Monday Memo
 | Joseph Daniszewski
Scout Executive |  |
Good day and welcome to our January 19th Monday Memo
Help for Haiti
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti. Many members of the BSA family want to provide assistance to the people affected by this horrific earthquake. Find out how you can help in the disaster relief.
Digital Scouting Magazine
Check out the first digital edition of Scouting magazine! It?s available on http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/. Click on the image of the magazine cover to start reading.
Digital Scouting is also available from MyScouting.org by clicking on same cover image. The digital edition is a work in progress designed to make Scouting magazine an even more useful tool for our members. Watch for improvements such as embedded video and links to forums, blogs, and podcasts. Be prepared. If you don't have a MyScouting login, create one today!
Boy Scouts of America: Today is scheduled to be released in October 2010 and will incorporate both professional and amateur photographs of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturers engaged in activities that represent the 12 points of the Scout Law. To support this book, the BSA is sponsoring a national photo contest. A separate employee and family contest will launch soon.
Local Help For Haiti Drive
| Pack 614 conducted a ?Help for Haiti Supply Drive? on Monday, January 18th, from 9:30am ? 3:30pm at the Temecula K-Mart at 26471 Ynez Road. At this all-day event, our Cub Scouts handed out a shopping list with urgently-needed supplies. Examples of items are first aid kits, antibiotic creams, flashlights, and toothbrushes. Customers helped by purchasing these items in the store and bringing them out to our Scouts upon exiting. We are partnering with a local Temecula business, Tensor ID, that will ship all the supplies out from their corporate office at 41951 Remington Ave. Suite 210 Temecula. The Cub Scouts will collect all the supplies that have been donated at K-Mart and bring them to Tensor on Monday afternoon. Besides collecting supplies, we will be accepting cash donations which we will send directly to the Haitian Scout Organization. The Scouts in Haiti were extremely helpful in the aftermath of the 2008 hurricane there; they are currently providing aid to the population again, helping purchase medical supplies and assisting with operations of clearing, cleaning, decontamination and also by taking care of children that have been left to their own devices, as well as by building emergency camps. Our Pack leadership feels strongly that this kind of ?hands on? help by the Haiti Scouts exactly demonstrates Scouting?s ideals in action; yesterday our Pack Committee voted to donate $200 on behalf of Pack 614 to send directly to the Haitian Scouts to assist in their effort. We are hoping that our local community will come to Kmart tomorrow to help provide some support for the Haiti crisis. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Bill or Christine Dull at (951) 695-1688. |  |
Lights, Camera, Action!
I?m sure many of you saw the incredible float that represented the Boy Scouts of America in the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade. Winner of the National Award for Best Depiction of Life in the USA, Past, Present, and Future, the spectacular float was made possible by the hard work of thousands of Southern California Scouts and Scouters. Thank you and congratulations to the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, and Los Angeles Area Councils. What an amazing way to kick-off our 1OOth Anniversary year! And it doesn?t stop there.
Immediately following, we launched Adventure Base 100. In just three days, more than 11,000 people came to the campus for a hands-on look at Scouting. Also there was a film crew?shooting the first in a series of ?webisodes.? These short videos will be shot from each Adventure Base 100 stop and will profile the positive impact Scouting makes on communities across America?check out these great stories from Pasadena and San Diego. Every webisode is posted to www.adventurebase100.org and the BSA YouTube Channel. And, in our next Adventure Base 100 Webinar, we?ll give councils ideas about how to give these a viral push. What?s your story? If you?re at or near a tour stop, send webisode ideas to Angie Dulle, Adventure Base 100 promotions lead, at 314-982-8646 or Angie.Dulle@fleishman.com.
Of course, this is only one opportunity to tell our story. We know many of you will be scheduling interviews with your local television and radio stations, sitting down to talk with your local newspapers, and even reaching out to bloggers. Here are a few resources that can help:
The ?Tell Our Story? section of the YourSource Planning Materials page also has videos, images, sample press releases, media guides, speaking guides, and more! And, don?t forget social media. On February 8, 2010, encourage everyone in your networks to take the Scouting message viral:
- Facebook Status Update: Happy anniversary, Boy Scouts of America! Thank you for a century of service, leadership, and adventure. I [am/was] a [Scout/volunteer/parent/supporter] from [city/state or pack/troop/crew]. Paste your anniversary wishes into your status update to celebrate a century of Scouting in America (#BSA100 on Twitter). Reconnect at www.Scouting.org/100years.
