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Page 3, News, Tuesday, March 19, 1991 Scouting's chief executive visits local Scouts, Cubs and Beavers by Rob Cotton The News Scouts, Cubs and Beavers from Schreiber and -- Terrace Bay had the opportunity to meet and talk with the national director of Scouts Canada over breakfast on Saturday, Feb 9. Jim Blain, chief executive of Boy Scouts Canada arrived at the Community Church in Terrace Bay shortly after 8 .a.m. and immediately introduced himself to individual youngsters, commenting on their badges and telling fishing stories. After breakfast he spoke to the boys as a group, emphasizing the team spirit of scouting. He asked the boys to work with their leaders and be a part of the team. Boys from the 1st Terrace Bay Scout Troop, (leader Warren Pearen), the 1st Terrace Bay Cub Pack, (leader Karen Ramsay), and the Ist Terrace Bay Beaver Colony, (leader Tom Fox)were present. Cubs from Schreiber were also there to represent the 1st Schreiber Cub Pack, (leader Richard Saindon), and the 1st Schreiber Beaver Colony, (leader Mary Anne Needham). He spoke to the boys and the leaders about the importance of sponsors to the scouting movement. "If you build a scout group just around leaders and they get shifted to some other town then the group quite often collapses," he said. Scouts Canada got involved with sponsorship to ensure there would always be an organization of adults in the community that it could contact. "The sponsor is the community group we can use a base to help us to keep some continuity," Blain explained, 'Blaine was visiting several communities along the Northshore to see the scouting movement in this area firsthand. "Part of my responsibility is to get out into the field and meet the people who are really making the program happen at the community level," he said. One of the challenges facing the scouting movement, Blain said, is getting more adults involved in the program. "We have a lot of young people in Canada who want the program but can't get it because we don't have enough adult volunteers involved," he said. Another challenge for Scouts Canada is to provide the training for those adults who do volunteer. "I know that in Ontario they are making every effort to get the training teams out in the field," he explained. Scouts Canada has to take the training to the people rather than having the people travel long distances for it, he said. The programs rely on adults that will get involved and encourage the youngsters, Blain said. Jim Blain, chief executive for Scouts Canada jokes with All the volunteers need is a | desire to meet and work with | young people. They don't have |to have all the scouting knowledge or know all the badges. Scouts Canada will help | with that aspect of the work. "We have to get out in the field and convince them that they can make a contribution, an importasnt one, and that we can | help them aquire a knowledge of scouting," Blain explained, "When we do that it is amazing forward." Blain, as chief executive of Boy Scouts of Canada, is | responsible to the National Council for the operation of the National Office in Ottawa and for the co-ordination of the variety of services it provides to over 270,000 youth, volunteer adults and Committee personnel in Canada. - some of the Scouts who joined him for breakfast . The Terrace Bay Schreiber Entertainment Series recently received a $1,500 provincial grant to bring performances to Terrace Bay, Northern Development Minister Shelley Martel has announced. Buddy Wasisname and his ; backup recently presented a performance featuring hilarious renditions of traditional and not so traditional jazz music. 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