{"id":22901,"date":"2015-08-09T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=22901"},"modified":"2015-08-09T19:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:16:05","slug":"the-drums-play-for-canadian-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2015\/08\/09\/the-drums-play-for-canadian-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drums Play for Canadian Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year,\u00a0Centurion Explorers (the Explorer unit most of our Scouts go on to when they turn 14)\u00a0visited Vancouver<\/a>, and last week they hosted members of the 40th Marpole Scouts at Kibblestone last week. The 40th Marpole Scouts hosted Centurion while they were in Canada.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Scouts arrived on Friday 31st July and despite some jet lag they managed to have a packed programme which saw them staying in London for a couple of days and visiting Manchester and Old Trafford.\"30th<\/a><\/p>\n

On their last evening, Thusrday 6th August, a BBQ was held as a farewell and members of the District, local Groups and members of Knightrider Explorers (who joined Centurion in Canada) were invited to join in.\u00a0As a number of Explorers in Centurion are members of our Drum Corps, the drums put on a short set to show off their talents. The members who played included some of our youngest drummers!<\/p>\n