Section NE-4B News

By Sean Hastings, Section Vice-Chief

Brothers,

I have confirmed with Enda Lechauhanne that their Section Visitation
will be held at Enda's Winterfest event on the weekend of January
25-27th. The actual visitation will most likely be on that Saturday.

I am calling out to you, the Council of Chiefs because I need members
for my Section Assistance Team. It is with a variety of opinions and
viewpoints that new ideas are made which is why I would like to build
a team with brothers from multiple lodges across the section. If you
are interested or you know someone in your lodge who would be
interested, please contact me at s.p.hastings@iup.edu. Thank you.

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Above: The COC visits the Constoga Campfire area during the September Gathering.

It it time to RSVP for the November Council of Chiefs. The CoC will be held at Camp Tenacharison. Directions to camp, including an interactive map, are available at http://www.wfbsa.org

The CoC will be held on November 16th and 17th. The cost for the event is $5/person regardless of when you arrive.

RSVP for the event is requested before close of business on Friday, November 9th. You may RSVP by calling the Westmoreland-Fayette Council Service center at (724) 837-1630. Please indicate the number of youths and adults that are coming and if any will be arriving Friday night. Also please let us know if there are any special dietary requirements.

If you intend to come for Friday night, please consider bringing a cot or ground mattress in addition to a sleeping bag.

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(by Tom Price, Section Chief)

Brothers,

The leaves are changing and the chill is in the breeze, but the NE-4B is moving right along. I, along with Ken Hager, current Northeast Region Chief and past NE-4B chief, staffed the Fall NLS at Camp Alpine in New Jersey. It was a great time with arrowmen from across the region in attendence. Wagion, Ah'Tic and Ahtuhquog all had youth and adults attending NLS and NLATS. This spring, Camp Guyasta will be the host to the Spring NLS. Since it will be in our section and in Enda's Backyard, I think it would be wise to send any members who need to be trained on the region level. It is a great experience and will help your lodge's newer and up and coming members more about leadership, teamwork and the order itself.

Continue reading "Chiefly Speaking" »

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From Tom Price, Section Chief:

Brothers and Chiefs,

Guys, I am really happy with how things went this past weekend. The meeting was just what I think we needed to kick Conclave 2008 into gear. I was personally impressed with all the suggestions and ideas about the theme "Lenni Lonopoly". Now that we have a theme we can work on PROGRAM, the most important part of and why we all attend conclave.

Continue reading "Sept. Gathering Recap, Arrow Coprs 5 and Much Much More" »

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The Annual Section NE-4B September Gathering will be held on Friday, Sept.
14 - Saturday Sept. 15 at Camp Conestoga. Directions to Camp Conestoga
are available here:

http://www.wfbsa.org/resources/camping/directions.html#Camp%20Conestoga

The Section Gathering is open to any members of the section that want to
attend. Interested lodge members are encouraged to coordinate with their
Chief and Lodge Adviser.

RSVP for the event is required before Wednesday, September 5th at noon.
You may RSVP by calling the Westmoreland-Fayette Council Service center at
(724) 837-1630. Please indicate the number of youths and adults that are
coming and if any will be arriving Friday night.

Cost for the event will be $5 per person (regardless of when you arrive),
due upon arrival.

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Gents,

I want to start by thanking everyone for a great Conclave!! If each
person there had half as much fun as I did, I know it was a worthwhile
event!! I also want to tell everyone that I'm looking forward to a great
year and am honored with the chance to serve our Section as your Secretary.

Continue reading "Note from the Secretary" »

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The special election for the new Section Chief was held on January 13th at the Penns Woods Council office. All lodges were represented as the meeting began at 10:00 AM. After two rounds of voting and many questions the new Section Chief Christian Horn was elected into office. Due to the fact that Christian was the Section Vice Chief, we then had to have another election to replace Christian. As with the Section Chief election, we had two rounds of voting and questioning to elect the new Section Vice Chief Jon Cherry of Monaken Lodge.

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The time and place for the special election of our new Section Chief has been determined. The meeting will be held at the Penn's Woods Council office on Saturday, January 13th at 10:00 am.

The Penn's Woods Council office is located in the Galleria mall off of Route 219 in Johnstown. As you come in the Sears entrance and enter the mall complex to the left of the cashiers's stand, the council office is the second door on the left.

