Our Annual Awards night/Beaver concert was a great success

Beaver of the Year for 2004 was Lisa Redmond.

Plaques went to
Conor O’Flaherty — Enthusiasm,
Ian Prendercast –  Best Improver,
Pearl Hogan –   Sharing
Anna Moran –         Good Behaviour
Padraig  –        Entertainment
David O’Leary  –    Helpful

Our Annual Beaver scrapbook went to Shawna

Medals for best attendance went to Patrick and Emily O’Brien and Luke O’Heinigh.

Our outing to Santa Day in Larch Hill was a great success The two Beaver colony’s joined together for a great day out. In all over 600 Beavers attended over a two day period. More than 250 Beavers were disappointed as they did not book in time. Santa arrived on a sleigh, but before we visited him we went into the HQ for stories, photos and to visit the crib, and then onto Elf World . There was lots to do. We made woggles, cards, cakes, wrote a letter to Santa and posted it. The slide was a great attraction. Santa himself was wonderful, and he told us a lovely story. All the Elves and fairies who entertained the Beavers were great fun. Zave McLoughlin gave Santa a card signed by everyone. Jasmine Flynn gave him a sleeping bag for the young homeless. All proceeds from the two days went to the Children’s Hospital, Tallaght.

Our Beaver Mascot ‘GEORGE’ was 13 years old on that day, so we had a party, complete with cake, crisps, bars, crackers, balloons, etc. Sophie Mooney and Ross Kinsella cut GEORGE’s cake. Our bus driver James was glad to get back to Clane, having listened to the Beavers singing loudly all the way home.

Wednesday Cubs

We ended our Scouting quarter with the Investiture of 15 new cubs into the unit; smiling faces everywhere, parents and children. We had alovely sing along with one child playing the violin-very beautiful I must say. We also had recorders and a harmonica. Talent was overflowing. We finished up with a party and badge giving. We hope to have our first outing of the year in early February . We also have a bag packing to raise much needed funds for our new Den, which we hope to occupy before the summer. Each and every member of the 13th Kildare say a big THANK YOU to Mr Brendan Keogh and his generous gift to Clane Scouts at Christmas, namely the proceeds of his Jumbo Christmas Raffle in the Corner House. They are a very short time in Clane, yet they were so generous to us. Thank you Brendan and God Bless you. We hope your new venture will be blessed with complete success. May you spend many happy years in Clane; it really is a good place to live. Our heartsgo out to the victims of tsunami diaster, god help them, it’s just incomprehensible. May all the bad luck of the rest of their lives go with it. We hope and pray for their comfort and peace. God and St Bridgid are very good to us in Kildare. We could never imagine such a terrible event here, Let’s hope all of us will be very generous with aid them. Wednesday Cus re-open on January 12th . All sections re-open on that week. Happy Scouting Bernadette.

Cub Packs Reopen after Summer break
Monday night pack will reopen on the 6th September @ 7:30
Wednesday night Pack will reopen on 15th September @7:30.

New faces to join Cub Pack
Big welcome to Mark, Pearl, Hannah, David, Anna, Rachel, Cathal, Sorcha, Andy, Aaron and Sam

Clean Up Night
Mondays cubs clean up and do a survey for their world conservation badge.
Many thanks to Maura McCraith and Michael McGuinness for their help on the night