Summer/Fall 2018 • Issue 385 PipelineBritish Columbia Council Super Cookie Challenge Ideas New! BC Crest Contest Sisterhood of Guiding It’s time for a new provincial crest! Three members, three viewpoints 2019 Sponsored Travel Events Editorial BC Council Contact Table of Contents and Information Editor’s Note PC’s Page ................................................3 107-252 Esplanade W. Greetings from the editorial team. We took North Vancouver, BC V7M 0E9 Upcoming Events ....................................4 advantage of being in Vancouver at the same Phone: Membership/Events/ time, in May for the BC Council AGM, to Letter to the Editor ...................................5 General Information 604-714-6636 meet in person, some of us for the first time. It’s always nice to put faces to names, and Fax: 604-714-6645 PR Grants for Districts and Areas ..........5 Pipeline’s readers may like to do the same PC Office: 604-714-6643 with this photo of the editorial team. E-mail: [email protected] BC’s 2018 Bursary, Grant and Scholarship Recipients ...................... 6–8 Check out the BC Guiding website at BC Crest Contest ....................................9 www.bc-girlguides.org Send your comments to 2019 Sponsored Travel Events .......10 –11 [email protected] Sisterhood of Guiding .....................12–13 E-mail addresses: [email protected] Alberta Girls’ Parliament 2018 ........14–16 [email protected] Gone Home ...........................................16 Left to right: Katrina Petrik, Robyn So, Linda Hodgkin, [email protected] (Safe Guide) Ruth Seabloom, Ming Berka. Not pictured: Helen [email protected] Varga and Pipeline’s designer, Patti Zazulak. Awards ................................................... 17 [email protected] Our team welcomes new members, whether [email protected] Super Cookie Challenge ................ 18–20 you’re already an avowed wordsmith or just curious about editing and publishing [email protected] Hands Across the Border 2018 ............21 magazines. Email Robyn at Pipeline@bc- [email protected] girlguides.org. We look forward to hearing [email protected] Camp Skills Day Challenge ..................21 from you and to publishing your stories of [email protected] Guiding adventures and discoveries and [email protected] Camp Skills Challenge in Action ... 22–23 implementing the new Girls First program. [email protected] CWFF Pizza Challenge 2019 ...............24 [email protected] CANADIAN PUBLICATION AGREEMENT NO. 40681574 [email protected] Pipeline is published four times a year. 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Pipeline receives ideas and [email protected] Ming Berka, Linda Hodgkin, Katrina Petrik, activities from various sources. The original creator Ruth Seabloom, Helen Varga is not always made known to us. If we have failed to [email protected] Design: Phoenix Graphic Design credit a correct source we ask to be informed. Members [email protected] submitting photographs for publication must ensure that Printer: Mitchell Press all members pictured have image release forms on file [email protected] with Girl Guides of Canada. Submissions are accepted up to the deadline and are published at the discretion [email protected] This newsletter is of the editor. Submissions may be edited in the interest printed on 30% of conformity and style, taking into consideration the recycled paper. space available. 2 Pipeline Summer/Fall 2018 PC's PAGE by Leslie Bush, Provincial Commissioner Welcome back! Welcome to the 2018–2019 year from the whole PC team! his new Guiding year we start I also look forward to seeing many of you train our adult members to carry out these transitioning to the Girls First at the Guider Conference in Richmond, types of outdoor activities. And also great programming so our girls can be October 12–14. These conferences job to our Safe Guide Assessors, who T all they want to be! It is all about the are amazing opportunities to network review the planned events to make sure girl-driven experience with our Guiding with your peers, learn new things, ask the groups have appropriate plans in “secret sauce.” Girls will have the choice, questions and experience a large group of place for just these types of emergencies. use their voice and take action on what is powerful women in a conference setting. This year will be my last as your important to them, all within our special We ask you to bring your enthusiasm, Provincial Commissioner, and the Guiding environment. There is lots of experiences and willingness to learn with call for applications/nominations for support to help you learn about Girls you and to come and enjoy! my replacement will be posted in late First and how to work with it. We have 38 This summer BC Girl Guides has been September or early October. This is amazing Girls First Champions across in the news twice, when Search and an exciting leadership opportunity that the province who would love to talk to Rescue(SAR) was called to assist. I hope some of you will consider! You will you about anything Girls First! They Once it was to extract a group of girls work with a wonderful group of women will be reaching out in many different and leaders on a weekend canoe trip volunteers and staff at the provincial and ways, at various trainings and through at Alouette Lake, because of strong national levels, and I can guarantee you one-on-one contact, video-conferencing winds. The second time was during will be gently stretched in positive ways! and email help lines. Please reach out our provincially sponsored Pathfinder to your commissioner or to one of the Paddles trip to Wells Gray Park, for a A lot will happen this coming year, and girl with a medical issue. These are good champions to ask for anything you need. I challenge all of you to make the most news stories, because in both cases the Or you can ask through the girlsfirst@ of this Guiding year. There will be so groups were well prepared, had the right bc-girlguides.org email address. Help is many opportunities for you and the equipment and made the right decisions. always available—just reach out for it! girls to experience. Some of you may I want to recognize them and say great be concerned about what will change I look forward to seeing some of you job to the girls and leaders involved in this year, but I encourage you to be bold, at the National Girls First launch event both trips. I also want to say great job to to be courageous, to be prepared and at UBC, on September 29. I know that the Provincial Camping Committee and to go for it! this girl-led, adult-supported event will the Outdoor Activity Leadership trainers, be amazing! who plan these events and prepare and Talk to you soon. Pipeline Summer/Fall 2018 3 Upcoming Events DATE WHAT WHO WHERE NOTES 2018 September The Road to Dynamic Rangers, Transitioning Guide House, Application deadline has passed. 28–30 Presentations members, Link, all Guiders North Vancouver Workshop October 5–8 Trex Rendezvous Trex girl members and Guiders Camp Jubilee, Application deadline has passed. Indian Arm, near North Vancouver October 12–14 Guider Conference Guide, Pathfinder, Ranger Richmond Participants have been selected. Guiders October 19–21 Pathfinder Summit Pathfinders Vancouver Application deadline has passed. October Area Training Advisers Area Training Advisers Guide House, More information to come by email, or 26–28 Workshop North Vancouver contact [email protected]. 2019 January 11–13 Beyond Dogwood All Guiders, including those who Guide House, More information to come by email, or have taken Dogwood training North Vancouver contact [email protected]. March 1–3 Trainers Conference All Trainers and Trainer Guide House, More information to come by email, or candidates North Vancouver contact [email protected]. August AC/DC Workshop Area and District Guide House, More information to come by email, or Commissioners North Vancouver contact [email protected]. Identify Your Membership Number Five membership numbers are randomly drawn from the iMIS database for each issue of Pipeline. If your number is listed below, you are eligible to receive a gift from the provincial PR Committee. To receive your gift, send an email, identifying your number, to [email protected] by October 15. 143563 1040752 38697 1007466 44485 4 Pipeline Summer/Fall 2018 Letter to the Editor eginning with this issue, selected including dressing up as a Girl Guide cookie. letters to the editor will be published in I have played Hedgehog as I learned the Pipeline as an occasional feature. This names of other Sparks, worked with other Bopen letter from a youth member to girls as we learned the Brownie Promise Pamela Rice, Chair of the Board and Chief and Law, learned science and construction Commissioner of Girl Guides of Canada– as a Guide, sewed purses and products for Guides du Canada is not only a testament to less fortunate girls in other countries and, the power of Guiding; it’s also the Vision and more recently, met and planned our own Mission writ large.