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N OR’EASTER Oct./Nov 2010 Volume 8, Issue 5 Bi-Monthly 2010 Fall Popcorn PLEASE WELCOME . Sales! Scout Executive, Dustin Farris, is pleased to announce that Dave Langlois has been IMPORTANT DATES employed to serve as the District Executive for the Dubuque District. Justin Wilson has October 25 Popcorn & Prize Order Due to accepted a scholarship to Penn State and we the Council wish him all the best. Dave is an Eagle Scout and has a great enthusiasm for the program. November 6 Popcorn Distribution Please help me welcome Dave to this position in our Great Council. November 22 Payment Due to the Council Dane Boudreau is a new member of the NE Iowa professional staff. Beginning August 23, 2010 Dane began his new position as the Dellaykee District Executive. Bari Gordon was RANK ADVANCEMENT recently married and both he and his wife UPDATE: decided to settle in Green Bay, WI. We wish them both grand successes. Dane is excited All ranks earned in 2010 should be in by about his new role, and looking forward to the December 23. Council President challenge of directing his District. Please take a Paul Lewis moment to call or email and welcome Dane to THIS INCLUDES: Council the District. • Commissioner Scout Mark Kilgore • Tenderfoot • 2nd Class Scout Executive Dustin Farris Hall of Leadership • 1st Class Recognition Reception • Star • Life The Northeast Iowa Council will recognize the • Bobcat nominees as well as the national Hall of Leader- • Tiger Cub ship winner at a reception in their honor. The • Wolf event will be held on Sunday, November 28, 2010 • Bear at Resurrection Catholic Church, 4300 Asbury • Webelos Road in Dubuque. The reception will be from • Arrow of Light 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. with a brief program at 1:45 p.m. Reminder to ALL CUB LEADERS!! Bobcat must be earned before any other rank All nominees will be recognized. Those nomi- badges. If you would like a print out of your nated from the Northeast Iowa Council include Scouts advancement call the Council Service Steve Arlen, Ron Burkhart, Zachary Chapman, Center 563-556-4343. Dick Elliott, Tom Faulkner, Dick Heller, Jim Neumeister, Robert Peters, Albert Riddering, and Doug Stahr Jr. Refreshments will be served, and the public is encouraged to attend. Scout Executive Minute HAVE YOU HUGGED From Dustin Farris YOUR COMMISSIONER ([email protected]) TODAY?? 128 REASONS TO BECOME A The commissioner is the liaison between the local Council and Scouting units. The Commissioner’s SCOUT LEADER mission is to keep the units operating at maximum efficiency; maintain regular contact with unit lead- Reason #18: Camping-sleeping in a tent, cooking over a ers; counsel leaders on where to find assistance; fire, sitting around a campfire. Camping with the Boy note weakness in programs, and suggest remedies. Scouts may not be as comfortable as staying home, but it The Commissioner is successful when units effec- can be more exciting. After all, what could be more fun tively deliver the ideals of Scouting to their mem- than being on your own? What could be more exciting bers. If you do not know who your commissioner is than learning to survive? please contact your local District Executive. Reason #22: Citizenship in the Community - The future of our community lies in the strength of our youth. Scouting helps youth understand their role in the community and encourages them to explore volunteer ALL REGISTERED LEADERS opportunities so they can work to improve it. This knowledge will make them better citizens, as well as AND MERIT BADGE making our community a better place to live. COUNSELORS MUST Reason#44: Fire Safety - In a world where tragedies are COMPLETE YOUTH an everyday occurrence. It’s nice to know there is PROTECTION!!! something we can do to ensure our own safety. Fire Safety teaches Boy Scouts to be safe and how to help A great many of our Scouters have taken their others be safe. It’s not just about putting fires out; it’s Youth Protection Training to comply with about preventing them in the first place. National’s mandate that every registered Scouter complete the training every two years. • Youth Protection training is required for all registered volunteers. Clarification on Multiple • New leaders are required to take Youth Youth Protection Training for Protection training before they submit an application for registration. The certificate of Adults. completion for this training must be submitted at the time application is made and before volunteer If you are on a Boy Scout, Cub Scout, Merit Badge service with youth