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Friends of Scouting is the Colonial Virginia Council's annual giving campaign and is the largest and most important source of funding. Your support enables Scouting's programs and outdoor adventures to prepare young people for a lifetime of character and leadership.
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In this Issue... Camp Card Sign Ups! See your District Executive if you still want to sell and haven't signed up! We have five different cards that have geographic specific vendors. Sell one style or more! 
The Scout Shop and Council Office will be closed on Monday, February 16th in observance of President's Day.
Order of the Arrow Beaver Days
The Order of the Arrow Beaver Days are now listed as: March 28, April 4, April 11, and April 18.
Please click the below documents to see the jobs needed:
Webelos and Cub Scout Resident Camp
Breaking News from the NYLT Staff
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NYLT Promotional Video - Watch Now!
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2015 Lumberjack
Date: March 13-15 Cost: $10/15 Location: Bayport Scout Reservation
Day Camp - Save the Date
Eagle Scout and Silver Beaver Banquet
 
The following local units have signed up to camp at Bayport Scout Reservation in the summer of 2015:Troops:
10, 16, 17, 27, 29, 43, 75, 103, 414, 501
To register your unit for 2015 Summer Camp or High Adventure Programs, click here.
Information in our newsletter is organized geographically.
Although events across the Council are open to all units, most units participate in events close to home. Each local territory has a specific service area and a name. Find your District below:
- Chesapeake Bay: Mathews, Gloucester, and York Counties and the City of Poquoson
- Colonial Trail: Surry and Isle of Wight Counties and the City of Suffolk
- First Colony: James City County and the City of Williamsburg.
- Heritage: The City of Hampton
- James River: The City of Newport News
- Siouan Rivers: Sussex, Southampton, Greenville and Brunswick Counties as well as the Cities of Franklin and Emporia
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Chesapeake Bay District Cub Scout Roundtable
Playing Scout games at Chesapeake Bay Roundtable.
Scouting for Food
Save the Date! April 25th from 9 am to 5pm at Food Lion in Poquoson, Tabb, Grafton, York, Gloucester, and Hayes.
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Colonial Trail District Cub Scout Roundatable
We would like to invite you to the monthly Colonial Trail District Cub Scout Roundtable. A Cub Scout roundtable is a form of commissioner service and supplemental training for volunteers at the unit level. The objectives of the roundtable are to provide leaders with program ideas, information on policy and events, and training opportunities. The roundtable is a forum for sharing experiences and enjoying fun and fellowship with other Scout leaders. The roundtable experience will inspire, motivate, and enable all types of unit leaders to provide a stronger program for their Cub Scouts. Come join us every second Wednesday of the month at 7:30 pm at Oakland Christian United Church of Christ located at 5641 Godwin Boulevard in Suffolk, VA. We'll see you there! Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner: Eric Landreth (eclclandreth@gmail.com)
Did You Know?
Did you know that that about 70 percent of BSA units nationwide are chartered by faith-based organizations? The various Religious Emblems (RE) programs encourage a stronger relationship with your unit's Charter Organization (CO) and helps develop more of a two-way street with regard to involvement and communication. Research also shows that Scouts that work on their religious emblems remain in Scouting longer. In fact, use of the RE programs can also be used as a recruitment tool for your Unit.
Consider the number of kids that may be new to your CO that aren't in Scouts! Think of the kids in your unit and all of the possible different faiths that are assembled there that may not even know about the various RE programs available to them. RE programs are available for Baha'i to Baptist, Morovian to Methodist, and many more in between. You don't have to teach all of them, you just need to let the Scouts know that they are there for them to use! Additionally, use of the RE program by those Scouts who do not claim a particular faith may just spark an interest in learning more about their Creator. Remember, Lord Baden Powell said, "No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys his law. So every Scout should have a religion." Use of the RE programs could help those Scouts grow into one.
