Joint Council News as reported to VAF

The JC executive has a new email address: 2011jc.executive@gmail.com

NOTE: Most JC participants use Facebook for communication

JC Clothing Orders

We have finally reached a final price for this year clothing. Thanks to your feedback and voting, Exec has chosen to provide several different clothing options this year to appeal to more people and to provide some more cost efficient choices. You will have the choice between a Zip-up Hoodie, a Long Sleeve Shirt and a Tee Shirt. All clothing will still be black with the chosen blue/green (cyan) logo. It will be full back on the sweaters and full front on the tees.


Attached are two documents:

1) An information page with pictures of the options and prices.

2) An order form. Please fill out this form and bring in to the May meeting with your money. Cash or Cheque is acceptable. There will be a limited number of extra copies at the meeting so please try to remember your order form. JC

April Meeting Minutes


*I apologize if these minutes are missing anything.


Today on the agenda we:

- Heard some interesting April fool’s day stories.

- Discussed the March event. We participated in a downtown scavenger hunt. Everyone had a lot of fun despite the small turnout. Those who did show up got free beavertails (you should come to the next event).

- Announced that the April event is swimming at the Nepean Sportsplex, 6:30pm-8:00pm on Sunday, April 17th. Please bring $3. We get a group discount if more than 10 people show up!

- Heard from the 23rd Nepean Gryphon Legion who is running a Laserquest Lockdown event on May 13-14. Contact hitman21@hotmail.ca if you would like to attend.

- Voted several times on this year’s clothing. We will be getting black zip-up hoodies with a blue/green (cyan) full-back print. Thanks to Kalia for the design. The cost will be a bit less than $45 (stay tuned for the official price), and it is $6.50 to have your name embroidered anywhere.

- Heard about May Camp 2011: will be May 20-23, 2011. Cost will be $35 to take the bus of $30 for personal transport IF you register at the end of the May Meeting. Anytime after that it will cost $45 to take the bus or $40 with personal transport. This reduced cost is a one-time only deal because we have some extra money from Winter Camp that we want to give back to you! The theme will be Alice in Wonderland (after another few votes).

- Announced Semi 2011. It will be the 18th of June at Mount Cavalry Lutheran Church (address to follow). You may bring 1 guest. If you e-mail your name to jcexec2010@gmail.com to tell us that you are attending, the cost will be $10 per person. If you sign up at the door the cost will be $12 per person.

- Heard about some awesome Scholarship opportunities for Scouts-only and Guides-only. Check out your respective websites.

- Rovent planning committee is meeting next Tuesday HERE at 7pm for sub-committee meetings and 7:30pm for the normal meeting. New people are welcome.

See you next time!


March Minutes

Hey everyone and thanks for coming to the JC meeting for this month. On the recent meeting's agenda we heard about:

• -Message from Rideau Area Rover Crew: if you are coming to laser quest, this weekend, you need to bring a physical fitness form (scouts canada form)

• -Also,Winter Camp this past month was awesome. Just saying.

• March Event is a downtown scavenger hunt. Bring your own camera, and possibly a map if you are directionally challenged. It's happening on the 26^th of March, and we are meeting at 1:00 pm . It should last about 2 hours. Dress for the weather. Meet at the Mackenzie King Bridge. Remember to wear your uniforms to this event.

• Me to We is the company we are using for JC clothing this year. This means all clothing is sweatshop-free and 50% of the proceeds go to the Free the Children charity. This year we are getting the black zip-up hoodie. Cost is TBD.

• If you have an idea for the logo that we'll use for the sweaters, please send it to jcexec2010@gmail.com by sunday March 19.

• Majka told us about the issue about the venturer who was denied membership in their group that occured a while ago, and informed us that the task force that was assembled to look at this has made a report. If you have feedback in respect to this report, you need to send it to Majka by Friday

• Nominations are being taken in for Phil Mondour scholarship.

• Next Rovent planning meeting is next Tuesday. If you have feedback on the quality of Rovent camp, you need to come to this.

• DUBI this week: EVERY SINGLE POLAR BEAR is left-pawed. (left handed.) So this means if you are ever confronted by a polar bear, run away first, but if all else fails, punch them in their right side.

