Attention Cub Scout Packs!!

If you set a date, time and location for a Back to the Pack Event in late July or early August, the Central Florida Council will mail an invitation, on your behalf, to all your members.  

And, in hopes of getting families reconnected with your Pack, we will also extend the invitation to past members who have dropped out of Scouting.

A Back to the Pack Event is a great way to welcome everyone back from summer break, recruit new leaders, and gets organized before your School Night Sign-Up.

What do you get when you combine 40 billboards, Radio Spots, and Packs executing a well planned Join Scouting promotional plan?  

You get a marketing and promotional campaign geared to get families to become a part of the Central Florida Council.

Starting in July our Packs, with the help of our Districts and Council, will begin a "Get the Word out" campaign to invite families to become part of our Scouting adventure.  Through the use of billboards, radio, newspaper ads, social media, yard signs and posters we will make sure every family of a Scout-age youth will have the chance to join Scouting.

Camp La-No-Che's Summer Camp 2012 is just finishing week 4.  We still have weeks of Summer Camp available until Sunday July 22nd, 2012 to your son.  He can come and join our Provisional Troop (where we provide the adult leaders) and experience our camp's vast program opportunities such as: 

• COPE
• Native American Village
• Climbing
• Personal Watercraft
• ATV Adventure
• Trailblazers (working on Tenderfoot, 2nd Class and 1st Class rank requirements, plus more!)
• Aquatics (lake and pool)
• Ecology
• Plus much more!

If your son has attended Camp La-No-Che's Summer Camp this year or another Camp's Summer Camp we are offering a $50.00 price reduction from our Summer Camp fee so he can come enjoy Camp La-No-Che and all of our Adventures and Program Areas for $205.00.  If this would be your son's first week, then the cost would be $255.00.

Due to unforeseen circumstances the venue for the Auction has been changed from the Double Tree Hilton to the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel at 600 N. Lake Destiny Drive - Maitland, FL 32751.

You are invited to attend one of Central Florida's premiere charity auctions featuring an array of air travel tickets, hotel stays, challenging golf courses, unique autographed memorabilia and exciting vacation packages.

Please come out and join this year's auction chair, Monique Yeager, Director of Marketing of Tony Roma's Corp., for an evening of fun, fellowship and "high bidding" on some incredible items.

Get some great deals for a great cause!

Friday, August 17, 2012 (Doors open at 5:30 PM)

*Sheraton Orlando North Hotel*

600 N. Lake Destiny Drive - Maitland, FL 32751

Complementary Admission!

VIP Packages are available for only $125

(includes a hotel room, continental breakfast and open bar for two)

National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is a leadership course for Boy Scouts who have achieved the rank of First Class and are thirteen (13) years old by the start of NYLT and Venture Crew members who have completed VLSC and are fourteen (14) years old by the start of NYLT. 

The staff of NYLT is happy to announce that registration for the summer course is now open.  The course will run from noon on Sunday, July 29, 2012 to early evening on August 3, 2012, at Camp LaNoChe, Paisley, FL. The cost is $195 and includes all supplies and food.  We can only accommodate 96 youth, so please register early!  You may register online at Camping & Activities on the Central Florida Council web site, or contact Michael Burton (321-360-2659) or Marilyn McAndrew (321-243-9138).

NYLT is NOT summer camp!  The participants are busy with activities all day!  Some of the activities in the schedule include Geo caching, pioneering projects, games, swimming, and of course class room sessions!  The participants are grouped into teams and will participante as a member of their team.  This is a boy lead program, sessions and activities are led by youth; there is very little adult participation.    The adult staff is there as support and oversight - the youth are responsible for the program and we have an awesome youth staff!

This is a life altering experience!  The participants will grow in confidence and learn firsthand leadership skills.  Some adults have called this Wood Badge Light - it's a mountain top experience!

The staff hopes you will make the decision to attend the summer session of NYLT.

The Central Florida Council had a lot to celebrate during the Annual Council Recognition Banquet held on June 15th at the Buena Vista Palace Resort and Spa.   The 2011 Jeff Jennings Class of Eagle Scouts was recognized boasting 393 Eagles, a record number for Central Florida Council.  Eleven of those Eagle Scouts had their projects chosen for the Outstanding Eagle Scout Project of the Year award.  The award was presented to the following Scouts:

Adam Avellan from Seminole Springs District 

Daniel Dumoulin from Challenger District
Evan Essex from Little Econ District
Cameron Hindle from Oceola District
Dean Karavolos from Tuscarora District
Parker Lange from Apopka Shores District
Scott Martin from Riverside District
William Reece from Three Rivers District
Dominic Sabatini from Fort Gatlin District
Graham Sligh from Lake District