Unit RECs (RE Coordinators), as well as the District RECs, help educate, motivate, evaluate, and facilitate the RE program. Does your Unit have a REC? Need help getting a RE program started? Plenty of good help can be found at www.praypub.org. Want to know if there is a REC for your District and how to contact them; talk to your District Program Coordinator or the Council REC (Yep! We got one of them too!). I would also be willing to assist by answering questions, sharing Lessons Learned or making a presentation to your Unit or CO, regardless of district. I can be reached via email at d.j.willis533@gmail.com.
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2015 Piankatank Nekut Yahakin First Colony Camporee
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Heritage District Pinewood Derby
Date: February 28th
Deadline: February 19th
Cost: $5
Click here to learn more.
Cub Gold Rush - Cub-O-Ree
Date: April 10-12th
Click here to learn more.
Guide to building your covered wagon.
Click here to view the Leader's Guide.
STEM Activity Day
Date: March 21st
Location: Virginia Air and Space Museum
Cost: $16.00
Click here to learn more
God and CountryReligious Awards Program for Youth
Date: Sundays 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., February 15-April 26 (except Easter)
Location: First United Methodist Church Fox Hill
Who: Open to all Scouts
Cost: $30.00
Click here to view the flyer. 10 Commandments Hike
Date: March 21
Time: 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Where: First United Methodist Church Fox Hill
What: A Ten Commandment Hike visits several religious faiths and discusses the com-mandments at each location along with learning about each faith.
Cost: $5.00
Want to learn more? Come to the informational ice cream social on February 15th.
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James River District Pinewood Derby
Date: March 28th
Location: Christ United Methodist Church
Cost: $6.00
Newport News One City Marathon & 8K
Date: February 27-March 1
Location: Camp Pipsico
Cost: $12.00 per person/$25.00 at time of registration
Deadline: February 1, 2015
Click here to view the Leader's Guide
The Klondike College will be held on February 7th from 9-2 PM at Warwick Memorial United Methodist Church. The college will cover all events that will be held at the James River Klondike Derby. Pizza lunch will be provided, $2/person.
4th Annual BSA Campsite Cleanup
Date: March 7
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Council Events & News
2015 Lumberjack
Date: March 13-15
Cost: $10/15
Location: Bayport Scout Reservation
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Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills
Date: April 17-19
Location: Bayport, with pre-meeting at St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Hampton
Cost: $20/$30
Click here to view the registration form.
Leave No Trace - Walk in the Forrest
Date: Saturday, March 21
Time: 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Location: New Kent Forestry Center
Click here to learn more.
NYLT | | Breaking News from NYLT! Watch our Video! |
Training of the youth leaders in a troop is important in helping the individual Scout and the troop grow. The boy Scouts of America have developed a training experience that has proven very valuable in the training of youth leaders; it is called National Youth Leader Training.
The purpose of NYLT is to assist you in training your youth leaders. The NYLT Troop works as an ideal troop using the patrol method and rotating leadership responsibility. NYLT is not designed to teach basic Scout skills, which participants should already have, it strives to develope in a scout the leadership techniques to "keep the patrol together and get the job done right". Please help us make this training more effective by recommending scouts who are prepared and in need of this special leadership training.
This year we will hold NYLT at Bayport Scout Reservation over two weekends: March 6-8 and March 20-22. The total cost is $180. Details are available on the flyer and registration form.
Click here to view the NYLT flyer.
Click here to view the registration form.
2015 Commissioner Conference
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Cost: $10.00 at door
Location: Newport News City Center, Fountain Plaza II, 700 Town Center Drive
Click here to view the flyer.
2015 College of Commissioner Science
The FUNdamentals of Training - Train the Trainer
Date: March 14 (date changed)
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $5.00/$10.00
Location: Magnolia United Methodist Church, Suffolk
Click here to view the flyer
Training Awards
Your youth work hard to earn advancements and awards AND so do your adult leaders. Be sure they are recognized appropriately. Please remember to use the Progress Record Forms with the 2012 requirements for the Adult Leader Training Awards. The old forms will no longer be accepted.
