August 5, 2019

Adventure Weekend

California Inland Empire Adventure Weekend
  & San Bernardino County Sherriff's Rodeo

 Register here for Adventure Weekend

        September 27-29, 2019

     at Glen Helen Regional Park

Time for Adventure

Past Sheriffs Rodeo and Adventure Weekend

Big Cat Weekend

Register for Big Cat Weekend

Order of the Arrow Conclave

Get ready for the biggest Order of the Arrow event in SoCal, the Section W-4S Conclave.

Hundreds of members of Cahuilla, Puvuunga, and Wiatava Lodges will be coming together for a weekend of fun and fellowship at Camp Emerson on October 4-6.

The theme for the weekend will have a mountain man type theme called "Fort Fellowship"

Registration coming soon

Summer Camp lost and found

You took home awesome memories but what did you leave behind?

We have uniforms, handbooks, wallets, glasses, knives, daypacks, watches. water bottles, flashlights. and more....

Please come to the office in Redlands to claim your missing items. The items will be held until October 1st.

Popcorn

Popcorn orders have been placed and units should have

receiving there Stater Brothers Schedules from there District Kernels

Look for store other than Stater Brothers to find additional selling opportunities

If you need advise or help on finding places to set up show and sell booths

contact your District Kernel

Popcorn Pick-Up and start of the sale August 17th

Membership Kick Off and Celebration

This meeting took place at the Jack Dembo Scout Center (Council Office)

Sessions were broken down for Cub Scout, Scouts BSA, & Venturing which was open to ALL adult and youth Scouters. 

We introduced this year’s recruitment incentive. Breakfast was served by our Council Scout Executive and his wife. 

Now to execute the plan. How can you get engaged

Fall Recruitment

Have you started booking back to school nights?

Have you set up any recruitment or be seen events?

Need some help?

Let me introduce you to you California Inland Empire Membership team

Scouts Better with a Buddy

Back by popular demand, the DOUBLE DARE CHALLENGE!

WE DARE YOU to double your unit size or add 20 Scouts.

Complete this challenge by September 27th and win a pizza party for your whole unit.

World Jamboree

Last Thursday night, the largest gathering of scouts in the world came to a glorious conclusion.  The 24^th World Scout Jamboree brought together 40,000 scouts from 150 countries for 10 days of fun, fellowship and adventure.  The World Jamboree was held at the Bechtel Summit Scout Ranch in West Virginia.   This was the first time in 50 years that the World Jamboree was held in the United States.  It was hosted by the scouting organizations of Canada, Mexico and The Boy Scouts of America.

Troop USA428 was predominately made up of scouts from CIEC and they had the time of their lives.  Our troop was camping next to troops from Chile, South Korea, Sweden and Belgium.  Most dinners, our troop would split up, with half going to eat at another country’s camp site, while half of the other country’s troop would eat at our camp site.  Watching our scouts eat, interact, play games or sing with other scouts who lived half a world away was truly heartwarming. What they discovered was that they had much more in common than they had differences.  They all loved camping, pop music and scouting.  They all had issues with school, their parents and dealing with being teenagers. When the night curfew came, it was a challenge to get them to say good-night to their new friends.

All of the scouts shared the amazing adventures that were available at the Bechtel-Summit Scout ranch.  The available activities included: white water rafting, zip lines, shooting sports, kayaking, STEM activities, model UN, skateboarding, mountain biking (high gear and low gear), forging, ham radio operation, tomahawk throwing, neckerchief and patch trading, cross bow shooting, paddle boarding, rock climbing and rappelling to name a few. Participants got to have a conversation in real time with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The faith and beliefs area had representatives of just about every faith practiced on planet earth.

This was a formative experience for our scouts that will last a lifetime.  I can only hope that this ten-day period of their lives will widen their world view and enhance their appreciation of how diverse the people of the world are and yet how much we share in common.

Bryan Kocen, Scoutmaster, Troop USA428

NYLT session 2

Madison Longenecker attended this  past NYLT . Her older brother Tyler was the staff Quartermaster. This was his 3rd year on staff and he was very proud to have his sister take the course he helped staff.

Scouting Safely

Scoutshop

Cartoon Corner

Thoughts from the Council:

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