Bottle drive collection will help fund Pairs Scouts headed to Canada’s largest Scout Camp in Haliburton this summer

By Casandra Turnbull

Paris Scouting groups are excited to return to a pre-Covid tradition where a week-long, youth-led experience will strengthen their bond with the great outdoors. This summer the 1st Paris Scout Troop & Venturer Company along with Brantford Scouts, Ventures and Rovers troops are travelling to the Haliburton Scout Reserve, Canada’s largest Scouts Canada camp. They will take in a fully selfcontained week-long adventure at one of the Reserve’s 23 campsites on its largest lake, Kennabi. Paris’ Scouting youth have ventured there before, but not since the summer of 2019, so this return to nature and the all-encompassing activities it entails is generating some excitement locally. And who wouldn’t be excited with an agenda that will cover everything from canoeing to kayaking and sailing, wall climbing, archery, riflery, snorkelling, and paddle boarding! To help offset some of the costs of their journey to Haliburton, the 1st Paris Scouting groups are collecting empty liquor and beer bottles next Saturday, March 23 from 11 am to 4 pm.

If you have a collection of empties, basically anything that can be returned to the beer store, and you’re looking to perform a spring clean around your home, the Paris Scouts and Ventures will happily take them off your hands

Since there is a limited number of volunteers to collect the empties, the group is covering a specific area of Paris during this initial bottle drive. If you received a flyer in your mailbox, you’re in the collection zone so get those empties ready to go, for a good cause of course.

If you didn’t receive a flyer, but want to contribute, you can reach out by email to bottledrive@1stparisscouting.ca to arrange a drop off This drive will be the first of several planned for the next few months to help raise funds for the trip In an email to the Paris Independent, the 1st Paris Scouting organization wanted to send a huge thank-you to Paris and surrounding area for their continued support.

If you have some empties laying around and would like to help these young troops head to Haliburton for an experience of a lifetime, email bottledrive@1stparisscouting.ca to schedule a drop off. These young fellas sure appreciate your support!