Monday Memo
 | Joseph Daniszewski
Scout Executive |  |
Good day and welcome to our August 16th, 2010 Monday Memo
Facilities Improvements
Over the last several months, a number of needed projects were completed at our council service center and camp properties. Numerous other improvements have also been completed through pack and troop service projects and Order of the Arrow Ordeal projects. This fall, we plan on resuming work on the Camp Helendade pool house as well as continue tree thinning projects funded through grants from CalFire at both camps.
If you would like more information about how you can help improve our council properties, please contact Council Program Director Kevin Gustafson at Kevin.gustafson@scouting.org.
Jack Dembo Scout Service Center
Redlands, California
- Parking lot repaved, relined and curbs repainted by High Valley Construction Company.
- Landscaping pruned and mulched by a grateful Scouting family.
- Main Jack Dembo Scout Service Center sign (south side) refurbished and repainted by anonymous donor.
- BSA sign on the North side of the building relocated to middle of the building by anonymous donor.
Camp Helendade
Running Springs, California
- Old health lodge demolished and removed by Grand Terrace Troop 40 and Cahuilla OA Lodge.
- Swimming pool repainted by anonymous donor.
- Camp Wiley staff continued to clean-up maintenance area debris throughout the summer.
- Dining hall interior repainted by Camp Wiley staff.
Camp Emerson/Boseker Scout Reservation
Idyllwild, California
- New dishwasher purchased by Friends of Temescal
- New kitchen water heaters purchased by Robert Quezada and Friends of Temescal.
- Swimming pool repainted by anonymous donor.
- New pool heaters purchased by Friends of Temescal.
- Foxfire participants completed an erosion control project at the lake.
Scouts struggle to keep a straight face while interviewing Mike Rowe
 | Mike Rowe is funny. Whether he's advocating the removal of the word Clean from the Scout Law or addressing 70,000 Scouts and Scouters as the Ambassador of Dirt, he knows how to make people chuckle. Well, he's at it again in a new video, seen above. In it, two Boy Scout reporters try to remain professional while interviewing Rowe at the jamboree. Rowe, an Eagle Scout and host of "Dirty Jobs," jokes that he's very much in favor of a Dirty Jobs merit badge. He also says that the jamboree is so fun that it should be held not every four years but twice a day. Yes, 730 jamborees a year. He might be onto something. Click on http://bit.ly/cZHM5Q to watch the latest interview. |
2010 National Scout Jamboree had highest attendance since 1973
After a final count, it's official: 43,434 people attended the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, making it the most-attended jamboree since 1973. As many of you may remember, the '73 event was held on separate sites, one in Idaho and one in Pennsylvania, which helped boost the numbers.
That means this year's celebration was the most-attended single-site jamboree since 1964. That year's edition of the event, held in Valley Forge, Pa., had 50,960 attendees.
The final attendance number includes 30,867 youth participants, 3,726 adult leaders, and 8,841 staff members. Day visitors aren't part of the attendance count.
Beginning with the 1977 jamboree at Pennsylvania's Moraine State Park, jamboree attendance numbers have risen at each event. This year's total topped the attendance number from 2005 by just 127 people.
In all, there have been a total of 708,485 attendees at the BSA's 17 jamborees throughout history. For totals from each event, follow the jump.
