December 5th, 2016

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Primitive Camping & Good Turn Weekend

Pearl Harbor Survivor Recalls Epic Battle

Learn How New Cub Scout Advancement Modifications Offer Greater Flexibility

Voice of the Scout Survey

Planned Giving Update

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2016 Silver Beaver Recipients

Congratulations to the following Scouting volunteers who have been selected to receive the Silver Beaver Award. The Silver Beaver Award was introduced in 1931, and is a council-level distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of America.

They will be honored at the Council's Annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner on February 4th, 2017. The dinner will be held at the Moreno Valley Conference and Recreation Center. You're invited to attend and help recognize these and other deserving Scouting volunteers.

Temescal-George Anasis
Mount Rubidoux-Chris Andrews
Mount Rubidoux-Jessie Andrews
Tahquitz-Rice Berkshire IV
Tahquitz-Brian Crain
High Desert-James Dallas
Temescal-Mauricio Diaz
Temescal-Keith Fairbrother
Grayback-Louis Waldo Flores
Temescal-Geoffrey Kahan
Sunrise-Bryan Kocen
Tahquitz-Kenneth Nordstrom
Grayback-Raymond Norris
Council-Mike O’Connor
Temescal-Debbie Packer
High Desert-Angela Rosenberg
Grayback-Mark Shaffer
Mount Rubidoux-Bijan Sharifi-Tabesh
Grayback-Carolyn Stanley
Grayback-Robert Stanley
Tahquitz-Carl Vicnaire
Mount Rubidoux-Anastasia Vlasic-Leveck
Arrowhead-Dennis Weiner

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Learn How New Cub Scout Advancement Modifications Offer Greater Flexibility

The BSA announces modifications to Cub Scouting that make the program more flexible for busy parents, den leaders, and Cubmasters.

As you may be aware, with one year of experience, feedback suggests that the new design of the Cub Scout program did successfully address many original concerns, but also indicates an opportunity for further modification. The fine-tuning reflects the BSA’s three-step approach to new programs: Launch. Learn. Modify.

Some Den Leaders are having difficulty fitting all the Adventures required for advancement into their program year given their number of Den meetings. This is resulting in boys not advancing. After a thoughtful and deliberate review, the modifications are being implemented to address this concern. These modifications, approved today by the BSA Executive Committee, are designed to ensure that Adventure requirements are achievable by today’s Cub Scout dens within a program year and achievable by Cub Scouts from a wide range of backgrounds and socio-cultural experiences.

Most modifications involve the number of requirements to be completed, reducing the mandate to a number achievable within the limited time available to many dens, while retaining rich program options that allow leaders to build strong programs adapted to local needs and situations.

The transition will be seamless, with leaders choosing to use revised requirements as the den begins any new Adventure.

Visit scouting.org/programupdates for more information or to review the entire program. The following "Bryan on Scouting" blog post will be the lead source for these changes.

Similar communication will be going to every registered Tiger Leader, Den Leader, Webelos Leader and Cubmaster, as well as various other constituent groups like Regional/Area/Council Key 3, Commissioners, Training teams, and others but please forward/share this information with any group or via any communication system as you see fit.

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Western Region 2016 Philmont Conference 

Check out our Scout Executive teaching at Philmont...

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Voice of the Scout Survey

Ensure Your Voice is Heard in 2017 Voice of the Scout Surveys

The Voice of the Scout surveys are being redesigned and we need to hear your voice! Last time we distributed the Voice of the Scout, we attempted to reach 1.45 million volunteers and Scouting families.  Unfortunately, we only heard back from 130,322 people and were unable to reach 133,147 due to bad email addresses.

To ensure your voice is represented in future decision making, please log in to My.Scouting Tools to enter or update your contact information.

For additional questions about the Voice of the Scout, please contact vos.scout@scouting.org. We look forward to having new feedback to act on soon!

Primitive Camping & Good Turn Weekend

Service to Camp Helendade is open to all Friends of Helendade, Scouts, Troops, Teams and Crews

There are many work projects that need to be done. Letters will be given to youth who need service hours for school, church, or rank advancement.

COME PREPARED TO WORK: Bring gloves and wear old clothes! Projects will vary based on weather and available resources. If you have a special skill or tool that would be helpful at camp, please let us know.

BRING your own Food and Water: All trash must be taken with you when you leave. A Porta-potty is on site.

Click on the 2016 DATES to Register online:  Dec. 10

Please plan to arrive by 9:00 A.M. on Saturday.

CAMPING COST: $5 per person to camp ONLY (FREE if working on Saturday).

PLEASE CHECK IN AND OUT WITH CAMPMASTER ON DUTY.

QUESTIONS? Contact Cynthia Blessum, Camping and Outdoor Program Chair, at blessumcr@pacbell.net or 714.612.1662

Work days may be canceled due to inclement weather – please call for status prior to your scheduled weekend.

CLICK HERE for Registration Form

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National Camping School Registration Update

The newest version of the National Camping School brochure, as well as a step-by-step guide to registration, is attached. Some schools have a new section called Wilderness First Aid Trainer. This course is designed for councils to send attendees to become trainers who will train unit leadership in wilderness first aid, which is required at national High-Adventure bases for all unit and council contingents attending.

