November 2006 Inside This Issue Scouting for Food
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NOVEMBER 2006 SMOKE SIGNALS Mt. Diablo Silverado Council Issue # 2006/11 Boy Scouts of America SECOND ANNUAL CHEVY PINEWOOD DERBY INSIDE THIS ISSUE TEST DRIVE Important Dates 2 Silver Beaver Nominations 3 This November 4th the Mt. Diablo out of retirement to practice it against Silverado Council, in partnership with other classic Pinewood Derby designs. A Cub Scout Pow Wow 5 Michael Stead Chevrolet Cadillac of Pit Lane will be available to customize Walnut Creek, will be putting your car and make last minute Pinewood Derby Supplies 9 on the Second Annual improvements. There will Training Opportunities 10 Chevy Pinewood Derby also be a FREE Barbeque Test Drive. We will be for those in attendance. Aklan 11 recruiting new Cub In addition to this there Scouts and providing will be an hourly drawing Black Diamond 12 them with their fi rst for all in attendance Chief Solano 13 taste of what we all for a Free Weekend at know and remember from Camp Lindblad! Michael Herms 14 Cub Scouts, the Pinewood Stead Chevrolet Cadillac Iron Horse 15 Derby! For Scouts that have already is located at 2930 N. Main St. in Walnut experienced a race or two, come on out Creek. Contact Mary April if you have Marsh Creek 16 and bring your old Pinewood Derby car any questions at (925) 674-6102. Meridian 17 Muir 18 SCOUTING FOR FOOD 2006 Napa Valley 19 Health and Safety & Eagles 20 November 11th and Channel 7. Please distribute and collect November 18th are bags on the assigned dates which are well this year’s Scouting publicized in the press and with Public for Food dates. Every Service Announcements on TV. CUB SCOUT unit in our Council RECHARTERS is encouraged to Last year our Council collected nearly participate in this 225,000 pounds of food in a time of great DUE TO THE most worthwhile event. need. We should all feel proud of our COUNCIL OFFICE Scouting for Food is one of the most Scout- efforts to help people in need during the NOVEMBER 15TH like activities a Unit can get involved in and holiday season. Our goal for 2006 is to demonstrate their Scouting spirit. Scouting collect 250,000 pounds of food to help ALL OTHER for Food can easily become a family even more people! activity as well. The more people you can RECHARTERS get out and into the fi eld to gather food, the Please remember to record your service DUE TO THE more food you’ll collect for our local food hours at www.goodturnforamerica.org banks. Scouting for Food is sponsored by while collecting food and any other service COUNCIL OFFICE Save Mart/Food Maxx, Subway and KGO hours done by your unit. DECEMBER 15TH Page 2 CALENDAR NOVEMBER 2006 1 Distinguished Citizen Dinner 3 Popcorn Take Order Due 11 Scouting For Food Drop Off 11 Harvest in the Vineyards Wine & Gift Auction 15 Recharters Due 17 Popcorn Take Order Delivery 17-19 LLDC & Chief’s Council Meeting 18 Commissioner Basic Training 18 Scouting For Food Pick Up 23-24 Thanksgiving Service Center Closed DECEMBER 2006 15 Boy Scout, Venturing, Exploring and Team Recharters Due 25-26 Christmas Service Center Closed HARVEST Memorials & JANUARY 2007 IN THE 2 Silver Beaver Nominations VINEYARDS Tributes Due To Council AUCTION In Sympathy & Loving Memory of Please join us for our annual Harvest Dr. W. James Eldred Smoke Signals is published monthly, in the Vineyards Gabriel Esquivel with the exception of the combined Auction on November 11th Marianne Gledhill June/July issue, by: at the new Meritage Resort and Spa Quentin Alexander Mt. Diablo Silverado Council in Napa. Cost of the event ($150 per Clinton & Beverly Collier Boy Scouts of America person) includes a gourmet dinner and Larry & Joan Cummings 800 Ellinwood Way wine, silent auction and live auction. Roger & Sue Evans Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 We have wonderful items such as Al & Gloria Kappadahl Phone: (925) 674-6100 Napa Valley wines, vacation homes, Joyce & Craig McConnaughey restaurants, beauty and entertainment Editor: Chelsea McClain Anne & Vic Parachini gift certifi cates, airline tickets, gift Alan A. Westberg Second Class Postage paid at: baskets, specialty services, golf and Bob Witbeck Concord, CA 94520-9998 much, much more. If you would like to receive an invitation or have Basil Holcomb POSTMASTER - Send address a donation, please contact Bart Gledhill changes to address above. Chelsea McClain at Robert Witbeck (925) 674-6172 or fi [email protected] Howard Lederer Marie E. Borges Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hefty & Family Al & Gloria Kappadahl John Nejedly, Sr. Robert Witbeck Mt. Diablo Silverado Council Boy Scouts of America SILVER BEAVER NOMINATION This nomination is due to the Council Office no later than January 2, 2007. I/we take pleasure in submitting this nomination for the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth. (Give full name and titles of Scouter to be honored exactly as you will want the certificate lettered if the award is granted. See instructions on reverse side.) Name ____________________________________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________________________________ Occupation ________________________________________________________________________________ The nominee is registered in Scouting as __________________________and holds a membership certificate expiring _________________ 20___ (If Scouter is currently unit-connected, give unit number _________.) RECORD UPON WHICH THIS NOMINATION IS BASED (Give pertinent facts, dates, and offices held. If more space is needed, please add extra sheets.) a. Record of service in the Boy Scouts of America. (Name chartered organizations in cases where service is unit-connected. b. Statement covering the nominee’s standing in the community, citing activities in which the individual is most active in business, professional, civic, religious, educational, fraternal, veteran, rural, and other fields exclusive of Scouting. (See instructions on reverse side.) c. Record of noteworthy service of exceptional character to youth within the territory under the jurisdiction of the council. Submitted by: _______________________________________________ Date: _______________________________ Mt. Diablo Silverado Council Boy Scouts of America INSTRUCTIONS RULES AND REGULATIONS of the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 1. Be sure to give the full name and titles (if any) of the nominee exactly as you want them to appear on the Article X, Section 6, Clause 3 --- Silver Beaver Award certificate. Please do not use abbreviations, initials only, or nicknames. For example: Robert Henry The Boy Scouts of America, acting through the National Bradley; Doctor William Francis Kelly; Captain Court of Honor, may award the Silver Beaver Award for Arthur Russell Johnson; The Most Reverend distinguished service to youth upon the following basis Richard Joseph Brown, D.D.; Vice Admiral John and procedure: Donald Morrison; The Honorable James Kerwood Ross; Ms. Mary Hartie; etc. a. This award may be made each year upon the nomination of chartered local councils. These 2. Furnish as much information as possible for sections nominations shall be submitted not less than 30 days in a, b, and c. For example, in section b: president, advance of the date upon which it is desired to present Libertyville Rotary Club; vestryman, St. Paul’s the awards. Church; chairperson, Red Cross campaign; Exalted Ruler, Elks Lodge No. 18; vice president, PTA; b. The award is made for noteworthy service of adjutant, American Legion Post 43; medical director, exceptional character to youth by registered Cub Scouts, Cross County Hospital; past District Deputy Grand Scouters, Varsity Scouters, and Exploring leaders within Master, F. & A.<.; Grand Knight, Knights of the territory under the jurisdiction of a local council. Columbus Council 16; etc. (Specific group identification enables us to provide name to national c. As evidence of the award there shall be presented: a organization headquarters, who usually wish to suitable certificate, duly authenticated by the Boy Scouts compliment the recipient of the honor.) of America, pursuant to the action of the National Court of Honor; and a miniature Silver Beaver suspended by a 3. Long-established policy limits the award of the blue and white ribbon to be worn around the neck. Silver Beaver to adults 21 and over who are registered as volunteer Scouters. d. It shall be a general policy that no public announcements shall be made by the local council in 4. Nominations will not be considered for former advance of action by the National Court of Honor with professional Scouters or council employees within 5 reference to names presented for consideration. years of their leaving employment with the BSA (i.e., any form of full-time employment such as e. Each duly chartered local council shall be entitled to secretary, ranger, or professional-technical position). one nomination. Councils having more than 60 units shall be entitled to further nominations on the basis of 5. Nominations cannot be considered for posthumous one for each additional 60 units or fraction thereof in awards. their territory, as of December 31 preceding the nomination, according to the records of the national 6. Order Silver Beaver insignia on the regular supply office. order form from your Supply Division distribution center. f. Councils not using their full allotment in any year may accumulate the unused portion for use in any subsequent year. g. In extraordinary cases, the Silver Beaver Award may be made by the National Court of Honor to a Scouter upon the recommendation of the duly constituted Scouting authorities having supervision of the duly constituted Scouting authorities having supervision of one or more units of the Boy Scouts of America, located outside of the United States and not under the jurisdiction of a local council. CUB SCOUT LEADER / PARENT POW WOW 2007 “MARDI GRAS” WHAT IS POW WOW? Pow Wow is THE annual Cub Scout Training Event of the year! An entire year’s worth of new ideas and inspiration that will enhance your Cub Scout Pack and its program.