Deaf Scout's Chat
Volume No. 01 Issue No.18 August 2008
Annual Camp in Czech Republic went well
A group of twenty five scouts and ventures participated in our ten day camping in the 2nd International Deaf Scout Camp at Czech Republic on Monday 21st July to Thursday 31st July 2008 with three leaders. The events went well and organised by Potkani 53 Czech Scout Group. Many of our members had a good time, exchanging information plus challenging experience of survival particular using the outdoor toilet without toilet flushing. See our photos in the gallery.
Thank to Lucie Pulpanova and Frantisek Pulpan, for hosting it and making it happening for Deaf Scout around the world. Sixty three participants took part into 2nd International Deaf Scout Camp from Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Finland and Czech Republic. See their updated website http://potkani.ruce.cz/index.php with plenty of photographs.
We now hope to roll on for the next one possible in Finland in 2011 for the 3rd International Deaf Scout Camp – *finger across*
Our Group back on the 3 rd September 2008
Our scout’s weekly activity meetings resume on 3rd September 2008 at 7.30pm. If you or your friend is interested in becoming a member please encourage their parents to contact any of leaders for more information.
All new members are welcome to join our group, youth ages from six to twenty one years old. The fee for weekly meeting is €2.00 per member at the Drama Hall, Dublin Deaf Association premises.
Irish Sign Language (ISL) Parade on 6th September 2008
191st will be arranging a day activity on 6th September as part of (ISL) Irish Sign Language awareness week organsed by Irish Deaf Society. We are hoping to arrange Ventures, Scouts and Cubs to come together to take part in ISL parade from Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square to Wood Quay at 2pm on Saturday 6 th September. Everyone is encouraged to wear our scout’s neckerchief with or without uniform or preferably scout polo shirt. The more numbers attending the parade more ISL awareness is given. More information on website www.signingweek.ie
Ireland Jamboree 2008
Scouting Ireland’s International Jamboree, to celebrate 100 years of Irish Scouting, special 100th Birthday celebration on the island of Ireland took place on 2 nd August to 10 th with over 12,500 scouts taking part. Four Deaf Leaders joined the volunteer team, three were designed to work on the element programme and one was working on duty as health and safety staff. Jamboree 2008 will be remembered because of the weather but we should remember that many of the Scouts had a wonderful time in Punchestown.
Wedding Bells
191 st would like to extend to congratulations to Mr. Karol McGuirk, our Cub Leader on his marriage in Limerick recently. We wish him the best of luck in the future with his new wife.
Provisional Planning Calendar for the 191st Dublin Deaf Scout Group
All schools will re-open on 7th January 2008 from Christmas Break. Our scout activity
meeting will be reopening on 9th January 2008.
30th January
Registration / insurances fees of €38 due for the year 2008
17th, 18th & 19th January
Bag-packing in Tesco Jervis Centre
9th February
National Challenge Day – Scouts (closing date 10th January 2008)
13th February
Fun Disco at the Deaf Club with music and lights
27th February
€200.00 deposit due for Czech International Deaf Scout Camp, the 2nd installments
Mid-Term break
Post-Primary schools will close from 11th to 15th February 2008 inclusive.
2nd March
Summit - National Centenary Hike Day
7th to 9th March Annual Spring Hiking weekend
The dates had been confirmed for our Annual Hiking in Cork Cottage.
27th, 28th & 29th March
Bag-packing in Tesco Artane Shopping Centre
Easter 2008
All schools will close on 14th March 2008 which will be the final day of the school term.
All schools will re-open on 31st March 2008.
10th, 11th & 12th April
Bag-packing in
Tesco Omni Park, Santry, Dublin 9
18th - 20thApril 2008
4th National Youth Forum – Scouts
4th June
€TBA deposit due for Czech International Deaf Scout Camp, the 3rd and final
installments
14th & 15th June 2008
The Giant Sleep Over
14th - 15th June 2008
National Scout Raft Race
21st - 30th July 2008
Czech Republic International Deaf Scout Camp
2nd - 10th August 2008
Scouting Ireland Centenary Jamboree, Punchestown, Naas, Co. Kildare.
