This reporter toured the subcamps and a couple of the program areas to see how the Offers of Service are preparing for the participants to arrive. Here is what I found. “If we go far enough, do we hit China?” Although they’re not planning on digging through the centre of the earth, the group at the rock climbing wall might end up there anyway with so many of them working on it. We arrived to see around ten Offers of Service working on scraping moss off the stone that will be the Rock Wall come the arrival of the Scouts. We asked what the next step will be after all the moss was

removed, and the team seems to have a lot of hard work ahead of them. After the moss is gone, the rock has to be pressure washed, they’ll set up ropes and harnesses, pads for the belayers, and build a separate bouldering wall (climbable without gear) between a couple of trees. Of course, the last step will be doing a test run, to climb the wall themselves to check the safety before any Scouts can climb it. Sounds like they’ll be doing the most important (and the most fun) job for last. We moved on to the set up in subcamps, namely the picnic tables. At Subcamp Bear, ninety-four picnic tables had been built and are being moved. Which isn’t surprising,

considering the subcamp will have 717 people in it , but ninety-four picnic tables is still a lot when all of them have to be assembled on site and moved to their final locations. The same construction was going on in Orca and Thunderbird. Hopefully, the Scouts will appreciate the hard work that went into their campsite. Our last stop was the obstacle course, which was all but set up. Or at least, the one we visited was. Pacific Jamboree has a total of four obstacle courses; two are the same, to allow multiple groups of Scouts to go through at the same time. The one we visited, near Subcamp Raven, was almost completed, and the people working there

assured us they were making excellent time with finishing up all four. Not hard to believe, considering the setup on the hill was done in three days. All that’s left to do is to join up the main obstacles, and we’ll have a complete obstacle course. It promises to be an exciting one too, at approximately five feet higher than the obstacle course at the last PJ 11. As we get closer to the arrival of the Scouts on Saturday, the setup around Camp Barnard promises an amazing time for anyone (and everyone) in attendance. Great work everyone, and thanks for helping set up an awesome camp!

Hundreds of OOS have been busy over the past week preparing for the arrivals of 2000 Scouts. This edition looks at how we got ready.

The Scouts are Here!

July 12, 2015 Vol. 2 No. 2

Set Up 101Offers of Service have been busy preparing the subcamps and programs

PJ’s Very Own Mural

It’s Sunday, July 12! By now, most of you have walked by, and maybe noticed, the Welcome to Camp Barnard mural near the front of the camp. The mural was painted by the 5th Juan de Fuca Scout Group from Victoria. 5th JDF has painted a few different murals around camp, including some doors in McPherson Lodge. These were so well done that they were asked to create one for PJ. They started working on the mural in February of 2015, and took about a month to paint the background alone. The finishing touches were added about a week ago by Khione Gardener, who organized the painting. Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts, and Venturer Scouts participated in painting the mural along with some leaders. The mural was sponsored by the Investors Group, who donated $5,000 to the building of the structure the mural sits on. 4 Cars Art Studio donated time and space for painting the mural, which displays some of the different activities that you can participate in at PJ and Camp Barnard, including fishing, swimming, and archery. Don’t forget to take pictures and stick your face in one of the cut-outs to become part of the mural! We hope you enjoy this and many other features of Camp Barnard, your home for the next week of adventure!

Hana Burdge & Lyndsay DaggReporters, The Lighthouse

Natasha RitterReporter, The Lighthouse

Sunday

Visit the PJ Trading PostLocated at Na’tsa’mahtOpen Daily 9am-9pm

Badges, PJ Souvenirs, and more!

REMINDER!Keep washing your hands!

Correction: Afternoon programs run from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Emergency Drills Take Place

Two people missing, teams out looking all over the camp, Emergency Services and the Police making sure they’re found. All events happening at Camp Barnard— well, except the missing people. A realistic drill on Thursday before participants arrive has volunteers, Emergency Services, Security, and Police alike on their toes to prepare for any people who go missing over the course of PJ. Search and Rescue and the RCMP have since taken over the investigation, following news that the missing people may have gone offsite. The camp Emergency Services, Police, and Security provided all the help they could to track down the two missing people. This and other drills ensure that everyone is ready for any emergency during the camp. Although it’s knowledge and skills we all hope not to use, this drill and one that took place in May, have helped us to Be Prepared to keep everyone ready for any emergency, no matter what it is.

Natasha RitterReporter, The Lighthouse

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THE WEATHER ROCKToday

20°C 13°C 21°C

Tonight Tomorrow

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Question of the Day Each day we’ll ask a question about camp life. Come see us in the Townsite with your answer, or Tweet it to us @PJ_2015. You could see your answer in tomorrow’s Lighthouse!

