NEWSLETTER #4 - 24OCT09

When I remember I will try to post the newsletters - they will be 'plain' but the main info will be here:

1st Chase River Guides
NEWSLETTER #4: 24OCT09

This is an extremely important newsletter! We will be very busy in the next few weeks, and there is a lot of information Guides and parents need to know. I am putting the information in the following order: General, then Events by Date. I apologize for the length, but it is all really important!
General:
MEETINGS If anyone has missed our time-change, our meetings are from 6:15pm to 8pm every Tuesday. Please have girls there ready to start at 6:15!
FORMS etc.
Thanks for getting Registration and Health forms in! There is one more ‘general’ form left for everyone to do – the Image Release Form – We hope to have that form to give to girls to take home on Tuesday (or for parents to sign).
UNIFORM We hope everyone has borrowed or bought uniforms by now. All Guides need a uniform top, a badge sash and a Guide tie. Girls also need the Guide book. We will find out how many girls still need their Guide book and probably put in a unit order for those – we will need money from parents first.
COOKIES If you still have cookies, please get them sold asap – we must pay for our cookies mid-November. If you have cookie money for full cases, please give to Gillian. For the parents who have asked for more cookies, I may have several more cases on Tuesday.
National Rally Day Memories and More 2010 – May 15 Guiding Sleepover at Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver. All members of Guiding in BC are invited! Our Unit hopes to attend with all Guides and Guiders! We MUST register our unit/girls asap. The cost for each Guiding member attending is $36.75. If a girl/Guider pays but cannot attend, there is no refund. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime Guiding event that will give girls and Guiders wonderful experiences and memories! At the bottom of this Newsletter is a yes/no confirmation form that we need all parents to complete for each Guide. Please not that the $36.75 is only the Registration Fee. We expect our Guiding Area will be paying at least part of the transportation costs; and our Unit will also assist with transportation, meal and other costs through cookie money. More details will follow as to other costs when known.
We understand this is relatively short notice, but we must have your YES/NO confirmation for this event on or before November 9th. If you would like your Guide to attend, but finances are a real problem, please place a note to that effect in the envelope when you give us your yes/no form.
Events by Date:
Tuesday, Oct. 27th 6-7:30PM Cost: $3.00
Our Halloween Meeting: http://www.mcnabscornmaze.com/
Carpooling is encouraged!
When: Please have girls there promptly at 6pm and ensure they are signed in. Parents should return at 7:30pm – we may go a bit after 7:30, so please be prepared to wait!
Wear: Girls should be in costume. We talked about what kind of costumes are suitable: they need to dress for the weather, costumes must allow them to run, they must have footwear that can get wet/muddy, they must be able to see easily.
Bring: $3.00 (unit will pay the rest) and Flashlight
If you get lost, please phone Christine on her Cell –

Friday October 30th 6:45 - ?? Cost: free!!
Susan Aglukark Concert: We will be doing the ‘draw’ to see which Guides are the lucky 9 who will attend this Concert at the Corn Maze - Guides will be responsible for telling their parents if they are going. There will be more events like this later in the year!
Where: Port Theatre
When: Concert starts at 7:30. We need to be inside the Theatre with the girls by 7pm. If your Guide is chosen to attend, please meet the Guiders outside the Port Theatre on Front Street to the left of the Ticket Booth. I will attempt to find out approximately how long the Concert is expected to be and will advise parents of that as soon as I can. Parents must wait for us at the same place as you signed the girls in to us. Carpooling is encouraged!
Wear: We will be in the ‘public eye’ at the Concert and everyone must look their very best in full Guide uniform. If your Guide does not have her Guide uniform yet, she may wear her Brownie uniform. If she does not have either, please discuss with a leader and we will help.

Tuesday November 3rd Guide Enrolment Night: All Guides did Invitations for Enrolment this past Tuesday, and should have given them to parents!
Homework: Each Guide has ‘homework’ to do with her partner for our Enrolment – they have written the name/phone number of their partners on the back of the invitations. It is important they do this partner work to make the Enrolment a success. They may be asking parents for some ideas!
When: Guides arrive same time as usual: 6:15pm. Parents please arrive at 7pm. Enrolment should finish at 8pm or close to 8.
Wear: Guides must be in full Guide uniform: Guide top, badge sash, Guide tie. Runners.
Parents: We have an extreme shortage of chairs – most of our chairs are suitable for kindergarten age. We are therefore having a ‘BYOC’ Enrolment – parents, please bring your own chair (folding). If you do not have a folding or camp chair, please see if you can borrow one – or bring a cushion to sit on the floor, or use one of the little chairs. Also, if you have a camera, please bring it..Enrolment is definitely a ‘picture event’!
Goodies: The invitations your Guides brought home should have had the request for 1/2 – 1 dozen ‘goodies’ for our refreshment table. If you would like a drink, please bring a water bottle.

Tuesday November 10th Regular Meeting 6:15-8pm at B&G Club
We will be doing ‘program work’ and some planning of upcoming meetings.

Wednesday November 11th Remembrance Day Parade: Guides traditionally participate in Rembembrance Day Services – We will likely be participating in the Nanaimo parade – but will have the details at the Nov. 10th meeting.

Tuesday November 17th Probably a regular meeting time/location - if not you will be advised! Meetings from this date til Christmas break will include a Craft Night, a Caroling Night (in the immediate area) and other girl-planned nights. In December we will have meetings Dec. 1st and 8th for sure.


Memories and More 2010 - if necessary please ask Christine for this form