High Desert District Dinner
Adventure Base 100
I want to share a quick note about something wonderful that is happening for our organization and ask that you help us maximize the opportunity.
By now, I hope you have heard about Adventure Base 100?our 10,000-square-foot base camp of Scouting activity that is making its way across the country. When we decided to move forward with this project, I had a sense in my gut that Adventure Base 100 would ignite excitement around the 100th Anniversary. With our formal launch in Pasadena, California over New Year?s weekend and a second stop already completed in San Diego, we know now that the potential has exceeded our wildest dreams.
Adventure Base 100 has proven to be an exceptional channel for growing our member ranks, pumping up current and recruiting new volunteers, gaining great media exposure, and providing a really cool outlet for local councils to tell the local Scouting story. Don?t just take my word for it. Watch the following ?Tales from the Trail? webisodes capturing the Adventure Base 100 experiences in Pasadena and San Diego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRbwbIWmg4&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs2TfEezmSk&feature=channel
We are working with participating local councils to create these vignettes at every one of our Adventure Base 100 stops. They are wonderful tributes to the fun and value of Scouting. Think about adding them to your promotional toolbox.
But, don?t stop there. Help us spread the word and capitalize on every conceivable outcome from the Adventure Base 100 experience. Even if Adventure Base 100 isn?t stopping in your local community, there are ways to engage. For more information, contact Bob Mersereau and the 100th Anniversary team at 100yearanniversary@netbsa.org.
Most of all, I hope you enjoy our first two ?Tales from the Trail? as much as I did. What an incredible time for our entire organization!
Bob Mazzuca
Chino Mayor Dennis Yates congratulated the Boys Scouts of America for their 100th Anniversary of service
Scouts Collect Items for Haiti
Instead of sledding down a hill at Big Bear on Monday, David Erbach spent part of his day off from school in front of a Temecula store collecting donations for earthquake survivors in Haiti. The 6-year-old Cub Scout joined other boys from his pack at Kmart as part of the "Help for Haiti Supply Drive."............Read More!
Leave No Trace in The California Inland Empire Council
The Council High Adventure Team attended an area HAT meeting in Long Beach in 1998. After the meeting a program was offered. The topic was Leave No Trace. We brought the subject home and started working on it. We found a place to get trained and became trainers.
Camp Wiley adopted the program right away.
In 2004 the Venturing Officers Association asked for more training at their Venturing weekend and they identified Leave No Trace as one of the classes they would like offered. We asked Howard Kern to come and offer Leave No Trace Trainer training in CIEC at the Venturing weekend starting in 2005. He also did 2006 and 2007
In 2007 CIEC formed a partnership with the BLM /CIEC/ GSUSA/ Forest Service and put on one of the first Front country Master Educator(BSA) courses supported entirely by the partners. By doing so, the fees were cut and distance to travel was cut significantly. Howard Kern was one of the major organizers of this project. Don Townsend saw the benefits of this partnership and supplied Camp Emerson as the course venue at no cost.
From that time until present we have increasingly grown the program. In 2008 we test piloted teaching Leave No Trace Trainers courses at Camp Emerson. It was a success.
Under the High Adventure Team we offered units the opportunity to set up trainer courses for them on the unit level. Also in 2008 Howard Kern held the first all BSA Master Educator course in Southern California. We had one staff and 3 participants in that course.
In 2009 in partnership with BLM/BSA there was a canoeing Leave No Trace Trainers course on the Parker Strip and Bill Williams preserve. With the growing Leave No Trace cadre we were able to have two district camp-o-rees have a Leave No Trace event, two districts had a Leave No Trace Day, and our Day camps were encouraged to have some sort of Leave No Trace activity. At least 3 districts responded. Summer camp was well received as we did 4 Leave No Trace trainers courses and six awareness courses.
At the end of 2009 these were the Statistics for the Outdoor Ethics Committee:
| 7 Master Educators
112 Active Trainers | 38 Awareness Workshops held
622 Trained |
Digital Scouting Magazine
Check out the first digital edition of Scouting magazine! It's available on 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!
2010 Historical Merit Badge Program
Merit badges have been a fixture of the Boy Scouts of America since its inception in 1910. The requirements that generations of boys have completed have taught lifetime citizenship lessons, personal fitness habits, and life skills. They have been the beginnings of countless careers and lifetime hobbies. In the last 99 years there have been many changes in the merit badge offerings. As society has changed, the Boy Scouts of America has adapted by revising the requirements, implementing name changes, and in some instances, eliminating some badges altogether.
For the 100th Anniversary celebration four vintage merit badges are being released for the Centennial Year only, giving Boy Scouts the hands-on opportunity to experience the exciting past of BSA.
Here are the basics of the 2010 Historical Merit Badge program...........Click Here to read More.
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