So you’re going to PJ. Awesome! You’re probably already counting down the days until you leave for Vancouver Island. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that; I am too!) You probably also have as many questions as there are days left, so let’s try to answer some of them.

One of the most common questions we get at The Lighthouse is, “how much walking will I have to do?” Put simply: a lot. The longer answer is this: between eight and ten kilometers per day. Camp Barnard is a 250-acre facility. From the main gate it is about two kilometers to Bear Subcamp. Check out the article on the next page about carrying gear for a link to a video walk through of Camp Barnard. Remember to break in your shoes before arriving!

The next question we usually get is, “what are we going to eat?” The PJ Food Services team has put together a great menu featuring a variety of food. Twice daily your patrol will pick up a box with the ingredients for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a few snacks. At 7am you’ll

pick up a food box containing your breakfast and lunch from your Subcamp HQ. It is important that you return the box right away so it can be filled with your dinner supplies. Dinner ingredients will be available for pick up at 5pm. Again, remember to return your food box right away so it can be filled for the next day!

Some may be wondering about the typical daily schedule. At 7am you’ll pick up your breakfast and lunch supplies from your Subcamp HQ, cook and eat breakfast, clean up your campsite, and prepare for the morning program period. At 8:30am you’ll walk to your first program of the day. Note, if you’re going off site for the day, you may have to leave earlier to catch a bus. The morning program period runs from 9am to 12pm. Lunchtime is from 12pm to 1pm. Afternoon program time

runs from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Again, if you’re going off site, you’ll have to be at the bus pick up spot before 1:30. At 5pm your dinner supplies will be available for pick up at your Subcamp HQ. The evening

is open for free time. The Townsite will be open until 9pm, and includes the Trading Post, Canteen, Internet Café, and various activities. Quiet time is at 10pm, and all Scouts should be in their tents.

The PJ Site Services Team is happy to announce that the world-famous PJ showers will return to PJ 2015. These state-of-the-art luxury showers will be available in a few locations throughout

the Subcamps, and will feature the optimal water temperature for a luxury shower.

Badge trading is a favorite pastime

among Scouts at jamborees. Many patrols even create their own special badges to trade. The rules of badge trading are simple: it’s badge for badge, Scouts only trade with Scouts (leaders only with leaders), and a Scout’s handshake seals the deal. The Canadian Badger Club will have a trading area set up, and can help first time traders.

If you feel overwhelmed or upset, you can visit the Care Corps people at their shelter near the ceremony field. These are friendly people who can provide a listening ear or a quiet moment. Don’t hesitate to stop by if you feel the need to.

There will be a Post Office on site so you can send letters back home to your family and friends. The Post Office will have stamps available for purchase. For anyone into stamp collecting, the Post Office will have a limited number of PJ 2015 first day covers and cancellations.

I hope this was able to answer some of your questions. More details about these topics and much more can be found in the Participant Handbook on the PJ Website. See you at PJ!

Can you believe it? It’s almost time for PJ! June 16 marks 25days until arrivals day. Camp Barnard is nearly ready, and the final touches are being made. We’ll see you soon!

Heading into the Home Stretch

June 2015Vol. 1 No. 4

You have questions, we have answersZach DallasDesign Editor, The Lighthouse

IN THIS ISSUETroop 180 Prepares for PJ ...................................................... Page 2Origin of the Screech Owl, a Tlingit Legend ......................... Page 2From the Archives .................................................................. Page 3Barnard’s Got Talent .............................................................. Page 4

FROM THE WEBRecent updates to www.pj2015.ca· The list of forms and documents to bring with you.· A list of local campgrounds for pre/post PJ exploration.· A walking tour of Camp Barnard.

Less than 50 days before Scouts arrive at Camp Barnard, we answer some of those burning questions

Visit the PJ Trading PostLocated at the Townsite

Open Daily 9am-9pm

Badges, PJ Souvenirs, and more!

