Welcome to our May 14th, 2012 Monday Memo

National Day Of Prayer

Boy Scout Troops 210 and 214 of Moreno Valley presented our Nations Flag and lead the Congregation in the pledge of allegiance during the National Day Of Prayer ceremony held Thursday  May 2, 2012.  This is the annual day of observance held on the first Thursday of May.  Each year, the president signs a proclamation, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day.   In his 1983 declaration, Ronald Reagan said, "From General Washington's struggle at Valley Forge to the present, this Nation has fervently sought and received divine guidance as it pursued the course of history. This occasion provides our Nation with an opportunity to further recognize the source of our blessings, and to seek His help for the challenges we face today and in the future." God and Country is what Scouting is all about. 

Venturing Dinner & Recognition Ceremony

I would like to remind you about the upcoming Venturing Dinner & Recognition Ceremony.  The Dinner will be held at the Norco LDS Building, 3600 Norconian Drive, Norco, CA and will run from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  Tickets for the event, which can be purchased via the link below, are $20.00 per person.

At the Dinner, we will be recognizing those Venturers/Leaders who are receiving the Council Venturing Leadership Award as well as conducting a swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected 2012-2013 officers of the CIEC Venturing Officers' Association. 

I would like to encourage you to register for this amazing dinner. Information regarding event registration can be found by Clicking Here. Please note that the last day to register for the Dinner is Monday, May 14, 2012

I look forward to seeing you at the Dinner.

Yours in Venturing, Ryan Kleinvachter
CIEC VOA Advisor tqventuring@gmailcom

Save the Date for the Helendade Service to Camp Day!

Plan now to come up to Camp Helendade on Saturday, June 9th for a Service to Camp Day. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, leaders and parents are invited to attend.

We can use your help to provide some needed service to camp. The primary work for the day are the annual fire mitigation projects which include weed abatement and raking up pine needles around each of the buildings. We'll even provide you lunch!

After signing up, we'll contact you with any special equipment you may need to bring beyond work gloves.

Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate any overnight camping. The water system will not be in operation so we'll ask that you bring drinking water with you.

If you have any questions, please email Program Director Kevin Gustafson    REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE!

Be on Staff for the 2013 National Jamboree

The new permanent home of the National Jamboree, The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in Mount Hope, WV, is well under way.  The development and planning of The Summit and the Jamboree are continuing. A whole host of new and traditional activities, events and programming will make up the jamboree and Summit experience.  We cannot wait!!

That being said, all the planning, program areas and infrastructure in the world does not a Jamboree make.  It is the volunteers that over see the programs and interact with the Scouts that breathe the life into creating this unforgettable experience.  Thank you to all who have volunteered in the past! 

So if you have been waiting to find out how you can get involved… here is your chance to be part of history and get involved with the future of Scouting.  If you are available, without commitments to your local council, July 11th-25th, 2013 (potentially longer dependent upon service area), then go on line and register now! Not able to commit to the entire Jamboree? The 2013 jamboree staff for particular areas will be able to choose in which of three sessions to serve: Session 1 (the entire jamboree, July 11–25), Session 2 (the first week, July 11–18), or Session 3 (the second week, July 18–25). The jamboree is currently accepting volunteer applications for all 2013 National Scout Jamboree sessions as well as the 2012 Summit Shakedown for a variety of program areas:

• Programs: Mountain Biking, Zip Lining, Canopy Tours, Challenge Courses, Shooting Sports, BMX, Skateboarding, And much more
• Base Camp and Subcamp Operations
• Jamboree Retail
• Jamboree Logistics

Some require more training and experience than others, but don’t worry; all the training necessary to be able to volunteer will be provided. For the zip line/canopy tours, training will be offered throughout the country over the months leading up to the jamboree. These dates are fast approaching, and we want to make sure those interested get a spot in this ACCT Professional Vendor training.

