--------------------------------  2007----------------------------------Annual General Meeting at Ross-shire Club, Stafford Street, Dingwall on Saturday, May 12^th at 2.30pm

Please note this venue is NOT where the Exec: Meetings are held,

but in the Ross-shire Club.

Find the Hydro Shop in the Main Street and there is a little lane

at the side of it called "Stafford Street"

the Ross-shire Club is in a little door on the left and up the stairs.

It would help with the catering numbers

if we had a rough idea if you are coming?

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible to look back at our past year of Area Scouting and in  Beaver Scouting, Cub Scouting, Troop Scouting, Explorer Scouting and Leader training.  Progress on our new Venue for our Campsite and it's great opportunities.  Also the build up to the biggest Event in U. K. Scouting history - The 2007 Centennial World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, Essex which also is the 100th year of the birth of our global Scout Movement - and two of our Explorer Scouts will be there !

Thanks for putting the date in your diary

                                         Frank Hallett – Area Commissioner Ross & Sutherland Scouting

PS

For further news, details of the New Training Programme please contact our Local Training Manager, Ian Stewart  (address, etc in Area Directory) or visit the website devoted to it - check out       http://www.highlandregiontraining.net/    

See separate report from AAC(Cub Scouts) Owen Smith on his revue of Area Cub Scouting since the May 2003 A.G.M. on another page.

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CALLING ALL EXPLORER SCOUTS

Would you be interested in  Camps / Hikes / or other Events over the coming year to encourage more Explorer Units start up in our Area ?

If you are 13.5 to 18 years old and want to move on to the new Section please contact me now.  

Fiona Smart   <Fionasm@hotmail.com>

Explorer Scout Leader, Eilean Dubh
  18/05/2003

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ROSS & SUTHERLAND AREA CUB SCOUT SPORTS

Took place at Dingwall Sports Field back in May 2005   Corinna and helpers would like to thank EVERYONE who turned up to help make things 'run' smoothly and a great time was had by the Cubs Scouts and adults alike. 

See the Entry under our page for "AREA CUB SCOUTS"        

Lots of volunteer adult help ensured a fun time, plenty of energetic exercise after being at school all week and Athlete Badges (and may be later on Physical Recreation)  badges were awarded as part of the Cub Scout Programme.  Thank you to the Cub Packs that were able to make it on the day and to Leaders and helpers giving up their time.

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Remember 

Fitness Challenge badge, Athletics badge, Sports Enthusiast and Physical Recreation badge

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BURNS SUPPERS THE WORLD OVER

There can be few Poets/ Authors who are held in such high esteem, awe, greatness - whatever term to use - such as Scotland's national Bard, Robert Burns.  Whether in Moscow , Paris, Brasilia, Mexico City, Durban or Quatar there will be someone, somewhere celebrating his life over his Birth back on a cold Ayrshire January in 1759.  It could be a formal Dinner/ Dance, informal village Hall meal: or individual families at home remembering and speaking some verses of Robert Burns known in bits or whole pages.  Many familiar and favourite poems from school studies, or years of Burns Suppers with Scottish Societies and Dance Groups throughout the world.  Robert Burns did not worry about colour, class or creed and wrote the pauper or king:  and tiny details as a Daisy flower, and of great Deeds of the past.

The feared Haggis for those who have heard of it, but not seen or tasted will enjoy a real treat dished up in the Bill O'Fare with neeps and tatties, washed down with a wee (maybe more) dram of the 'water of life'.  From a humble peasant meal of 'leftovers' - Haggis has become a refined meal of infinite taste from 'umpteen' recipes from mum to the High Street butcher.

So if you have the opportunity each year towards end of January give Haggis a try, look up Burns in the library or a copy at home and muse over the serious and amusing lines written over his short life.  Ayrshire weather at Mauchline, scratching a living on poor farm soil, selling poems, even being an Exciseman doing his bit for Country.  And, we have to admit a constant roving eye for the ladies and far too many drams Robert Burns was weary of life by 1796 and left us. He has monuments in many places and his poetry is reprinted and read all over the world.  Our Annual Burns Night Suppers are a continual reminder of what we still admire and acknowledge as one of Scotland's finest Sons.  When we Toast to his memory it is also the chance to Toast 'Absent Friends' missing from the table today or from years ago. 

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