{"id":172373,"date":"2018-02-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/172373\/germiston-scouts-celebrate-110-years\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:54:37","slug":"germiston-scouts-celebrate-110-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2018\/02\/09\/germiston-scouts-celebrate-110-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Germiston Scouts celebrate 110 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The First Germiston Scout Group celebrated their 110th reunion last Saturday afternoon, and the GCN spent the day with the scouts, cubs and rovers.<\/p>\n

The event, which marked a spectacular milestone for the organisation, was held at their home, the First Germiston Scout Hall, on Vimy Ridge Road, Delville.<\/p>

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The day saw current, past and future scouts commemorate the group.<\/p>\n

Some members had not seen each other since the last scout camp, last year, while others had gone years without seeing each other and as a result, the venue was filled with jubilance.<\/p>

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Eline Lotter, Jason Brandford and Meghan Brandford were at the 110th First Germiston Scout Group reunion with their pugs. They were welcomed by a few of the cubs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking to the GCN, Brownwyn Lyndon of the First Germiston Scouts said, \u201cTo celebrate today, we created a time capsule.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone put an item in the box; we buried it and will dig it up in ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we reached 100 years, we celebrated with a formal sit down event, this time around we wanted to enjoy the outdoors and do something different.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a master of ceremonies who made a few announcements and a motivational speaker, Robby Kojetin, who shared a few motivating words with our guests.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scouts have many traditions embedded in their history and one of those traditions is that they keep the ashes from each campfire they make.<\/p>\n

They will now add the tradition of making a ten-year time capsule.<\/p>\n

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Darryn Taylor of the First Germiston Scout Group holding the card to be placed on the wall marking the existence of the time capsule and when it will be dug up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cubs were all enraptured by the jumping castle on site, some of the scouts were putting on what seemed to be a \u2018play-by-play\u2019 of how to conduct a talent show in the hall and others were preoccupied with sorting their objects to put in the time capsule.<\/p>\n

There were tables and chairs carefully arranged and each table had a patrol group card neatly placed, suggesting that each guest should sit at the table with the patrol group they belong to.<\/p>\n