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Adventure Guide Fee Explanation

BigDaddy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:10:36 +0000

See the attached letter from Jenny Paffi (youth & family director of the Birmingham Family YMCA and Adventure Guides Outfitter) for an explanation of the neccessary fees that are charged each year. This includes the $39 Annual Registration Fee and the $75 Adventure Guides Administration Fee:
Adv_Guides_Letter

Don’t worry, if you have already registered this year then you already paid these fees! This post is just to provide some detail on what the fees are used for.

Pine Car Derby Results

BigDaddy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:51:34 +0000

Click to open the selected file:
Race_Standings_-_Three_Fires_2012
Race_Standings_-_Three_Fires_2012
Design_Results_2012_Derby

Thanks for your participation in the race!

YMCA Day Camp over Winter Break

BigDaddy — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:53:37 +0000

If your interested in dropping your kids off at the Birmingham YMCA during the Christmas Break (Mon – Fri, 12/19 – 12/30), they have all sorts of fun activities to keep them busy while you work.
Rates are $175 week/$40 day for YMCA members, or $205 week/$50 day for community participant (this would include us Adv. Guide members).

Call the YMCA at 248-644-9036 or see the attached forms:
Holiday_Break_Camp
Break_Camp_Reg_Form

The Robot Garage is open in Birmingham

Howling Chipmunk — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:14:11 +0000

I just spoke to Jonathan Jacobs, owner of the Robot Garage in Birmingham. It looks like a fantastic place to hold a circle meeting and build some Lego bots from their enormous pile of parts. Jonathan told me that, with some advance notice, they’d be happy to set up age-appropriate events for Guides circles.

Admission to open build is $12 to stay as long as you like. When you’re done you can buy your creation by the pound, or put it back on the pile for the next kids. If you decide to have a meeting there please let me know how it goes!

http://www.therobotgarage.com/

248-723-9100

Love Rockets?

Howling Chipmunk — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:06:36 +0000

I’m looking for someone to head up the Fall rocketry event. We need someone to coordinate buying bulk packages of snap-together rockets and rocket engines, splitting up the engines and accessories into sandwich bags and stapling them to the rockets, coordinating the distribution of the rockets at campout and working with Chris Seago to get the launch set up. I’ve got a lot of details and some left-over rockets from our past Rocket Master Joe to hand off to one lucky candidate.

Let me know if you have the Right Stuff.

Curriculum Nights

Howling Chipmunk — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:46:29 +0000

What night is the Curriculum Night for your elementary school? Can you volunteer to man an Adventure Guides display, collecting email addresses and handing out fliers?

New Facebook Page

Howling Chipmunk — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:40:41 +0000

We’ve had a Facebook “group” for some time, but due to some technical constraints on groups I’ve moved us to a “page” instead. Anything we add to the website will be cross-posted here. Stay tuned!

2010-2011 Yearbook

Howling Chipmunk — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:52:07 +0000

UPDATE – Here is a low-quality preview of the yearbook!
Yearbook 2010-2011 72dpi

It’s that time of year again – time to put together the Adventure Guides Yearbook. Every circle should prepare up to four full-color 8.5×11 pages (single sided) covered with pictures, art – whatever you decide.

Any circle that sponsored an event should feel free to create one or more event pages.

Also, we’re looking for your event and circle meeting snapshots to round out the yearbook. If you have any great group or event pictures that you’d like to share, please mail them to yearbook@advguides.org and we’ll try to find a spot for them.

Pages should be delivered to me (Howling Chipmunk) either scanned in 300DPI full color (TIFF or BMP is good), or as hardcopy pages, no later than May 21st. We’ll create a 300dpi color PDF as the document master, and have it printed into a saddle-stitched glossy color booklet. We’re planning to have the yearbooks available at the end-of-season event in mid June.

Last year’s yearbook can be viewed at:

http://advguides.org/2010/02/yearbook/

We’re going to be using Dazzle Printing in Madison Heights to print the yearbooks. As a local non-profit, Ann O’Brien offered us a super discount on top of their already competitive prices. If you find yourself in need of any printing, please give them a call and let them know you were referred by the Troy Birmingham Adventure Guides.

Guides Summer Campout Survey

Howling Chipmunk — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:38:18 +0000

Adventure Guides is considering an all-family Summer Campout this year, the weekend of August 6th at Camp Ohiyesa in Holly. Guides members would be invited to bring their entire families (spouses included).

Camp Ohiyesa has a 100′ water slide into the lake, and horseback riding would be available.

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

(If the survey doesn’t appear above, it may already have been taken from this computer.)

2010 Adventure Guide Registration

BigDaddy — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:56:09 +0000

The YMCA is now taking registrations for the 2010-2011 year. The registration price is as follows:

Adventure Guide Program – $75
Program Membership – $75 (if you are already a YMCA member this fee is not required)

Please note that your circle navigator will also be collecting a $20 Activity Fee.