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Earn BONUS rewards from California Inland Empire Council, BSA!

Did you know that you can earn BONUS rewards from the California Inland Empire Council when you sell online? And, all online, take order and store front sales from August 1st through October 17th count toward your Fall Sale Rewards!

Enter to Win an XBox One Console! For every online sale you make during Tuesday, September 23rd - Friday, October 17th you will receive an entry to win an XBox One Console. The more sales you make, the more entries you will receive.

Earn a Walmart Gift Card! For every three online sales you make during Tuesday, September 23rd - Friday, October 17th you will receive a $5 Walmart Gift Card!

Scouts: Click here to learn how to sell online.  Leaders: Click here to learn how to track your unit's online sales.

Southern California Fair Special Promotion Days! Saturday October 4th – All Boy and Girl Scout members in uniform will receive FREE admission! The 2014 Southern California Fair is a 9-day event that runs October 4th through October 12th at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds. The annual event will feature concerts, motorized events, exhibits, entertainment, carnival rides and games and of course, delicious fair food! Click Here for more Info

Section W4S Conclave Super Arrowman Academy

When: October 10th – 12th
Where: Rosemead High School
Cost: ONLY $45!!! If you register by 9/23/14, and $50 for registrations btwn 9/24/14 and 10/3/14 – no walk-ins.

Registration closes 10/3/14 11:59 PM. Register at: www.w4s.org/ops/ (if prompted for a security certificate problem please proceed) <<<NOW OPEN>>>

Program to include the Western Region Chief, awesome opening and theme shows, great training and lodge vs lodge competitions with a volunteer staff custom prepared menu for the best food in San Gabriel Valley.

Hornaday 2014

The University of California - Riverside and the Boy Scouts of America - California Inland Empire Council Conservation Committee
Invite you to the 2014 BSA Hornaday Day Event October 18, 2014

Who: Boy Scouts wanting to learn about the BSA Hornaday Awards, example Hornaday projects, and Hornaday Award merit badges. Attendance is limited to the first 150 Scouts on a first come, first served basis -- pre-registration is available by website. No walk-ins will be accepted.

When: Saturday, October 18, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Cost: $10 for the day, and you must pre-register on the website.

Where: University of California at Riverside, Winston Chung Engineering Building; Parking is covered in fee

Bring: Parent permission slip for event, blue merit badge card for any merit badge you wish to earn (pre-signed by your Scoutmaster); a merit badge workbook for each badge. See website for more details.

Food: Lunch can be purchase on site for $5. This lunch cost is separate from the registration cost.

Program: Presentations will be made on Hornaday Awards Description, Hornaday history, potential Hornaday Projects, and Hornaday Award merit badges

For scouts that are interested in doing a merit badge, they should download the Merit Badge Workbook from the website. It is strongly advised that the workbooks be filled out as completely as possible before coming to the Hornaday Fair. Specific prerequisites need to be completed ahead of time if you want to get completely signed off at the event, please
see the website for details. Please check the merit badge pamphlets or workbooks for more details concerning merit badge requirements. For additional information about the Merit Badge Fair, please contact: Matt Barth at mjbarth@charter.net or Jun Wang at junwang@engr.ucr.edu

To register for this event, please go to http://ieee.ee.ucr.edu/hornaday/ and follow the registration link.

57th Annual Jamboree On The Air

Attention Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts,

This year Arrowhead District Scouts can experience the 57th Annual Jamboree on the Air (JOTA), sponsored by Pack 247 and Citrus Belt ARC!

Come to the Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club HQ at Patton State Hospital, Staff Development Center, 3102 E. Highland Avenue Highland, CA 92346 on October 19th from 9am-5pm and get on the air! Learn about Amateur Radio, and talk to Scouts from other states (or even other countries) while you learn. Boy Scouts, we will have a merit badge counselor on hand to help you on your way to earning your Radio merit badge!

Please visit http://www.w6jbt.org/2013site/club-location-and-mailing-address/ for more information on CBARC and Patton State Hospital rules, and http://www.scouting.org/jota.aspx for more information on JOTA.

Wood Badge Reunion 2014

Greetings fellow Wood Badgers,

Come Join Us on November 1st, 2014 for the Wood Badge Reunion 2014 Potluck and Silent Auction. Brian Crain has asked me to oversee the Silent Auction this year and donations are needed to make this auction a success. Any donated items would be greatly appreciated just please let me know so I can make proper arrangements. If you wish to donate a monetary amount it will be used for a lovely gift basket.

