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Dec 22 2022
On Saturday 5 November 2022 the senior cubs from 1st and 4th Claremont gathered at Constantia Nek at noon ready for a hike. Our backpacks were filled with mess kits, sleeping bags, change of clothes, plenty of water and most importantly snacks! Everyone first posed for a few photos before we started. At the beginning …
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Oct 26 2022
I first met David online in the mid 1990s when he contacted me to say he had been a Cub at 1st Claremont many years earlier, before leaving for Ireland. He subsequently visited us several times as he still had family here. I think his first visit was to see an aerial runway / foeffie slide …
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Oct 26 2022
I’ve got a success story graph for you. Look at the top line – that’s the growth of 1st Claremont Scout Group over the years. We’re now at 109 members, our biggest so far, and up 300% since our centenary in 2008. You’ll see a few nice upward steps on it . One is in …
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Oct 26 2022
Arwen and Rhys left Cape Town and moved back to the UK earlier this year. Before she left, Arwen wrote this this article about our Cub Camp. We miss you guys! I went to cub camp from the 25 – 27 February. Cub camp was at Hawequas and it took two hours to get there. …
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Oct 26 2022
Outings are a lovely way to get a change of scenery, build a sense of community and to put the skills learnt in the Meerkat Den to good use in the great outdoors. They are also an important requirement for the bronze, silver and gold star advancement badges. This term the 1st Claremont Den met …
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Oct 26 2022
We had a very fun outing to Paradise/Buckburn Park. It started with 3 Cubs being invested in the park which was fun. Then we did a nature scavenger hunt looking for interesting things – one of the things on the list was a big smile, and we all had them! We split into bases. My …
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Oct 26 2022
Jenny wrote about activities in the third term: a visit from the ER24 ambulance service, a night hike, and cooking “stokbrood”:
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Oct 26 2022
The Meerkats spent two meetings this term working towards their Keep Fit Challenge badge. In the first session they learnt about the importance of keeping fit and how to do a warm up before they broke away into their burrows to complete activities at three bases. Fun was had as they skipped like lambs, galloped …
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