance to travel with the Beavers to each station. We will group the Beavers into their respective lodges. ||
 * March 30-31 (Fri-Sat) || **Sleepover Night** at the Church. We meet at the Church for 6:30 Friday night to drop off our sleeping bags etc., plan to go bowling and return to the Church for some games and activities. We will be serving a pancake breakfast Saturday morning and finish at around 9:30 am. A parent or other guardian is required to attend with their Beaver for this event. A permission slip is included at the end of this newsletter as we will need to know how many will be in attendance. ||
 * April 2 || We will building **Easter Baskets** at the Church with Balloons and papier mâchè. See you there. ||
 * April 9 || **Music Night** at the Church. We will be visited by a “**Pan Drum**” musician who will perform for our Beavers. ||
 * April 16 || **Canvassing outdoors for Scout Trees**. We will be canvassing door to door in our lodge groups to houses in the vicinity of the Church. We will travel in our lodge groups with a leader to raise money for Scouts Canada charities and will finish off at the church. Please dress for the weather and parents are welcome to attend if they wish. ||
 * April 23 || Visit to the **Manitoba Electrical Museum**, 680 Harrow (Harrow and Taylor behind Manitoba Hydro Building). __See you there at **7:00 pm**__. ||
 * April 30 || Canvassing for **Scoutrees** at St. Vital Centre. This is not a regular meeting. This is a special fund-raising event. To volunteer, contact Hawkeye. ||
 * May 6 || **Picnic at St. Vital Park** for our **final meeting** of the Beavering year. **20th Winnipeg Wind-up**, **Swim-up**, and **25th Anniversary** of our Group at the Church. We will meet at the Duck Pond for hot dogs, drinks at **6:00 pm** for supper. We plan to have our Parachute and bottle rockets and other games handy for everyone to enjoy. This is a family event so come out and have fun. We will be barbequing hot dogs for the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and their families. If you, as parents, were former Beavers, Cubs or Scouts of the 20th Winnipeg, the organizers would like to hear from you. ||
 * June 1-3 || "All Sections Summer Camp – Manitoba Goes to Brownsea Island". To celebrate the **100th** Anniverary of Scouting, Scouters from Beavers to Rovers will gather at Crescent Island, Portage la Prairie to recreate the very first Scout Camp on Brownsea Island. ||
 * June 23-24 || Camp Amisk, Linking Camp. This will be an overnight Beaver and Cub camp held at Camp Amisk. ||
 * August 1 || **Centennial Sunrise Ceremony** at the **Legislative Buildings**. Gathering is at 08:00 with Flag Break and renewal of Promise. ||