For this year's Promise Ceremony the members of 1st Charleville Guides and 2nd Charleville (Lone) Guides were joined by family and friends at the Guide Hut on dusk for a special candlelight ceremony. Each member either made their Promise for the time or renewed their Promise for another year. Some of the girls were joined by their mothers (ex-Guides or Support Group Members) and a grandmother who also renewed their Promise. After saying their Promise in front of the crowd, each Guide lit a candle from our main Guiding Lighting (representing the Promise) and floated it in a pool of water (representing our community). The end result showing how much brighter our community is with so many girls and young women committed to the Guiding way.
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The Guides have been working on their Ropes badge and learning a range of knots and lashings. In order to test out their knowledge the girls were challenged to build washstands (that they could use on camps to do the washing up or modify to make tables) and gateways to show where their campsites are.
We returned to Mangalore Scout Camping Ground for an afternoon of canoeing. While the water was a little cool, the girls had a great time developing their skills and learning about safety on and near the water. Many of the girls achieved parts of their boating badge throughout the afternoon. Thank you to all the parents who came and helped out on the day.
In order to commemorate ANZAC Day the RSL granted the Charleville Girl Guides and Scouts the ability to perform an ANZAC Eve Youth Vigil Ceremony as part of the Charleville services. With differing backgrounds and interests, youth members of the local Scouts and Girl Guides, conduct a formal ‘Holding Ground’ Ceremony (a night-long, guard of honour around the town’s War Memorial in ANZAC park) from 6.00 pm to 4.00 am between ANZAC Eve and ANZAC morning. In doing this, the youth continue their own ANZAC Day tradition that started in 2015. Just prior to Dawn our Guides and Scouts step down and then participate in Dawn Service.
The ANZAC Eve Youth Vigil stems from the military tradition of ‘holding ground’ whereby a reconnaissance patrol would find and hold strategic position in preparation for the arrival of their army. This would often involve an all-night vigil, keeping awake on watch, alert that the area of battle is secured against threat. After the Vigil and Dawn Service, Guides and Scouts participated in the town march. The 1st Charleville Girl Guides (and the Charleville Cub Scouts) were all out of bed nice and early for Clean Up Day recently. They spent the morning cleaning up the areas between the High School and Showgrounds. They had their work cut out for them as they reached the Racecourse where there had been an event the night before. BRAVO to all the girls who participated in helped in making their town a little better.
To celebrate World Thinking Day, when we remember our founders, Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, and sisters all over the world members of 1st Charleville and 2nd Charleville (Lones) came together for a sleepover. The highlight of the event - the big burgers we made and roasting marshmallows!
As we start 2021, our Guides took the opportunity to take individual photos: come and meet some of our members.
As we wrap up for 2020 we reflect back on a year with plenty of challenges. Our Guides have risen above it all and continued doing what they do best: having fun, learning and building friendships. We look forward to seeing everyone back for 2021!
Our Annual Promise Ceremony saw many of our girls renew their Promise and commitment to Guiding. We were able to have a few of the older girls from our Lones unit join us for the event at the hut, while the younger Lone Guides had their own separate ceremony a few weeks later at the Showgrounds.
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