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Time for Camp! Are you
ready to go? Welcome to the June 2014 issue of our
Council newsletter.
If you have an
upcoming event, information, or a special scout
story you'd like to include in this newsletter,
please, email our
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Firecracker 250 at
Daytona |
This July
4th, Scott Lagasse Jr. will
compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series: Subway
Firecracker 250 at Daytona International
Speedway. We have worked with the track to offer
discounted tickets for the Scouting community.
All Scouts and their families will have an
opportunity to purchase discounted tickets to
the race NASCAR Nationwide Series
race.T  he ticket includes access
to the Sprint Fan Zone (where the world's
greatest race fans can get right to the heart of
the world's most iconic racetrack, watch driver
introductions, view cars as they go through
inspection, sign the start/finish line, view
teams garage areas, driver appearance and
entertainment at the Sprint FANZONE Stage) and
an opportunity to meet the Exclusive BSA NASCAR
driver, Scott Lagasse Jr as well as a seat in
the grandstands during the racing
action.We hope to see
you at the
Track!
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| Ann Curry Rescued From a
Mountain By Boy
Scouts | | |
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Council Eagle Scout / Advancement /
Training Assistant, Lynette Dukes was treated to
beautiful flowers and a thank you card from
Eagle Scout Adam Lucier and newly awarded Eagle
Scout Noah Lucier from Troop 48 chartered to the
Park Lake Presbyterian Church in Orlando, FL.
The Lucier brothers along with the members
of Troop 48 wanted to thank Lynette for her
tireless efforts in ensuring that each Scout in
the Central Florida Council has proper
advancement and training records as all Scouts
continue their climb to Eagle
Scout.
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Council Recognition
Banquet |
The annual Central
Florida Council and Eagle Scout Recognition
banquet is scheduled for Friday,
June 13, 2014 at the Buena Vista
Palace Hotel near Downtown Disney in Orlando. This
is the time of year that we recognize the
achievements of our volunteer leaders, the Gary
Brewer Class of 410 Scouts who earned the rank of
Eagle Scout in 2013 and elect Council Officers and
Executive Board members for the year ahead. It is
also the time that we recognize the Peggy Hall
Class of 2013-2014 of Silver Beavers. The Boy
Scouts of America, acting through the National
Court of Honor, may award the Silver Beaver Award
for distinguished service to youth at the local
council level. The award is made for noteworthy
service of exceptional character to youth by
registered Scouters within the jurisdiction of the
council.
Please click here to register for
the 2014 Annual Council Recognition
Banquet |
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Solar
Bears to Sponsor Boy Scout Golf Classic for Next
Three Years
The Orlando Solar Bears, proud affiliate of
the NHL's Minnesota Wild and Toronto Maple Leafs
and AHL's Iowa Wild and Toronto Marlies,
announced today that they will sponsor the
Orlando Solar Bears / Boy Scout Golf Classic for
the next three years. "We are excited to
announce our partnership with the Orlando Solar
Bears for our Boy Scout Golf Classic," said Ron
Oats, Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America
Central Florida Council. "They have been great
partners with us on many of our activities and
are a first class organization that carries
scouting values throughout their business. Their
leadership for our Boy Scout Golf Classic will
help us reach more youth in our communities and
continue to deliver a solid scouting program in
Central Florida." Learn More » | |
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Central
Florida Council Cub Scout Legoland Days will be
held July
12th at Legoland
Florida. Play your part as
Cub Scouts and their families fight fires at
LEGO City Rescue Academy, conquer the Dragon
coaster as they return to a time of knights and
castles, feel like a Giant as you walk through
Miniland USA featuring incredible detailed
cities built out of millions of LEGO bricks, and
participate in the Ford Driving School, where
Cub Scouts and their families drive LEGO themed
cars through city streets to earn their own
driver's license.Please click here to purchase your
special Cub Scout Legoland tickets
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2014 Cub Day Camp
"Cubstruction" |
Register
your Cub Scout or Webelos for the upcoming Cub
Scout / Webelos Day Camps.
Our
Day Camp Directors and their staff have been hard
at work for more then 10 months preparing to
provide a high energy great week of Scouting
activities and FUN for the Cub Scout and Webelos
in Central Florida. Registrations are coming
in every day so make sure and register your Cub
Scout / Webelos up today.
