St Sylvester's college old Scouts union

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New Maroon Scouts

The world scout day of 22nd February 2010 has become a special day for the St.Sylvesters Old scout union. Because on that day first scout group of Padmavathi Central College of Gampaha District were awarded with the membership badges.

This scout group was started and developed by St.Sylvesters Old Scout union as result of a request made by the principal of Padmavathi Central College.

Prabath Rathnayaka, the secretary of the scout union is guiding this group, with the Principal Mrs. Mallika Daswaththa; the Group Scout Leader and Mr.Sumedha Priyanka old president scout of St.Sylvesters old scout union is leading the group as the scout leader.

All though at present we could not support the St.Sylvesters Scout group directly, we are doing our best for the development of Sri Lanka scout movement.

To fulfill this we need your support and co operation than never before.

First Aid Workshop

Dear Sylvestrians,

St.Sylvester’s Old Scouts Union together with Kandy district Scouts Association have decided to organize a one day first aid workshop.
Resources personnel for the above program will be the old president’s scouts doctors of the St.Sylvester’s college. The topics are as follows,

1. Introduction of first aid – History & Modern medicine.
2. Human body activities & Prevent disease.
3. Wound dressing & Patients handling.
4. First aid for the accidents.
5. Artificial respiration.
6. Bone fractures & types of bandages.
7. Leadership in an emergency.

We would like to invite you to join us for the success of this valuable program.

Yours in Scouting,

Prabath Rathnayaka : Secretary - 077 3606815

Dr. S.I.Mahindawansa : Chief Organizer - 0773256625

Need Sponsorship for certificates, handouts printing, file covers, triangular bandages,lunch pkts, tea or cool drinks etc.

Estimated Scouts - 100 (39th Kandy & Kandy District scouts)
Date - 21 September 2009

President’s Message………

Dear old scout brothers,
I feel honored to convey my message to the official web site of the St.Sylvesters old scouts union.
At the college we all spent successful and happy lives as scouts with the time we all have separated now. Even though now live in different countries and cities. I believe nobody can forget the beautiful memories of our past scouting life.
I am pleased to inform you that now we have great opportunity to meet and cherish our memories in the old scouts union. As a group we should pay our gratitude to our college and the 39th Kandy scout group for the great guidance they had given.
I invite all the old scouts and old boys to join with us to fulfill our wishes.

Hemal C.Lokugeegana
President

St.Sylvesters Old Scouts Union.

Old Scouts Union - Sinhala Website

Sinhala version of the site is also now available at http://sinhala.stsylvestersscouts.org. The required sinhala font can be download through our web site. For the best view of the sinhala web site use Google Chrome or Mozilla Fire Fox browser.

The fund raising raffle started officially by selling the first ticket to DR. Wafan Majeed.

marvel of the Pedro Scout Training Camp

As the World Scout Movement celebrates its 101st year of committed service, The Nation discovers the marvel of the Pedro Scout Training Camp, Nuwara Eliya – the largest training camp in the island, cocooned amidst the lush greenery of the leeward slope of Piduruthalagala

By Randima Attygalle,
On a fine day in the mid 1940s, British Chief Scout Commissioner Brooke Elliot KC paid a visit to the Pedro Estate in Nuwara Eliya, his ideal choice for an unflustered vacation in ‘Ceylon.’ A lover of fishing, he went to explore the Bamburu Ella and was transfixed at the sight of the grounds it enveloped in the shape of a horse shoe.

Astounded by its likeness to Gilwell Park, London, the ‘ancestral home’ of the World Scouts Movement, Elliot soon realised the aptness of Pedro for a camping site for the scouts.

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Postal service celebrates national centenary of Scouting

With the support of World Scouting, Australia Post has developed a special range of products celebrating 100 years of Scouting in Australia. Included in the range is a Baden-Powell stamp pack consisting of stamps from Australia, Portugal, Uruguay and Papua New Guinea, and a Scouts stamp and ingot set. Also included are a Centenary of Scouting in Australia stamp and coin cover and a Centenary of Scouting in Australia stamp pack. Following its foundation the UK in 1907, news of Scouting reached Australia in early 1908. The movement developed during the second quarter of 1908, when patrols started to meet, and then formed into larger troops by the middle of the year. The popularity of Scouting in Australia was encouraged by Lord Baden-Powell´s visits in 1912, 1927, 1931 and by the first Australian Jamboree, held in Frankston, Victoria in 1934-35. More..