| Jamboree attendance through the years: 1937: Washington, D.C., 27,238
1950: Valley Forge, Pa., 47,163
1953: Irvine Ranch, Calif., 45,401
1957: Valley Forge, Pa., 52,580
1960: Colorado Springs, Colo., 56,377
1964: Valley Forge, Pa., 50,960
1969: Farragut State Park, Idaho, 34,251
1973: Farragut State Park, Idaho and Moraine State Park, Pa., 73,610 |
1977: Moraine State Park, Pa., 28,601
1981: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 29,765
1985: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 32,615
1989: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 32,717
1993: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 34,449
1997: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 36,015
2001: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 40,002
2005: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 43,307
2010: Fort A.P. Hill, Va., 43,434
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Boy Scouts Has a New Group in Town: A Marching Band
On July 3rd, at the Independence Day parade in Corona, a new group came to town: The CIEC Centennial Tribute Band. Leading the line-up of several hundred scouts in this year’s parade were 20 Boy Scouts who marched together down Main Street playing “Grand Old Flag” to the applause and cheers of the spectators. It was a near perfect performance as the scouts never appeared to break cadence. They wore full Class A uniforms and a special Centennial neckerchief made just for the members to create their special appearance.
The BSA entry in this year’s parade was the largest grouping of scouts in an Inland Empire parade in recent memory. It was also the largest entry in the parade itself. Spectators commented that “they just kept coming and coming” as they watched the mostly Temescal District scouts stream by with banners and flags representing their individual units. A contingent of Eagle Scouts carried a large US flag that had been flown over the US Capitol on February 8, 2010, the date of the 100th anniversary. Also with the entry was a beautiful vintage 1930’s oil tanker truck owned by scout leader Mike Downs (of Downs Energy).
Scouter Kevin Young of Troop 107 in Corona worked since late last year to formulate his concept for a marching band, bring together the scouts, and then have them practice for two months before the actual event. Scouts came from as far away as Hesperia and no one ever missed a practice session. It was the scouts instructing the scouts for those who had never marched in a band before, and it all came together to form a bound between members that appears to be prepared to carry on beyond this centennial year of celebration. If any scout within the California Inland Empire Council would like to learn more about this group then give Kevin Young a call at 951-735-0616. More can be learned at Facebook at BSA Temescal District Centennial Marching Band
Kurt Wochholz, Temescal District Centennial Chair
District Service Project
On Saturday August 14th, Troops 2000 & 303 and Packs 555 & 306 participated in Improving the Etiwanda Preserve by cleaning the trails, removing non-native plants and removing trash and recyclables. It was hosted by the Frontier Project (part of CVWD) and the County of San Bernardino. The North Etiwanda Preserve was established as a habitat preservation and offers a 3.25 mile hiking trail with points of interest along the way that provide insight into the biology, history, geology and early cultures associated with the Preserve. It is a great place to take your Pack or Troop when you're looking for a place to hike.
Eric Herchenroeder
Scoutmaster Troop 2000
Committee Chair Pack 555
Troop 90 Florida Sea Base
Troop 90 recently had 2 crews return from the Florida Sea Base.
The first crew spent the week sailing around the Bahamas. They visited Hope Town, Man-O-War Cay, Guana Cay, Water Cay and Marsh Harbor, and they toured a working lighthouse that was built in 1864. They sailed, snorkeled, explored, and ate well every day. Absolutely beautiful.
The other crew spent a week on Big Munson Island, which is a Boy Scout owned island in the florida keys. After war canoeing 5.5 miles to the island and wading ashore with all their gear, they spent the week deep sea fishing, snorkeling, kayaking, and exploring the island. They were also able to visit Key West, the southern most Key in Florida.
Troop 90 was the first troop from the California Inland Empire Council to hang their Troop numbers at the Brinton Environment Center at the Sea Base. Check out all the pictures of the adventures on Troop 90's website www.bsatroop90.org
Bahama Adventure (Youth: Dakota Aguilar, Chris Anderson, Jay Gettis, Blake Hansen, Tariq Abdul-Rahman, Adults: Dave Aguilar, Larry Cole, Eric Hansen)
Out Island Adventure (Youth: Chris Burk, Kishore Mukherjee, Zach Wheatley, Adults: Mike Burk, Ken Campbell, Ashis Mukherjee)
Michael A. Burk, Scoutmaster Troop 90
BSA Race to 2010 Geocaching
Tahquitz District Pinewood Derby Travel Bug is first to arrive at the 2010 national Jamboree through geocaching in the biggest, longest pinewood derby ever.