begins. Counselor, or Northeast Iowa Council Roster you must take Youth Protection Training. • Youth Protection training must be taken every two years. If a volunteer's Youth Protection If you are on a Venture Unit Roster (whether you are training record is not current at the time of multiple or not) you must take Venture Youth Protection. recharter, the volunteer will not be reregistered. If you are on an Explorer Post (whether you are multiple • If you have not taken Youth Protection training or not) you must take Explorer Youth Protection. within the past two years, please log on to MyScouting and take the training. Be sure to have Yes, some of our Scouters have to take all three Youth your member ID number. The number can be found Protection Training offered because they are listed under on your Boy Scouts of America membership card all three categories. or contact the Council Service Center for your number. Thank You to All, All of us have choices to make as we travel our journey through life. Some Memorial/Tribute Fund things happen to us that are not by our choice. Such is the case with Sally’s Words too often do not express the sentiment we feel at journey and her health. Most of you the death of a friend. No finer tribute can be paid than don’t know how difficult her journey was to encourage some boy to live the life of a Scout, and because of her health. There were a lot of thus perpetuate the high principles you admire in your times that she may not have felt like doing something friend. A contribution to the Boy Scout Permanent but she always did it anyway without letting on how Endowment Tribute Fund is the perfect tribute. bad she may have felt. She was like the energizer bunny, she just kept going and going until July 11, Your gift to the Permanent Endowment Tribute Fund of 2010 when God said you have suffered enough, I’m the Northeast Iowa Council, Boy Scouts of America is: bringing you home today. A gift that will live on forever for the future of Everyone who is reading this has made a choice in Scouting in the Northeast Iowa Council permanent their life journey to help young people by being in- endowment fund volved in Boy Scouts. It was also a passion of Sally’s . A Tribute to the one whom you wish to honor from being involved with Cub Scouts to the Order of . Promptly acknowledged with a tribute certificate the Arrow. She was also very passionate about her . A convenient way of expressing your feelings faith and helping young people learn about God by . A tax deductible contribution and a private teaching Sunday school and confirmation classes. She expression also believed in helping people that were hurting by being trained as a Stephen Minister through our church Remembrance can have no finer expression than and then ministering to those in need. As you can see in this short paragraph she did touch the lives of a lot through a living gift to the Boy Scout Permanent of young people and adults too. She lived her life by Endowment Tribute Fund. The Permanent Endowment the words on a magnet on our refrigerator (many of Tribute Fund crosses all lines of religion and wealth. It you may have this also). It reads “One hundred years warms the hearts of all involved. from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much I had in my Mail your gift to: bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But Permanent Endowment Tribute Fund the world may be a little better because I was important Northeast Iowa Council, BSA in the life of a child”. P.O. Box 732 Dubuque, IA 52004-0732 I am writing this because she touched the lives of so many Scouts. That was so evident to me during the wake and funeral service. So many of you took time out of your day, youth and adults alike, to do a cere- mony at the wake and or attend her funeral to help In Memory of there. When we came out of the church and everyone was lined up at attention saluting as her casket went Sally Leeser between the two rows of Scouts, I can’t explain to you the feeling I had at that moment and it is one that I will Alice & John Vontalge never forget. I know she was watching from heaven Al Chidley and beaming with pride in all the young people who Bill Strauss participated. So many people helped that I can’t remember everyone In Memory of who was there to be able to thank you individually. Mr. & Mrs. Ron Elvidge Others helped by giving memorials, food and friend- ship. A simple Thank You seems so inadequate but it Chuck & Nancy Golinvaux is a deeply heartfelt thank you. Thank You so very Anonymous much to everyone who helped in any way, it is appreci- ated more than know.