ROSS & SUTHERLAND AREA SCOUTING would like to say  ‘WELCOME’  to our   new                          CHIEF COMMISSIONER FOR SCOTLAND  

ELEANOR LYALL         since the 1st of April,  2004

who was pictured in the February issue 2004 of the Scottish Scout News completing a Disclosure Form under the criminal records check ensuring everyone working with young people is complying with the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003.

 

Eleanor Lyall’s first Message to us as Chief Commissioner was in the May 2004 issue of Scottish Scout News.

 

I am sure there will be a very “LOUD THANK YOU” to Andy Matthew, who was Chief Commissioner for Scotland over the last seven years,  for all his support in every Group Section, District Events and Area Gatherings over that time that his Calendar and Agenda gave him.

 

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WE ARE PRIVILEDGE TO HAVE ANOTHER NEW LEADER IN OUR AREA WHO IS THE ASSISTANT CHIEF COMMISSIONER    FOR THE HIGHLAND REGION OF SCOTLAND     -    MARION PORTEOUS    who recently was the Area Commissioner for Argyll.  The perfect link and opportunity to have a local hand on Scottish Scout Headquarters for any queries, problems, ideas, whatever that Leaders may have in Programmes, Leadership, Training, Courses, etc. that our own Commissioners have not answered already, or may be away on that vital moment.

Marion is keen to meet all when the opportunity arises and can be contacted on email porteous@scotshome.com          Marion lives near Tain so within reach of us all.

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If you missed it in the May 2004 issue of  Scottish Scout News there was an article with a picture of a previous Chief Scout and still Vice-President of  the United Kingdom Scout Association, Garth Morrison receiving the “BRONZE WOLF AWARD” from the World Scout Committee, based in Geneva, Switzerland.  The highest honour World Scouting can bestow in Recognition of Outstanding Services to World Scouting – quite an onerous task of the World Scout Bureau looking after 28,000,000 plus membership – we are not alone out there with so many with us !!

 

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It is a wonderful feeling to say “I AM A SCOUT”  not  ‘I WAS A SCOUT’ regardless of how long ago some may have left the Movement. 

I am a QUEEN'S SCOUT and I am a BADEN POWELL AWARD HOLDER not was !

There is a part of us that Baden-Powell said

“ONCE A SCOUT – ALWAYS A SCOUT”

 

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