4th Grand Falls Scouts & Venturers2019 World Jamboree and the 2019 European Adventure!

Oct 11th Recycling Blitz Oct 23 & 24!

It’s FINALLY time for another recycling blitz! October 23 & 24th! This is our first major blitz in almost two years, so there will likely be LOTS to collect!

There are two ways to participate, you can either participate with the group blitz or collect your own individual. Collecting with the group blitz is WAY more fun and generally leads to much more in donations, but it’s up to you!

How to take part in the blitz…

REGISTER HERE FOR THE BLITZ => https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/4gfrecycles

Adults (Scouters, parents, family members)

• Drivers (Sat/Sun/Mon) – We need drivers with trucks or trailers.  Vans and SUV’s are great too but be ready to have your vehicle steam cleaned or smelling of “recycling juice” for some time – pick-ups and/or trailers are WAY better! Each recycling team is ideally two adults with four youth (so youth can work in pairs with each pair taking a different side of the street). On Monday, we may also need a couple drivers to help take the beer bottles to stores to drop off.
  
• Cleaners (Sat/Sun) – We need volunteers to empty donated bags to ensure all the caps are off, contents drained, and garbage removed before re-bagging. Cleaning will take place in the parking lot at Hunter’s Framing, rain or shine.

Youth Members (and Cub/Scout/Vent-aged friends/family of youth)

• Collecting (Sat/Sun) – We need youth to collect door to door. We will assign you to a group if you don’t have one. Collecting youth must be masked when collecting and do their best to ensure distancing between by stepping back at least 2m from the door after ringing the bell. Youth are not to enter homes for any reason. Members must wear their necker outside of their coat.
  
• Cleaners (Sun) – Yup, youth will get the joy of cleaning and re-bagging recycling as well, lol!

100% of the proceeds from the Recycling Blitz will go towards youths’ “Activity Account” based on the number of hours you work. Your Activity Account can be used to help pay for major events (like Europe ’23), registration fees, camps, dues or even uniforms!

So to be clear, if a youth brings two parents and their sibling they will get credit for four hours of work for each hour they participate! Please keep in mind that everyone 12yrs 3mos and older must be double vaccinated in order to participate. Adults 19yrs+ must have a valid NL Vaccine Passport. Everyone collecting must wear mask. Additionally, adults must sign the Scouts Canada Code of Conduct (copies will be on hand at the event).

As I’m sure you can understand, planning collection crews and managing driver resources is a HUGE job, so please help us out by letting us know ASAP how you would like to participate.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE BLITZ => https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/4gfrecycles

A few additional notes:

• If you see another group collecting, smile and wish them luck and move on to the next area.  There is more than enough to go around we just may have to cover more ground to get it. 
• Don’t get discouraged when no one answers the door or you get a few negative responses.  It takes just 1-2 sheds to fill a truck.
• We accept recyclable beverage containers, beer bottles, liquor bottles and donations.  No blue bags of segregated regular waste for Central NL Waste Management.  These are not of any value to the Scouts.
• Also don’t get discouraged by the response that another group was there recently.  Politely thank the owner and move on.  Over the last two blitzes we were consistently told that another youth group had just been there.  If you consistently see nothing to collect after 8-10 households you may move on, but please don’t give up quickly.
• Be courteous of peoples’ property.  Stay off their lawns and out of flower beds and not leaning on fences and rails.  We have seen youth hurt and upset homeowners when damages have occurred. 
• Always work in pairs.  If no other youth can join you, carry a whistle and stay in sight of your driver.

Recycling drop-off will be in the parking lot at Hunter’s Framing on Cromer Ave. There will be volunteers there to tell you where everything goes starting at 9am both Saturday and Sunday, and remaining there as long as there are still trucks out collecting recycling.

Please make sure you check-in and check-out with one of our volunteers so you will be credited with your hours!

How to recycle on your own:

1.  Contact family, friends to arrange them to hold for you.

2.  Collect your recyclables and drop them to the local Green Depot.

3.  Tell them to credit them to the 4th Grand Falls Scouting account.

4.  Stay to wait for count, and get copy of receipts or label the bags being left and provide the id label numbers to Scouter Mark Blackwood mark.blackwood@nf.sympatico.ca to ensure your youth gets credit.  Note that if you don’t wait for your count, we cannot credit your account until your left bags are counted and sometimes left bags take over two weeks to count.  We recommend waiting for the count.  If there is no label id to track, or no receipt all collected funds go to the group general fund to support the program. 

