{"id":1244,"date":"2009-12-08T23:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2010-01-16T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:17:08","slug":"2009-12-06-birthday-parade-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"2009-12-06 &#8211; Birthday Parade and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1253\" title=\"happy_birthday_presents\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy_birthday_presents-300x300.gif\" alt=\"happy_birthday_presents\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy_birthday_presents-300x300.gif 300w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy_birthday_presents-150x150.gif 150w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy_birthday_presents.gif 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Members of all sections met @ 10am at the hall to parade the short distance to the Spital Street Methodist Church to celebrate and give thanks for the 93 years of scouting at the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Dartford Scout Group.\u00a0 As usual, the regular congregation were very welcoming and the Revd Tim Crome gave an entertaining and thought provoking service during which Dan Ketley of the Earley Scout Troop gave two readings. At the end of the service, GSL Paul Boreham took time to thank the congregation and Revd Crome for their hospitality and all sections, leaders and helpers for their efforts throughout the year, which had been difficult with the sad passing of\u00a0 GSL Dick Medcalf,\u00a0who had bravely fought illness for some time.\u00a0 There was one exception however, in that there had been no mention of the Collins Pack or its leaders.\u00a0 Had Paul forgotten the efforts put in by Ted, Sarah, Zara and co or was there something else afoot?\u00a0 After a short pause, Paul surprised the congregation with a \u201cThis is your life\u201d style prentation, which thanked and honoured Ted \u201cCougar\u201d Essex for his achievements during his 40 years of tireless service to scouting leadership. Ted was clearly moved and said just a few words in thanks and reflection as he was presented with a fine tankard and &#8220;With Thanks&#8221; badge to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1245\" title=\"IMGP1644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP1644-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP1644\" width=\"558\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With formalities over, the colours were paraded back to HQ, to eat lunch and prepare for the afternoons activities.\u00a0 A party was laid on for the Beavers and Cubs, whist the Scouts and Explores who had attended the church service and parade, were taken to the Chatham Ski &amp; Snowboard Centre for a taster session in ski or boarding followed by Toboggan\/Cresta run and snow-tubing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone had a fantastic time as the following pictures &amp; video show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Te-RCg0j72w\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Te-RCg0j72w\" \/><param name=\"autostart\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!-- generated by WordPress plugin Embedded Video -->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of all sections met @ 10am at the hall to parade the short distance to the Spital Street Methodist Church to celebrate and give thanks for the 93 years of scouting at the 5th Dartford Scout Group.\u00a0 As usual, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=1244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver-blog","category-cub-blog","category-scoutnews","category-scout-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}