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Local Girl Guide Pathfinders planning 2014 trip to Mexico for World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts World Centre

Three Girl Guide of Canada Pathfinders from Midway and two from Grand Forks are planning to head to central Mexico in July 2014.
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Girl Guide Pathfinders from Midway and Grand Forks will be headed to Mexico in July 2014.

Three Girl Guide of Canada Pathfinders from Midway and two from Grand Forks have a unique opportunity in July 2014 to travel with three Pathfinders from Vancouver, to a World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts World Centre in central Mexico. Midway Guiders Elaine Fromme and Sue Fielding will be accompanying them.

For 10 days, the Pathfinders will be living with girls who are members of guiding from around the world, and working with them as a team on service projects for the local Mexican people.

An element of this team-building will also include camping within the grounds of Our Cabana.

New global friendships will be a part of this exclusive experience, where they will be able to discover and share in customs and traditions of every day life in different societies across borders and oceans.

The Pathfinders will learn first-hand what binds girls in guiding throughout the world and give them an understanding of how they may live in different environments but still have many day-to -day challenges, which are similar.

The itinerary will take the girls on visits to experience the background of Mexican culture, traditions and history.

Each girl has to raise $2,500 by May 2014 to cover the cost of travel and accommodation – this is a huge task.

The girls will be selling hand-made crafts in Midway on May 11 and at Rock Creek Fall Fair.

The Spot in Midway has kindly offered space for car washes throughout the summer and will also have bundles of firewood on sale, which are tied by the girls.

A community bottle drive and silent auction are also planned for later in the year. Extra cookies will be on sale in the fall. The girls can do yard/lawn work, dog walking, babysitting, window cleaning or leaf/snow clearance. To take advantage of these services, please call Fromme at 250-449-2309 or Fielding at 250-445-9955 for Midway and Greenwood and Erin Stavenjord at 250-442-5926 in Grand Forks for availability.

This is a trip of a lifetime and we hope everyone will support the girls in their efforts to raise the money, so they are able to travel to Mexico and enjoy this experience.

Girl Guides Canada Kootenay Area will be presenting 14 Pathfinders with the Canada Cord on June 1.

This is the top award for girls in guiding at this age level. Two of the girls are from Midway and one from Grand Forks.

– Submitted by Sue Fielding