THESE YOUNG women from the 5th Crown Pathfinder Unit raised money for a needy North Vancouver
family by singing carol-grams. Pictured from teft to right are Linda, Kirsten and Benji packing up food and

gifts in time for Christmas.

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27 ~ Sunday, December 28, 1986

YEAR-ROUND COMMITMENT

Guides spread
festive spirit

FOR GIRL GUIDES
everywhere, Christmas time
is only one of the seasons
for giving.

The girl guide program en-
courages participants to look for
opportunities to give service
whenever and wherever possible —
from the Brownie taking tray
favors to a senior’s home to the
16-year-old Ranger helping with
Operation Wheelchair.

The girls in Lions Area, which
covers the North Shore and as far
north as Pemberton, and on the
Sunshine Coast to Madeira Park,
often help with the Mother's
March, Heart Fund and Cystic
Fibrosis campaigns. They have
also been involved in pledge drives
with Timmy’s Telethon and Chan-
nel 9 public broadcasting and in
volunteering at Expo.

During the pre-Christmas season
West Vancouver girls helped the
West Van Cancer Fund sell holly
in Park Royal. Another group
took on the annual challenge of
providing 700 Christmas crackers
for food boxes.

Numerous units visit seniors on
a year-round basis, and at the
festive season go caroling and take
small gifts.

Adopt-a-Family has attracted
the attention of about 25 groups.

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These groups raise money for this
project through such events as
craft fairs, bake sales and bottle
drives. Collecting cash receipts all
year to be turned into turkeys for
the hampers is another way.

One Pathfinder group earned
the funds needed for the hampers,
gifts and Christmas dinner for
their adopted family by selling
Carol-o-Grams. People supporting
this endeavor purchased a carol to
b2 sung to a friend or relative.

Another West Vancouver unit of
girls is helping out the Vancouver
Aquarium. Part of the proceeds
from a craft fair they sponsored
are going to buy a Flashlight fish.
Proceeds from this fair are also be-
ing donated to the Man in Motion
Tour.

Through guiding, girls are ex-
posed to the values of volunteering
in their communities. So as not to
confuse the public as to who is
benefiting from these fund raisers,
the girls do not wear their
uniforms when assisting other
community organizations. For this
reason the guides’ commitment of
time and effort is not always ob-
vious.

So, chances are that girl you see
volunteering at a fund-raising
event may be a Brownie, a Guide,
a Pathfinder, a Ranger or a Cadet.
And she will be saying Merry
Christmas all year long.

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