This Saturday more than 300 guides of all ages will be in the valley to celebrate the centennial of Girl Guides in Alberta.
“Three Cheers for 100 Years” is the name for the rally hosted by the Drumheller First Girl Guides. They have invited Guides from the Prairie Rose Area. This includes participants Okotoks, High River and Black Diamond. The participants are all ages; from Sparks to Rangers.
“It is exciting and very hard work,” said Donna Thomas of Drumheller Girls Guides, adding she is grateful for all the volunteers, leaders and Guides who have shown support for the event.
According to a release, the girls will rotate through a series of activities in multi-branch groups. Each station will have activities, games and crafts to reflect on the history of guiding in the province, cherish today’s guiding and look at the future of the movement.
There will also be members of the Trefoil Guild, an adult only group within Girl Guides, who will have a display on the history of the Alberta movement and memorabilia.
The Guides will also be building time capsules, and Thomas says Lady Baden Powell the cofounder of guiding may even show up.
The celebrations will be happening in 12 other communities across the province. From its modest beginning, today 14,000 girls in Alberta are a part of the guiding movement.