• Portage over Poverty: forms were due tonight, but if it is mailed to the address on the bottom of the given registration form (BY FRIDAY) it will still be accepted.

Thanks and hope to see you all next meeting!

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Joint Council Executive 2010-2011

Natasha Guiding Co-Chair
Hayden Scouting Co-Chair
Brina Guiding PR
Jake Scouting PR
Adrienne Secretary
Melissa Treasurer

February Minutes

Hey guys! Thanks for coming to tonight's meeting.

Today on the agenda:

• We heard about Y.I.P.I., an employment program with the Ottawa police over the summer for youth aged 14-17. Participants get a co-op credit, get paid, and get a chance to see the different sections of the Ottawa police. You must have completed grade 9 by the time you start in the program, be continuing in high school the following fall, and pass a background check. Applications are due Feb. 18. Check the Ottawa police site for more details.

• Opi crew is looking for new members (guiding or scouting) who are interested in joining and volunteering for such activities as catering at Opi.

• SYRP (Senior Youth Recruitment Program) – a training program for speaking in front of large groups is being offered for FREE to members of both guiding and scouting from 1-5 pm on April 2^nd at scout HQ. If you are interested, send registration to either Chris Majka or Chris Desjardins.

• Rideau Area Rover Crew announced the groups that got in to the laser quest event on March 5^th, they are as follows: Carleton Place and Company, 2^nd Russel, 4^th Orleans, 8^th Orleans, Iroquois, 137^th, 1^st Wakefield, 1^st Glen Cairn, and 112^th Nepean.

• Rovent – the first planning meeting for the coming Rovent is being held next Tuesday at the same time and place that JC meetings are held.

• WINTER CAMP:

  - things that those who are attending should be aware of:

  - It is taking place at Maki House (19 leeming, in Crystal Beach)

  - each group is required to host a themed breakfast. Bring all cooking supplies that you will need.

  - while winter camp is taking place in the city, ordering pizza, going on Tim's runs, etc. are NOT PERMITTED. Deal.

  - There is an opportunity for skating on saturday, so bring skates!

  - you should arrive at 7:30 on friday evening, and leave at 11 am on sunday morning.

  - Those who intend to sleep outside in tents are permitted to do so, so long as they pack up their tents during the day.

  - girl guides need to bring safe guide paperwork. Those who were not able to get the forms at the meeting will be able to get them in a following email.

• Portage Over Poverty – the 2^nd Kanata Rangers are organizing an event to fundraise for the WAGGGS initiative to combat poverty. Participants are invited to form a group of 4-6 people, portage a makeshift canoe across downtown Ottawa on a scavenger hunt, and raise money while doing so. Rangers, Pathfinders, Venturers, etc. are welcome. RSVP is due by march 1^st, and the event is taking place on April 16^th. More info on www.portageoverpoverty.webs.com

• DUBI: 'bookkeeper' is the only word in the english language that has three sets of doubles of the same letters consecutively in the same word. Huh.

Cheers,
Mini D/Adrienne and the rest of Exec.

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Joint Council Executive 2010-2011

Natasha Guiding Co-Chair
Hayden Scouting Co-Chair
Brina Guiding PR
Jake Scouting PR
Adrienne Secretary
Melissa Treasurer

December Minutes

Hello again! Thanks again for the great turnout at this month's meeting.
Sorry this is coming a day late, but here is what we had on the agenda this month:

Chris Majka talked to us about a number of things: 1) he is looking for someone to help him award youth in the area for the work they have done for scouting in our area. Send him a message if interested. 2) Venturer Jamboree in 2011 – happening in Haliburton. 3) the World Rover Moot (like Rovent except international, like a jamboree except with better activities) (and occuring in Quebec), including girl guides! It's happening in 2013, and if you want to attend you must be between the ages of 17 - 25 by then. if you want more info, send Chris an email. 4) Most important info – National taskforce has been made to look into certain venturer-related issues that have risen in the past year about venturer companies inhibiting new members from joining their company as they were moving up from Scouts. If you have any sort of input or opinions on what you think about this, or if you may have experience with such issues, please send Chris an email.
Chris' email being: chrismajka@sympatico.ca