- Another Facebook idea: Change your picture! Choose a profile picture for the day that visually shows your Scouting pride, like you in a Scouting uniform (past or present) or an iconic Scouting image.
- Twitter: Congratulations @boyscouts for bringing adventure to youth for 100 years. Continue the journey for 100 more! #BSA100
Together, launching our next century of service!
Bob Mersereau
National Director, 100th Anniversary Celebration Project
Historical Merit Badges Help Boy Scouts Celebrate Scouting?s Past
UPDATE (3:15 p.m. Jan. 13): Bill Evans, Youth Development team leader with the BSA, tells Cracker Barrel that these merit badges will count as electives for rank advancement. As if you needed another reason to get your guys to earn these.
A merit badge called Computers would sound just a crazy to a 1910 Boy Scout as a merit badge called Tracking sounds to Scouts today. That?s because the BSA?s list of available merit badges has evolved through the years as the interests of boys have changed.
In honor of the BSA?s 100th Anniversary, though, today?s generation of Scouts will get the unique opportunity to experience some of the activities their predecessors enjoyed. That?s possible thanks to the BSA?s new Historical Merit Badge Program, a set of four discontinued merit badges that today?s Scouts can earn.
Boys can earn any or all of these merit badges:
Signaling
- First offered in 1910 and discontinued in 1992.
- Sample requirements: build a simple buzzer or blinker capable of sending Morse code messages, and send a message of at least 35 words; send and receive messages using semaphore flags at a rate of at least 30 letters per minute.
Tracking
- First offered in 1911 (as Stalker merit badge) and discontinued in 1952.
- Sample requirements: recognize the tracks of 10 different animals; give evidence to show you have tracked at least two different kinds of birds or animals, documenting their speed and direction.
Pathfinding
- First offered in 1911 and discontinued in 1952.
- Sample requirements: be able to guide people to important places within a three-mile radius of your home; submit a scale map of your community.
Carpentry
- First offered in 1911 and discontinued in 1952.
- Sample requirements: demonstrate the use of tools, such as a miter and bevel; build a simple piece of furniture for use at home.
Sounds like a blast, right? But there?s one catch: Boys must start and finish all requirements within the year 2010. So if your guys built furniture for their patrol kitchen at last year?s summer camp, they can?t use that product for the Carpentry merit badge. And don?t delay?after Dec. 31, 2010, these merit badges will go back on the ?retired? list.
If this is a program you want to bring to your troop, the BSA suggests you track down merit badge counselors soon. For Carpentry, contact a local cabinet-making business. A nearby Homeland Security office could help you with Pathfinding. Signaling would benefit from the help of a local amateur ham radio group. And for Tracking, try your state?s department of natural resources. Those are merely suggestions. Be creative!
For more information, look for a special Web site and a printed guide by the end of the month. That?s where you?ll find the complete requirements for each patch. The BSA also plans to deliver a guide that will help councils and districts host a historical camporee or similar event to offer these merit badges.
The Historical Merit Badge Program gives you the perfect chance to organize exciting activities for your Scouts, while connecting them with the BSA?s rich past. It?s another example of the BSA?s devotion to Celebrating the Adventure, Continuing the Journey.
Freshman Ascends To Rank Of Eagle Scout
A Desert Hot Springs High School freshman has earned his Eagle Scout award. Chase Hadden, 14, was also recognized for his award at the most recent City Council meeting. The Eagle Scout is the highest attainable rank of the Boy Scouts of America.
For his Eagle project, he used recycled cement and railroad ties to build stairs to a wooden sculpture at Cabot's Pueblo Museum. ?You have no idea what your work has meant at Cabot's,? Michael O'Keefe, who served as the museum foundation's president this year, told Hadden.