Please look around your garages and attics; any item will do (whether it be Scout related or non scout related). Please inform all Woodbadgers and let your courses know. If you have questions I am more than happy to help.

Please contact me at:
Bubbles divine_durango_diva@msn.com or Cell# 951-833-2409 (feel free to text or call).

We will be able to accept cash, check, and credit card this year or CLICK HERE to Register Online

Old Baldy Scout Shop Manager Retiring

Dear customers and friends (as you may have started as a customer, but ended as a friend), It is a bittersweet time for me as I retire from the job that I have loved for over 19 years at the Old Baldy Scout Shop. I am now dressing a second generation of scouts with the same pride I took in uniforming their dads.  It has been a pleasure serving you and your Packs and Troops. I will miss you all. My last day will be September 30th. My new life phase begins October 1st. Everything is AWESOME! Herlinda Romero Blair, Scout Shop Manager

2014 Scout Expo Opening

Grayback DCD honoring Terry and Geneil Vines

Good day folks !!! Just wanted to start the week off with a heartfelt thank you to all of you for your efforts in making last Saturday night’s Grayback District DCD a success !!! Without your time and hard work it would have never been pulled together.

A very special shout out, of course, to our honorees, Terry and Geneil Vines I think you folks worked harder than anyone to see that the evening was special for everyone else when, in fact, it was your night. Thank you both so much for your dedication to our community and to the Scouting movement which means so much to all of us. Thanks again to each of you ! You’re the best !!! God bless !

Paul Foster, Event Chair, Council Vice President of Program

California Inland Empire Council Alumni Association 2015 Strategic Plan

VISION
To re-connect Scouts with each other in order to promote a spirit of friendship; emotional ties to the organization; and engage alumni with the local council, their districts, and units, to promote the mission of the Boy Scouts of America and generate additional volunteers, advocacy, and donations.

MISSION STATEMENT

Reconnect alumni with Scouting friends and mentors … and local councils.

Rekindle enthusiasm for Scouting and the values it represents.

Re-engage alumni to become active in Scouting again.

The Scouting Alumni Association is our call to find Scouting alumni and invite them to get involved with the Boy Scouts of America again. In addition to former Scouts, Scouting alumni include all those positively impacted by the BSA—family members of Scouts (past and present), volunteers, Scouters, community leaders, and the millions of Americans who benefit from Scouting in their communities every day.

BACKGROUND
The concept of Scouting alumni associations began very early with camp staff alumni groups and broadened in 1925 when fledgling Eagle Scout associations began to independently appear in local councils across the country. These efforts finally grew into the formation of the National Eagle Scout Association (NESA) in May 1972 with a membership potential of now more than a million and a half living Eagle Scouts.

With NESA, Scouting created a unique organization—a manpower resource with the express purpose of bringing together Eagle Scouts of all ages so that they might be of greater service to their local councils, their communities, and themselves.

Now it is time to focus on the other 96% of Boy Scouts and all the leaders, parents, charter partners, neighbors and friends of Scouting. Estimates of the membership potential are from 50 to more than one hundred million. Imagine how many youth we can serve and the lives that will be changed as a result of reconnecting them with Scouting at some level. The BSA Alumni Association stands to be the LARGEST Alumni Associations in the world. We have the people. We just need to find, reconnect, rekindle, and re-engage them.  This is our mission.

All those prospects represent the future of membership, leadership and service in the California Inland Empire Council, and the whole Boy Scouts of America. Besides NESA, there are many different constituent groups of Scouts and those who qualify as BSA alumni: Life Scouts; firefighters; attorneys; pilots; physicians, Wood Badgers; Order of the Arrow; camp staffers; etc.

MOVING FORWARD
Because Scouting alumni can vary greatly in age, geography, affiliations, and technological savvy, we are taking a multifaceted approach to structure the program. For example, the Internet will be our best resource for finding and engaging many of our alumni, but for others, it isn’t relevant to their lives at all. So, we are using a variety of methods to reach our goals:

Where are these Alumni?  Consider this:

“Scouting Gap Years” – ages 21-35 (?) – Eagle Scouts often disconnect from Scouting while pursuing higher education, establishing careers and forming families. How can we find them, reengage them, and keep them involved?

Metropolitan areas, like San Bernardino and Riverside, have a large influx of talented people each year -- who move in for college or graduate school, to begin their career or to start a family. A reasonable percentage of those men are Eagles, and women are lovers of scouting. Lets find them, reconnect them with Scouting, reengage them to the extent they’d like, and maintain a connection during the Scouting Gap Years?

