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Leamington Christmas Parade this Saturday The 2012 Light Up the Night Christmas Parade is this Saturday, Nov. 24!
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The parade starts at 6 p.m. The parade route begins on Georgia Avenue, heads up Erie Street North and finishes at the fairgrounds. To help ensure everyone’s safety, please refrain from parking along the parade route from 4:00-8:00 p.m. New this year, before the Christmas parade on Saturday, Santa will be at Windsor Family Credit Union’s Leamington location on Erie St. S., 1:00-3:00 p.m., where children can get a free picture taken with Santa. The only requirement is that an email address be provided in order to send you your photo. There is also a fundraiser the evening before the parade, Fri. Nov. 23 from 5:009:00 p.m. at Colasanti’s Tropical Gardens, to assist with parade costs. Tickets are $15 per adult and $10 for children, and includes dinner, golf and rides, a visit from Santa and a silent auction. Contact the Leamington District Chamber of Commerce at 519-326-2721 for more information.
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Leamington Scouts raising funds for Jamboree By Bryan Jessop
A dozen Leamington Scouts are hard at work making a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity become a reality. The Second Leamington Scouts have been fundraising for about a year so far to raise the $25,000 necessary to send a dozen youths and four Scout Leaders to the Canadian Scout Jamboree at Sylvan Lake, AB June 6 to 13, 2013. So far, the group has raised just under a third of that amount, having collected $8,000 to date. Most recently, The Cliff restaurant in Leamington hosted two perch dinners on Friday, Nov. 16 with proceeds going towards the Jamboree expenses. One meal began at 5:30 p.m. with another following at 7 p.m. Meals sold at $16 per adult and $12 per child up to 12 years of age. Eleven of the 12 Scouts to make the journey from Leamington to Sylvan Lake (near Red Deer, AB) are members of the Second Leamington Scouts while the other is a member of Sixth Leamington Scouts. So far, the group has raised funds through car washes, chocolate bar sales, a yard sale and a pasta dinner at Colasanti’s Tropical Gardens. The next major event in the group’s list of fundraisers will be Family Pasta Night at Jose’s Bar and Grill in Leamington Monday, Dec. 10 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. From each dinner sold, $5 will be donated to the Leamington Scouts for the Jamboree. On Saturday, Jan. 19, the Leamington Scouts will meet Scout groups from Kingsville, Wheat-
Austin Reid-Birch serves a tray of buns during the perch dinner fundraiser at The Cliff Friday, Nov. 16. Money raised from the dinner will help fund Leamington Scouts participation in next year’s Canadian Scout Jamboree in Alberta. (SUN Photo)
ley, Essex and Harrow for a Bowl-a-thon fundraiser at Empire Lanes in Ruthven. Participating Scouts are raising money through the event by collecting pledges. “Each Scout group keeps the money it has collected — it doesn’t go into a pool,” said Leamington Scout Leader David Meek. “We don’t have specific times yet, but it will probably be in the afternoon. We’re still working on the details.” The Scouts attending the Jamboree in Alberta range from 11 to 14 years in age. Next year’s Jamboree will
feature traditional Scout activities such as creating fire without lighters or matches as well as events specific to the Prairie location. Halfday trips to Sylvan Lake (a community of 12,000 people visited by a million tourists per year) and Red Deer are also on the itinerary, as is the opportunity to walk on a glacier, tour a coal mine and visit Royal Tyrrell Museum, featuring 40 mounted dinosaur skeletons including Tyrannosaurus Rex and Albertosaurus. Several half-day hikes are also being scheduled for the eight-day event.
The Canadian Scout Jamboree is normally held once every four years, although it will be six years between the last Jamboree and the 2013 event in Alberta. A number of Leamington Scouts attended the last Jamboree in 2007, hosted by Tamaracouta, Que., just north of Montreal. Those interested in making donations to the Leamington Scouts for next year’s Jamboree can arrange to do so by contacting Meek at cj13scout@gmail.com.
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