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Sittingbourne SEA CADET UNIT helps with Creek clean

Sittingbourne Sea Cadet Unit spent Sunday 18^th march morning taking part in an event organised by the friends of Milton Creek.  A  Hero’s Assemble session. The 10 Cadets and 6 staff were part of a 31 strong team  made up of members of the public and helped collect rubbish from the footpath and  edge of the creek from the Gas Road entrance.

A huge amount of litter was collected from beer and soft drink bottles to crisp packets and packaging.

The Freezing temperatures and snow on the ground did not put the cadets aged between 10-18 off. The event was originally planned for 4^th March but had to be postponed due to the weather then.

Cadets, Juniors and staff were pleased to be taking part in the event which was part of the Great British Spring Clean's a job that is well worth doing, we need to keep the creek clean to encourage more Seals to come and enjoy the space as well as us humans.

TS Wyvern were invited to the council chamber! Cadets and Juniors learnt about the Mayors Mace and Badge. They visited the Mayors Parlour and found out what a Mayor does.

SITTINGBOURNE SEA CADET UNIT HAS A NEW COMANDING OFFICER

Sittingbourne Sea Cadet Unit has as new commanding officer. Chief Petty Officer (Scc) Graham Morris took over the Command of the unit on Monday Evening.

Lieutenant Commander (SCC) Mark Gambell has been a temporary CO since September after PO John Yaxley had to step down for family reasons.

CPO Morris has had a long connection with Sittingbourne sea cadets joining the unit as a cadet in 1985. It was during this time he met Mark Gambell who was already a cadet at the unit.

Graham worked his way up the rates during his time as a cadet and when he turned 18 volunteered as an instructor at the unit.

Graham temporarily left the sea cadet corps between 1991 and 2013 during his timeserving in the Royal Navy. He returned as an instructor at Maidstone unit before moving back to Sittingbourne a few years ago.

Graham said “Moving forward my aim is for the unit to grow in numbers and stature within the community while continuing to raise our standards. We will continue to ensure that all cadets have the same opportunity to take part in all activities available to them, also gaining academic and activity qualifications. Most importantly we want the cadets to have fun especially when boating.”

For the last night of the year cadets and juniors enjoyed a free christmas dinner.

This was held as a scaled down version of a mess dinner, cadets had rules to follow, those that broke the rules had to join together and sing to the rest of the ships comapny as a fine at the end of the meal.

At the end of the evening we had 'paper plate awards' for cadets and staff that have done some thing funny or memorial thoughtout the year