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Wairau Brownies get active in their community
For Girl Guide Action Month and part of the Brownies Green Machine badge. Sonja (Leader of Wairau Brownies) asked the Brownies to meet her at Sheps Park on Sunday 17 June to help plant trees in the new public park on Severne Street. This was an Arbor Day event organised for the community by the Kiwi Conservation Club and Department of Conservation.
When we first got there we got out of the car and the smell hit us before the cold did, it was the mulch that had been laid before we got there. The day was cold but one brownie and her Dad turned up with their shovel and wheel barrow. Sonja had her daughter, a guide, with her and their shovel and barrow ready for a day of planting. We were introduced to some of the people that had organised the event. We were also told a little about the lady that had left the park to the people of Blenheim. We were told not to dig the mulch in because it may burn the roots of some of the plants. About 100 people from the community turned up to plant the trees. With that many people it did not take long (one hour) to plant about 1000 plants and trees.
Bunnings Hardware supplied us with hot sausage and bacon sandwiches; they were yummy. The organisers gave us delicious muffins and pots of apple and feijoa jelly made from the fruit growing on the trees in Sheps Park and drinks of fruit juice, which was well worth getting cold and muddy for. In the summer we will be able to go and enjoy the park and look at the fruits of our labour.
We had fun while we worked and at the end of it we all compared our dirty hands to see who had worked the hardest but we decided that we had all worked hard. Sonja gave her e-mail address so that if they need help again in the future we can offer our help.
Sonja asked the Brownies to meet her at the Taylor’s Pass Reserve to go on the Walk in the Park in the Dark on the 30 June. This also is a community event. This time there were two Brownies and Sonja’s daughter and granddaughter willing to brave the cold.
The walk was started a few minutes early because it was too cold to stand around waiting. Once we got moving it was not too cold. We walked up to the top of the hill and stopped to take in the view. That was spectacular seeing the town at night, but the wind at the top was pretty cold, we did not stop for long. It was a nice walk everyone chatted away all the way back to the bottom. We were well entertained by a boy in a gingerbread man costume. He kept running back and forth. We told him we were going to eat him.
There was a BBQ with hot food and Milo’s that we could buy when we got back. We all got a certificate for doing the walk. Next year I hope there will be more Brownies going - it was fun. We saw Katrina Gander there too. She is Springlands Guides leader.
Brownies of 10th Wairau Brownie Unit, Blenheim
10th Wairau Brownies visit SPCA
These are some of the photos our leader took of us while we were out visiting the SPCA. They had a lot of dogs so it was noisy with all the barking but they were nice and let us pet them through the wire. There were also so many cats and kittens we got to pet a lot of them. Some girls wanted to take them home. Others wanted to take the rabbits home.
We all really enjoyed petting and feeding the donkeys. We got given branches of lucerne to feed them with and fruit pieces.
At the end of the tour we all got to take home a nice red dog bowl and some stickers. It was a very enjoyable afternoon. We hope the animals like the food we took out for them.
We had our brothers and sisters with us as well as mums and dads and leaders. We hope to go out there again sometime.
The girls of 10th Wairau Brownie unit Blenheim
Last Night for Term 2
Beaver Central Pippins, Blenheim had a ‘bring a friend along’ and we played games and welcomed 4 new pippins. All the pippins got their badges for Term 1 and 2.
Get Going Girl Challenge 2012
Chop-chop challenge - Making smoothies using different colour fruits.
Learning how to give a hand massage.
Learning how to be healthy on the inside (food and nutrition) and the outside (looking after young skin).
Designing our cereal - this one was our favourite and was commended in the Cereal Challenge.
Hanging Out on our leader's yacht.
12 Promise Certificates in 6 Months
Here Sapphire Edwards makes her promise, along with Skye Thorp, Meg Olsen, Samantha Brimble and Aleata Willetts.
'Help Us to Grow Girls'
Our first meeting in November with just 4 girls, to our great unit now with 13 girls and 2 leaders.
Beaver Central Pippins
What has Marlborough been up to in 2013?
Why not tell us what you have been doing in your unit so far this year?
I know you have been out camping, doing Community Service and generally having a lot of GirlGuiding Adventures - lets show everyone what we have been doing!
Forward any stories or photos on to your Leader, District Co-ordinator, Regional Co-ordinator or the Southern Zone Office so they can be published here.
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