Today’s Question:What did you forget at home?

The Weather Rock has a 40% chance of being wet today, but will dry up overnight. Tomorrow the Weather Rock will be shady, but dry. It is predicted that the Weather Rock will be bright and warm starting Tuesday.

Members of the security team discuss the scenario during the missing persons drill.

OOS Liam Donaldson, Andrew Stainer and Cameron spent most of Friday preparing the mountain bike trail for use during PJ.

As the OOS team is gearing up in anticipation of the Pacific Jamboree 2015, many of the sub-camp staff and other volunteers find themselves stuck with the laborious task of building picnic tables. Each campsite is provided with one table with which they can use throughout the duration of camp. This is a step up from last PJ when the participants had to assemble their own tables. However building tables is no picnic! So feel thankful for all the volunteers’ hard work and shout out to Scouter Ryan Lafek for his phenomenal work helping with the table assembly. Among other preparations for PJ is the assembly of the Na’tsa’maht (a Salish phrase, meaning unity or working together as one) or the gathering place. This is the site of the trading post and many exciting games such as human foosball, life-size jenga, and twister! The gathering place had a slight change of plans when the large green marquis that where supposed to be donated by the army were not supplied, because they were being deployed across BC and Saskatchewan to fight fires. However the lack of marquis did not cause too much havoc and with scouting ingenuity tents were found to complete Na’tsa’maht. So with all these preparations falling into place, get stoked for an exciting PJ!

Tess KingReporter, The Lighthouse

Building Tables Ain’t no Picnic

After a long day of hauling tables, Orca Sub-camp staff find themselves too tired to continue.

A Message from the Bus ‘Guys’ Welcome to PJ 2015. Many of you have come a long way and have worked hard to fundraise to make it here. We welcome you. Many of our activities are not located at the camp, so you will be riding the bus to some of the activities you have chosen. To make sure you have a good experience, here are a few pointers to heed: • Know your Group Registration Number • Check the schedules posted at your sub camp headquarters • Be at your assigned bus at least 20 minutes BEFORE the scheduled departure time • Have all of the things you need to take with you………neckers, etc. We care about your safety, and there will be lots of buses loading. When going to YOUR bus, please stay off the road and follow the path on the right side of the road. Stay on the right side of the bus. • Wait beside your bus for instructions from the Bus Guy Team • Leave a path between you and the bus so others can pass by • Please do not board the bus until instructed to do so • To board a bus, you must have ALL your group there when the Bus Guys starts loading, or you will have to wait until all are there. The buses depart ON TIME……..if you are late, then you may miss your bus and the event you were to be on. (We truly don’t want this to happen, so please, please, please, be early.) If you decide not to participate in a scheduled offsite event, please make sure your sub camp is notified in good time. This common courtesy will prevent the buses from having to be held up to wait for you if you are not coming. Please stay seated during your bus trip. Occasionally we may need to have 3 persons on a seat. All gear must be stowed under the seat. On arrival at your destination, please leave the bus promptly. For your convenience, there will be a free shuttle service from Camp Barnard to Sooke and return form Monday to Friday. Look for the schedule in your sub camp and at the Bus Terminal/info booth near the beach, on the road out of camp. If you need information about the local communities, please check with the bus Guys at the Bus Terminal. We have lots of info to help make your experience a good one. Please make sure you are on time at your bus, when you are scheduled to come from your event back to camp. A lot of great people have done an incredible amount of work to make your experience at PJ 2015 a memorable one. We hope you will do your part to get you to our event. Being human, we can make mistakes, but please forgive us and have a great time. We appreciate you being part of this wonderful journey.

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I walked the route from PJ Registration to the camp entrance and back this morning, and where we were concerned about a big tangle, I found instead the Scouting spirit in action. Participant groups were getting off buses or walking in from the camp entrance. Equipment was being loaded onto wagons or backs. Groups were waiting patiently until everyone was present so they could register. At the registration tables, Subcamp staff welcomed everyone and helped them on the way. Security people kept people safe and tactfully controlled traffic. Transport drivers shuttled gear into the camp (including the Camp Chief). Food services worked on the first of many deliveries to participants. Administration dealt with problems in registration. Program Offers of Service made their final preparations for their activities. I know that in Thunderbird, Orca and Bear, Subcamp staffs were ready to so their best to get participants settled and set up. Care Corps was ready to help, and the medical organization was ready to react to any need. Site services, who prepared the camp for you, were out in force. The Green Team has been everywhere, and you will see them at least once each day. Despite the first rain in months, despite figuring out a new camp for most participants, despite everything, what I saw were smiles, excitement and the Scouting spirit everywhere. With that attitude everywhere, it’s going to be a great PJ.

