what’s in store for you Rover Scout Gleiza Delgado sums up the exciting activities in the four-day, fun-filled Rover Moot in Tagum City.
FRIENDSHIP HUNT Here, Rover Scouts are expected to mingle and meet new people from different contingents through activities done with series of games and other fun-filled experience. See you at the Energy Park!
IMMERSIONS This activity will help the delegates in fulfilling their duties to the environment and to others. Series of activities like tree planting, Anti-Dengue house-tohouse campaign, Nutritional Feeding, Container Gardening, weeding and Coastal Cleanare among the immersions the Rover Scouts will experience.
TEAM-BUILDING
Series of sports activities highlighting the values of teamwork and sportsmanship await the Rover Scouts. Participants will surely enjoy the fun under the heat of the sun!
DAWN PEACE WALK
Rover Scouts join in solidarity to reaffirm peace in a walk at the break of dawn. Better prepare your banners calling for peace and unity, folks!
“By Rovering, I don’t mean aimless wandering. I mean finding your way by pleasant paths with definite object in view, and having an idea of the difficulties and dangers you are likely to meet the way.” Robert Baden-Powell
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE EASTERN MINDANAO REGION-REGIONAL ROVER MOOT
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Tagum City ripe to become ‘scouting capital’ / PAGE 3
REKINDLED SPIRIT
Rover Scouts for humanity / PAGE 4 Scouting: Education for Life / PAGE 2 happeningtoday GRAND OPENING CEREMONY
Energy Park, 10:00 AM
FRIENDSHIP HUNT
Energy Park, 1:00 PM
CAMP FIRE
Energy Park, 7:00 PM
OCTOBER 3, 2013
SPECIAL MAIDEN ISSUE
VP Binay to grace
Rover Moot
opening today NO LESS than the Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines and the President of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines will headline the kick-off of the Eastern Mindanao Region-Regional Rover Moot today in Tagum City. Vice President Jejomar C. Binay will serve as Guest of Honor and Speaker during the opening program of the said event which will be held in the sprawling Energy Park in Barangay Apokon, Tagum City. The Vice President is expected to address an estimated 3000 rover scouts who are gathered in VP BINAY/PAGE 3
soundbites “We do not have to die in order to become heroes. As scouts, we can be heroes simply by being responsible citizens. Plant a tree, help a senior citizen cross the street, dispose of garbage in the proper way, recycle. These are but a few examples of living responsibly.” -VP Jejomar C. Binay-
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Scouting: Education for Life The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young and old people through a value system based the scout oath and scout law to help build a better world, where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society. It is a voluntary, non-political, educational movement for people to develop their full emotional, intellectual, physical, social and spiritual potentials as individuals, as citizens, and as members of their local, national and international communites. The scouting movement invested in a process of non-formal education through a specific value system. It helps boys and girls to become the principal agents of their development as committed, responsible, self-reliant and supportive persons. Thus, scouting serves as an effective avenue for values formation, responsible citizenship and community-building. Among other things, the movement helps promote sustainable development and developmental model that balances the material, environmental, social and spiritual. Furthermore, it achieves youth empowerment, advocates learning by doing, cultivates lifelong values, skills and capabilities. Scouts make a voluntary commitment to abide by an ethical code of behavior. The principles that rule a scout’s life can be grouped in three categories: duty to God, duty to others and duty to self. With the nonformal education it advocates, the scouting movement is a social force that promotes a culture of peace and forms its members to make a constructive contribution to their communities. EXCERPTS FROM THE WORLD ORGANIZATION OF THE SCOUT MOVEMENT
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HON. ALLAN L. RELLON City Mayor/Council Chairman Regional Scout Commissioner, BSP
Greetings of Tagum, Tagumpay! In behalf of the warm and friendly people of Tagum, I welcome all the Rover Scouts from the different parts of Eastern Mindanao gathered for the Regional Rover Moot. For four days, this city will become a melting pot of scouts who will carry the message of brotherhood, goodwill and peace. More than this, the line-up of activities slated for this event will magnify the unique role that scouts are playing in this ever-changing world. We have infused activities which aim to promote responsible citizenship and leadership. Throughout the fun-filled Rover Moot, we expect to engrave among you the ideals of scouting and lead you to realize your role in the the unique task of nationbuilding. The people of Tagum and the Hon. JEJOMAR C. BINAY Vice President, Republic of the Philippines President, Boy Scouts of the Philippines Atty. WENDEL E. AVISADO SVP, Acting Secretary General Boy Scouts of the Philippines
people of Mindanao count on you to be the catalysts of change through your acts of random kindness. May this gathering ignite once more your passion for community service so that when you go back to your respective places, you can extend your helping hand for communitybuilding. We, as Tagumeños, will be proud that Tagum will become an integral part for all of you to embark in public service. I am looking forward to what you can achieve individually, because through these when summed up collectively will ultimately spell the difference. Once again, I wish you a meaningful stay in the beautiful City of Tagum...where everybody is home.
