Saturday June 6th 1987
The Dorothy Cook Competition
Held at the District Camp Site ‘The Quarries’ Cosgrove
We assembled at 9.15a.m. at the Headquarters and travelled to the Quarries for a 10a.m. Competition start. Owing to the wet weather underfoot the competition was held inside the building.
9 Packs had entered the Competition, Stanton Wood, 5th Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford (Mohicans), 4th Newport Pagnell (Monday Pack), 4th Newport Pagnell (Thursday Pack), 1st Wolverton, Two Mile Ash, 1st Hanslope and 1st Olney. Around the hall were 9 Test stations to examine the Cub Scouts knowledge of Cub Scouting skills where points were to be awarded to find the winners. Kaa and Akela ran Kims Game as a test station, but our team did not have to visit this.
After all the teams were inspected for the first set of points the teams visited the following stations in turn: Highway Code Knots Country Code First Aid Cub Scouting Quiz Flags & Emblems Compass & Map Safety in Home.
At the end of the competition we all ate our packed lunches and then the Cub Scouts went outside for some games whilst the Pack Leaders had a quiet break.
Grey Wolf (ADCS) then called the teams together and announced that 1st Olney with 106 points had won the Competition followed by 1st Hanslope with 105½ points and in third place Stanton Wood 99½ points.
As in the District Cub Scout Quiz Olney had just pipped us but our team had put in a wonderful effort to only be ½ point behind.
The Leaders were well pleased with the team’s effort as we have now been in Second place three times in the last six years.
Record |
1982 |
2nd First year entered |
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1983 |
5th Equal |
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1984 |
2nd |
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1985 |
Did not enter |
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1986 |
Did not enter |
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1987 |
2nd |
We all returned to Hanslope in good spirits having ‘done our best’ at 2p.m.
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