The Beaver The Beaver has a great understanding of nature and working in harmony with his surroundings. He is very flexible, working towards goals and gaining a sense of achievement. The beaver symbolizes good work ethics, a strong will and a strong sense of family. Beaver is known as the carpenter of the animal kingdom, and is consider the industrious one. The Beaver is said to have been a woman at one time. Tsimshian legend tells of a woman who dammed a stream to swim in it. Because she refused to get out, she was transformed, and her leather apron became a Beaver’s tail. In Haida legend, it is the Beaver who is responsible for providing the Salmon that Raven stole to give back to the people. In the art of the northwest coast Aboriginal peoples, the Beaver is depicted with big square front teeth, a hatched tail and small round ears

Welcome to PJ

Scouts from all over BC and even Alberta kept BC Ferries on their toes yesterday (Saturday morning) at the Tsawwassen terminal. Ferries began departing at 7am with the first hundred Scouts and leaders bound for Swartz Bay. Scouter Mike (6th Central Surrey) was out coordinating the youth and said things were going well. “It’s been hectic but everyone’s moving and there’s been no sad faces.” Mike was expecting that the PJ transportation team was going to process 13 hundred people by the end of the day Saturday. He was expecting to head to Camp Bernard at the end of his shift to help direct folks onto the school buses going off site next week. One of the units travelling on the 8 o’clock departure of the Queen of New Westminster had been on the road longer than most. Scouter Stephen and his patrol of six from 21st Anders in Red Deer, Alberta boarded a bus in Calgary Friday night. After spending fourteen hours on the road, they were beginning to look a little jaded. Originally from Harrowgate, UK, Scouter Stephen said he was looking forward to his first jamboree adventure in Canada. Another of the excited patrols to board the ferry was 25th Dunbar Scouts. Max is one of the youth with the Vancouver group and was ready for his week-long jaunt on the island. The activity he’s eager to try out is the Scuba Diving that is taking place at the naval base in Esquimalt. The unit was booked into Sub camp Orca and couldn’t wait for a whole lot of fun this week. It wasn’t only Scouts travelling on the ferry. The brightly coloured Group scarves were attracting a lot of attention from visiting tourists. Some wondered if they were going to get anything to eat with so many Scouting people cramming into the cafeteria. A group of women travelling to Victoria from the United States was asking what was going on. Lots of people commented how nice it was too see so many young faces involved in such a great organization.

Kate MuzykaReporter, The Lighthouse

All Aboard BC Ferries

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Indaba Update Not signed up for an Indaba Session? Come on down to the Indaba Shelter and sign up for a session right away! Here are some of the things you won’t want to miss! There is now a confirmed motocross Indaba session, meant to facilitate how to incorporate motocross into the Scout program. The session will be Monday July 13; 7-9pm, at the Artisan tent (beside the Indaba shelter). Check out the Duke of Edinburgh “the Challenge” interactive presentation Wednesday July 15, 7-9 pm. Find out some new skills at the Artisan Tent beside the Indaba shelter; blacksmithing, soapstone carving, glass work, or wood carving. For more information and updated Indaba schedules visit pj2015.ca or visit the Indaba shelter!

Quotes from the Front Gate

Scout: “Why can’t it be nice and sunny?” OOS: “It was….until you got here.”

Leader: “Troop A, grab all your heavy stuff.” Scout: “It’s all heavy Skip.”

“Sorry I’m late, I had to say goodbye to my wife.” (Leader)

“Walk on the left side of the road. No, the OTHER left.” (Leader)

“And then the rain came!”

Tom BrennanReporter, The Lighthouse

What Will Your Legacy Be?

One of the most powerful abilities of large camps such as Pacific Jamboree is the legacies it leaves behind. Whether the legacy is a new building, or simply making an impact on others, remember that we can all leave our own mark on Camp Barnard. So, keeping that information in mind, what will your PJ’15 legacy be? Bear Subcamp has a special way to leave its mark on Camp Barnard- a Legacy board to be signed by all of the participants, Scouters and OOS staying in Bear. Camp Barnard has a long-term project to refinish Keego Kitchen, the OOS feeding area. Bear’s board will be put up on one of the new walls. So, for those of you who are in Bear Subcamp be sure to go and sign. But for those of you aren’t a part of Bear, know that a camp legacy can be something big or small. It could be a great badge trade you managed to make, or that scout skill you mastered. It might be the activity that you’re trying for the first time, or making a new scouting friend. Or it could be strengthening the bonds between friends, or even expanding on your skills. However you decide to try to make your mark, remember to be safe in the process.

