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A Message from the Chief Scout Executive - Holiday Greetings

Fellow BSA Staff Members,

Each year you and I have the privilege of working side by side with dedicated volunteers in bringing Scouting to the young people of our nation. I'm appreciative of all you do in partnership with BSA volunteers, proud to serve alongside you, and pleased to share this video holiday greeting from our national Key 3.

Best wishes from myself, National President Dr. Robert M. Gates, and National Commissioner Tico Perez to you and yours for a blessed and joyous holiday season.

Wayne Brock, Chief Scout Executive

Potential NYLT Staff

Attention!! All NYLT graduates, youth and adult staffers interested in serving on the 2015 NYLT Staff.

An informal meet and greet with the Course Leaders will be held Saturday, December 13, 2014 10:00 am to 2:00 pm At

Grace Lutheran Church
539 N. Acacia Ave., Rialto, CA 92376

For the purpose of choosing NYLT’s 2015 Youth and Adult Staff.

For more information contact: Terry Bryan, Course Director (909) 851-6378 or CIEC.NYLT.2015@gmail.com

The Peace Light is coming to Boseker Scout Reservation!

Each year, a child from Upper Austria fetches the light from the grotto in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. The light is carried in two blast proof miners lamps on an Austrian Airlines jet from Tel Aviv Israel to Vienna  Austria from where it is distributed at a Service of Dedication to delegations from across Europe who take it back, with a message of Peace, to their own countries. Austrian Airlines then flies the miners lamps containing the Peace Light from Bethlehem to New York City.

You have the opportunity to bring the peace light to your homes, churches and units!

To learn more about the Peace Light go to http://www.peacelight.org/ or http://www.peacelight.org.uk/?

For more information or find out how your unit can help, Please contact Ranger Nancy at nancy.matson@scouting.org

15th Annual Memorial Walk Lights for Little Lives

Lights for Little Lives is an annual celebration of the wonder of children, and the joy they bring to our lives. It is a time to rejoice over the births of Inland Empire babies over the past year, and to share the sorrow of families who during that time have experienced the painful loss of a child.

When: Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. December 31, 2014

Where: Ronald McDonald House 11365 Anderson Street, Loma Linda

Chartered Organization Representative Training

Thursday, January 15, 2015  5:00-6:50 PM At the

Jack Dembo Scout Center
1230 Indiana Court,Redlands

DINNER WILL BE SERVED!

As a Chartered Organization Representative, you hold a key position in Scouting! 
Please join us for a great training, dinner and attend the 2015 Annual Business meeting starting at 7:00 PM.

Please RSVP to Michelle Brown at (909) 793-2463 x 121 or micbrown@bsamail.org.

Pelican Days Birding Festival

Hello Scouters
I would like to invite you all to bring out the troops to our 3rd annual Pelican Days Birding Festival at the Salton Sea SRA on January 23rd 24th and 25th 2015. This is a great opportunity for the scouts to hike, camp, kayak, and learn about the desert environment. For more information or to register please call 760-289-9455 or 760-393-3810.

All activities within the park are FREE. There is just a $5 per vehicle parking fee at the gate. FREE environmental camping is available for the festival at Corvina Beach Campground where water and portable toilets are  available. There is also a beautiful large fire ring at this group type camp.

There will be  a lot of fun kids activities  including mini-kayak tours and birding programs. Also there might be an opportunity for older scouts to work with us on a service project or do community service. We have had the Mariner Girls Scouts help out with the kayaking before.
 

Scout Night at Ontario Fury Indoor Arena

World Scout Jamboree

Monday Memo Recipients

If you have been removed or no longer receive the California Inland Empire Council Monday Memo Newsletter, you need to email Doubleknot Support at doubleknot@doubleknot.com and request that you be put back on the CIEC Monday Memo recipient list.

Cub Scouting Gingerbread Boy Evenings at Ontario Bakery

Once again, Ontario Bakery has opened their shop to Cub Scouts this holiday season. So far on the evenings of the first week of December, close to 100 Cub Scouts participated in the creation and decoration, however they wanted to, of their very own gingerbread boy! The visit also included a tour of the bakery kitchen area and equipment. All Cub Scouts attending represented their packs well and did amazing jobs as gingerbread boy decorators. Pictures here are the evening Pack 625 of Old Baldy district came by to participate in this annual holiday experience.

Thank you Old Baldy district commissioner Kathy "K-Fab" Fabos & Chris Fabos, and Eagle Scout Matt Fabos for offering this experience!

San Bernardino County Boy Scouts Collect Tons of Food San Bernardino Sun Boy Scouts from all over San Bernardino County have collected nearly 13,000 pounds of food for the Salvation Army’s San Bernardino Corps. That’s right! That’s 6 tons of food. The food is vital for operations at the corps, where its used for food baskets and meals for those in need. Scouts from San Bernardino, Rialto, Colton, Highland, Grand Terrace, Fontana and Bloomington collected the food in early November though donation drives outside local Stater Bros. markets. It paid off. “That is a lot of food, and we need it,” said Major Daniel Henderson, Corps officer in a statement.

Eagle Scout's Portrait Is your Eagle Scout's portrait on the Eagle Honor Wall at council headquarters?  Our Last Local Date for 2014! December 20th Eagle Scouts or Silver Awardees should come to CIEC's service center for their complimentary portrait to display on council's permanent Honor Wall Exhibit. Appointments are suggested and can be reserved by going to www.GradPortraits.com and follow through to the online reservation system. Walk-ins are accepted but appointments take precedence. The year round portrait program will create images at Jack Dembo Service Center through the year. Their next sessions will be September 6 and in December, or you may go to GradPortraits Orange County Studio. For more information visit their web site, www.GradPortraits.com to make your reservation.

Scouting Cartoons from the 1960's

Recently Completed Eagles

Friends Of Scouting Report

Positive Quote & Prayer
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"So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light."

    ~  Vincent Van Gogh

“Lord, I place my trust in you.”

Each day this week, as we encounter times that are rushed, even crazy, we can take that deep breath, and make that profound prayer.  Each time we face some darkness, some experience of “parched land” or desert, some place where we feel “defeated” or “trapped,” we hear the words, “Our God will come to save us!”

Monday Memo is from Scout Executive Joe Daniszewski and contains his reflection on what is happening within the Council. The purpose of Monday Memo is to communicate information about the week ahead, to acknowledge the good things happening around the Council and to address specific issues that the Scout Executive wants to bring to your attention. Joe welcomes any comments, suggestions or recommendations on how to make this memo as helpful as possible. If you have something you want publicized in the Monday Memo, please send it to his attention c/o Monday Memo: Joseph.Daniszewski@scouting.org for Monday Memo Archives Click Here