Those dates are subject to change if leaders volunteer work changes or in an events of
cancellation. We will give as much notice as we can if this happen. Otherwise the dates
that we agreed on will happen rain, hail or snow
Summer Camp 2007 went well
Several of our cubs, scouts and ventures participated into our eleven days camping in Curraghchase Forrest Park Co. Limerick last Friday 27th July to Tuesday 7th August 2007 with seven leaders. We had a great weather with plenty of rain and sun shining with all our daily busiest activities. Check out our gallery pictures.
Slumber Night Report
16th June to 17th June 2007
Twenty three scouts including three adults’ leaders took part in the slumber night staying for two nights in the Drama Hall at the Dublin Deaf Association (DDA) premises. Everyone contributed ten Euro on the sponsor card.
It started on Friday 15th June evening at 5pm till Sunday 17 th June till 6pm. The total money rose on Saturday and Sunday was €1,351.92.
The money will go toward National Children's Hospital, Tallaght. Well done to all those who took part.
Spring Hiking Weekend
Our annual spring hiking weekend took a place in Westport, Co Mayo on Friday 04th May to Monday 7th May last. (Three nights) twenty one scouts together with cub/macaoimh had the opportunity to see the spectacular a heritage town centre location – they walked and explored Croagh Patrick mountain. See photos for more details on photo ablum section.
NATIONAL SCOUT CHALLENGE DAY
The National Challenge Day - Scouts, was held in Tullamore Community College on Saturday 11-Feb-07.
191st Dublin Deaf Scout had two groups consist of seven scouts representing.
We are thrilled to say one of our groups were the winners and our second group came in a fourth place.
Thirty four teams took part from only twenty Association's Scout Counties from all over Ireland.
The Challenge Day consisted of six rounds of questions in the morning and four challenge bases in the afternoon.
Winners: Tolka County (191st Dublin Deaf Scout Group - A)
2 nd Runner up: Lough Keel County (1 st Roscommon Scout Group)
3 rd Runner up: Slieve Bloom County (6 th Tipperary Scout Group)
4 th Place : Tolka County (191st Dublin Deaf Scout Group - B)
Congratulations and well done to all our Deaf Scouts who took part in challenges.
Upcoming events for 2007
if any of our members interested please contact your leader for more information.
9th to 11th March County MPC
March Spring Hiking weekend, (date and venue to be confirmed)
31st March to 1st April Star Scout Show
1st April Cubs Fun Day
April Training Camping weekend for County Shield (date to be confirmed)
April Irish Sign Language Pride Parade (date to be confirmed)
20th to 22nd April County Shield
16th to 17th June Giant Sleep Over
27th July to 09th August 14 days Annual Scout Camp
Those dates are subject to change if leaders volunteer work changes or in an events of cancellation. We will give as much notice as we can if this happen. Otherwise the dates that we agreed on will happen rain, hail or snow.
Slumber Night Report
16th June to 17th June
Twenty two scouts including leaders took part in the slumber night staying for one night on lawn at the back the Dublin Deaf Association (DDA) premises. Many of leaders had commitments on Sunday such as attending the National Council Meeting of Scouting Ireland. Everyone contributed five euro on the sponsor card.
It started on Friday 16 th June evening at 5pm. The leaders were anxiously waiting for scout to arrive but eventually they did and it builds up with an increasing numbers parents asking curiously questions. The scouts started off with a pioneering project and built an open gateway with coloured ribbons and balloons at the front of St Vincent’s Centre for the Deaf. Eventually we attracted attention of the public. We also flew two flags, the World Scout flag and our own Scout Group flag on top of the gate.Four to six scouts manned the front gate collecting money from people passing by during the rush hour between 5.30pm and 8pm while the others worked away on the pioneering project at the front and back of the club.
At the same time there were other events taking place in the Deaf Club. The Deaf woman’s group and the old folks had a meeting in the club and many of the members donated money to help us to help sick children.
Throughout the night we continued telling stories using Irish Sign Language. The Scouts sat together between two altar fires and carried on with more stories and played some quiet games in the mess tent. Most popular game was the sleeping bag game. It wasn’t until after 3am that everyone fell soundly asleep. On the following day (Saturday, 17 th) we continued to raise money by placing several scouts at the front and back of DDA premises. Fortunately, there were many events taking place in the club. The sign language association of Ireland (SLAI) had its workshop and AGM; the Irish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (IASLI) had a meeting as well as the adjourned annual meeting of DDA. Many of the scouts raised money from different organisations in the club on a rota basis while the others played games on the lawn such as pillow fight, water flight and a water slide using a large plastic sheet and washing up liquid.
