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Mar 20 2019
The year for scouts will be characterised by the number of scouts that hope to register and complete the highest award that a scout can earn – the Springbok Scout. After a long drought of Springbok Scouts, the troop now regularly produces Springbok Scouts. At the time of publishing, 3 scouts – Natasha, Rebecca and …
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Mar 20 2019
Membership: Our membership averaged 34, and in January we moved from 4 Sixes to 6 Sixes, and increased to 36 Cubs. We have 15 girls and 21 boys. We currently have 6 Cubs working on Membership, 14 working on Silver Wolf and 16 working on Gold Wolf, Last year, we averaged over 80% attendance again, …
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Mar 20 2019
December 2018 ended with the Annual Scout Camp at Appleton: with 17 Scouts and 18 Scouters attending. Activities included a walk to the Kramat and the Noon Gun. Team games like volley ball and an amazing race An outing to the Company Gardens …
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Mar 20 2019
Sea Scout courses are very much foreign to most land scouts as we generally don’t stray to that side of things. However, this year I attended a senior Sea Scout course called Boatswain. This course has two parts; to teach you how to repair any damages done to a boat and the other part of this course …
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Mar 20 2019
My 1st Claremont Troop Camp started on the 15th December 2018. We packed all our equipment for the camp, and then started our journey to Appleton Scout Base on Signal Hill. At Appleton we were divided into patrols. We hiked down Signal Hill to the noon gun. The navy officer gave us a bit of …
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Mar 20 2019
In the December holidays of 2018 the seniors of the troop were privileged enough to hike in the Outeniqua forest. As part of the trail was burnt due to the recent Knysna fires we were to meet up with the trail on its fourth day. As we thought that the right path that was joining …
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Mar 20 2019
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