Spring 2006 Volume XI Number 2 Upcoming Events Three NOAC Spaces Remain!! April 2006

6 Village Meetings 7:30pm The 2006 National Order of the District Roundtable Meeting Sites Arrow Conference will be held in East Lansing, Michigan on the campus of 7 - 9 Spring Ordeal 8:00pm Michigan State University. This There will be a Scouts Own service on conference occurs every two years Palm Sunday. and is second only to a national Cutter Scout Reservation jamboree in size. Over 7,000 arrowmen from around the country are 13 Council of Chiefs 7:30pm expected to attend. Scout Service As of press time, there are only three Center - Foster City spaces remaining. They will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. 28 - 30 Section W3A Conclave For more information, please Register in advance at w3a.org to save $10 contact David Rosenkrantz at Cutter Scout Reservation 650 355 2556 May 2006 Pictured above is the Philmont Grace. High Adventure for 4 Village Meetings 7:30pm June 2006 ( continued ) FREE! District Roundtable Meeting Sites Banquet is coming up in June - time and place to be determined Philmont, Northern Tier, Florida Sea 8 Section Meeting - email Dude, where's my Base! What do these places have in [email protected] for common with each other besides details Conclave?! adrenaline? Price! Although adventures in these 11 Council of Chiefs 7:30pm April 28 - 30 2006 world class Scouting locales are Pacific Skyline Council Scout Service usually in the Jamboree price range Center - Foster City Hosting the W3A Conclave is a once you can go there for free, that's right every eight years opportunity. This free! To get reimbursed for going year is ours, so all hands on deck. please contact the chief, Josh Alberts 13 Scout-a-rama Join us for a weekend of fun, at [email protected] fellowship and learning. Help your The OA Ocean Adventure is already 27 Grave Decoration fellow Ohlone Lodge members as we filled up for this year but the other host Section W3A's Conclave. We programs still have room. See the June 2006 have a great selection of classes website for details: lined up including bead working, http://adventure.oa-bsa.org regalia making, drumming, how to 4 Village Meetings 7:30pm make drum beaters as well as District Roundtable Meeting Sites classes on dance teams. Other Inventory Check! activities will include hatchet throwing, Ian Davis, our Lodge Treasure, is 8 Section Meeting - email free swim in a HEATED POOL, staging a full update and review of all [email protected] for Indian Hand Ball, and many more Lodge owned items. If you have any of details other great activities. See the the inventory such as sashes, enclosed flyer for details. Come patches, and the like, please bring experience this fantastic once-only- 11 Council of Chiefs 7:30pm them to Council meeting or contact Ian Pacific Skyline Council Scout Service every-eight-years weekend in our Davis for further instruction at Center - Foster City own back yard. [email protected] Advisor's Minute

With just three short months to go in the 2005-2006 year things are starting Publications Chairman to accelerate at warp speed. Our Mitchell Hughes youth and adult leaders will be called Publications Adviser upon to perform over and above their David Rosenkrantz normal call to duty. It will really be a [email protected] time for our leaders to shine. All roads lead to the Ohlone lodge hosted Conclave at Cutter Scout Lodge Executive Committee Reservation on April 28-30, 2006. As we move forward to conclave we will Lodge Chief be finishing the troop elections of Josh Alberts ordeal candidates for the spring ordeal. On March 18th we will have Vice Chief of Administration elangomat training hosted by Frank Thomas Abbott Coltart and Nick Wilmes Jr. All arrowmen and women can Vice Chief of Inductions register for conclave online at: Nick Wilmes Jr. WWW.W3a.org I strongly recommend all parties do so as soon Lodge Secretary as possible so food and Mitchell Hughes accommodations can be made. In June we will start a day with Lodge Lodge Treasurer Leadership Development and end the The Lodge of W3A - Achewon Nimat - SF Bay Area Council Ian Davis day with the lodge banquet. This - Esselen - Monterey Bay Area Council training will be for all new lodge - Hungteetsepoppi - Piedmont Council Food service officers and for lodge advisers and for - Kaweah - Alameda Council any youth or adults interested in - Miwok - Santa Clara County Council (open for applicants) - Ohlone - Pacific Skyline Council becoming lodge officers or advisers. - Talako - Marin Council Lodge Adviser As we move into summer we will - Ut-in Selica - Mount Diablo-Silverado have youth and adults going to NOAC. Council Steve De Vere Pictured above are the lodges of our section ( [email protected] For those that have put off making W3A ), along with which councils they are part plans for NOAC we still may have of. room for you, but don't wait any Lodge Staff Adviser longer, contact me or your village Olin Laster leaders, now is the time to call. Olin Laster We only have five regular lodge News From The Otter Side is published quarterly meetings to plan and prepare for the is the new by WWW Ohlone Lodge #63, , close of an exciting year. When we all Lodge Staff . work together to plan our events, work together to hold our events, give Advisor For more OA news, check out the that little extra to make sure all following websites: arrowmen enjoy and learn at our Olin Laster is the new Lodge Staff events we all can experience a job Advisor, replacing John Richers, who National Order of the Arrow well done. had been filling in temporarily. Olin is a http://www. oa-bsa. org/ long term member of our lodge, Western Region Order of the Arrow Respectfully, having been elected as a youth, and http://www. oawest. org/ completing his brotherhood a year Steven De Vere later in Ohlone Lodge's First Need more information about the lodge Ohlone Lodge Adviser Brotherhood Ceremony. or the Order of the Arrow? Check out [email protected] He was on camp staff for several Ohlone lodge's website at 650.450.0773 years, and is currently working for www.ohlone63.org council as a district Executive. Find the lodge calendar, committee and village information and more!

Lodge Officer Needed Did you know? Copyright on this publication is by WWW Ohlone Lodge #63 The Lodge is seeking a Food Service Permission is given for internal use within the Ohlone Lodge # 63 was formed OA and BSA # Chief. Applicants should email the January 1, 1995 from the merger of All other rights reserved Chief, Josh Alberts at Pomponio Lodge #528 and Stanford- [email protected] for info. Oljato Lodge # 207.