Hadden is a member of Troop 262. His older brother, Cody, now 19, also won the award in 2007.
Kate McGinty
Lone Scouts to Head up Color Guard
The Temescal Districts? Andrew Greene and Ian Wilgus ? ?The Lone Scout ?1? Patrol - will be heading up the Color Guard and leading the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance at the, California Narcotic Officers? Association (CNOA), annual awards dinner, March 11, 2010.
Early in 2009, the CNOA and the Lone Scout ?1? Patrol became allied due to the many similarities between the basic principles of Scouting and the CNOA: an abiding respect for duty, honor; adherence to the highest quality of training measures; camaraderie; individual initiative; and an enthusiastic appreciation for the outdoor life. Ian and Andrew also discovered that a number of CNOA associates had, themselves, been members of the Boy Scouts, and a few of their members had attained the rank of Eagle Scout.
Each year, the CNOA (which is the largest non-profit Training Association in California with over 7,000 members) honors the memory of Lieutenant Al Stewart who was killed in the line of duty in 1973.
Al Stewart was head of the county's Regional Narcotics Task Force and one of the founding members of CNOA. The, ?Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Award?, was created in 1973 to memorialize Al by honoring the individual achievement of working narcotic officers.
Dennis Greene
Lone Scout Counselor-Guide
Endowment James E. West Fellowship
James E. West was the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, and he served in that position for more than three decades. The West Fellowship award is available for gifts of $1,000 and up in cash or marketable securities to a council endowment fund. The gift must be in addition to and not replace or diminish the donor's annual Friends of Scouting support.
Many individuals and corporations make these gifts either on behalf of someone else, such as in honor of an Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver recipient, a retirement, a special accomplishment, or anniversary, or in memory of a special individual. If an institution is truly "the lengthened shadow of one man," it is more than fitting that the BSA honor James E. West?s significant contributions to Scouting in such a significant way.
If you would like to make a donation to the James E. West Fellowship Fund, please contact Joe Daniszewski, Scout Executive, at 909-793-2463, ext. 120.
2009 FOS Year End Report
| January 15, 2010 | | Goal | Actual | Cash to date | % Cash of Goal | % Pledge Loss |
| Mt. Rubidoux | Jim Nelson | $115,000 | $119,631 | $114,240 | 99.3% | 4.5% |
| Grayback | Paul Foster | $115,000 | $101,048 | $95,596 | 83.1% | 5.4% |
| Tahquitz | Donna Baker | $160,000 | $139,388 | $131,644 | 82.3% | 5.6% |
| 3 Peaks | Bill Marshall | $85,000 | $71,054 | $67,589 | 79.5% | 4.9% |
| High Desert | Owen Spencer | $115,000 | $94,566 | $89,978 | 78.2% | 4.9% |
| Sunrise | Ron Miller | $70,000 | $56,461 | $53,907 | 77.0% | 4.5% |
| Temescal | Grant Clark | $142,000 | $109,592 | $97,354 | 68.6% | 11.2% |
| 5 Nations | Carolyn Bailey | $60,000 | $45,809 | $40,948 | 68.2% | 10.6% |
| Scoutreach | Tony Hayes | $35,000 | $38,209 | $23,755 | 67.9% | 37.8% |
| Old Baldy | Lynn Anderson-Castillo | $140,000 | $104,591 | $94,847 | 67.7% | 9.3% |
| Arrowhead | Maj. Russell Fritz | $95,000 | $63,746 | $57,445 | 60.5% | 9.9% |
| Learning for life | Andrea Mitchell | $40,000 | $17,894 | $17,894 | 44.7% | 0.0% |
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$1,172,000 |
$961,989 |
$885,197 |
75.5% |
8.0% |
Positive Quote
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)
Have a great Scouting week!
Yours in the Spirit of Scouting,
Joe Daniszewski
Scout Executive/CEO
California Inland Empire Council, BSA
1230 Indiana Court
Redlands, CA 92374
909.793.2463, Ext. 120
877.732.1450
909.793.0306 Fax
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