| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay | February 2009 
The Biggest Fleur de Lis in the World
 Asociación de Scouts de México/PVNN
| | Saturday, members of the Puerto Vallarta Mexico Scout Association will gather at Parque Hidalgo to try and beat the record set by scout troops in Mexico City back in 2007. | |
Using aluminum cans, the Mexico Scout Association will form the biggest Fleur de Lis in Puerto Vallarta. For eight consecutive years this magnificent event has been taking place on behalf of the Mexico Scout Association, as a celebration of the foundation of the Scout Movement in the world. It will take place at Hidalgo Park on February 21, 2009 at 4:30 pm, and the invitation is open to the public.
The boys and girls of scouts Group 2, SEALS and the older divisions of Group 1 have been collecting aluminum cans for months in order to make the Fleur de Lis in Hidalgo Park, and cleaning up our community at the same time.
Along with the exhibition, there will be a "Scout Expo" at the park, where the public can learn more about the equipment and activities that the scouts make, which are used in the different sections of Scout groups 1 & 2 of Puerto Vallarta.
After the event and the formation of the Fleur de Lis, the aluminum cans will be sold and the money that is collected will be donated to Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza, AC. (R.I.S.E.)
The objective of the Mexico Scout Association is to build the character of the boys and girls, to instill in them fulfillment of their religious, patriotic and civic duties, as well as the principles of discipline, loyalty and aid to their fellow citizens; and to enable them to care for themselves, helping them to be developed spiritually, physically and mentally. All this according to what the founder of the scout movement, Lord Robert Stephenson Smith Baden-Powell of Gilwell (Lord B.P.), established.
The Scouts of Mexico, AC is and educative institution for boys and girls of ages 4 and 21, who voluntarily enter, with no distinction of race, nationality, origin or socioeconomic status. In order to achieve their objective, the association requires the participation of adults who collaborate with the boys and girls, who are assigned as leaders and scouts.
The World-wide Organization of the Scout Movement has more than 25 million active members in 216 countries and territories. Nearly 200 million people have been Scouts at some point of their lives.
The recognition of an organization and its quality of member of the Movement are based on adhesion to the intentions and principles of the drug addiction and their independent character, non-politician and a person who voluntarily offers their services. Only one organization in each country is recognized as a member; in Mexico, the Association of Scouts of Mexico, A.C. (ASMAC) is the Scout institution recognized by the World-Wide Organization (OMMS).
For more information contact: Yanina Haddad at 044-322-135-5425 yaninahaddad(at)hotmail.com.
Translated for BanderasNews by Cindy Lopez |
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