Photo: PJ 2011 Archives

Troop 180 prepares for PJ The Lighthouse received an email from Scoutmaster Ann Mellen of Troop 180 from Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. Scoutmaster Mellen explained that this year is the Troop’s 50th anniversary, so to celebrate, they are going on an international adventure- to PJ! Troop 180 has a strong international Scouting tradition, having visited many places around the world including Japan and New Zealand. They are looking forward to visiting British Columbia in July.

To commemorate Troop 180’s trip to PJ, they have designed a special crest! Check it out, it looks pretty awesome! Troop 180 will have these crests available for trading at PJ.

Photo: Ann Mellen

What gear can we carry at PJ? PJ is just around the corner, and everyone is deciding what equipment you will need. Your personal pack is being loaded, and your contingent is deciding on your Troop equipment.

Guess what? YOU will need to carry all your gear up to 3 kilometers to your campsite in your Subcamp! If you come to come by bus, the Transport people will drop your pack near where you get off the bus. If you come by private vehicle, you will walk into camp (another kilometer) and meet up with the Troop gear near where the buses are unloading.

Sounds complicated? You bet. But that’s as far as vehicles will be allowed, so the bottom line is, from the offloading point your contingent will move all the gear to your Subcamp! If you have a 300-lb patrol box, I suggest you get your Scouter to carry it.

To give you an idea of the challenge, check out the video at http://bit.ly/1IiHw3k. By the way, rental gear will be delivered to the campsites.

Origin of the screech owl

There was a certain Tlingit woman living with her husband and her husband’s mother. One evening she got hemlock branches, made strings out of red-cedar bark, tied them together, and put them around herself. Then she went out to a flat rock, still called Herring Rock, where herring are very abundant, just as the tide was com-ing over it. When the fish collected in the branches, she threw them up on the beach. Every day during the herring season she did the same thing, and after she reached the house she put her apron carefully away until next time.

One day, her old mother-in-law heard her cooking the herring and said, “What is that you are cooking, my son’s wife?” “Oh!” she answered, “a few clams that I have collected.” “Will you give me some?” said the old woman, for she was hungry, but when she reached out her hand for it, her daughter-in-law dropped a hot rock into it and burnt her.

When her son came home that evening the old woman told him what had happened. She said, “She was cooking something. I know that it did not smell like clams. When I asked her for some she gave me a hot rock and burnt my hand. I wonder where she got that fish, for I am sure that it was some sort of fish. Immediately after you leave she is off. I don’t know what she does.”

When the man heard that, he and his brother who had been hunting with him started out at once before his wife saw them. They pretended that they were again going hunting, but they returned immediately to a place where they could watch the village. From there, they saw the woman put on her apron of hemlock boughs, go out to the rock, and come home with the herring. As soon as she had gone in they went out fishing themselves and filled their canoe. Then the woman’s husband went up to the house and said to his wife, “I have a load of herring down there.” So she ran down to the canoe and saw that it was loaded with fish. She began shouting up to them, “Bring me down my basket,” for she wanted to carry up the fish in it.

The people heard her, but they felt angry toward her on account of the way she had treated her mother-in-law, so they paid no attention. She kept on shouting louder and louder, and presently her voice became strange. She shouted, “Hade’ wudîkâ’t, wudîkâ’t, wudîkâ’t.” The words were right, but her voice was like the owl.

As she kept on making this noise her voice seemed to go farther away from the village. The people noticed it but paid no attention, and her cries sounded still more like an owl, and finally she ceased to ask for the basket, and merely hooted (hm, hm). She had become the screech owl.

Nowadays, when a young girl is very selfish, people say to her, “Ah! When you get married, you will put a hot rock into your mother-in-law’s hand, and for punishment you will become an owl.”

A Tlingit Legend Reprinted with permission

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Check out this deal and other PJ 2015 Garage Sale deals on the PJ website.

