The Seventh Collingwood Beavers and Cubs visited Highlands Nordic in Clearview this weekend. We braved the cold temperatures - this weekend event was already rescheduled once!  We split into two groups mostly by age - beavers started with snowshoeing and finished the day with nordic skiing, while the cubs started with the nordic skiing and finished with the snowshoeing.  Photos from our event can be found on the group's facebook page for parents.  We toured just a fraction of the property which was enough to keep us busy all day.  Nordic skiing was enough of a learning experience all by itself.  While we were snowshoeing we learned about some survival tips; How to build our sit spot to wait out a rescue if we're ever lost Priorities; Oxygen, Shelter, Water, Food,      - 3 minutes, 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks for our Air, Shelter, Water, and Food needs.  If we're lost; Stay in one place, Stay Calm and Help Rescuers Find You. Listen, but at the sa...

    Scouting youth of Collingwood and area need you!      With the longevity of our newly formed Seventh Collingwood Group in mind, we would like to bring awareness to the ongoing need for Scouting Parents to volunteer as leaders, in order to continue providing the program, and expanding its availability to more youth in the community.         Many of our leaders have youth in the program, and as those youth 'age out' of certain groups (like swimming up from Beavers to Cubs, for instance) that parent volunteer may no longer have the time to continue providing the Beavers program their youth is no longer a part of.        Each program covers youth within three years of age. Beavers is 5-7, Cubs is 8-10, etc.  Our first year was Beavers only, and so we had  the most parent volunteers in this age group. We're on our second year of having re-started the local Scouting Group in Collingwood, which means by n...