Chch ranger at Canadian camp

Press, 7 July 1977, Page 10

Chch ranger at Canadian camp

A Christchurch girl, Alison McLean, of the Sth Ranger Unit, Bealey Guide district, will leave Christchurch on Friday for what should be a very special experience. She will be one of two thousand young people from 98 countries attending an international ranger camp at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The camp amis to encourage participants to be "aware citizens.” and offers them a look at the infinite choices for service and leisure-time activities available to women today. Two other New Zealand rangers will be going, one from South Canterbury*, the other from Levin. These

giris have been chosen to represent New Zealand, and to be able ambassadresses for the guiding movement. Alison McLean has been in the movement since she was seven, progressing through brownies, guides. and rangers. She has worked hard to gain the highest achievement in each section, and last year was presented with the Queen’s Guide Award. Always willing to give back her experience to the movement, she is now assisting at' St James Brownie Pack as a Tawnv Owl. The New Zealanders are

required to take a display showing their guide association projects, and to explain these to the other participants. The camp will end on Wednesday. August 3, when the New Zealand girls will fly to Vancouver, B.C_ to spend a short time with Canadian families before returning home on August 17. The motto for the camp is, ' “Adventure is not in the guidebook and beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find.”