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Kenneth Wu writes …

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Hi Administrator,

Nice to meet you. This is a remarkable site. I am Kenneth Wu (胡康杰) , F.5 graduate from WYK in 2007. I joined the Air Scout Troop since 2002. I am currently the Assistant Scout Leader (ASL) of VASU. I am impressed by your site and have been thinking about gathering all available history and stories about Wah Yan Air Scout Troop in a website or some sort of publication to introduce our troop to the public and as a celebration for anniversary of Wah Yan and our Troop. But I have no prior experience in publication. This is just my random thought. Yet, I look forward to collaborating with our seniors in documenting our proud history.

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Scouting in Canada __ Henry Lam (64)

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Scouting in CanadaI ran one of the largest Scout Troops (with over 100 Scouts and Leaders) in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s.  I had 9 Assistant Scout Leaders, 1 Scouter-in-Training and 2 Troop Leaders.  My assistants each specialize in an area, including backpacking, winter-camping, canoeing, rock-climbing, wildness survival, pioneering, orienteering, sailing, CB radios communication, and activities programming.  I even had a young medical doctor (Head of Emergency Section of Scarborough General Hospital) as an Assistant Leader. We shot white-water rapids with canoes. We built igloos and actually slept in them at -20 C.

We drove and camped across Canada many times.  We even went to compete in orienteering meets organized by the US Military Academy at West Point, New York.  Scouting in Canada is much more diversified and fun.

《Lost in Tai Mo Shan_ Came 2nd in Prince of Wales Competition》__ Vincent Lee (65)

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Henry Lam was PL of Antelope (my) patrol, JB.  He and James Chui Wing-Cheung led us (me, GooWarkLo, Luk LeyTong, Ah Ding et al ) to the Senior’s competition for the Prince of Wales Trophy….., and we ended up getting totally LOST in Tai Mo Shan in the dark……

Once again, Goo Wark Lo saved the night!  James used the army phone to get help.  The army instead sent for a small jeep from the Tai Po Police Station.  The officer/driver of the jeep was quite mad that we bunch of ~16/17 year olds would cause them so much trouble (for the rescue), coming up the steep zigzag road in pitch darkness……

Both policemen were swearing……..; until GooWark Lo recognized the driver as one of his dad’s junior colleagues years back……  Then they stopped swearing and treated us like brave little scouts!

We lost the trophy to the top team.  We got second place instead.
(There were only two patrols in that year’s competition!).

I often wonder why incidents like this that happened more than 50 years ago would be so vivid, and yet I didn’t even consider the event in any way “traumatic”.  It was just plain FUN !!!!

Staying up at a Taipei hotel waiting to fly over to Tokyo tomorrow morning for a week long tour,
Vincent Lee of Edmonton (2014/11/03)