Hyack Camp

Hyack Camp is a camp in Queens Park on the same weekend as Hyack Festival. We camp among the trees near the baseball diamond near 1st St. and Vancouver St. During Hyack camp many years ago, the Cubs used to camp in Hume Park and have a bonfire there.

Scout groups from the lower mainland attend. Sometimes groups from elsewhere in BC and Washington State attend. We host an activity on the Friday night, attend the Hyack Parade on the Saturday, have a cooking competition on Saturday evening, have a huge bonfire on Saturday night, and pack up on Sunday morning.

Our Cubs and Beavers don’t camp in the park, but can attend on Saturday for lunch, go swimming and the return for the campfire.

The event was historically hosted and organized by the Friends of New Westminster Scouting. In 2016, 12th New Westminster took over hosting the event with the Friends assisting. After the Friends were disbanded in 2016, 12th New Westminster ran it with the 50th B.P. Guild assisting.

For the last number of years, Mike Upham has been the camp chief.

We have to get permission to run the rifle range as a Level 3 event. This is done on Friday and depending on the number attendees, it runs until midnight or later.

The 12th New Westminster Venturers assist in running the camp, so are not charged to attend. On Friday, the Camp Chief typically buys pizza for Venturers.

There are a number of things to do to get this camp organized as follows:

Item	Description	Responsibility	Status
Responsibility	Financial and Organization	12th	Noted.
	Support	Guild	Noted.
Permissions	Obtain permission from Scouts to have the rifle range. Contacts are: Alamin Pirani (the Council Executive Director, apirani@scouts.ca), Graham Walters (Council Commissioner, gwalters@scouts.ca) and Kenya Mendoza (Council Youth Commissioner, kenya.mendoza@scouts.ca)	Geoff Pinkerton	Rifle range not available in 2017.
	Obtain permission from Fire Department. Contact is: ___________at (604)___________. We need to write a letter to the Fire Department requesting a fire permit and we need to have a laminated copy of the fire safety plan.	Dave Upham	Dave will make contact with the Fire Department, provide letter, and update the fire safety plan.
	Obtain permission from Parks Department. Contact is: Joan ___________at (604)___________.	Sanda Turner
	Obtain permission from Police Department. Contact is:___________at (604)___________. This is not really permission, but rather simply advising them what is going on. Sometimes they put on more patrols.	Dave Upham
General	Assign Camp Chief.	Geoff Pinkerton	Michael Upham has volunteered.
	Decide on size and camp cost.	all	Will keep at $15.00. In the past, we typically we have 150-200 participants and this was limited because of the capacity of the rifle range.
	Send invitation to past participants in January/February.	Geoff Pinkerton	Not started. Set registration deadline of April 15th. Ask regarding dietary restrictions as we provide a sandwich lunch on Saturday.
	Order portable toilets. Contact is: Pit Stop Portables, (604) 540-8180	Sanda Turner	Assuming 40 people/toilet, assume we need to order 5 toilets (1 female).
	Garbage bins, tables, Access to Water, and Sand for Campfire from Parks Department. Contact is as above. Need to contact the Parks Department at budget time (November) and remind them that the camp will be on and that all of this was agreed to by Mayor Betty Toporowski (1988-1996). In March, call them again to confirm.	Sanda Turner
	Scouts own.	Camp Chief (Michael Upham)	Hannah Meldrum has offered.
Gear	Gear from locker including Section Flags and flag carriers, crab cooker, large pot, ladle, propane tanks, propane trees, lanterns, rope, 12th New Westminster banner, knives, cutting boards, serving tools for lunch/mug-up, paddle for mixing hot chocolate, coolers, etc. 12th New Westminster will use pop-up shelters.	12th
	Get watertap rig and the 20' flagpole from Pete Ballantyne at ((604) 525-8986. The flag leans out from the backstop and has the ability to hold the Canadian flag, BC flag, and the US Flag.	Michael Upham
	Get radios for communication (Mike Upham bought them in 2015)	Michael Upham
	Bring sledgehammer to drive water rig stake, water nozzle, three hoses, shovel and bucket.	Mike Upham
	Arrange and pick up large 10’x20’ tent for Headquarters from Coho Area (Blue Mountain Scout Hall). Contact is: George Gouraud (gpgouraud@gmail.com), (604) 941-3806. The only cost is a camp badge.	Dave Upham
Badges	Design Camp Badges.	Dave Upham	In progress with Canada 150 theme.
	Order badges from Zone West. Contact is: Traci Rehill, Zone West Ltd., traci@zonewest.ca, (604) 460-2828. Design should be done by February. Need to order and provide final numbers by April 20th, giving them at least 28 days to produce.	Dave Upham
Activities	Friday night activity. In the past we have gone to the rifle range with a cost of $200-$300. Contact is: Garf Scott, Sapperton Fish and Game Club. This year, we are planning to do Bubble Soccer. Other ideas were a Nerf gun rifle range.	Dave McMullen	Dave to try and get Bubble Soccer balls from PJ or rent them. Cost to rent is $250/hr for first hour and $100/hour after that. Expect we need them for 4 hours, so $550. Dave will also bring some regular soccer balls and frisbees.
	Order and pick up swim passes from Canada Games Pool for kids to swim on Saturday afternoon. Contact is: Joan ___________ with Parks and Recreation at (604) ___________. Make contact in March so they know to bring on extra staff. Order the numbers in may after we have registration numbers.	Sanda Turner
	Organize wide game for Saturday evening.	12th Venturers
	Demonstration on Saturday afternoon (e.g. Police dog, Fire Department to come with the their trucks, Fire Department with Jaws of Life, Badge Collector guy, tour of the Justice Institute, etc.).	Dave Upham	Dave will look at getting the Police dog.
	Cooking Competition. This year the Hyack Parade theme is "First Nations. First Cities: Telling Out Story. Together.", so the suggestion was to make Bannock. The cooking theme and secret ingredient is announced on Saturday morning. Bannock has been done in the past - we hand out ziplock bags with Bisquick in them.	Camp Chief	Decide on secret ingredient.
	Demonstration. Because of the theme of this year's Hyack Parade, suggest contacting Qayqayt First Nation Chief Rhonda Larrabee to see if she can attend or recommend a storyteller.	Geoff Pinkerton
Campfire	Find and bring firewood.	12th	We have lots at Stephanie Greaves' house.
	Discuss and design magic starting mechanism.	Mike Upham
Financial	Set up separate account to track camp costs/revenue.	12th Treasurer - Cheryl Worden
Saturday self-serve Lunch	Bring buns, lunch meat, tomatoes, pickles, onions, ketchup, mustard, mayo, napkins, etc. Recently, 12th has been getting deals from Save-on Foods in Sapperton. In the past, the buns come from Bunsmaster and the meat comes from the Holland Shop. Contact is: Bunsmaster Contact is: Holland Shop, (604) 522 8333, 141 E. Columbia Street, www.hollandshop.com	Mary Hausch	Be generous with the meat on the sandwiches.
Mug-up	Bring cookies/Wagon Wheels/hot chocolate.	Mary Hausch
Parade	Register Scouts with Hyack Parade. Need wavier from Scouts and copy of insurance. Contact was : Alan Wardle, execdirector@hyack.bc.ca, but this changed in 2017. It is now Dave ___________at (604)___________.	Geoff Pinkerton	In 2017, there is a parade theme - Aboriginal.
Post event	Engrave Hyack Trophy (frying pan).	Camp Chief
	Provide financial report.	12th Treasurer - Cheryl Worden

There is an honorarium from the Hyack Parade for our assistance holding signs. This usually amounts to about $350. In the past they fed us.

The 10’x20’ tent from Coho are free (they are stored at the Blue Mountain Scout hall). The swim passes are free. Sanda typically orders about 175 passes. The city provides the sand for the fire, turns on the water, provides tables, and does garbage & recycling, all for free.