Central Florida Council also had the great pleasure of presenting the Silver Beaver award to 14 dedicated Scouters for all the work they have done over the years for this wonderful program.  The 2011-2012 William Patterson Class of Silver Beavers Include:

Stuart Bell  from Fort Gatlin District 

Michael Burton from Little Econ District
Tommy Byerly from Sand Lake District
Dwight Delap from Challenger District
Lonnie Gandy from Seminole Springs District
Sheriff Bob Hansell from Osceola District
K. William Hayes from Lake District
Giovanni Livera Council Board Member
George Maul from Riverside District
Mark Moravec Council Board Member
Gail Newton from Apopka Shores District
Sheriff Jack Parker from Challenger District
Tom Yuschok from Three Rivers District

Other Adult awards included National Outstanding Eagle Scout Awards presented to Ed Haddock, Marvin Hardy, and Judge Kendall G. Sharp as well as the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award presented to Bob Burke and Terry Grove.

Who is the Central Florida Council? It's you, and me. It's every Scout, every Parent, every Leader, and every Professional. It's all of the Units - Packs, Troops, Crews, Ships, Teams, and Posts - plus the District and Council Leadership combined.  We work as one Team in unison providing and improving the Scouting Program. We keep the Scouting Principles strong by living and promoting the Scout Oath and Scout Law. We are "Continuing Our Journey" and are "Prepared. For Life".

Our Journey as an Adult in Scouting is to provide the best Scouting Program possible for our Scouts - that is our mission. This starts and finishes with us the Adult Volunteers - the Scout Leaders - Cub Masters, Den Leaders, Scoutmasters, Advisers, Coaches, Unit Committee Members, and every Parent working together as a Team with District and Council Leadership. We need you the Adult to be a Leader; we need everyone to create success and growth.

Our job as an Adult is a big one - Membership, Finance, and Program (Advancement, Training, Camping, and Activities/Civic Service).That's why we need every Adult involved. Every entity is as important as the other in our progress and success.

Membership - the reason for the Scouting Program, our Scouts and their families. Promotion and marketing equals recruitment and who best to do this are the people who most enjoy and believe in the Scouting Program - us the Adults. Membership doesn't stop at the newly recruited Scout though, it continues on throughout each Scout's, Scouting Adventure by keeping them in the Program - Scout Retention.

Finance, is needed to provide and build the exciting and educational Scouting Adventure. We as Adults are the Scouting Community but more importantly we are also the Central Florida Community. We are friends, neighbors, and peers in business with the Scouting Program's financial supporters. These relationships make us the prime "ask makers". Who else knows them as well as we do, who else would be as easily successful.

Program, the reason our Scouts and Adults are involved, the fun, the outdoors, the challenges of mind and body. It is what keeps our Scouts and us involved - Scouting's Promise.

Advancement is the recognition of our Scouts for a job well done in advancing in their Scouting Careers. Yes, this advancement is the Scout's job because it is their Scouting Program, but our Adult support as their guides, their coaches, their advisers is most definitely needed. The Scouts success is important to them so it must be a priority to us as the Adults.

Training Scouts is of utmost importance. Training of ourselves, the adults, the teachers and leadership for these Scouts must also carry equal importance and be a necessity. Never to neglected or forgotten. We train, but also must be trained.

Camping in the great outdoors is the backbone of the Scouting Program. It's the time our Scouts learn to become men and women, fend for themselves in the outdoors, and learn to survive in what nature may offer - the good or the bad. We the Adult Leaders must be supportive and also guide our Scouts in their transformation from youth to adult. Our payment is plentiful for these efforts as we get to join them in the enjoyment of their adventures. 

Activities/Civic Service are fun activities our Scouts enjoy and also where they support our local communities by providing service. They learn leadership through this community involvement. We, the Adults are the pillars within our communities, hold the knowledge, and have the strengths that our Scouts eagerly want to establish. Our job as the Adults is to help make our Scouts, the future leaders of our communities and country.     

Cub Halloween at Camp La-No-Che

Mark your family's calendar for Cub Halloween 2012 at Camp La-No-Che.  Your Cub Scout and family will be able to participate in the famous "La-No-Che Haunted House", the "Haunted Trails", pumpkin decorating and trick or treating plus activities such as archery, bb guns, games, campfire, camping plus much more!  Cub Halloween 2012 at Camp La-No-Che is available the following weekends (click on the appropriate week to register):

• October 5-7, 2012
• October 12-14, 2012
• October 19-21, 2012
• October 26-28, 2012