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Volume 7, Issue 9 May, 2021 Visit us on the web at http://www.pequott.org District Commissioners Meeting: Order of the Arrow – Wulihan Chapter Wed.UPCOMING February 6 thMEETING 2019 @ 7:45pm DATES Visit the website!! PequottCouncil Service District Center, Roundtable Massapequa Mtg. PequottTue. May District 11th 202 Roundtable1 @ 7:30pm Mtg. Wantagh Park pavilionth Tue. February 12 2019 @ 7:30pm DistrictMassapequa Committee H.S. Cafeteria Meeting: http://www.troopwebhost.org/OAWulihanChapter DistrictWed. May Committee 26th 2021 Meeting:@ 7:30pm DISTINGUISHED ARROWMEN Wed. January 23rd 2019 @ 7:45pm Council Service Center, Massapequa SERVICE AWARD PATCH DISTRICT DINNER Submit designs to [email protected] After being canceled last year due to COVID-19, we are pleased to Important OA Dates: announce that we will be holding a LODGE OFFICER ELECTIONS district dinner this year. This year’s Sun. May 30th 7:30pm via Zoom dinner will be held at Jericho Terrace, 249 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola on Thursday, June SPRING WEEKEND 17th, from 6pm to 10pm. June 4th to June 6th at Schiff Scout Reservation This adults-only affair will feature a cocktail hour https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7500 and sit-down dinner, as well as an open bar with 2021 DUES ARE DUE premium liquor. Raffles will also be held. 2021 dues may be paid at This will be a great opportunity for our scouters https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7406/Register to socialize after a year of being sidelined due to Note that Ordeal members inducted after July the pandemic. Come and welcome the new 15, 2020 are covered for 2021. district chairman and congratulate our District Award of Merit recipients. KEEP THE SCOUTING The cost per attendee is only $65. The reservation deadline is June 2nd. Please note ADVENTURE GOING AT HOME that walk-ins will not be permitted and social For ideas on how to continue the Scouting distancing and mask wearing protocols will be adventure at home, visit followed. https://www.scouting.org/scoutingathome/ More info & to register: Additional info on Scouting during COVID-19 can https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7595 be found here: https://www.scouting.org/coronavirus/ Youth Protection Training for Adults Must be renewed every two years in order to maintain your BSA membership. If yours is expiring soon, take it again. It’s offered online at: http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection.aspx ATTENTION ALL OA BUCKSKIN A TRAINING REMINDER FROM LODGE MEMBERS! THEODORE ROOSEVELT Buckskin Lodge is currently COUNCIL working on making a new Online training is available Lodge handbook and is for all programs and levels having an open submission in scouting. call for any lodge member who Adults and youth can take wishes to contribute to this 13th advantage of some great training opportunities edition of the book. with online courses now and registering for This is an open invitation to all current and advanced & in-person training courses in the former members of Buckskin Lodge to contribute future. Online training is available for youth and a story of your experiences in the lodge and/or adults. It is informative, user-friendly and fun! any pictures you want to share. This book is Adult training can be found at about the legacy of Buckskin Lodge and https://www.scouting.org/training/adult/ connecting our past and present to the future of Training for youth can be found at our members of the lodge. https://www.scouting.org/training/youth/ All entries can be submitted at https://forms.gle/Ddum4QuQEF2CYfdP9. Please submit entries by June 18th. CUB SCOUT LEADER We look forward to seeing all of your POSITION-SPECIFIC TRAINING contributions to the new handbook and reading Cub Scout leaders and committee your stories from our past and now! members are encouraged to experience the recently revised Questions? Please contact Mike Cataldi Cub Scout Leader position-specific ([email protected]) or Mike Dioguardi online training courses. ([email protected]). Offered in bite-sized modules, these segments are interactive and fun. Accessed through your SUMMER OF SERVICE 2021 dashboard in my.scouting.org (that means you Join Scouting families across the country in a need to log in to get credit for training), select spirited Summer of Service! Scouts have always “my training” and go to the “training center” for been a force for positivity in our communities, the list of courses by program. from public health drives to caring for the Select “Cub Scouting” and enroll to train for your environment and assisting neighbors in need. registered (or desired) position in Cub Scouts. Our world needs that Scouting spirit once again. Choose from: Let’s step up! Together, we can answer the call • Pack Committee chair to make a positive impact. Join us today, with • Pack Committee member projects big or small, in a Summer of Service! • Cubmaster and Assistant Cubmaster More info: • Cub Scout Den Leader and