At six pm it was time to stop the games and fund raising. We dismantled the pioneering work and stored the tents before attending Saturday evening Mass in the chapel located in the Deaf club. Many scouts and leaders attended in full uniform. After mass we continued to raise more money from those who attended mass.
The total money rose on Friday evening and Saturday was €763.26.
Well done to all those who took part.
CUBOREE 2006
CUBOREE is Scouting Irelands JAMBOREE for Cub Scouts. We had eleven Deaf Cubs which all enjoyed themselves. It took place on 2nd to 5th June in the grounds of the Salesian College in Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick with four Deaf adult’s female and male leaders and one hearing along with three Deaf scouts as helpers.
Click here to see the 139 photos
Deaf Scout Camp countries participating
Countries confirmed to attend the Deaf Camp include: Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Pakistan to name but a few.
Countries are starting to register. If your application is going to be late, please let the Deaf Scout Camp
Final dateline will be 15th July 2006 by 5pm irish time.
Irish Sign Language Pride Parade – 2nd April 2006
Irish Sign Language Pride Parade commence on 2nd April 2006, similar to last year where approx over 800 attended from all apart of Ireland.
All scouter should make and bring your own banner plus to wear a new scout uniform and our traditional neckerchief – show our pride for Deaf Scout Group in ISL Pride Parade.
Meet up at the Garden of Remembrance, Parrell Square following to St Stephen’s Green. The time and details to be confirmed, watch this space for more information.
Scouting Ireland – National Challenge Day Results
11th February 2006, in NUI Maynooth, Co Kildare. Congratulations to four team members representing our group, Liam Power, Donna Costigan, Nora Duggan & Kevin Dudley who come 13th place out of 40th – They earned 159 points out of 240 points. Well done to the team, they all had a great time & a great fun during the events. Check out the photos and result on
http://www.scouts.ie/filestore/documents/events_documents/S_Challenge_Results.pdf
Irish Sign Language (ISL) Pride Parade
The Irish Deaf Society launched a week of activities focusing on awareness of Irish Sign Language (ISL) and Deaf culture, by taking to the streets on last Sunday 10 th April for a pride ISL parade. The scouts and ventures participants, which departed from the Garden of Remembrance and concluded in Stephen’s Green, drew a crowd of hundreds participants, carrying with our own Deaf Scout flag as well Deaf and hearing people, community groups, extended families and others.
Visiting Czech Republic Scouts 18 th and 19 th March
Six Deaf leaders visited the Czech Republic to see their Deaf Scout number 53 in Prague (Potkani.53). They had twelve Deaf scouts aged from 10 to 13 years. We met five Deaf Czech scouts who were able to see us with their three leaders and their friends.
191 st would like to thank M’s Lucie Pulpanova. Czech Deaf Scout Leader for arranging a two day tour and informing everyone in Prague about us.
Deaf Scout website from other countries
Czech Republic - Hlavna Strana http://www.volny.cz/potkani53/
10th Anniversary events
This years we organised a busy events throughout the summer of June, July and August of our celebration of ten years Anniversary our Deaf Scout Group since it was establish in 12 th June 1994 .
The events were
• 10 th Anniversary Dinner Dance which was held in Regency Hotel last 12 th June. Ninety four people attended and it was a great succes.
• 10 th Anniversary Children's weekend camp with families and friends which was held in Larch Hill, National Campsite last 18, 19 & 20 th June. Again it been a great success with fifty four participated into camp.
• We held an open mass in Irish Sign Language to mark our 10 th Anniversary in Larch Hill, National Campsite which was celebrated by Fr. Joe Jones , Chaplaincy of the Deaf together with ISL interpreter, Veronica White.
• Our Annual Summer Camp took place in Gilwell, International Campsite, Scout Association, United Kingdom dated from 28 th July to 11 th August. Five leaders and twelve scouts together including three cubs participated. We all had a great time.
Our group is processing very well since we were closed for summer dated from 30 th June and will reopen on Wednesday 1 st September. We still have forty three members in our group and it is expect we get more scouts to joining into our weekly activity meeting due our huge publicity both in the Deaf and Hearing community throughout from our success of 10 th Anniversary events.
191st would like to thanks to 76 th Finglas West Group and M's Janet Welbey for provided us a loan of their mess tent and two Icelandic tents during our 10 th Anniversary Children's weekend Camp events.
