Bike Hike - What an Adventure!

Our Bike Hike - What an Adventure!

This bike hike was one of the most adventuresome ever!

First a bike chain came off and we got that fixed.

Then a bike needed air in the tires so we got that done.

We had several girls fall off their bikes at different points in the trip ~ a few small scrapes but mostly no injuries at all thankfully!

We stopped in Gibbons Park to learn a bit about geocaching and to drop off our

100th Anniversary Girl Guide geocoin!!

(More on that in this blog post.)

All in all, we had beautiful weather, great girls and a wonderful ride!

Thanks everyone!

Canadian Girls Say ~ FREE at the AGO

See what girls in Guiding have to say

Visit the Canadian Girls Say... exhibition at

the Art Gallery of Ontario and receive
*free* admission to the AGO on Sept. 18-19

The Canadian Girls Say exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario has been extended until the end of November 2010. If you have not had the chance to check it out, be sure to visit before it closes. This exhibition is located in the AGO's free community gallery and features some 100 photographs as well as accompanying perspectives from the emerging young photographers. We encourage those unable to visit the AGO to view our online gallery of the top 100 images at www.girlguides.ca/cgs_themes.

Free admission during Guide Weekend, Sept. 18-19
The Art Gallery of Ontario is welcoming all GGC Members during their special Guide Weekend on September 18-19. Girls who come to the AGO in uniform will receive free general admission to the gallery. Accompanying friends and family will receive 50 % off the admission price. Please let the girls in your Unit know about this exciting opportunity.

Welcome Back to Guiding!

Our first meeting

Unit name ~ 64th London Guides
Start date/time ~ Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.
Meeting Location ~ please check your email or mail for details of our meeting location
Contact Guider & phone number ~ Sheri is your Contact Guider ... her phone number and email have been sent to you in an email or by mail

64th Guides want to say "THANK YOU"

The 64th London Girl Guides want to send a Shout Out to Great-West Life who provided us with a donation under their Volunteer Recognition Grant program.

Thank You!!

With this donation we were able to purchase new tents for the unit for our weekend camping adventures each spring. Thanks to Canadian Tire, too, who provided a discount price to us as members of a charitable organization so that we were able to purchase four tents instead of the two or three we had originally intended! And we bought waterproofing spray and tarps as well!

We were also very excited to take part in several of the 100th Anniversary celebrations ~ Girl Guides in Canada turned 100 in 2010!! Thanks to the Great-West Volunteer Recognition Grant we were able to attend the Kick Off celebration at Casa Loma in January 2010 ~ the grant paid for us to go by bus! Thanks Bobby for organizing the bus!!

And we really wanted to attend the Rally Day celebration at Ontario Place in May so the Great-West Volunteer Recognition Grant paid for our leaders to attend to accompany the girls! And we were able to buy special 100th Anniversary crests for each of the girls and leaders in our Unit as well. Thanks to Lesley S. for having them!

To celebrate our 100th Anniversary, the Ontario Council of Girl Guides of Canada introduced a special Centenary award ~ only 100 members would be chosen for this prestigious award. Two of our leaders received this award! The Great-West Volunteer Recognition Grant was used to pay the cost so all of the Unit leaders could attend the banquet where these awards were presented. At the same banquet, our Junior Leader received an Outstanding Youth Award as well!

As you can see, we fully appreciate the assistance provided by the Volunteer Recognition Grant and we thank Great-West Life for providing this program to their staff who volunteer and meet the criteria for the grant.

Thank you.

Girl Guides talk to the Space Station!

What can be cooler than talking to the Space Station?

Nothing!

Girl Guides of Canada held an international camp in Guelph Ontario with 2,500 campers from July 8-17, 2010.

On Friday July 16th, we contacted the Space Station via ARISS, (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) - the coolest 10 minutes of the entire camp experience!

Girls were pre-selected and once contact was made, the girls asked their questions and had them answered by Commander Doug Wheelock, an American astronaut currently on the Space Station.

Read about this amazing 10 minutes here.

The audio can be downloaded on the ISSfanclub website here although it's not terribly clear.

To see video from GGC, click here.

Girl Guides of Canada has a special connection to space travel. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first female astronaut, attended guiding programs in her youth and brought Girl Guide cookies into space with her.

