Guiders! Tour India in 2010

Nancy from Going Places Together is planning a tour of India in 2010. Local Guiders traveled with her to India in 2006 and just wanted to let other Guiders know that she is planning another trip!

You can find out more about Nancy’s trips through her business, Going Places Together, here.

Share the rewards. Recruit a leader.

Being a Girl Guide leader is rewarding. Here’s another small reward.

Recruit a friend to sign up asa Girl Guide leader before August 31 and you’ll both recieve a pedicure, on us.

New leaders can pick up two gift certificates for a pedicure. One for her and one for the leader who recruited.

Here’s how to register:
 
Call 1-800-565-8111
or local 667-2455
 
Stop by the guide shop at
102 - 302 Steele Street
Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2C5 (call ahead as we ‘re switching to summer hours)
 
E-mail girlguides@klondiker.ca
 
on-line www.girlguides.ca

You do not need to have experience working with youth, nor do you need to be an expert in camping, cookie selling or arts and crafts. Girls Guides of Canada provides training, support and mentorship to all new leaders. We are looking for women of all ages who want to make a difference in the lives of Yukon girls to come share in the fun and friendship guiding has to offer.

Leave No Trace Training

The mission of Leave No Trace is to promote and inspire responsible outdoor recreation through education, research and partnerships.

The 7 Principles of Leave No Trace:

1. PLAN AHEAD AND PREPARE
2. TRAVEL AND CAMP ON DURABLE SURFACES
3. DISPOSE OF WASTE PROPERLY
4. LEAVE WHAT YOU FIND
5. MINIMIZE CAMPFIRE IMPACTS
6. RESPECT WILDLIFE
7. BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHER VISITORS

Become a Leave No Trace (LNT) Trainer or Awareness provider this May!

Dawson City course: May 14(7pm), 15, and 16, 2008

Whitehorse course: May 23(7pm), 24, and 25, 2008

Leave No Trace Trainer courses are two day trainings with one overnight camping put on in an outdoor setting by Master Educators. Trainer courses are designed to help you better understand and teach Leave No Trace skills and ethics.

Course Fee: $40.00 To register: ycs@ycs.yk.ca or call 867-668-5678

Did you know that Girl Guide Yukon has a budget to assist member with relevant training? If your interested in this course, we can help.

Just curious? Come to a free Leave No Trace Awareness Workshop:

Dawson City: May 14th 7:00pm - 8:30pm – KIAC Oddfellows Hall

Whitehorse: May 23rd 7:00pm - 8:30pm – Whitehorse Public Library

For more information about other LNT programs, contact the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics at www.leavenotrace.ca or call 403-716-2397, or contact the Yukon Conservation Society.

Yukon Girl Guides store is having a sale!

The Yukon Girl Guides store is having a blowout sale.

You can buy Girl Guides clothing, uniforms and badges at our year-end Family Potluck on Tuesday, May 13.

Select items will be on sale at great low prices.

Throughout Canada, Girl Guide stores are moving online.

The store will be closing June 1, 2008. The Family Potluck is one of your last chances to buy Girl Guides merchandise from the Yukon store (with the exception of badges, which will continue to be sold through the office.)

Year-end Family Potluck

As the Guiding year draws to a close, we would like to celebrate with a family potluck!

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at the Grey Mountain Room at Mount Macintyre Recreation Centre. The part and potluck are from 6 pm to 8 pm. Food delivery and set up is between 5:45 and 6.) The Annual General Meeting is at 8 pm for leaders and paying adult members.

The year end party includes our annual Fly-up ceremony. Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders bid farewell to their current Guiding level and are welcomed into the next.

Pathfinders who have completed their Canada Cord will receive the award and leaders will be recognized for their hard work and dedication.

Uniforms are mandatory as girls will be presenting and receiving awards.

Food Assignments
Please bring a large potluck dish (we’re expecting more than 100 people!) according to your age group assignment.  Everyone is asked to prepare peanut-free food.

