This year 4th Brampton decided to have their Apple day event at the Brampton Farmers market on Main street. Their main booth was within site of their meeting place, St. Paul's Church. The weather was perfect, lots of people were in attendance. Nearly all the youth showed up for at least one shift. Several enjoyed their time thanking their local community so much that they chose to stay longer. It was great to see such a wonderful and visible presence of Scouting in the local community.

Here's a word from Lynn Wallace, Group Commissioner 4th Brampton about their experience:

"In the past for Apple Day, the apple day committee handed out peanut butter jars for collecting the donations. This year we did not have the peanut butter jars, so one of our leaders came up with some beautiful and very Scouting styled collection containers made from firewood.

Akela and one of our Scouts cut some tree branches six inches long and bored out the middle with a one-and-a-half inch drill bit. They cut a slot in the top for coins and fitted the bottom opening with a round plug that was held in place with 2 screws. The Cubs then helped by varnishing the containers to seal them and give them a nicer look. The Beavers added a finishing touch with a few themed decorations as you can see in the pictures.

We had many compliments on the collection containers from people we met and even sold a couple at the end of the day!"

On Saturday, March 05 2011, Credit Hills Area held their first annual kub kar rally at Huttonville Public School.  With over 150 youth entering vehicles and a real Nascar race car and driver on site, excitement was in the air.  Congratulations to all the youth who so enthusiastically designed, built and raced their vehicles.  Kudos to the winners of the rally.

On the track:
1ST PLACE                           4TH GEORGETOWN
2ND PLACE                          4TH GEORGETOWN
3RD PLACE                          7TH MILTON A
4TH PLACE                           4TH BRAMPTON
5TH PLACE                           1ST GEORGETOWN
6TH PLACE                           1ST ACTON
7TH PLACE                           7TH MILTON A
8TH PLACE                           4TH GEORGETOWN

In the mat events:
ACCURACY                          1ST HUTTONVILLE
DISTANCE                            1ST HUTTONVILLE
DIRECTION                           1ST MILTON

By design:
BEST EFFORT                                         5TH BRAMPTON
CUB'S CHOICE                                        4TH BRAMPTON
MOST UNIQUE                                        7TH MILTON A
LEADER'S CHOICE/BEST DESIGN        1ST ACTON

Thank you to all the leaders who gave of their time to bring the youth to participate and a special thank you to the kub kar committee for making this event such a fun day for the youth.

See you next year at the races!

4th Georgetown Venturers is in need of any light to medium camping equipment and/or canoeing equipment.  Any group that no longer needs any of this equipment, or if you know of groups or sections that may have closed in the last year or two that may still have these type of equipment around, please contact Ron Boyd at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

1st Acton celebrated 100 years of Scouting on the long weekend of February 2011 starting with a celebration of parade from the Scout Hall down the Acton Main Street to Trinity United Church where we worshipped with the Guides as they celebrate 100 years.  After worship, the parade continued to the Town Hall where there was celebration, awards, pictures, displays and, of course, food & cake!  It was a great celebration celebrating 100 year strong for 1st Acton.  Congratulations 1st Acton and to the organizing committee that put on a wonderful event!