From the archivesBuilding MemoriesThe Shire News reflects on PJ 2011 and the memories created.

Originally published in The Shire News on July 16, 2011.

PJ registrar recognized Mike Tomczak, the Registrar for PJ 15, received a Certificate of Commendation from Camp Chief Darren Thomson at the May 8th PJ planning meeting. Mike has worked tirelessly to keep track of 2200 participants and 750 volunteers. His certificate was in the name of David Johnston, the Governor-General of Canada, our Patron Scout. The citation quotes a participant Scouter, and says in part, “I have worked with Mike [on PJ 2015] for almost a year. Despite my never-ending calls on him, he always worked with me… Mike, thanks for your help.”

PJ Registrar Mike Tomczak receives a Certificate of Commendation from PJ Camp Chief Darren Thomson, as Deputy Camp Chief Bill Schulte looks on.

Photo: Randy Maze

Propane at PJ The rumour is going around that propane can be bought when you get to PJ. Not so! The quartermaster will arrange propane tanks and refills that are prearranged. Buying tanks and propane at camp will not be possible. Forewarned is forearmed!

We want your story! Are YOU coming to PJ? How are you fundraising? How is your Group getting there? What do you think of the program activities? The Lighthouse, the PJ 15 Newspaper, wants to know! Send us your stories and pictures and we’ll put them in the paper, either online or in the daily news at PJ! Send in your stories to lighthouse@pj2015.ca

I saw all these Scouts gathered around the picnic tables, so I went over to see what all the excitement was about. They were all Badge Traders. Some of these Scouts were looking for a special badge to complete a set, some were looking for badges from across the world and some were looking for some cool badges with lots of colors.

I saw one of our badges from The Shire News being traded. Another Scout named Sean saw this as well. As soon as he knew that The Shire News had their own badge, he went straight to our tent in the East Field to see how he can get one. I thought long and hard and asked this young Scout to do me a Good Turn. He sat with me to tell me all about badge trading, since I am new to the concept. I found out that Sean, the young Scout, was new to the badge trading world as well.

I asked Sean many questions, and here is what he told me. He was taught how to badge trade from a couple of the other Scouts in his unit. PJ has been his first experience at badge trading. When he’s in that circle of Scouts around the table, it makes him feel excited, but he knows he has some hard negotiating if wants to find that special badge. Sean is trying to collect all the on-site PJ badges from all the Sub-Camps, OOS and Programs. I asked him if it was hard and he replied, “It was easy to pick up as my new hobby. I will be continuing badge trading after PJ as well. It has been exciting and I’m going to take these memories with me forever.” He has been getting some AWESOME advice from the Adult Scouters about fair trading, shaking hands when the trade was done and that the hand shake meant that both people trading were happy and satisfied with the trade.

After speaking with Sean, Badge Trading didn’t seem so hard or scary anymore. I think I may just take up the hobby as well. Not only does it create memories, but it helps us remember as we get older, all the great people, place and smiles.

Second Airdrie prepares for PJ

Second Airdrie from Airdrie, Alberta, is one of the many Groups that will be coming from outside BC to attend PJ. They will be making a two-day trip each way, so they will need a lot of money to get to PJ. The eight Scouts and Scouters in the contingent have come up with a great fundraising idea - bacon.

The team brought in large boxes of good bacon to sell at a great price. The boxes sold fast, and the customers were very happy with the product. Word of mouth allowed them to sell even more. The contingent is looking forward to exciting program like canoeing, scuba diving and the overnight hike. They also are looking forward to seeing Vancouver Island and meeting other Scouts. They have designed a Group PJ Bacon Badge, so be sure to look for them at Badge Trading on the Townsite!

Six Scouts and Two Scouters from Second Airdrie will be traveling from Airdrie, Alberta to attend PJ 2015.

Photo: Noah Pepper

By Noah PepperReporter, The Lighthouse

Photo: PJ 2011 Archives

Photo: PJ 2011 Archives