CPR and Basic First Aid
This course covers adult and child/infant CPR with AED, how to respond in an emergency, and render basic first aid. This meets and exceeds the requirements for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Level 1 Provider.
Click here to view dates, times, and locations.
Contact: Al Materia, sales@emta.net or toll free at 1-877-235-3682
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Advancement and Registration
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Keeping your Scouts' Records current has never been easier with Internet Advancement Reporting!
Units that are using it love that their scouts' records are up to date immediately and that Packmaster and Troopmaster are easily uploaded to Scoutnet when they use the myscouting.org porthole and click submit.
Did you know? Only ONE copy is needed to be turned into council. Keep a copy for unit records. Please do not turn in another report because you were not able to purchase all your awards the first go-round. The Scout Shop Manager will mark your copy of the report annotating which items were issued. Bring the report back in to purchase the awards you were lacking. Reporting the awards again only causes confusion, especially when the award has a different date earned for the same Scout.
Did you know? Reporting advancements is the primary responsibility of your unit Advancement Coordinator. Your Advancement Coordinator is the "processor" on the Internet Advancement Report (IAR).
The Pack Adv Coord collects the pack advancement and awards from the dens to enter, then signs report.
The Troop Adv Coord collects awards from the scouts verifying requirements are signed off, enters data, signs report, and obtains the two additional signatures required from Board/committee members for rank advancement, as has been the rule with the past reports. (The acceptable variant to the three signatures are: Option1) Complete a fillable advancement report for BORs to obtain the signatures the day of the Board of Review, then attach it to their Internet Advancement report. www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34403.pdf Option 2) Attach a signed Troopmaster Advancement Report with the three committee signatures to the IAR. Option 3) Attach EACH Troopmaster BOR sheet that has the Board members' signatures.) SM/ASMs should NOT be a board member nor
sign for BORs as their responsibility is the Scoutmaster Conference.
Did you know? Award Applications must accompany the IAR- e.g. Eagle Palm Applications - must have the three required BOR members signatures- middle of right column. SM signs bottom left. Use this form http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/58-709_WB.pdf or you can use the Palm Application that Troopmaster generates. Boy Scouts world_conservation_application.pdf or Cub Scout World Conservation Award LNT, CS Outdoor Activity, Nat'l Outdoors Awards, to list a few more. Be sure all requirements are completed, dated, and the required unit leaders' signatures are on the form before submitting to council for executives' signatures. For the 50-Miler Award Application ; please include an advancement report with the scouts' and leaders' names attached to it with the full date earned.
Most everything the scout earns, with the exception of small things like Tiger beads, compass points, arrows points past 9 arrows, can be recorded. Most of the NOVA awards are even listed. Be attentive to awards that are similar - e.g. Communications belt loop vs communicator activity pin; Geology vs Geologist pin; Geology MB; Geocaching MB; Genealogy MB; Woodworking vs Woodcarving.
A few award that you are not able to enter - religious knot, recruiter, Natl Honor Patrol, Natl Outdoor Badge-Gold. The Religious Knot and Recruiter can be entered in Scoutnet using a different area of the program at the office. So report the Religious knot, and the specific award earn. (God and Life Light of Christ, God and Country, etc.) For these awards that are not available for you to enter online, Please submit a report http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34403.pdf orprint a report from your Scout Management program so we have all awards earned in your unit file.
Advancement Reports that are turned in at to Heart of Virginia Council (Richmond) or Tidewater Council (VA Beach) have a high probability of not getting to YOUR council and if it is NOT a IAR may not ever be entered. So remember to turn in your reports to your council shop on Jefferson in Newport News.
Log on. Try it out. Start using it. CVC Goal is to have every unit on line by March 31, 2015.
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Monday through Friday: 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
The Scout Shop and Council Office will be closed on Monday, February 16th in observance of President's Day.
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Next Newsletter Deadline: February 12th
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