Interested? Here is the next step:

Determine your availability. Go to www.BSAJamboree.org and follow the staff links to review the qualifications, fees, and staff positions. Follow the links to the application to be completed online. Please note that if you are interested in volunteering for the shakedown, you must be registered and accepted as 2013 National Scout Jamboree staff. To register for the shakedown, go to www.BSAJamboree.org and follow council recourses, shakedown links, to find the shakedown guide and registration form. Follow the directions in the guide to submit the enclosed registration form and payment.

We very much look forward to your participation in making the 2013 National Scout Jamboree a success.
Please email 2013jamboree@scouting.org with any required assistance or question you may have.

High Adventure Diving Expedition

On Friday, May 4th, PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Master Instructor Mal Maloney led a high adventure diving expedition to Emerald Bay Scout Camp on Catalina Island.  The group was comprised of youth and adult members of Crew 377, Crew 604 and the Order of the Arrow, including Lodge Chief Ian McLeod.   The event was the culmination of many weeks of planning, classroom sessions, and confined water practice dives.  To earn their PADI Open Water certification, each person had to make four separate open water dives demonstrating such skills as removal and replacement of mask, weights and buoyancy compensator, mask flooding drills, buddy breathing, navigation and emergency swimming assents.  A total of four youth and two adults joined the ranks of PADI Open Water divers, and one youth earned his Junior Advanced Open Water rating.

In addition, two adult scouters worked toward their Advanced Open Water certification by completing specialties such as underwater search and recovery, advanced navigation, a deep dive (in excess of 100') and night diving.

Adding to the excitement was the boat trip itself - aboard a 70' restored WWII Motor Rescue Launch.  The boat, The Manta is operated by Sea Scout Ship Islander out of Marina Del Rey.

International Camporee Staff Opportunities

It looks like there is an outstanding opportunity for 'staffing' the upcoming International Camporee.  This is a way for any of you, or those you think might be qualified, to meet a requirement for either the CIEC International Activity Badge or the International Scouters Award (a knot).  It is another way to build your international scouting resume if you have aspirations of being a member of a BSA contingent as a leader or serving on the staff of a major international scouting event (e.g., World Jamboree in 2015-Japan or the United States-2019).

Also as you can see, the International Camporee (IC) at Camp Mataguay (5/18-5/20) hosted by the San Diego Imperial Council (SDIC) is sold out.  The only way for any Scout or Scouter to now attend is as a staff member.  All details are included in the above link.

Additionally, the IC is the same weekend as the Jamboree on the Trail (JOTT).  As you can see in the link, participants ... registrants and staff ... will have the opportunity to participate in JOTT and earn the JOTT crest.  Another great opportunity for  Scouts and Scouters of the CIEC.

Click here: SDIC 2012 International Camporee - International Scouting Committee

Mike Goldware, IR & Chair, CIEC International Scouting Committee
 

Scouting Is Full of Great Stories—Share Yours!

We’ve launched the Jamboree Fireside Stories project to record the experiences that make the national Scout jamboree such an incredible, can’t-miss-it event. If you’ve been to a national jamboree, you probably have a great story to share.

We want to record it and share it with all of Scouting!

Want to get involved and share your story? It’s easy:

1. Call 1-786-7-JAMBO-7 (that’s 1-786-752-6267) and follow the instructions on the message. (Normal calling rates apply.)
2. Or, you can pre-record your story and upload it on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/summit-bechtel-reserve.

To read more about the Fireside Story project and hear the first submission, check out this post on the Summit Blog: www.summitblog.org/got-a-jamboree-tale-to-share-pick-up-a-phone

Let your voice be a part of Scouting history! If you know someone who’s been to several national jamborees and would have a great story to tell, send them our way!

Spring Fling 2012

Working with Scouts with Disabilities

Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has included fully participating members with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.