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Hon. ALLAN L. RELLON, DPA City Mayor of Tagum/Council Chairman Regional Scout Commissioner
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Sct. CROMWELL S. BONGHANOY, MA CIty Information Officer of Tagum / Council Commissioner on Promotions and Media Affairs
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Tagum City, ripe to become
‘SCOUTING CAPITAL’ Mayor Allan L. Rellon is banking on the scouting movement as an effective avenue for characterbuilding and citizenship training of the Tagumeño youth, thus fueling his desire to revive the spirit of scouting in the city. This was emphasized by the local chief executive during the blessing and inauguration of the new office of the Tagum City Associate Council of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines that is situated in Freedom Park last August 10, 2013. Rellon, who also served as the council chairman of BSP Tagum, said the emergence of a scouting office that is appropriately situated in the heart of the city, where many youngsters convene every afternoon or during weekends, would be a perfect opportunity for them to appreciate the benefits of the scouting movement. Vice President and BSP National President Jejomar Binay, represented by the movement’s secretary general Atty. Wendel Avisado, extended his congratulations to the council for coming up in full shape. “With the inauguration of your new office, you can now fully plan ahead
and move forward in a very purposive and deliberate passion,” the vice president said in his prepared remarks read by Atty. Avisado. With this in mind, Tagum City is poised to become the next scouting capital in Mindanao or even in the entire country. Calling the movement as an “antidote” to the undesirable actions of some youth like the proliferation of gangs and even drugs, the mayor stressed the need for intensifying the activities so as to create a more disciplined, patriotic, Godloving and God-fearing society of scouts. In an interview, the mayor said the council will now focus on hyping-up the activities intended for the scouts as well as to find ways to integrate them to assist in the government’s programs on environment, security and traffic as part of their training. Meanwhile, Rellon congratulated the official contingent of the city to the recently-concluded Eastern Mindanao Regional Jamboree held at Makilala, North Cotabato where the team was adjudged second runner up and first runner up in the fancy drill competition for both boy scouts and senior scouts section, respectively. (Louie Lapat of CIO Tagum)
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Tagum for the four-day scouting event. The participants of this activity hail from Bukidnon, South Cotabato, Davao City, Compostela Valley, Agusan, Davao del Sur, Camiguin, Sultan Kudarat, Cagayan de Oro City, Sarangani, Cotabato, Surigao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur, Agusan del Sur, General Santos City, Misamis Oriental and Davao del Norte. Himself a true-blooded scout, Vice President Binay is expected to inspire the rover scouts gathered in Tagum to live up to the ideals of scouting as stated in the scout oath and the scout law. The country’s second powerful man will be introduced by the BSP Senior Vice President and Acting Secretary General Atty. Wendel Avisado. Other dignitaries who will join the vice president are Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario of Davao del Norte, Tagum City Mayor Allan L. Rellon, Vice Mayor Geterito Gementiza and BSP Eastern Mindanao Regional Governor Sol F. Matugas. (Louie Lapat of CIO Tagum)