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The Blackhawk COURIERA Publication of Blackhawk Area Council November2017 Boy Scouts of America Page 1 Serving Chartered Organizations in Northern Illinois and Southwest Wisconsin Blackhawk Area Council You are coordially invited to the Adult and Youth Recognition Dinner Blackhawk Area Council The annual Council Adult and Youth Recognition Dinner will held on Sunday, Feature Articles 2018 Youth & Adult March 4, 2018. Registration/social gathering will begin at 1:45 p.m. with Courier Schedule . 2 Recognition Dinner dinner served at 2:30 p.m. Reservations Okpik Alumni Campout . 3 $35 / person are due by February 24. The purpose of Eagle Palms Update . 3 $50 / Eagle Sponsor the Council Recognition Dinner is to Orb Activities Not Allowed . 3 recognize and thank all adult volunteer Program Changes . 3 Scouters who have given their time to Venturing Blast . 4 provide a quality Scouting program CubCast and ScoutCast . 4 Sunday, March 4, 2018 to the youth of our communities, and New on myScouting App . 5 also to recognize the youth who have Countdown for Transition . 6 Radisson Convention Center distinguished themselves with achieving Cub Scout Event Day . 6 200 S. Bell School Road the rank of Eagle Scout. Cub Scout Day Camp 2018 . 6 Rockford, Illinois The highlight of the event will be the Rockford Ice Hogs Scout Nights . 7 awarding of the Silver Beaver Award, the New Member Coordinator . 7 highest award a council can bestow upon Pinewood Derby 2018 . .8-9 You may register at www.blackhawkscouting.org a volunteer, to several deserving Scouters. Eagle Scouts . 10 The Council Recognition Dinner is Legoland . 10 for all adult leaders within the council, Religious Emblems . 11 not just council and district level Scouters, Klehm Arboretum . 13 Social Gathering and all Scouts who achieved the Eagle Boone County Conservation Dist. 13 1:45 P.M. Scout rank in 2017 and their parents. Burpee Museum Workshops . 13 Silver Beaver recipients and Eagle Harlem Globetrotters Scout Night . 14 Dinner Scouts will be guests of the council. Windy City Bulls Scout Night . 14 2:30 P.M. Sponsors for the Eagle Scouts are being New Training Courses . 15 Leave No Trace Training Course . .15 NYLT . 17 Wood Badge 2018 . 18 Silver Beavers Cub Scout Resident Camp . 22 and Eagle Scout Class of 2017 Rockford Scout Silver Beaver Wayne & Ruth Diehl Shop Recipients for 2018 Scholarship Award 815-637-6180 The following Scouters will be 2820 McFarland Road, Rockford IL Each year several Eagle Scouts from the To qualify for the award, Scouts must be a recognized by the Blackhawk Area 61107 Blackhawk Area Council are honored with the registered Eagle Scout in the Blackhawk Area Council at the Annual Recognition Dinner Wayne and Ruth Diehl Scholarship. This award is Council at the time of application and recipient of on March 4, 2018. Monday through Friday designed to aid Eagle Scouts from the council to the award must be a high school senior or graduate Please extend your congratulations to 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. prepare themselves educationally for their chosen and attending technical school or college. This is these leaders. Saturday – 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. life’s work. a one-time non-renewable scholarship. Jennifer Broadfield-Colomer This award is made possible by the generous Richard Cass Thomas Lotito gift of Wayne and Ruth Diehl for a Scholarship Please note: All sections of the applications Daniel Dick Douglas Tucker Crystal Lake Trust Fund. Each year the interest earned from must be completed. This includes all signatures David Twining Judith Walneck this endowed trust fund is used for scholarships and letters of recommendation. “Points” are Scout Shop for outstanding Eagle Scouts who are completing applied to each section by the advancement high school or are already in college. committee.. 815-479-0615 The objectives of these scholarship is to Scholarships are in the amount of $1,000. 600 N. Rt. 31, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 encourage Scouts to advance and attain the Eagle Applications are available at the council rank, to recognize outstanding Eagle Scouts, and service center and the council Web site – www. Monday - Friday – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to provide financial assistance for education or blackhawkhawkScouting.org. Applications must Saturday – 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. training beyond high school. This scholarship is be submitted by December 28, 2017. Recipients to be used for tuition, books, and/or other college will be recognized at the 2018 Council Annual expenses. Recognition Dinner. Contents Dr. Kristopher What’s New ....................................2-10 Council Annual Meeting Advancement .....................................11 Tumilowicz Program Opportunities .......... ......12-13 associate and honorary members of the council, New Council President Training ....................................... 14-18 Blackhawk Area Council’s Annual Meeting National Council members, regular members Camp and OA News .................. 