To get more information on where to
attend Day Camp, Registration, and Flyers, please
check out:
http://daycamp.cflscouting.org/ |
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Don't miss out on Camp La-No-Che Summer
Camp! |
Camp
La-No-Che is back, and better than ever! New
facilities, programs, troop times, and merchandise
are waiting for one important factor, YOU!
Campsite reservations have already begun, so do
not miss out on this exciting
opportunity!
REGISTER NOW!!!
This
summer our Camp La-No-Che Staff are proud to be
bringing you all new facilities out NEW Aquatics
Complex (complete with two Olympic swimming pools,
water-slide, and bath house) and NEW Adventure
Tower (complete with 3 stages of rappelling, and
zip-line).
Learn More » |
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Scout Strong is Coming ... Are you Strong
Enough to
Participate??? |
  
The
Central Florida Council is proud to announce a NEW
event coming September 12th -
14th to Camp La-No-Che, Scout Strong
Weekend! This new event's mission is "Fit, Fuel,
Fun" and is designed for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts,
Venturers, Explorers, and the entire family.
Compete as some of your favorite superheroes in
downtown Metropolis while having fun and staying
active. Events such as spider maze, hammer strike,
mud pits, model rocketry and much, much more!
Older Scouts, Venturers, Explorers, and the public
will also have the opportunity to run the Second
Annual X5K Black Bear Challenge and learn about
healthy eating, and give your Scouts the
opportunity to experience the new program focus on
physical fitness.
Register Now!
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The Central Florida
Council Presents
2014
Council Camporee
Tough
Scout Games
Get
your Troop or Crew ready for the Tough Scout
Games at The Leonard and Marjorie Williams
Family Scout Reservations very own Scout Ranch!
Bring your best game, and compete from December
5-7th, and see who is left
standing, it may be you! This weekend will
feature a live show, "Are you tougher than a Boy
Scout" Games, and an action packed midway for
all interests. Over 3,000 scouts are projected
to attend, so make sure to mark your
calendars.
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Boy Scout Travel, Sports &
Entertainment
Auction |
Friday, August 15, 2014 at
the DoubleTree by Hilton in Downtown
Orlando!
Monique
Yeager and her team of volunteers have already
begun collecting donated items to be sold to the
highest bidder at this year's auction. Vacation
packages, weekend get-a-ways, sports memorabilia,
game tickets, restaurant gift cards and so much
more!
Don't miss the 2014 Boy Scout
Travel, Sports & Entertainment Auction,
presented by Wayne M. Densch Charities,
Inc.
To
stay up to date, or donate an item for auction,
contact Randy...@scouting.org or call
407-703-0245. You may also check out details
online at auction.cflscouting.org.
Your
donation, auctioned to the highest bidder, will
ensure that we are prepared to respond to the
young boy who has the dream of being a Scout and
to the expectations his parents have for his
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The
Central Florida Council is proud to announce
Jodi Peterman has agreed to serve as the 2014
Popcorn Kernel. This will be Jodi's second
year in serving in this position. She is
the proud mom to three sons and a daughter, who
feature one Eagle Scout, two Life Scouts, three
former Venturers and one future
Venturer!
Jodi
is a leader in Troop and Crew 192, chartered by
the First United Methodist Church of St. Cloud
in the Osceola District. She servesas the
Fundraising Chair for both units.
She
leads the Troop's fundraising efforts with an
eye on the goal and lots of positive
communication, meeting one on one with every
family in the Troop during the popcorn and
discount card campaigns.
 Thanks to her leadership,
the Troop sold more than $19,000 in popcorn last
fall. (Wow, right?) So, what's the secret to
their success? Troop 192 was highlighted at the
All Hands Summit in March of 2013. Check it out
here: Troop 192 - how'd they do
it?
Jodi
looks forward to working with our District and
Unit Kernels to ensure success during the "2014
Popcorn = Program" Campaign. As she says in the
video, "we provide our Scouts the opportunity to
go on trips like Philmont, Sea Base and Northern
Tier." Jodi knows it's all about the youth and
their program.