Assistant https://www.scouting.org/summerofservice/ (Tiger, Wolf, Bear or Webelos) …or take all of them! THE PEQUOTT DISTRICT IS ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM! Many of the modules are the same across all positions and only need to be taken once! Search for Pequott Point Questions? Please contact Faun Guarino, [email protected] (or 516-997-5426). MERIT BADGE WORKSHOPS SAGAMORE TRAINING The earning of merit The Sagamore Service Troop, badges by Scouts is a big founded in 1923 as a part of the Scouting brotherhood of trained adult leaders, offers training for units program, especially for the higher ranks. To aid & scouts of the Theodore Scouts in earning various Roosevelt Council. merit badges, the Programs include Backpacking, Theodore Roosevelt Council holds Merit badge Fishing, Cooking, Nature, workshops. Cold Weather Camping, Mountain Biking, & Orienteering. These workshops offer Scouts USA the Most of the programs cover a opportunity to spend time working on select merit badges (available merit badges vary with number of the requirements of their associated merit badge. each workshop). Day programs are being held at Schiff Scout Upcoming workshops will be held at Schiff Reservation on May 22nd (Orienteering, Scout Reservation and are scheduled for May https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7578), June 15th and 22nd from 9am to 1pm. A small fee is 12th (Fishing, charged during registration. https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7579), June 19th (also Fishing, Registration is open but don’t delay registering, https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7580), and as they tend to fill-up quickly. June 26th (yes, Fishing, https://mycouncil.trcbsa.org/Event/7581). Registration is at https://www.onteora.org/mbw. COVID-19 For more information on how your unit can protocols will be followed & are listed on the benefit from this training, contact Christopher website. Carroll at [email protected]. Email any questions to Robert Wolf at [email protected]. NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING (NYLT) GOOD TURNS DURING THE National Youth Leadership CORONAVIRUS Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action-packed program Acts of Scouting service designed to provide youth members with leadership skills you can do from home and experience. For ideas on how to carry on the tradition of The Theodore Roosevelt Good Turns for others while staying home, check Council will be hosting an NYLT course at Schiff out this article from the Bryan on Scouting Scout Reservation from August 22nd to 27th. webpage: Attendees will be provided training involving https://tinyurl.com/ycbzy3f4 leadership skills centered around the concepts of - what a leader must BE - what a leader must UNIT LEADERS… Be sure to log your KNOW - what a leader must DO, and then unit’s service hours online at taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. https://servicehours.scouting.org/UI/Security/Logi n.aspx More info & to register: https://www.trcbsa.org/training/NYLT/ IN-PERSON ROUNDTABLES SCHIFF SCOUT RESERVATION PROGRAM UPDATE ARE BACK! It’s been too long! Let’s get together for some Schiff Scout Reservation will scouting fellowship – and some information! begin hosting overnight adult Join us for Pequott District’s Roundtable on leader training, as permitted Tue. May 11th 7:30 pm at the Wantagh Park by the Suffolk County pavilion (Note: Look for the first parking lot on Department of Health. your left. We will meet in the pavilion, with the More information can be found blue tables, that is on the southside of the here: restrooms). https://www.trcbsa.org/camping/schiff/ Joint program: Kevin Burke, Pequott’s Contact Bill Scanlan at Disabilities Awareness chair, will present on [email protected] with any questions or identifying scouts with special needs and how to concerns. make accommodations for their advancement. Leaders are also reminded that Schiff is open for Special Guest: Susana Isaacson, advisor to unit daytime activities. If you are interested in Theodore Roosevelt Council’s HARTs booking a daytime activity for your unit at Schiff Camporee and Special Needs Scouting please contact Dave Swartz at champion. [email protected]. Bring your questions! If you have any questions, concerns, or would We will not be able to offer a virtual link that like to place a reservation please contact Dave at evening. Please wear a mask and we’ll practice the email above. some social distancing…and scouting networking! Be sure to invite members of your unit! ONTEORA SUMMER CAMP STAFF Applications are being SERVICE PROJECTS accepted for those Despite the pandemic, Scouts continue to serve interested in serving as their communities. It’s important to remind camp staff as well as ourselves what we need to do to keep safely counselor-in-training. serving. Applications can be found on the Summer Camp Units should be utilizing risk assessment tools, Resources & Forms page at as well as other resources, as they take on https://www.onteora.org/resources.