Neepawa Pathfinders achieve their Canadian Cord Awards
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- Published on Friday, April 17, 2015
Submitted picture. (L to R) Neepawa Pathfinders (from left): Miranda Hall, Dasha Chekhovskaya, Katelyn McKay and Vicky Elgert. Missing: Taryn McConechy
Neepawa Guiding Unit
On Saturday, April 11, the Neepawa Pathfinders attended the Crocus West Area Awards Banquet in Brandon. This event is an annual awards night to recognize our Guiding members and volunteers within our area. This year, area Rangers and Pathfinders were included in this event to receive their Program Awards; Rangers received the Gold Chief Commissioner Award and Pathfinders the Canada Cord.
There were eight pathfinders from the area, in which our five Neepawa girls were involved, Dasha Chekhovskaya, Vicky Elgert, Miranda Hall, Taryn McConechy and Katelyn McKay. The Canada Cord consists of six core requirements: program modules, camping/leadership roles, community service, bridging activities, first aid and citizenship.
The girls have worked on these elements over the past three to four years, completing various community service projects; from helping at the Cookie Walk, Country Meadows PCH, our Salvation Army Food Bank and hamper drives, garbage clean-up events and assisting with the beautification of our town by helping to plant lily beds and pots. They have organized Town wide cookie selling events, several times and bridged with the Sparks, Brownies and Guides during our town-wide clean up events. The girls have had wonderful parental support through the years, and for that I am truly grateful.
We have enjoyed several camps and experienced all of our wonderful climate elements, some were fortunate to go on the Churchill 2012 Trip. The girls have always enjoyed the outdoors, whether it be hiking, outdoor cooking, skiing or snowshoeing/skating. They earned their Emergency First Aid and CPR certifications. They have assisted with the Sparks and Brownie meetings and camps, bonding well with the younger girls, sharing stories, games and crafts.
I have been fortunate to have had the pleasure of their company and friendship over the past 7 – 11 years, some of them beginning in Sparks and continuing through the ranks. I was extremely proud as their leader to present their awards; equally it was wonderful to see such great family support at the banquet, and to see the pride on their faces as each daughter stepped up to receive their award.
Kay McKay and I [Kay De’Ath] were also presented with awards for outstanding service and dedication to Guiding, with the Silver Unit Guider and Gold Unit Guider pins.
