Youth Leadership Awards

Posted by Jim Goit 
on Dec 13, 2010
 
The Rotary Club of Truro presented its Youth Leadership Award to two individuals this year.  Mr Mike Brown and Mr. Bruce Moore are long serving leaders in the Truro and Area scouting movement.

Rotary Club of Truro

2010-11

Youth Leadership Award
Citation prepared and read by Rod MacLennan

Bruce Moore (left) and Mike Brown (middle) (shown in photo with President Ken MacLean)  are outstanding candidates for the Rotary Club’s Youth Leadership Award. They have been providing truly exemplary leadership to Colchester’s youth in their role as Co-Advisors at the Truro Venturer Company.

Venturers, as many of you know, is a senior’ section of Scouting: a co-ed program serving the 14-18 age category. Mike and Bruce run what may well be the strongest Venturer Company in Nova Scotia. Twelve to fifteen youth meet Monday nights and occasionally for various outdoor programs on weekends. Two of the last three presidents of the group have been female.

The summer trip, usually undertaken with younger Scouts as well, is always an adventure.

 Let me just mention a few of the summer trips from recent years:


  • last July, Seal Island, 20 miles offshore from Wedgeport, accessed by chartered fishing boat and zodiac. Followed by kayaking in the Tusket Islands.
  • in ‘09, Baxter State Park in Maine. Climbing 5200 ft Mt. Kathadin, hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail, whitewater rafting on the Upper Penobscot, Class five water
  • Gros Morne Nat’l Park, NL tackling the challenging back country hike to the tablelands above Western Brook Pond. A herd of caribou walked through their campsite!
  • The Magdalene Islands. Biking, kayaking,, even horseback!
  • St Paul Island; 20 km off the northern tip of Cape Breton. Historic, challenging, Scenic.
  • The Meat Cove to Polletts Cove bushwacking trip. DNR folks call it “the toughest hike in Nova Scotia”!

All these experiences have inculcated a spirit of adventure, of “we can do it’ of Canadian history. geography and national pride, in those youth fortunate enough to have Mike and Bruce as Advisors.

Between the two, they have in excess of 60 years of youth leadership. Mike and Bruce have been outstanding role models to Colchester youth for virtually their entire adult.

In their on careers, Mike is a professional forester, a principal in Interforest, which does consulting. including aerial photo-interpretation for forestry companies, governments and woodland owners.  Bruce, a graduate of Forest Ranger School himself, teaches at Northumberland High School in A1rna, with a special emphasis on kids at rick for drop-out

 In Mike and Bruce, Truro Rotary has two exceptionally worthy recipients for the “Youth Leadership Award”.

 

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