2011 Stories

These stories appear by month in which they were put onto the website, starting at the most recent month at the top of the page.

August 2011

Thank You from Mount Coastal

The Mount Coastal  Girl Guiding District and Sea Scouts would like to acknowledge that The Lion Foundation has accepted our application to fund the painting of the exterior of the Girl Guide and Sea Scout Hall – Banks Hall.

The last time the hall was painted was over 10years  ago and is looking very tired. We have many community groups that use this hall as well as Girl Guiding and Scout groups.

We feel our image of our organisations is very important and by maintaining with the painting of the  Girl Guide and Sea Scout reflects this to our local community.  Our organisations would like to say a huge THANK YOU for your help in assisting with this venture.

Pub Charity Foundation
The Mount Coastal Girl Guiding District and Sea Scouts would like to acknowledge that the Pub Charity Foundation application for the removal and replacement of the lining of Banks Hall has been accepted.

Over the years there have been holes placed in the walls and we have fixed as best we can.  This has been no longer suitable and hence we applied for this grant so we could  replace these with new linings.

We have been very fortunate that Pub Charity has helped our organisation by assisting us with this grant so we can keep up with the maintenance in our Guiding and Sea Scout Hall.  Once again we say THANK YOU.

Pub Charity Foundation
The Mount Coastal Girl Guiding District  would like to acknowledge that the Pub Charity Foundation application to assist 38 girls and 4 leaders going to Tui Ridge Jamboree has been accepted. Over the years Pub Charity has helped the Mount Coastal Girl Guiding District by assisting them with a monetry contribution towards uniforms, trainings and previous Jamborees. We are very grateful for your assistance and parents and leaders would like to acknowledge this by saying a big THANK YOU to your organisation.

Janet Reekie
Mount Coastal
District Co-ordinator

Attention to detail

Attention to detail is what was required for the girls to create the perfect nine patch for a sewing challenge.
 
A local resident kindly offered to come and show the girls the process to begin to make a quilt. She bought along a selection of fabric for the girls to choose from.

You have to be exact with patchwork, so the first thing they did was to iron the fabric before cutting out the squares with a rolling blade against a ruler. To make a nine patch you have nine pieces of fabric all cut exactly the same size and always sewn with a quarter inch seam.

Many of the girls had not used a sewing machine before so, that, too, was a challenge. They learnt to thread the machine and to make sure their hands were clear of the needle, to take it slowly, iron after each seam, and then pin the squares together to make sure the seam lined up before joining them.

Everyone enjoyed the experience and felt it a worthwhile exercise and something some of them will continue to do at home.

Vanessa Brooks

Protecting Papamoa Beach

For part of our Challenge 9 we had to complete 2 hours of community action.

My Brownies [Papamoa Brownies] joined in with the Mt Coastal District planting day which was held at the end of May. We met at a reserve on Papamoa Beach to plant some plants in the sand dunes.

We do this to protect the dunes from sand and sea erosion. We had to get into groups of three people. One person had the spade, another had the fertilizer and the other person had the plants.

Each plant had to be covered with sand until you couldn’t see the roots anymore. Out of everyone there, we planted about 100 plants or more.

At 11.30am after planting we had something to eat and drink before heading home.

Emma

Papamoa Brownies

June 2011

Mt Coastal Visits RSA

Mt Coastal Papamoa Brownies finished off their ANZAC badge by visiting the Mount Maunganui RSA recently. Each Sixer group had made up a poster which was presented to the RSA with their thoughts and pictures of what the ANZAC means to them.

The Manager of the RSA showed the girls around explaining what the guns had been used for, what some of the pictures hanging up in the RSA meant as well as whom and what the flags also meant.
The girls were treated to a lovely refreshing drink of orange juice which they all appreciated. They then presented the manager with a few packets of Girl Guide biscuits in appreciation for his time in taking them around.

We also enrolled four girls (Eleanor, Jamiee, Ella and Sasha) that afternoon in front of the machine gun. The girls and leaders (Janet, Julz and Kelsey) all went home with an Easter Bunny lollipop all looking forward to their holidays.

May 2011

Dickey Flat Adventure Camp

The Papamoa Guides recently held another fun camp, this time at Dickey Flat Adventure Camp. This site was a hit with the girls had it had “proper flushable toilets”. I am not sure we will be allowed to take them camping to a site with a long drop again!

We made great use of the facilitates which include a campfire with logs seats to sit on, a confidence course and large covered area to shelter from the hot sun.

The girls completed the Big theme by completing a big hunt for big animals, designed and decorated a big mural. They also made kiwifruit magnets for our Girl Scouting friends in Hitachi, Japan affected by the earthquake & Tsunami. On Saturday afternoon we had a porridge war in the open field and swam in the river. Each patrol cooked their own 2 course meal for dinner on Saturday night.

On Sunday we completed a 2 hour walk through the Karagnage Gorge – who should we come across but the Morrinsville Pippins out on the walk as well. The leaders were pleasantly surprised by the girls efforts during the walk as not one moan was heard from any of the girls. There was a lot to see on this walk including 3 suspension and bridge and the old mines. We finished up the camp enrolling 4 new guides.

Karen Brock
Yolande Fennman
Katrina Gibbs
Papamoa Guides

March 2011

Biscuit packet design tops!

Hi, I'm Ella (from Katikati Pippins). I've been highly commended for my Guide biscuits packet design.

It all started one day at Pippins when Karen and Vanessa got us the entry form for the Guide biscuit packet. I mainly used crayons and coloured pencils. A little while later, when we had all finished, Vanessa sent the entry forms away. A few weeks later the entry forms had been collected and Vanessa said that one of us had been highly commended. It was a big surprise! It was actually….ME!

And I was very surprised. I collected the bag that day and took it home. Mum and Dad were very proud of me. It came with a compass that was actually a pen as well and a GirlGuiding New Zealand cap….that was probably my favourite. Now I take them all the time on Wednesdays to Pippins. We also got some brand new biscuits with white and dark chocolate chippies along with some other flavours.

Ella has now moved to Katikati Brownies from Katikati Pippins, Kaimai Coast District

Katikati Brownies,
Kaimai Coast District