Visit the ARISS website to learn how you can arrange to talk to the Space Station with your school!

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !

CONGRATULATIONS to Kabrena Riley

on receiving the Girl Guides of Ontario Outstanding Youth Award!

CONGRATULATIONS to Amanda Neil

on receiving the Girl Guides of Ontario 100th Anniversary Centenary Award!

CONGRATULATIONS to Sheri Flood

on receiving the Girl Guides of Ontario 100th Anniversary Centenary Award!

And a huge thanks to all the girls of the 64th Guides who sent in their comments for the nominations for these 3 leaders back in January and February.

And, special thanks to our newest Guider, Lisa Brown, for her help in coordinating the nominations!

(Read below for a description of the awards.)

The Ontario Outstanding Youth Award recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of Rangers and Pathfinders who exemplify their dedication to Guiding and their community, and:

- is a registered girl/Youth Member of Girl Guides of Canada, Ontario Council, at the Ranger or Pathfinder level.

- displays exceptional leadership qualities within Guiding and in her community at large; enthusiastically brings her personal talents and skills to Guiding.

- has demonstrated qualities of dedicated service to Guiding and her community.

- lives by the ideals of the Guiding Promise and Law; is a positive role model within and out of Guiding; actively promotes Guiding and its benefits.

- is well respected by her peers, Guiders and other members of the community.

- has contributed significantly and has had a positive impact to her Unit and community.

The 2010 Centenary Award celebrates the 100th anniversary of Girl Guides. Only 100 Members in Ontario and Nunavut will receive this award which recognizes and celebrates Guiders and Rangers who exemplify the values and priorities we have had as an organization for the last 100 years. The 2010 Centenary Award recipients are Guiders/Rangers who:

- teach and mentor our girl and youth Members the skills required to become a good leader, within Guiding and their community

- enable and give the opportunity to our girl and youth Members to practice their leadership skills; through direct and indirect methods

- allow our girl and Youth Members to learn from their mistakes without judgement, while providing supportive guidance

- see the leadership potential in all of our girl and youth Members

- set an example and demonstrate their positive leadership within Guiding, and shares their skills with other Members

You’re My Hero - Girl Guide book!

You’re My Hero - Girl Guide book!

Over 400 wonderful stories and drawings and some amazing Guiding photographs have been compiled to form a great keepsake for our 100th Anniversary!

Not only that, You’re My Hero Media is donating $0.50 for every pre-ordered book (to June 28th) to create a special Scholarship.

The book costs $21 plus shipping (rates are listed online), with $8.00 going to Girl Guides of Canada.

Shipping charges drop dramatically as the number of books ordered increases, so talk to your friends, family and sisters in Guiding and order your books together - you will love the savings!

All pre-ordered books will be shipped the last week of July.

You can order your copy today at www.ymhggc.com

Bonus! There’s still a chance to have your hero story in the book! Just go to www.ymhggc.com, write your story and print it out. Then you can paste your story on the 'My Personal Hero' chapter in your copy of the book.

Visit the International Girl Guide Camp this summer!

Continue your celebration of 100 years of Girl Guides into the summer!!

Guiding Mosaic 2010 is the international camp being held in Guelph this summer.

And YOU can visit!!

The Visitor Registration page for Guiding Mosaic 2010 is http://guidingmosaic.com/visitor_registration

(Click on the link under the happy face wearing sunglasses to access the information page)

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Open House Day is Sunday, July 11th

No reservations are required and all visitors will be given a 1 hour narrated tour of the camp, highlighting the main points of interest.

Tours are offered begining at 9.30am, 10am, 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, 1.30pm, 2pm and 2.30pm.

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Visitor Tours

GGC Members and members of the public can take a 3-hour narrated walking tour of the camp, visiting all of the points of interest.

There is no cost for tours, but reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance.

Dates for visitor tours are July 9, July 11, July 12, July 14 and July16

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Other options for visitors are available, as you can see on the website, and they are for Members Only.

Cookie All Stars - Survey

GIRLS: CLICK HERE

PARENTS: CLICK HERE

to take the survey for Girl Guides of Canada about the Cookie All Stars Program.

Rally Day - Videos!!

Remember the videos we watched in the Cinesphere at Rally Day??

They are on YouTube now!



Click Here to Watch them all!!