As
you enjoy your summer, here are a couple of tips
from Jodi and the popcorn team:
- Be sure your unit is planning out
their next year
- Figure out all the awesome activities
your youth want to do
- Come up with a unit
budget: here is a helpful tool
- Make sure your unit is committed to
program, by signing your unit up for popcorn.
You can do that here: Popcorn Web Site
- Attend one of the four Area Popcorn
Kickoffs in July (more information to
come)
- Ensure that during this next popcorn
season... it's all about the
program!
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This
month, changing the trained status of adult
leaders in units via MyScouting Tools for use by
unit Key 3 leaders is being covered in the
Training article for June's Central Florida
Council newsletter:
You
must first log in to my.scouting.org to see the
tools available to unit Key 3 leaders. Your user
name and password are the same as for your
MyScouting.scouting.org account.
The
Training Manager provides a dashboard view of
position-trained leader status and youth
protection training status by organization
level. Key 3 will be able to add and search
training, print member's training
certificate(s), print Trained Leaders report and
YPT Aging report. Upon login, select Home at the
top, then Training Manager from the drop-down
list. Learn More » | |
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What's Going
Around: Swimmer's
Ear |
Splish,
splash, OUCH! Centra Care is warning that
Swimmer's Ear is What's Going Around these
days.
Otitis
Externa (a.k.a. Swimmer's Ear) is a painful
outer ear infection that can develop when water
gets trapped in the ear canal and irritates the
canal.
While
Swimmer's Ear (obviously) occurs frequently
after swimming, Centra Care physicians say that
there are other ways in which it develops. Any
break in that lining of the canal can increase
your risk for infection. Besides swimming, the
bacteria can also develop after bathing or
scratching the ear canal with fingernails.
Irritation can also occur when using
cotton-tipped swabs or ear-buds of an MP3
player. Your earwax actually protects the ear
canal from drying out.
See
a physician if you suspect that you or your
child has Otitis Externa. If it is bacterial in
nature, you will need a
prescription.
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From Our Council
President |
 I recently accompanied a
delegation of our Council leadership
attending the Boy Scouts of America National
Annual meeting in Nashville, where we returned
with renewed energy and passion ignited by the
exciting new strategic initiatives outlined by
our national leadership. Along with newly
installed National President of the Boy Scouts
of America Robert Gates, we are all poised at
the dawn of a new era for Scouting.
An
Eagle Scout, the former Director of the CIA and
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gates is a
charismatic and inspirational leader whose
talent and passion has intersected at a pivotal
moment in the history of the Boy Scouts of
America. He shared with us that what he learned
in Scouting laid the foundation for all of the
leadership assignments he has held throughout
his remarkable career. I have attached in
a link below to a video of his key-note address
to the delegation of council representatives
from around the nation. I urge you to take
several moments to view this presentation where
Mr. Gates clearly articulates the challenges
that are before us and the path he has outlined
to lead over the next two
years.
During
his address he reminded us that our journey over
the past century has been remarkable and has
brought us to spectacular peaks, but it is now
time to focus on developing the strategies that
will propel us into a new invigorated future. A
new direction where he believes our successes
will emerge at the local council level,
supported by the National Council leadership
team. Throughout his career he attributes his
success to a practice of empowering front line
field officers, who because they were the
closest to the problem, were best prepared
to develop creative solutions.
I
hope you will be energized as much as I am by
Mr. Gates' refreshing leadership style. On the
horizon I can see an exciting new trail
emerging. It will be new journey filled with
much promise for the future, calling upon all of
us to become more engaged as we blaze the trail
that lies before us.
And
the march has begun as we speak. We are inviting
a number of community partners to join us on
this new journey and I am pleased to announce
the Orlando Solar Bears have stepped forward to
the challenge by committing to become the
financial sponsor and driving force behind the
annual Boy Scout Golf Classic for the next three
years. Shortly after the opening of summer camp
this June we will celebrate by dedicating the
new Brown & Brown Insurance Aquatics Center,
the result of an investment of $1,000,000 by
this community partner who understands that the
best investment in the future is to invest in
the youth who will lead that future!
If
you have not already done so, please mark your
calendar for June 13 and register (insert link)
to attend the Central Florida Council annual
meeting where we will celebrate your successes
the past year and invite you to join me and your
council leaders in the march moving
forward.
Yours
in Scouting,
Robert Utsey
Council
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