Final Council-Wide Roundtable of 2011

[David Elmore]

All,

Calling all Diamond Lakes and Nischa Sipo District's Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Crew Advisers, Team Coaches, Unit Committee Members, Den Leaders, Assistant Unit Leaders, Explorer Post Advisers, Chartered Organization Representatives, Order of the Arrow Advisors and Scouting Parents - 7 pm, Thursday, December 8, 2011 will be the final council-wide roundtable.

If you have your re-charters and JTE paperwork completed and ready to turn in, please bring it!  Once again, if can do it online please do and don't delay!  Our Hot Springs council office will be closing early before the Christmas holidays and will not re-open.

The roundtable will be held at First United Methodist Church (across from the Saline County Courthouse), 200 North Market Street (Fellowship Hall wing), Benton, Arkansas 72015 at 7 pm.

Braden Harmon, Quapaw Area Council Camping Director will be giving a presentation on Quapaw camping and the Gus Blass Scout Reservation.

Additionally, John Carman, Quapaw Area Council Scout Executive (and, maybe, Marcal Young our temporary Scout Executive will be there), Christian Swaim, Quapaw Area Council Field Director, L.J. Henson, our new Nischa Sipo District Executive and the Quapaw Area Council office staff will be present for a getting to know you, meet and greet mixer for all of our Scouting leaders from both districts.  

Also, many of your District Committee Members, Commissioners and Roundtable Staff will be there.  There may be some last minute changes to this line up.

Refreshments will be graciously provided.  

This is your chance to get out and meet our new Scouting colleagues, meet people and put faces to names.  These will be the people we will be working with to make Scouting happen and grow in our districts in the years to come.  Let's all come out to make them feel welcome and show them the camaraderie, collegiality and Scouting spirit of Diamond Lakes and Nischa Sipo Districts.

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Two final council events follow this roundtable; 

The last Wazhazee Lodge banquet this coming Saturday, December 10th at the Hot Springs, Prince of Peace Church at 6:30pm, (Contact John Hill [hi...@obu.edu] for more information.)... 

...and the final Ouachita Area Council banquet held at the College of the Ouachita's in Malvern, AR on Saturday, January 28th, (Time, cost and other details will be forthcoming. The council banquet committee is still in need of help please contact Lisa Smith [smith...@gmail.com] or Gail Boeckman [Gail.B...@c-a-m.com].)

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Scouting is growing in our counties, you all are doing your part, for success though, please enlist others in this wonderful cause for our kids and our communities.  Thank you all for your kind consideration.

  

Yours in Scouting,

David Elmore

District Vice Chairman

Nischa Sipo District