Our pinewood derby car was placed in a hidden geocache on the Wildomar / Murrieta border on March 11 2010. It was found by a geocacher using a GPS to find the coordinates that were posted on www.geoceching.com he then moved it to a hidden geocache in Georgia on May 7 2010 then moved to another cache in South Carolina on May 25 2010 then to a cache in Virginia on June 4 2010 then to another cache in Virginia on July 5 2010 then a half hour after the pit stop finish line cache was announced at the entrance to the jamboree it was the first car placed on July 21 2010. Our car logged 2618.1 miles on it during it's journey to the jamboree.
84 of the 211 cars made it to the jamboree.
Here are the latest compiled stats as of 23 July, 0800 Pacific Time.
There are 211 cars in the race, from 101 councils.
The cars have traveled 257,219 miles. This is equal to traveling around the earth (at the equator) over 10 times.
They have all logged enough miles to make it to the moon and beyond. The first Three cars that reached the PIT STOP (finish line) at the jamboree:
BSA Race to 2010 Tahquitz District Travel Bug
Race To 2010 - Grand Canyon Council First Car TB
Race to 2010: Central Florida Council
The top three cars with the most miles are:
SDIC, Race to 2010, Black Mountain District – 15572 miles
SDIC, Race to 2010, Pacific Coast District – 12376 miles
FEC, Race to 2010, W6-803-2-10 – 8713 miles
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The car sitting the furthest away is the car from Marin Council entered by the “Get in the Game” lead volunteer. It is in Southern Scotland, United Kingdom, 3471.5 miles from the PIT STOP.
One car has traveled to Queensland Australia and back.
One car has traveled to Japan and back.
If anyone wants to track our car they can log onto www.geocaching.com and click on "trackables" then do a search for "BSA race to 2010 Tahquitz district travel bug". The car will be released back out into the geocache world to continue it's travels. Remember to also visit www.geoscouting.com .
Greg Rasmussen
ADC TQ, SM Troop 500
Council Commissioner Staff - Venture Scouts Needed!
Venturers..............We are looking for Venturing youth Scouts to staff this Fall's Wood Badge Course Oct. 1-3, 2010. We need 8 to 10 Venture Scouts and they would need to get excused from school Friday Oct. 1st. There is no cost and they get a free hat and T-shirt! There is also a meeting Sat. Aug. 21th that I would like them to attend but not mandatory. Please have them contact Dennis Carlos at his home email at carlos005@earthlink.net.
News & Tidbits
Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) is around the corner. October 16th, a Saturday at Camp Emerson the Lee DeForest Amateur Radio Club will set up a short wave station (called a HF station) from about 9 AM until about 4 or 5 PM. It just happens to be the 3 Peaks District Webelos Woods weekend. Depending on conditions for the radios, its possible to talk with other Scouts around the world or at least within the USA as a rule and see what "they" are doing. | Water District Honors Eagle Scout Project Last spring Tanner Wegrowski, a member of Boy Scout Troop 424 in Wildomar, contacted the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District to discuss Eagle Scout project ideas. Operation Fire Hydrant was launched and his efforts were rewarded on July 27 when Tanner and his troop were honored by Read More..... | Perris-area Building is Last Evidence of Settlement Little remains of the small gold mining town of Pinacate, so little in fact, that just one building stands where train tracks used to bring hundreds of miners to shop, get their mail or rest for the night. Pinacate's small general store and post office was the first structure built in what is now Perris. It served the community of 400 starting in 1882. Read More..... |
Positve Quote
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
Have a great Scouting week!
Yours in the Spirit of Scouting,
Joe Daniszewski
Scout Executive/CEO
California Inland Empire Council, BSA
1230 Indiana Court
Redlands, CA 92374
909.793.2463, Ext. 120
877.732.1450
909.793.0306 Fax
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