Flags of the Hazelwood and Churchill Guide District

1. World Guide Flag, 
2. Australian Flag, 
3. Victorian Flag,
4. Churchill Guide Flag      [Blue and Purple]
5. Hazelwood Guide Flag  [ Pink,light blue stripes, orange and lime green dots]
6. Churchill  Guide Flag [ Bright mid purple]
7. Old Brownie Emblems [ Brown back ground yellow elf][Yellow background with brown elf]

Learning about the flags , care, use and reason for is a repetitive learning process.

Anzac biscuits

Serving Size: 12 medium sized biscuits

Eaten when ever.
The Guides are fasinated at when they first see golden syrup and baking soda mixed together. A great method of 'accidental ' learning leading into why was cooking basicaly women's work. May be even into how volcano's and other 'light' chemical explosives work.How come there are so many different receipes for the same biscuit?

The cooking of these biscuits are used to encourage discussion on how and what A.N.Z.A.C. meant both then and now. The page on http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/anzac/biscuit/recipe.asp is about the Original A.N.Z.A.C. biscuit's history.

What did the ladies of the time do to assist there men folk. How did either the soldiers, the civialian's near the front or the wives and families survive during and after the First World War.

Is 'survival' any different now? Why is there no Peace yet. Has history been a waste?

So from one humble A.N.Z.A.C. recipe with these ingredients many paths can be taken.

• 2 cups of rolled oats
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups coconut
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 250g butter
• 4 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons boiling water
Method:
Turn oven to 160'C. Lightly grease oven trays.
Put oats, flour, coconut, sugar in big mixing bowl. Melt butter and golden syrup in pan. Take off heat.
Mix baking soda and boiling water in a cup. Add to melted butter in the pan. Quickly add to big mixing bowl. Mix well.
Roll tablespoonful lots into balls. put on trays 5cm apart. Press lightly with fork.
Bake for 20 minutes, one tray at a time. Cool slightly and loosen off tray.

Amaretti

I picked up this recipe from somewhere over time. It has been used in camps and unit meeting times when there are Guides with lactose challenges. The others liked them so much that every so often the recipe was thrown into the program.

The Guides enjoyed it when I took down another electrical kitchen gadget for them to learn to use. The almonds were orginaly ground by hand grinder. Yes there are still these around. Now I cheat and take the compact electric grinder down. Even plain sugar quickly gets zapped into caster sugar. This way they learn that ingrediants have base forms. A bit like water being turned into ice or steam.


Serving Size: 20 to 24 medium sized pieces
Used as cakes and Baking, Lunch box, Snacks
Special Info: Lactose free
Ingredients:

• 200g raw almonds
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1/4 cup plain flour
• Finely chopped zest of 1 orange
• 2 egg whites
Method:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Place almonds and sugar in a food processor and whiz until the almonds are roughly chopped. Add orange zest and egg whites and whiz until the mixture comes together. Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls and place on baking tray.
Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden. Cool on a tray or wire rack.

Look Wide Create Section Fire Try

Low down and crawling. :Feb 17th 2009

The Guides chose to go low and crawl outside.

New experience as the blades of 'sundried' grass and the earth were really hard.

So dust and grass went with them.

Who does it better

How is this done?????

Invite Country Fire Authority Schools training personal down to really show how its done. Here is a demonstration of how to really crawl fast under a down coming wall of smoke (alias red fire blanket).

Mate ship. That's what comes from team work,sharing of experiances, the highs / lows, sharing
of laughter and tears.

Teddy Bears Picnic Preperation

Teddy Bears Picnic Preperation 2009.

Happening March 17 2009.

Churchill Victoria Australia.

Organised By Youth members Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide Units.

Began last year to actually organise the RAC WAC FOR 2009. .... AND THE TEDDY BEARS SNUCK IN.

Read on and see how they altered the Rac Wac 2009.

Australia Day 2009

2009-02-10

Australia Day 09

On the 26^th of January 2009 some of the Churchill / Hazelwood Girl Guides made their way over to the Churchill Community Hall, to start the Australia Day ceremony.

This is one event that the Guides and Scouts share. The little kids get to give out flags and the Australian National Anthem (song) sheets.

We started the ceremony with the color party coming forward. The color party then had to raise the flag (Although they only had to do was pull a string to release the flag). Last year Jessica and I were in the color party. I had to raise the flag then too.

After the flag got put up we sang the Australian National Anthem.

This year I got out of colour party and instead I took some magnificent photos trying to keep in the shade. It was hot.

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