5.  Another option is to cash out recyclables and bring the cash to your section lead for deposit. Make sure the cash is sealed in an envelope with your youths’ name on it and “Recycling” written on it. For beer bottles, don’t bring them to the Green Depot as you’ll only get 5 cents a bottle; bring them back to the store for the full 10 cents.

Recycling can honestly be easy and fun.  Many residents feel that recycling is of little value and are more than happy to donate instead of waiting in line to get $3 for a bag of recycling.  But as a group we can help keep the materials out of the landfill and support our activities. 

If there are any questions please let us know, and we will be glad to help out!

Oct 11th Moose Burgers!

Great news, it’s time for another MOOSE BURGER SALE!!! Our Europe youth are selling deliciously freshly grilled moose burgers! For youth attending Europe, all you need to do is take orders and collect money – that’s it! Your supporters will be given a pick-up time by the organizing Scouters, and will pick up their own burgers on Saturday, November 6th! So you do not have to deliver anything!! This could really be the easiest fundraiser of all time!

All orders must be submitted by October 28th and payments must be in by November 3rd.

We will only prepare what is sold and only order supplies for presales.  

The organizing Scouters will arrange pick up times.  Members have two options you can arrange a bulk pick up for all your customers and arrange your own drop off, or we can provide pick up times starting at 11AM and running until 2ish (depending on the sale). 

Costs will be as follows, and orders must be clearly provided. 

• Moose Burger with Onions $3.00
• Moose Burger without Onion $3.00
• Add Cheese $0.50
• Add Bacon $1.00

If ordering bulk pickup we will need the sellers email and phone number.  If individual pickups, we will need the buyers email and phone number (this is to arrange pickup times and to communicate any delays)

All food safety and food handling safety guidelines will be adhered to.  Pickup will be strictly monitored and we intend to provide a drive up service if possible. Details will be provided as soon as we can calculate presales.

Being our first year running our own moose burger sales we anticipate that we will have some cost overruns, so we can only commit to youth receiving 20% of net burger sales.   It may not seem like a lot but a youth could sell 50 burgers, drop off money and do nothing else but provide names and orders and still receive $30! We will revisit the profits after the sales and allocate funds as available.   One step closer to Europe!

Help us get the word out, and collect orders from family and friends (stay within you tight twenty and follow public health guidance).  Lets get some yummy burgers out there, and raise a little money for our program and youth at the same time.

WE HAVE ~800 BURGERS TOTAL – Please post at least once a week on Workplace to let us know how many you have sold so far. Priority for burgers will be based on post time on Workplace. Not on Workplace yet, click here to sign-up!

Order sheets can be downloaded here:

Nov 14th Yuletide Christmas Delivery

Great news!  We just had this exciting fundraising opportunity become available to our WJ & Europe Scouts thanks to Scouter Coralee!  The way it works is that youth will sell the Yuletide door to door as well as to family and friends.  This is a great tradition that many folks look forward to every year, so good chance you will do very well with sales!  We will be selling it for $3.95, and from that $0.63/book will go towards your trip!

To participate, send Scouter Coralee a message on Facebook (CoraleeSaunders Mitchell) or email her at coraleesaunders@hotmail.com with the streets you would like to canvas.  You can pick up your books at 3 Allen St from 7:30-10:00pm on Thursday, November 15th.  There will be additional opportunities announced later.

Please bring in your money is a sealed envelope with your name on it, and give it either to Scouter Coralee or your section lead.

With a $3.95 price point you will likely be tipped at the very least a nickel for each book, but likely a lot of people will just give you $5.00.  It is important that you turn in your tips as well for tracking, but you will receive 100% of your tips towards you trip.  So if someone pays you $5.00, you will end up keeping $1.68 for your trip!

Great opportunity to get in one last fundraiser before our next $625.00 Europe payment which is due November 25th!

Good luck!

Sep 13th Let’s Get Growing Again!

Hi everyone!  Due to popular demand we will once again be selling Vesey’s Seeds & Bulbs!  Zoey Healey, one of our Venturer Scouts, will once again be taking care of the administration.

This fundraiser will give back 50% of all profits to our group and is a great GREEN fundraiser with us selling bulbs, plants and seeds. Vesey’s covers all the shipping, free bags for deliveries and if any items you have ordered do not meet with our approval upon arrival here they will replace it free of charge.