We heard from Renee from the Alpine Club of Canada who is trying to start a youth mountaineering group. Sounds cool, right? If you like spending time in the outdoors, you might want to look into this. For those of you who have been, it would include kind of the same things as 'VenClimb'. To join you would have to join the Alpine Club of Canada, and pay a memebership fee along with that as this is outside Scouting and Guiding. If you are interested, please email: renee.dimond@yahoo.com

November event – good times were had by all at rock climbing event! Yay!
The Scouts' Sens game is taking place this Friday! The sleepover portion is full, but tickets for the game (30$ each) are still available. Look for the link to get them through the Voyageur Council website if you are interested.
DUBI - we heard that if you are able to count the amount of cricket chirps during a 15 second period, and then add that number to 37, your total will be very close to the outside temperature in Farrenheit.

December event is BOWLING! It's taking place at Merivale Bowling Lanes at 1916 Merivale road, on Saturday December 18th at 2pm. Games are 6$ each, shoe rental is extra. Please RSVP on whether or not you intend to come by December 12th by letting us know through email or our facebook group.
Winter Camp related things:

due to difficulties with certain guiding protocol, winter camp can no longer take place at Camp Woolsey. If you can think of a camp property that can accomodate our purposes (indoor space to accomodate a dance, cabins, etc. seeing as 'winter camp' really means 'winter sleepover' with our group,) please send us an email.Camp should be taking place around the Valentine's day weekend.

Also, as for volunteers for running Winter camp are still needed for: 1 volunteer for helping run Friday, and 1 volunteer for helping run Sunday. If you'd like to put your name in, please let us know!
Also, the theme for Winter camp is DR.SEUSS!!!! Awww yeah. P.S. for themed breakfasts, please no overdoses of Green Eggs and Ham.

Have a happy holiday, and see you in the new year!

Cheers,

Adrienne/ Mini D and the rest of JC Exec.


Joint Council Executive 2010-2011

Natasha Guiding Co-Chair
Hayden Scouting Co-Chair
Brina Guiding PR
Jake Scouting PR
Adrienne Secretary
Melissa Treasuser

November Minutes

Hey everyone! Thanks for the huge turnout at JC again today (we had 106 people present, this is why our room gets so crowded)
Today on the agenda:

• Mount Calvary Lutheran Church sends its thanks for the donation for our Semi-formal dance that we had there last June, and also thank us for leaving their building in exellent condition after we were finished.
  
• October event recap: Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing (Yay!) Good times were had by all. Costume contest prizes were handed out this meeting, and those who attended the event raised about 42$ for unicef

• November Event money was due for Coyote Rock Gym.There are limited spots left, though you should have signed up at the meeting if at all possible. Just as a recap,  November event is indoor climbing at Coyote Rock Gym on Nov. 20 from 10-12am.
  
• krystina fletcher talked to us about the scouting and guiding event taking place at Scotiabank place Friday Dec 10. You would com for the Hockey game (Sens vs. New Jersey Devils at 7:30) for 30$ ticket, sleepover included for 40$. Forms need to given back to Krystina ASAP or send back to tina.x.fletcher@hotmail.com

• Andrew Grant  spoke to us for Voyageur Council. They are holding a Beaveree on May 14, looking for Venturer and Rover volunteers (weekend after Mother's Day)
• We heard that they are starting a national venturer event for 2012,  but need more youth input. If you are a venturer and have a few minutes to spare, fill out a survey about what you want to see happen at this national event at www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalVenturerEvent
  
• laserquest lockdown is full and half full with reservations for the second lockdown(!!!)
• DUBI – (dastardly useless bit of information) – liquor makes scorpions go insane and then die. (Who knew?)
  

• Harveys- we are reminded to keep the premises clean, and behave when we are there. Also remember that we are there representing both guiding and scouting, and need to maintain the respect that exists for both organizations.
  

• have to rember to keep the, we have to remember to represent our organizations well

•  heard about the new JC website:

  www.wix.com/jcexec/home

Thanks very much, see you all again in a month!