GAINING INSIGHT
Globe-girdling guides
return to N. Shore
to share adventures

LOCAL GIRL guides and guide leaders back from a sum-
mer’s international exploration abroad have returned with
something more than the standard-issue touristic mementos.

They’ve come back with lifelong
global friendships and first-hand
insight into foreign cultures.

Guides girdle the globe annually
to reach out and meet with youth
around the world individually,
guided by the belief that know!-
edge of others will encourage and
forward world peace.

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Thorn-
ton of North Vancouver was
chosen to represent Canada along
with 15 others at an international
event held in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

35 cents each. We went to the dif-
ferent markets and saw how lux-
urious our life is compared to
Mexico. I now know how lux-
urious my life is,"’ explained
Thornton.

As one of the eight and a half
million members of the World
Association of Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts, Thornton was one of
the approximately 2,000 Canadian

‘For one of the ¢ events we were , separated into mixed
international patrols. We had to cook a meal for 35

cents each,

We went to the different markets and saw

how luxurious our life is compared to Mexico. [ now
know how luxurious my life is.’’

Ninety guides from both North

and South America met at Our
Cabana, one of the many interna-
tional Girl Guide houses establish-
ed around the world.

“f made some really good
friends there. Friendships are the
main thing we bring back,"' said
Thornton.

But she also brought back a new
perspective on her life in Canada

after spending two and a balf

weeks in Mexico.

“For one of the evenis we were
separated into mixed international
patrols. We had to cook a meal for

girl guide Sarah Thornton

girls given: the opportunity to trav-
el internationally this year as an
ambassador. Sixty-two young
women were chosen to represent
Canadian guiding around the
world at the national level.

West Vancouver resident Peggy
Morfitt recently returned from at-
tending a Jamboree of Guides and
Scouts in Berlin to celebrate the
750th anniversary of the city.

An international advisor for the
organization, Morfitt acted as a
group leader for Jenny Scotten,
Victoria; Carolyn Stoddart, Fort
Vermilion, Alberta; and Jane

Kirkpairick, North Sidney, Nova
Scotia.

“All three were 17 years old and
fairly independent. They talk
about shared leadership and it
worked out well. We blended
beautifully,'’ said 50-year-old
Morfitt, a former girl scout and
brownie in California .

The four Canadian repre-
sentatives camped in a grassy field
beside the Olympic stadium along
with 4,500 others and spent a week
in local homes.

“The camp was city-based so we
explored the history of the city and
its people. We even made it into
East Berlin for a visit,”’ said Mor-
fitt.

Guides and guide leaders are
chosen from the ranks of the

. 270,000 member base to attend in-

ternational events on a merit basis
after being deemed an ‘‘excep-
donal person within the Girl Guide
organization.”

Fifteen-year-old Ida Heffernan,
of Narth Vancouver, was one of
ning guides representing Canada at
a meeting heid in Salzburg,
Austria, July 28 to Aug. 19.

“We stayed at a camp near a
town called Niedernsill, | liked best
meeting people from lots of coun-
tries. Right now I’m writing to
people from Irelasd, Britain,
South Africa and Holland,”’ said
Heffernan.

Heffernan also spent four nights
living with a family in Salzburg.

Wendy McCormick, of North
Vancouver, acted as a leader of an
Hi-member Canadian delegation at
an international event held during
the summer in Denmark near Rold
Skoiv, the country's largest forest.

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NORTH SHORE pirl guides point to destinations on the globe where the
guides travel on goodwill missions. Pictured from left (o right are Wendy
McCormick, Ida Heffernan, Peggy Morfitt and Sarah Thornton. The
four (ravelted to different countries this summer as representatives of Girl
Guides of Canada.

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