20-22 will be scheduled for April 26, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. of the Executive Board, and officers of the The Blackhawk Area Council is Sycamore ......................................23-24 The meeting will commence at 6:30 p.m. Corporation other than the Scout executive, c) pleased to announce that effective today, Arrowhead .........................................24 There will be a light supper beginning at 6:00 receiving and approving financial statements December 5, 2017, Dr. Kristopher White Eagle .......................................25 and the annual meeting will be followed by the showing the financial position of the corporation Tumilowicz will be serving as the new Wanchanagi ..................................26-27 quarterly Council Combined Committees. as of the close of its most recent complete fiscal Council President. The Blackhawk Area Wetassa ............................................. 27 The annual meeting of the council shall be year and the results of operations during such Council covers 13 counties in southern ScoutReach ...................................... 25 for the purpose of (a) receiving annual reports year, and (d) transaction such other business as Wis. and northern Ill., and serves of the Executive Board, officers, and various may come before the meeting. more than 12,000 youth members. Dr. committees, (b) electing members at large, Tumilowicz (“Dr. T”) has a long-standing history of leadership with Boy Scouts, and in the greater Rockford community. Page 2 Council News January 2018 Blackhawk Area Council Advancement Reporting Policy In conjunction with the BSA’s Policy on advancement reporting*, an Internet Advancement Report must be submitted to the Scout Shop for all purchases of Scouting badges of rank, and merit badges. While not preferred, a paper Advancement Report form (#34403) may be submitted in Schedule for Printed and Internet Couriers lieu of an Internet Advancement Report. If your unit uses of Packmaster, Troopmaster, or other 3rd party advancement tracking The schedule of the Blackhawk Courier will have four printed editions each year. The software, you may upload the advancement information via the Internet Advancement portal deadline will be the first Tuesday of each month. The revised schedule is shown below. The to create and print an Internet Advancement Report. printed editions will continue to be available at www.BlackhawkScouting.org/courier. Note that Any questions on Scout advancement, advancement reporting, or the Internet recipients of the Eagle Scout Award and religious emblems will only be carried in printed editions Advancement System can be directed to your district executive, or district advancement -- and will not show up on the Internet versions of the printed edition. vice-chairman. * Guide to Advancement 4.0.0.2 Clip and Save Deadline + Type Months Covered Mail Date or Web Target Date Scout Sunday/ January 2 – Internet February through April January 9 Merit Badge February 6 – Internet March through May February 13 Scout Sabbath March 6 – Printed April through June March 20 Workshops Scout Anniversary April 3 – Internet May through July April 10 There are many merit badge workshop May 1 – Internet June through August May 8 opportunities for Boy Scouts. The following Week June 5 –Internet July through September June 12 are listed in this edition of The Blackhawk Courier: February 4-10, 2018 July 3 – Internet August through October July 10 Arrowhead Merit Badge Midway – page 19 August 7 – Printed September through November August 21 White Eagle Merit Badge Day – page 19 The Boy Scouts of America designates Burpee Museum – page 12 the Sunday that falls before February 8 Boone County Conservation District – page (Scouting Anniversary Day) as Scout Sunday, 12 which is the primary date to recognize the Welding Merit Badge Workshop – page 27 contributions of young people and adults to Scouting. Moved? However, each chartered organization can use either of two other options to celebrate Changed Your Phone Number? this special day. An organization can adopt a specific Sunday to celebrate. In the instance of Changed Your Email Address? the United Methodist Church, Scout Sunday is Have you moved recently? Have you changed your phone number or email address? If you celebrated on the second Sunday in February. have made these or any other updates to your registration, please let the council service center, It also is permissible for a local church to registration department, know. Call Lori at 815-397-0210 to let her know of these changes. celebrate on the Sunday most acceptable to Each month we have several Couriers returned because of incorrect addresses. These returned the pastor and congregation. Learn more copies cost the council more than $1.60 each. Thank You about Scout Sunday at the National BSA site. Unit leaders -- please check with your leaders to verify that their address is correct on your Scout Sabbath offers an opportunity for charter. The Blackhawk Area Council wishes to worshipers to honor Scouts and Scouters, thank Ed Rounds, Ron Benoy, Carol Benoy, as well as to learn more themselves about Terry Nichols, MaryAnn Bushaw, and Bill the value of Scouting as a youth program Peterson for labeling and preparing the mailing chartered to a Jewish organization.