Sparks: Dessert
Brownies: Main courses (meat and vegetarian options)
Guides: Salads/ Sides/ Veggies
Pathfinders: Bread/ Buns/ Butter

Please bring your own eating equipment (cutlery, plates, bowls & cup).

If you have any questions, contact Johanna Smith at  or 633-3630.

Thank you!

 

 

The hard working cookie teams, Girls and Guiders have made 2008’s spring cookie campaign a huge success.

You should all be proud of a great job!  Guiders were clearly committed to making this cookie campaign a huge success.  

Yukon Girl Guides started selling door-to-door on March 31and have already sold almost 6,000 boxes of cookies.

Thank you to everyone who helped out, including parents and supporters in our community.

 Congratulations on a successful campaign!

Setting the Stage

Last fall, when leaders Stacy Lewis and Melissa Miller asked the 2nd Riverdale Guides to think about things they’d liketo do this year, the most popular choice was drama badge.

The girls worked for three months writing a play, designing costumes and sets and staging their production, all through their own imagination and hard work.

After much creative brainstorming, the girls took the Puss and Boots story and projected it into the future, having the characters meet up with Peter Pan somewhere in Italy, and setting Neverlandon the planet Neptune! With the help of Whitehorse playwright Chris Pekarik, they wrote the script, ironing out the final details, casting the play and beginning rehearsals during a weekend session at Sprucewind Girl Guide Camp.

While most of the girls have had little or no experience in theatre and drama, they benefitted from the help of a new leader, Heather Read, who is an intern at the Yukon Arts Centre. Under her direction, the girls began exploring their dramatic talents and
learning about the magical world of the theatre.

Heather also introduced them to the working world of the theatre,when she took them for a backstage tour of the Yukon Arts Centre, where, on Monday evening, March 3, the curtain rose on their very own production, to an enthusiastic audience that included
the girls’ family and friends.

Warm Fun in a Cold Climate

Forty years on an iceberg out on the ocean wide,
Nothing to wear but pyjamas, nothing to do but slide,
The weather was cold and snarky, the frost began to bite,
I had to hug a polar bear to keep me warm at night!

Our girls love to sing this favourite campfire song year round. While there may not be icebergs here, and we certainly don’t hug polar bears, it has a definite appeal for girls and Guiders alike in this wintry land. Welcome to Yukon Guiding!

Compared to Guiding in the provinces, Guiding in Yukon is quite small. However, what we lack in numbers, we make up for in dedication, enthusiasm and energy, and our leaders work hard to ensure that our girls receive as rich, fun and as meaningful an experience as any other girl in Canadian Guiding.

You may have seen us at a recent camp, such as Guiding Mosaic 2006 and SOAR 07, or even internationally at Our Chalet, Switzerland and Our Cabaña, Mexico. We are proud to be Yukon Guides and to share our northern adventures with you.Winter lasts at least seven months in Yukon, so down jackets,mitts, long johns and snow boots are an essential part of our uniform.

We participate in all types of exciting winter activities, including sledding, snowshoeing, ice-climbing and even tent camping at -30ºC! We sing loudly and huddle together to keep the cold away during campfire.

Throughout the year, we can be seen throughout our communities, singing proudly at parades, selling cookies, fundraising and volunteering at Yukon Heritage Day and Rendezvous celebrations, and going out and about in our units to complete badge work and challenges. The Yukon wilderness is our backyard, and many of our activities focus on the environment and on our territorial heritage, while others take our focus further from home to learn about WAGGGS and international Guiding.

We may be small, but our girls and leaders are always ready for fun, challenge and adventure!

Marie Stevens, ofWhitehorse, is Grey Mountain District Commissioner in Yukon

Our new home!

Welcome to the new online home of Yukon Girl Guides.

This is where you will be able to find out about Guiding in the Yukon, guiding news and upcoming events.

Check back often for  more information.