Girl guides
B.C. Girl Guide cookie fundraising moves online for second year
With social distancing measures in place due to COVID-19, the Girl Guides of B.C. won't…
Girl guide thanks Enderby for inspiring act of generosity
ENDERBY - It was a night girl guide Jorja Van Winkle will never forget. One, because of the fierce storm that shook her tent and evacuated her fellow guiders, and two, because of the strangers who came to their rescue. Van Winkle, 12, from Chilliwack, was on a bus heading back to the Enderby SOAR...
IN PICTURES: 2,500 Girl Guides from around the world come to Enderby
ENDERBY - Visit the small North Okanagan town of Enderby this week and you’ll find a city within a city. Girl Guides have built a colony of 2,500 people in Riverside Park for this year’s Spirit of Adventure Rendezvous (SOAR), effectively doubling Enderby’s population. The event happens every three years in different locations and this...
2,500 girl guides deserve an applause for spending last night in tents
ENDERBY - Yesterday’s violent thundershower sent most of us running indoors, but a bunch of little girls spent the stormy night in nothing more than their tents. Girl guides, that is. “It was an exciting night for sure,” girl guide spokesperson Laurie Hooker says. But it was nothing the 2,500 guiders couldn’t handle. They took...