Welcome to the 1st Stony Plain Scout Group

Another year of Scouting has begun here in Stony Plain. The Beavers have been to the Devonian Botanical Gardens for a tour, the Cubs have had their first camp and the Scouts are getting ready for their first camp of the year as well.

Many exciting things are happening this year with the 1st Stony Plain Group, we welcome all our returning members from previous years and say hello to all our new members. This years Annual General Meeting saw a lot of new faces join us, some as youth, some as Leaders and some on Group Committee.

2009 will be our groups 60th anniversary in Stony Plain, it is hard to believe as we just celebrated the Town's 100th birthday. In the coming year we will be gearing up for a proper celebration, the Scouts are working on designing a new badge that will go on all the uniforms and on the trailer. A big thanks must go out to our Sponsor, the Stony Plain Lions Service Club, they have been with us for the past 60 years and I hope they are with us for another 60 to come.

The Group Committee is made up of volunteers who are accountable to the Group Commissioner who in turn is accountable to the Area Commissioner, the AC is accountable to the Council Commissioner who is accountable to National. In the end though all these people are responsible for making sure that the youth have a fun, challenging and rewarding program. In order to keep the communication lines open we rely heavily on our Leaders, they are our best contact with the parents and the youth. To help the Leaders with this we have decided to try a blog as a means of posting information for all sections in one place. Eventually this may lead to a full-blown website if it is successful. Feedback will be an essential evaluating tool for us to determine if it is successful or not, feedback can be sent to the GC at the contact email address posted in the profile section. Please keep it constructive. If comments are to be allowed they must be kept clean, we hope the youth will get in the habit of checking to see what's happening.

Each month I will post the schedules that the Leaders have provided to me. I will also post any important dates to remember as well as Area and Council Events and information that may be relevant. I will also add a links section containing links to the Northern Lights Website, the National Scouts Canada website and any other links that may be interesting.

I am really looking forward to getting to know everyone this year and I am expecting this to be a great year.