The NRA rifle and shotgun courses offered March through May are also being finalized, with one course offered in all 28 Boy Scout areas. Please note: Attendees must have NRA rifle and shotgun certifications prior to attending Shooting Sports at NCS.

Participants attending an aquatics section must have a current lifeguard certificate. Once again, BSA Lifeguard training will be offered prior to selected NCS courses. Those courses will be finalized in the next few weeks.

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Planned Giving Update

Personal Planner~Living Trusts Versus Wills

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was diagnosed with cancer in January 1994. She signed a will in the New York offices of a large law firm on March 22, 1994. Click to read more...

Your Plan~Bequests

Joe and Anna have been faithful supporters of our organization over the years. Both of them strongly believe that it is important to support and encourage our mission. Click to read more...

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Pearl Harbor Survivor Recalls Epic Battle

Like a lot of his fellow sailors on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, Roger Marron was sleeping when Japanese planes swept in from the open Pacific and roared through Pearl Harbor just before 8.

“The night before, we had a battle of music,” said Marron, 95, of Riverside. “Each ship had its own band.”

Marron wasn’t just recovering from a night of revelry, he had been working. As a naval electrician, he’d been responsible for the sound system for the small stage in the recreation center where the bands played.

“A friend of mine woke me up,” he recalled. “He said, ‘They’re here.’”

Somehow, Marron said, he understood what his friend meant. He jumped out of bed and the two raced outside.

“We could see the ships being torpedoed,” he said. “The Oklahoma got torpedoed and we watched it roll over with all those guys inside of it. We knew a lot of people were dying out there.”

Sailors were leaping from burning ships. Guns fired into the morning sky, trying to hit the attacking planes.

“We were fairly close,” Marron said. “We’re standing there and here came a Japanese torpedo plane, probably from here to that telephone pole,” he said, pointing out the front window of his home to a pole about 150 feet away. “We could see the pilot and he had a big torpedo.”

Marron, who grew up in Riverside, is one of the region’s last Pearl Harbor survivors. He will mark the anniversary at a 10 a.m. ceremony Monday, Dec. 7, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Norco.

Marron had been in the Navy a little more than two years when the attack took place, having enlisted in October 1939.

“Good jobs were hard to find,” he said. “I had a good friend that was in the Navy.”

So he joined too. His first assignment, in January 1940, was on a tugboat in Pearl Harbor. Later, he helped crew a tanker ship, hauling aviation fuel to Midway and Johnston islands, usually fishing along the way. The ship had no armaments, he said.

“The skipper had a .45,” he recalled. “When we’d get a big fish, the skipper would run out and shoot it in the head so we could pull it in.”

Not long before the Japanese attack, Marron was given the role of an electrician and stationed in the base’s receiving building. He was on land when the attack began.

Marron and his buddy didn’t watch the battle for long before they were roped into a detail and sent to the USS Pennsylvania. The ship was in dry dock, but its armaments were operational. Marron and others worked carrying ammunition to the guns. It nearly became the last job he ever had.

By: Mark Muckenfuss~The Press Enterprise

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2017 Nominating Committee & Council Annual Business Meeting Announcement 

Stan Morrison and Jim Prior have been appointed as Co-Chairmen for the Nominating Committee for 2017.

The committee consists of: President Michael Strong, Patrick Singer, Bud Luppino and Joe Daniszewski

Any recommendations for prospective Executive Board members should be forwarded to:

California Inland Empire Council – Nominating Committee
PO Box 8910
Redlands, CA 92375-2110
Attn: Nominating Committee or email: daniela.silva@scouting.org.

Suggested nominees are to be considered if they are received in writing no less than 30 days prior to the annual business meeting- December 19th, 2016. 

The Annual Meeting will be Thursday, January 19th, 2017, at 6:30 PM, at the Jack Dembo Scout Center-1230 Indiana Ct. Redlands, CA 92375.

Suggested nominees from registered local council Scouters are to be considered if they are received in writing no less than 30 days prior to the annual business meeting. Those who offer names to the nominating committee should supply some background information but should not have secured the permission of the person to be nominated and to serve if elected.

Join us at Camp in 2017!

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Map & Compass Recap

The map & compass event was held on Saturday the 19th at the Hidden Valley Nature Center.

We had 95 boys show up from almost every district and even 10 scouts from the Orange County Council.  That was more than double our attendance last year.  Collectively, we signed off on approximately 170 requirements.  We had great weather and lots of willing leaders volunteering their day to help these scouts with their second and first class ranks.

Geoff Kahan

For Cub Scouts!

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Can you help those in need stay warm this cold winter season? 

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Camp Use Update

Cartoon Corner

Thoughts from the Scout Executive:

Positive Prayer and Quote
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God of power and mercy open our hearts in welcome. Remove the things that hinder us from receiving the Spirit of the Holidays with joy. Help us try, each and every day, to help other people at all times.

Amen.

"One climbs a mountain not to conquer it, but to be lifted away from earth into the sky."

~Climber and Writer Russel Banks (1940)

Joe Daniszewski
Scout Executive/CEO
California Inland Empire Council

California Inland Empire Council, BSA
PO Box 8910
1230 Indiana Court
Redlands, CA 92374
909.793.2463, Ext. 120
877.732.1450 FREE
909.793.0306 Fax

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