The basic premise of Scouting for youth with disabilities is full participation. Youth with disabilities can be treated and respected like every other member of their unit. They want to participate like other youth—and Scouting provides that opportunity. Many of the programs for Scouts with disabilities are directed at (1) helping unit leaders develop an awareness of people with disabilities among youth without disabilities and (2) encouraging the inclusion of Scouts with disabilities and special needs in Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Varsity Scout teams, Venturing crews, and Sea Scout ships.

While there are Scouting units composed exclusively of youth with disabilities, experience has shown that Scouting works best when all Scouts with disabilities are part of an inclusive unit. The best guide in working with youth who have disabilities is to use respect and good common sense. It’s obvious that a Scout who uses a wheelchair may have problems fulfilling a difficult hiking requirement, but the need for accommodation might not be so obvious when it comes to the Scout with a learning disability.

Use the resources available to you. Begin with the Scout and his or her parents; seek guidance from them on how best to work with the Scout. With parental permission, seek help from the youth’s teacher, doctor, or other special education professionals. Each child will be different, so no single plan will work for every Scout. If the unit is short on personnel, assign one or more skilled older youth to be of assistance or ask the Scout’s parents to help. Our council camps are willing to work with the troop leadership to design a program for Scouts with disabilities if given adequate advance notice and assistance.

It may take an extra measure of patience, but the rewards will be great, for you and the members of your unit.

The Boy Scouts of America recognizes that no two young people are exactly alike. Each child is unique. Children are not machines who can be steered in exactly the same way, to have fun doing the same activities, or who learn in the same way from exactly the same instructions. Some youth need extra help from trained leaders.

For more information, download a copy of the guidebook Working with Scouts with Disabilities at the following link: http://scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34059.pdf

A Friendly Reminder about a Scouting Day You Just Can’t Miss: May 19th at Your Local Scout Shop!

The fun starts at 10 a.m. and the Redlands Scout shop will have extended store hours until 4 p.m.  It’s an all-day, outdoor themed event full of exciting ways to prepare for your best summer camp ever.

A $20 ScoutStuff Gift Card is yours with any $100 purchase of Camp Gear or Camping Accessories. Purchase must be made in-store during the event.*

Awesome BSA Prizes! Register to win when you attend!

Plus, check out all the summer-camp must-haves that make your experience easier, more comfortable, and more fun. Contact your local Scout Shop for all the details.

*Gift Card is redeemable at national Scout Shops or on www.scoutstuff.org. One per customer.

We Must Never Forget ... There is a Difference Between a War and a Warrior ...

I think the Vietnam Memorial Wall is something this country got right. A little history most people will never know and a refresher for those that do know.

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son,Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

8,283 were just 19 years old.

The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam.

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .

31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day,1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968… 245 deaths, during the TET OFFENSIVE. The most casualties suffered on January 31st - 2nd BN., 5th Marine Reg., 1st Marine Division Regiment  FMF (Pacific) Reinforced - III MAF at Hue.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives,sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors. Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and those who DO Care. I've also sent this to those I know who  do care very much.

Posted by MG Hank Stelling USAF ret
 

News & Tidbits

• The Advisor is the monthly newsletter for Venturing Crews/Ships in the California Inland Empire Council published and written under the guidance of Ryan Kleinvachter and the CIEC Venturing Committee Click Here
• Learn the secrets of storytelling in the age of social media. You don’t tell young people why they should join Scouting.You show them. That’s the thinking behind the BSA’s new Visual Storytelling Workshops, happening this summer. Read More.....
• Journey To Excellence, California Inland Empire Council dashboard report April 2012, Click Here to view.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

   ~ Emerson

Please remember Assistant Council Commissioner and Executive Board Member Roy Cooley in your prayers. He was admitted to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center last Friday. Roy is a great Scouter and always there with his great smile and willing hands. 

Joe Daniszewski Scout Executive/CEO California Inland Empire Council, BSA PO Box 8910 1230 Indiana Court Redlands, CA 92374 909.793.2463, Ext. 120 877.732.1450 909.793.0306 Fax

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