Additional directions to the council office are available on the pwcbsa.org website.

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As per the OA FOG (Field Operations Guide), the section is required to select a replacement Section Chief within 30 days of our present Chief taking office as the Region Chief. The selected individual will carry out the role of Section Shief until the Sunday Business Meeting of the next Section Conclave.

Here are the rules:

Continue reading "Section Chief Selection Process" »

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From Ken Hager, Section Chief

NE-4B COC:

The officers and I, along with Dan Wright, Bill Wittmer, and the ’08 Conclave chair Jon Navari returned this week after an exciting SOS at Camp Alpine. We have lots of info to pass on to you at our upcoming COC at Camp Anderson next weekend.

By now, you should have received your latest issue of the Informer which included some info on the COC. Directions to Anderson can be downloaded off the Section Web-site. You are invited to come Friday night at 7 pm, with accommodations available. The meeting will being Saturday morning at 8:30 am and be over around 3 pm. We will be voting on the theme, training cells, and several other important matters including finalization of delegation quotas. If your lodge plans on submitting a patch design, please bring a copy to the meeting. The cost for Saturday is $10 with an additional charge if you plan on coming Friday night. An agenda will be e-mailed out the week before the meeting. Please RSVP by next Monday with me on how many people your lodge will be sending (Friday and Saturday) in order to make preparations.

Be prepared for a High Adventure promotion, as we as several other presentations.

Questions? E-mail me this week.

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The next COC will be held at Camp Anderson on November 17th and 18th.

Camp Anderson is located in Tyrone, PA on Vanscoyoc's Hollow Road.

A map with directions is available for download, or you can get your own driving directions from Google Maps

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The NE-4B section gathering will be held at Camp Seph Mack during September 8th and 9th. For information on attending, please see your Lodge Chief.

Directions to camp Seph Mack may be found on the Penn's Woods Council website.

All you really need to know is that it is the FIRST turn-off after Rt422
returns to 2 lane to the east of Indiana.

Go to the end of the 4 lane Rt422 east of Indiana, PA. Just 1000 ft past the
end there is a 4 way intersection with an ice cream stand in one of the
corners. Turn onto the road next to the ice cream stand and follow the signs
to the scout camp (2 miles).

About a half mile back there is a 3 way intersection, keep to the right
where the bulk of the traffic goes.

As the road nears the end, there is a church on your right and the road
merges and runs out to the boat docks. About 500 ft beyond the church, there
is a dirt road to the right. That is the entrance to Seph Mack. Follow the
road thru the gateway, across the breast of the dam and bear right at the
totem pole to the dining hall.

Additional map to Seph Mack (Large PDF file, may take a few minutes to load)

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Conclave officers (from left to right): Bill Wittmer, Section Adviser; Christian Horn, Vice-Chief; Ken Hager, Chief; OJ Walsh, Secretary; Jack Waite, Staff Adviser.

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The various lodge chiefs gathered together for a late-night council of chiefs meeting at Camp Potomac. This will be the last of many COC meetings for these people prior to the start of the next administration.

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(by Ken Hager, Section Chief)

Gentlemen!

I hope everyone from our Section had a great Easter at home or away, with your families, extended families, friends, and who ever else makes your holidays more enjoyable.

It has been little over five weeks since our March COC, and I wanted to drop some reminders to you all.

Final quotas are in for Conclave. Potomac is getting everything put into motion. Make sure to start collecting your Conclave fees, as bills will soon start coming in. Cost is $30 per participant.

Continue reading "Section Updates" »

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(from Ken Hager, Section Chief)

Best wishes to everyone as they begin 2006. Now that the Christmas Season is over, we can once again get on task for planning our Conclave. Last month I attended the National Planning Conference for the OA in Texas. I have a lot of info for all of you from that meeting. Also last week, we held a Section Officers meeting in Mt. Pleasant where the section officers and advisers meet to talk about the next COC along with other items. This is to inform you of all these events.

Continue reading "Impotant Info On March COC -- March 17-18" »

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The Section NE-4B Council of Chiefs met on Saturday December 3rd at Wagion Lodge's Camp Tenacharison to discuss next year's conclave to be held at Camp Potomac on June 9, 10 and 11 of 2006.

Continue reading "Let the arrow point the way!" »

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