Sarah McKinnellReporter, The Lighthouse

To kick off PJ 15, the OOS had a dance Friday night on the main field before the arrival of any participants. The blasting music and dancing started at eight o’clock at night and went on until eleven. Highlights included a couple of conga lines, people doing the Macarena, and OOS being taught specific dance moves until everyone knew them and could participate. As the night drew to a close, for the final few songs almost everyone on the field put arms around each other to form a giant circle, swaying back and forth. Although it wasn’t always in sync (it’s hard for that many people to organize which way they’re swaying first without speaking to each other), it was an amazing show of excitement and energy. After the dance was over, the dancers helped pick up the pop cans and stray glowsticks left on the field, rather than leaving all the work to Site Services— not exactly the most exciting part of the night, but the one that took the most teamwork (aside from maybe the conga line). Even having fun, scouts leave no trace. OOS headed back to their camps as the clock ticked farther past eleven, ready to welcome participants the next day and officiallykick PJ 15 off!

Natasha RitterReporter, The Lighthouse

PJ OOS Kickoff Dance

First Steps Into Camp Barnard

Participants started arriving in the morning on Saturday, and kept arriving throughout the day. Unfortunately for the Scouts and their Scouters, despite all the recent sun, this Saturday it rained, hard. Luckily, almost everyone seemed to abide by the Scout motto of Be Prepared, and seemed to have the appropriate gear for the weather. We spoke to a few groups of Scouts while their leaders registered the groups with their subcamp, and many spent Friday travelling to arrive here for Saturday morning. A few Scouts told us how they slept on a bus, and we’re sure they weren’t the only ones stopping along the way to sleep. All that travel has finally paid off, because all the Scouts seemed excited for the coming week, and with good reason; this Jamboree promises to be a blast. As for the OOS, we are all eager to start running program and are excited about the activities that are happening. The hard work and planning that has happened over many months is finally coming together, and we are looking forward to being a part of your camp experience.

Natasha Ritter & Sarah McKinnellReporters, The Lighthouse

Sigh...

The Scouts Came Marching In

Yesterday, scouts began to arrive at Camp Barnard for PJ 2015 just as it began to rain. Trucks also began to arrive full with gear, and kids scramble to get their things. It was about a one- kilometer hike into camp just to get their gear, and depending on the sub camp, they had to walk up to another two kilometers. Most scouts were in good spirits and happy to be at PJ. They talked and humored each other to help pass the time of the long hike. The scouts were using all different methods of getting their gear to the sub camps including make-shift wheel borrows, wagons, and Klondike carts. They carried banners to signify what troop they were from and worked as a team to carry all of the group gear. Scouts carried one or more backpacks full of their personal camp gear, and took turns helping each other with heavier objects like coolers. Everyone began to figure out the most effective way to keep their gear dry for the hike up to the sub camps, and most scouts followed their motto and were prepared for the often rainy Sooke weather. Kids were wearing make-shift ponchos made out of garbage bags and rain boots to keep dry. Good job! You have completed your first hike at PJ 2015. Have a wonderful rest of the camp.

Lyndsay Dagg and Hana BurdgeReporters, The Lighthouse

Subcamp Rivalry

I awoke this morning, with the realization that PJ was truly beginning; the scouts were arriving. As I schlepped out of my tent, a light rainfall coming down upon us as if to warn of something was going to happen, I steeled my nerve and began the long trek to the Subcamps. As I walked along the road, something felt… wrong. As I looked around, I found paw prints on the trees, painted on, and in the center of the road, a sign; “Bear is Best” I chuckled to myself, thinking that it would be all I found.If only I had been correct… I continued down the road, at times pausing to look at the many, many prints and signs put up by Bear until I came upon Thunderbird camp. What I found was several signs depicting Thunderbird crushing or capturing Orca and/or Bear. It seemed that already the seeds of rivalry are growing profusely. On the road to Orca, one would easily notice the vast amount of Orca regalia, and one would also notice Orca signs covering Bear markings, my only thought at the time was; “these two are certainly the main contenders” and upon reaching Bear, the suspicion was confirmed. Where Orca had simply placed signs, Bear had erected a banner and painted a bridge, along with covering desecrated Orca signs with Bear warnings. The camp itself was full of signs and banners, all depicting bears as fabulous and power creatures that destroy Orca and Thunderbird. As I began the trek back to Raven, I noticed several subcamp staff placing even more signs of Bear, Orca and Thunderbird. Along the road I noticed that several of the signs and markings placed by Bear were washing away, and Thunderbird was erecting a totem. One thing is certain; this week will be eventful.

Jamie CummingReporter, The Lighthouse