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November 2018 November 2018
President - Mark Teed R O G S
Captain - Dean Merritt
c/o Mr G R Storey, Secretary
BERE REGIS SCOUT GROUP Vice - Ian Spalding 9 Boswells Close, Bere Regis, BH20 7JE
Secretary - Guy Storey
Telephone:- 01929 471041
Treasurer - Peter Cheeseman
Group News www.bereregis.com e-mail: golf@bereregis.com
Golf Days held every month, usually the last Friday, from February through to October.
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The annual bonfire at the scout hut will be on Monday 5 November with the New members are invited to join. Contact Guy Storey – 471041 for membership forms and details.
Scouts running games inside and hot food available.
V E N U E S 2018

Date Venue Trophy Winner
Explorer News
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23 February Paultons Golf Centre Members Challenge Peter Cheeseman
The autumn term Explorer programme started with our committee elections,
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presentations about our summer activities to parents and friends and some night 30 March Weymouth Golf Club GRS Trophy Cancelled
navigation training. We were very honoured to have a visit from our local MP, 27 April High Post Golf Club Jim Corbin Cup Jim Goodey
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Mike Tomlinson, who was invited to hear about the Explorers Gold and Bronze
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expeditions and to give the Unit a very interesting talk about his life as a 25 May Salisbury & South Wilts Golf Club Ex-Landlord’s Cup Dean Merritt
politician and included a question and answer session. th
29 June Manor House Golf Club President’s Cup Harry Smith

27 July Wareham Golf Club Captain’s Cup Roger Johns
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Rona II – the Explorers’ Tall Ship Adventure
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31 August Bath Golf Club Memorial Cup Julian Flower
This summer, 12 members of the Kingsbere Explorer Unit delivered a sailing boat th Kris Meehan and Gordon
back from the annual Tall Ships Race in the Baltic. We collected Rona II, the 28 September Rushmore Golf Club Whitbread Pairs Thursfield
flagship of the Rona Sailing Trust, from Dover and sailed her 411 nautical miles in
eight days back to the Trust’s base at Hamble, near Southampton via the 26 October Lyme Regis Golf Club Zoom Trophy
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French Coast and the Channel Islands.
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Summer Tour – 15 -17 June 2018 AGM 7:00pm for 7:30pm Wednesday 7 November, Bere
The Explorers took a full part in running the boat, handling sails, navigating and Old Thorns Golf & Spa Hotel Regis Sports Club
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cooking meals under the supervision of the Rona Trust afterguard which Autumn Tour - 13 – 22 September Cup of Good Cheer & Presentation Evening – 8 December
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included the Mate and Explorer Scout Leader, Phil Ventham. Julien Lightfoot Belek, Turkey 2018 Dorset G&CC
was expectantly thrust into the role of Watch Leader which he coped with
admirably.

On arrival at Dover, no time was lost getting
underway and crossing the very busy shipping
lanes of the English Channel to Boulogne on the
French coast. The next day took us to Dieppe
where, in the course of a run ashore and under
the direction of Phil, the crew re-enacted the
raid on Dieppe beach which occurred almost to
the day, 76 years previously, on the 19 August
1942. We paid our respects at the Canadian
Memorial to the more than 1000 young men
who died during the 6 hour raid.
The next day was a long sail to Cherbourg
where we went ashore for our crew meal with
the Skipper and afterguard. The next stop was

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