Catalogs and order forms will be available at Scouts & Venturer Scouts this week

All orders have to be back to Zoey no later than Friday, October 5th, 2018 in order for her to be able to process and get everything sent off before their deadline so we won’t have to wait too long to get our orders.   You can bring your order to Scouts or Venturers and your section lead will pass it along to Zoey as long as your name is written clearly on the sealed envelope and you also write the amount of money inside.

The profits from the sale will be distributed as follows:

• 90% to the seller’s trip fundraising account
• 5% to the seller’s section
• 2.5% to our camping equipment fund
• 2.5% to Group Committee

So what are you waiting for?!  Let’s get growing!!!

Mar 4th EPIC Spring Yard Sale Coming!

GREAT NEWS!!  Scouter Rhonda is planning an EPIC spring yard sale for us all to help get to Europe and the World Jamboree!  There will be fliers, posters, radio, social media, and more!  We’ll be driving folks to the biggest yard sale of all time!  …so I hope you have lots of stuff to sell, lol!!

Basically you’ll let Rhonda know if your interested, and then, closer to the date, how much stuff you have (so we can figure out our needs for tables & space).  Customers will shop at your table, and you’ll give them a slip to take to the centralized cash – no need to deal with money yourself, no need for your own float!  Customers will love going table to table and only having to pay once!  This approach also lets us accept Credit Cards and even Debit!

Like all our trip fundraisers, the pay out is 90% – so you get 90% of the money brought in by the goods you sell deposited to your trip fundraising account.  Make sure to keep that in mind when you are pricing your goods.  If you really need to make $10 off an item, you will want to price it at $11 to account for the 10% you don’t keep.

So that’s it – easiest yard sale you’ll ever do!  To make it even better, after the sale closes we will help you get your remaining items online and we will kick off our online yard sale immediately after the real yard sale ends!  To support the in-person yard sale we will be suspending the ScoutAuction.ca site for now, and re-opening it with all the left overs from the yard sale.

So start collecting together your things and setting prices – SALE WILL BE ON SATURDAY, MAY 12TH

Mar 3rd Grocery Bagging – March 8th, 2018

Grocery Bagging at Dominion is always one of our best direct-donation fundraising efforts!  Basically the way it works is that our youth provide a “Good Turn” by bagging groceries, putting away carts, cleaning up, picking up litter (when weather allows), etc.  While this is on the go we have donation cans available to allow Dominion’s customers to donate if they so choose.  Most do decide to donate, and donate a fair bit!

Most youth enjoy grocery bagging, but it is hard work.  While grocery bagging we are effectively representing Dominion, so there are some specific rules and requirements that we need to work with.  First off, youth need to big enough to properly get the job done.  The minimum age is technically 12, but we traditionally allow younger youth to bag as well providing they “look old enough”.  Also, youth will need to have a short training session with the Scouter volunteers at the store to ensure they can bag the groceries in a professional manner.  Cell phones are not permitted while bagging, nor are headphones.  Youth may have a sealed bottle of water with them, but may not have any other food or drinks while bagging.  Gum is also not permitted.  Conversation on the lines must be kept appropriate and professional.  Most importantly, every single customer must be greeted in a friendly manor, every single donor must be thanked, and all Dominion staff must be treated with respect.  Our relationship with Dominion is very important to the group, so youth that do not behave professionally or simply cannot do the work effectively will need to leave early.  No warnings will be given for youth who break the rules; they will be sent home immediately.  

Seeing as we now have close to 30 youth and a dozen Scouters interested in traveling for 2019 we will need to build a schedule to prevent having too many youth on hand.  We can accommodate a maximum of 14 youth at a time, but only if they are quite busy.

For youth that are too small to grocery bag, we do need at least one youth at our donation table and this is a GREAT job for the smaller youth.  Please mark your availability and we will get you in as long as possible 🙂

Please mark your availability on Doodle => https://doodle.com/poll/mkzebv4zvqyr3t3f

Remember, this is your availability, not your desired shift.  If you are available from 3:30-10pm but only want to work a 2hr shift, mark yourself down as available from 3:30-10pm and write in the notes that you only want 2hrs.

Schedule will be done up on Wednesday evening, so if you haven’t responded by then there is no guarentee that a shift will be available for you.

GROCERY BAGGING PROCEEDS

• 90% to be split by those who work based on the numbers of hours worked.  Youth who stay four hours will make twice as much as youth who stay two hours.
• 5% to the youths’ section based on the number of hours worked per section.
• 5% to be split between Group Committee and the Camping Equipment fund

FUTURE DATES

Please mark on your calendar that we will also be grocery bagging on the following dates:

• April 19th
• June 28th