IN order to create a viable experience, we will execute a plan of the 6M’s to effectively gather these valuable lovers of scouting.  Here are those 6 Ms’.
The 6 Ms   (in this order)

What have other successful councils done?

CEIC Alumni Association, Billy Rosenberg, Chair

Seven Tips for Making Red Ribbon Week More Effective

What is Red Ribbon Week?

Each year community organizations across the nation celebrate Red Ribbon Week to promote awareness of substance abuse prevention among youth.  The event honors the memory of a drug enforcement officer, Enrique Camarena, who was murdered in 1985.  This year Red Ribbon Week is October 23rd to October 31st, 2014.

According to SAMHSA, Red Ribbon Week encourages individuals, families, and communities to take a stand against the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. The observance focuses on educating the public on the destructive effects of alcohol and drugs, and the health-positive alternatives that are available to youth and adults.

As part of Red Ribbon Week observances across the Nation, participants wear or display a red ribbon to symbolize zero tolerance for illegal drug use by youth and a commitment to substance abuse prevention. Schools and community groups typically organize a variety of activities including contests, workshops, rallies, theatrical and musical performances, and other family-centered and educational events.

Read seven tips for increasing the effectiveness of your Red Ribbon Week efforts:  http://preventionpluswellness.com/2014/09/tips-for-making-red-ribbon-week-more-effective/

Implementing PPW Programs Webinar

Our introductory recorded webinar on how to implement and evaluate PPW programs is now available free online.  This 30-minute webinar provides a brief overview of the key components of and introduction into the steps for implementing our integrated prevention with wellness motivational interventions.

The objectives of the webinar include:

1. Describe Prevention Plus Wellness programs,
2. List the benefits of using PPW programs,
3. Identify the four-step evidence-based practices model each PPW program uses, and
4. List the steps for implementing and evaluating PPW programs.

View the webinar now: http://vmail.videoguidance.com/flv/vguid/jodmb/vguidjodmb100181/?axd=qchmsku6

WR Area 4 Training Calendar for Oct 2014

Scouters: Please find attached a pdf copy of Area 4 Selected Training Events Calendar for June, 2014. Please share this information with your scouters in your councils that can use these details.

If you have any future training events you would like to have listed in the calendar, please the send the information to my attention.

Lyle Mills, Chairman, Western Region, Area 4 Training Committee

“Fun With a Purpose” FAQs

Q1 What is the situation?
A1 We, the National Council, are asking local councils and their units to not use the phrase “Fun with a Purpose” as a promotional slogan for any Scouting activities.

Q2 Why?
A2 “Fun with a Purpose” is a registered trademark that is owned by the company which publishes Highlights magazine. Out of respect for that company’s trademark rights, we are asking local councils and units to not use the phrase. Just as BSA expects others to respect its trademark rights, we strive to respect the rights of others.

Q3 This sounds like a lot of trouble. Has the BSA received any specific complaints about this?
A3 The publisher of Highlights magazine has contacted the BSA about this issue and we are cooperating with them out of respect for their trademark rights.

Q4 What do I need to do?
A4 Two things. First, delete all instances of the phrase from your local council or unit website, including uses of the phrase in text as well as in any graphics. Second, use a different phrase in the future to promote your Scouting activities.

Q5 Can I use a similar phrase such as “Fun Has a Purpose” or “Fun and Purpose”?
A5 No. You should use a new phrase that is distinctively different from “Fun With a Purpose”, not just a variation of it.

Q6 What about materials that I have already printed and/or distributed?
A6 In order to avoid waste, you do not need to destroy any hard copy materials you have already printed. And you do not need to go out and collect/retrieve any hard copies that you have already distributed. But going forward, you should use a phrase other than “Fun with a Purpose” to promote your Scouting activities.

Q7 Am I going to get sued?
A7 BSA and the Highlights publishing company are working together cooperatively, and we do not expect the publishing company to take any action against local councils or units that have used the phrase in the past.

Q8 Highlights magazine has contacted me/my council/my unit directly. What do I do?
A8 In the spirit of the Scout Law, be courteous and respectful in any communication with the publisher of Highlights magazine. Also, promptly notify the Member Care department at 972- 580-2489 of any communication you might receive from Highlights magazine.

Q9 Since I can’t use “Fun with a Purpose” anymore, I need some help creating a new tagline or slogan to promote my council’s or unit’s activities. Is any assistance available?
A9 Yes. Please contact the Marketing department at the National Office or visit the Marketing Toolbox section of www.Scouting.org.

Scouting Cartoons From 1967

Positive Quote & Prayer
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

    ~  Seneca

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.

    ~  Saint Francis