In case you haven’t heard, our leader ranks have been swelling in line with our youth numbers. In the past 6 months we’ve had:
Fantastic to add their range of experiences to our leaders team. And to see Brooklyn Scouts continuing to go from strength to strength.
We are looking for helpers who don’t mind working at heights to help us out preparing, priming, and painting our 82 year old hall. please register your interest by emailing Erina at [email protected].
We’ve not been kidding, our hall upgrade project is about to commence after the Committee approved the first phase of expenditure.
A comprehensive upgrade plan has been draw up targeting the basement area and storage, kitchen, toilet facilities and the heating/electrical systems. Phase 1 is the southern and western walls. They’re not looking good 🙁
So, we are going to pop some scaffolding up and get busy. At the same time we will be undertaking repairs to the roof and window sills as required. We hope to get this done while our “drought conditions” extend into April…
Proposed dates and times are:
The first weekend is subject to us getting the scaffolding set up in time. Obviously both weekends are weather dependant. Rex Collet & Erina Papp (Augusta’s parents and long-time supporters of the scout group) are coordinating the work and will provide updates when scaffolding/weather becomes more certain.
We sure hope you will be able to help out for at least one of these times – if you can, then please register your interest by emailing Erina at [email protected]. Thanks for your help to improve our scout hall .
Here are some pics from the early part of the morning at the Paparangi waterslide for the 2013 National Mudslide Day.
If you have extra pictures to add, mail them to webmaster_at_brooklynscouts.org.nz so I can add them to the flickr set.
So soon? Yup – get set to get wet at the Scouts National Mudslide Day!
In case you aren’t sure what goes on, check out the pictures from last year’s event.
Mark Ave Park, Paparangi
At little later this time, but worth the wait! One of the biggest and best attended group camps in manys a year: fire eating, trampolining, ball games, obstacle course, kayaking, rafting….
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