Scout Shop Hours
Saturday Shop Days are Ongoing!
Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Sat 9 am – 1 pm
Ask for Crystal
337-235-8551 extention 103
Holiday Closings
Please join us in celebrating the
holiday season!
The Knight Scout Service
Center and Scout Shop will close Wednesday, November 25 at Noon through Monday,
November 30, 2009 for Thanksgiving. The Knight Center and Scout Shop will also
be closed at Noon on Wednesday, December 23 through December 27th for
Christmas. The Scout Shop will be closed December 29-January 1 for inventory
& New Year’s observation. The Scout Shop will reopen with normal hours on
January 2, 2010.
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Intended Audience: All ***
Message From the National Chief Scout Executive
Bringing Things to a Fever Pitch
Look over your shoulder. 2009 is about to
melt away and we are just over a month from our centennial year. I am really
pumped – are you?
To jump start the celebration, we’re doing something that we haven’t done in
the great history of this organization. We’re holding a national rally to
kick-off this momentous occasion. One of our foremost promises through the new
BSA is to communicate better with our local council, national staff and our
hard-working volunteers. It is important that you feel informed of, invested
in, and excited about the direction that Scouting is taking.
The big event will happen on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 7:00 – 7:20 p.m.
CST. I will be joined by AT&T Chairman, CEO and President Randall
Stephenson, our 100th Anniversary Chairman; BSA National President, John
Gottschalk; and BSA National Commissioner, Tico Perez.
Getting ever more tech-savvy, thanks to Randall Stephenson’s leadership and the
wonderful support of AT&T, the rally will be held as a live audiocast. Our
goal is very simple: to create a sense of energy and excitement around the
100th Anniversary so that local councils can harness that enthusiasm to drive
their engagement plans. We want to create buzz. We want folks thinking about
and dreaming about this once-in-a-lifetime milestone.
In addition to sharing our own personal excitement, we’ll be sharing some
important information about the celebration plans and answering some questions
from participants. If you have any right off the bat, let me know! I’d really
value your feedback.
We want to gather a quarter of a million volunteers, staff members, Scouting
alums, and parents across America.
I sure hope you’re one of them. RSVP at http://audiocast.scouting.org/.
On December 10th, that’s also where you’ll find the link to the rally.
Please join us as we embark upon this once-in-a-lifetime journey and begin our
next century of service. We’re going to make Scouting history!
Thanks, Bob
***
Intended Audience: All ***
Evangeline
Area Council
Recognizes
its
2009
Silver Beaver & Eagle Recipients
The Evangeline Area Council
recognized some of it’s finest this past year and would like to take this
opportunity to thank and recognize each for their achievement and impact on
Scouting.
The Silver Beaver
Award is the council-level distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of
America. Recipients of this award are registered adult leaders who have made an
impact on the lives of youth through service given to the council. This prestigious award is given to those who
implement the Scouting program and perform community service through hard work,
self sacrifice, dedication, and many years of service. It is given to those who
do not actively seek it. The Evangeline Area, typically, is allowed to
recognize three to four individuals each year.
Since 1931, the Evangeline Area Council has recognized 241
volunteers with this award.
The 2009 Silver Beaver
Award Recipients are:
Greg Duplechain Susan
Broaddus Paul Broussard
Greg has been a registered adult leader since 1988. He has served as a Tiger Cub Coach, Den
Leader and Webelos Leader, Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmaster and Troop
Committee Member for Troop 162. He also
served as a District Commissioner from June 2007 to May 2009. He was Beau Bassin’s Scoutmaster of the Year
in 1995. Greg has served
on the staff at Mt. Bayou Lake Summer Camp, Bud Shield Summer Camp, Camp Orr
Summer Camp, Scoutmaster Fundamentals, Instructor for University of Scouting,
Merit Badge Counselor for Winter Camp, Troop JLT Staff, Catholic Retreat and
Committee Member for Scoutoree.
Duplechain has also served as an Altar Boy and Choir member. He was a CCD teacher, served on the Parish
Council, Youth Commission, Youth Retreat Staff, Confirmation Staff and Lay
Minister at St. Edmond’s Catholic Church in Lafayette.
He was a member of the Jaycees for ten years and was Jaycee of the year
in 1985, a member of the Kiwanis Club for five years, and has been a member of
the St. Edmond’s Knights of Columbus Council #10293 since December 2004. Greg’s oldest son, Jad, is an Eagle Scout
with three palms and his second son, Adam, is an Eagle Scout with three palms.
Susan Broaddus began her journey in scouting in 1995
when she registered as an adult leader with Cub Scout Pack 497 in
Carencro. She served as Den Leader,
Webelos Leader, Assistant Cubmaster, and Cubmaster for Pack 497. She has been a registered leader for the past
13 years. She presently holds positions
as Unit Commissioner for Cub Scout Packs 451 and 497 and Boy Scout Troops 143,
162 and 224, and is also a Committee Member with Troop 162. Through the years
Susan has served on the Cub Scout Leader Basic Training Team, instructor and
committee member for Pow Wow, Dean of Cub Scouts, instructor and Dean of
Records for University of Scouting, Cub Adventure Staff, Tiger Day Staff,
Winter Camp Steering Committee, Winter Camp Program Director, Train the
Trainer, Shoot and Swim, Beau Bassin District Calendar Committee, and the Beau
Bassin District Adult Awards Banquet Committee. Susan lives in Carencro and has
served on the Church Pastoral Council of St. Peter Catholic Church since
2003. She has one son, Shawn Michael, who is an Eagle Scout with Troop 162
chartered by St. Edmond Catholic Church in Lafayette. Susan was a Girl Scout with
the Bayou Area Council for nine years and represented the State of Louisiana and the Bayou Area Council at the 1974 Girl
Scout National Jamboree in Florida.
Paul began his scouting career at the age of six. He earned his Arrow of Light award and
crossed over to Troop 133. He attended
Philmont Scout Ranch, and the 1973 National Jamboree in Idaho. Paul, his father Robert Broussard,
his brother Allen and his oldest son are Eagle Scouts, and his other two sons
are working their way towards their Eagle.
He was Cubmaster for the North Lewis Cub Scout Pack 453 for five
years. When his oldest son crossed over
to Boy Scouts, Paul joined Troop 17 and he is still active with his two younger
sons and has served as Board of Review Chairman, Merit Badge Chairman,
Committee Member, and morale booster. He
has served as the Attakapas District Committee Chairman for the past three
years. He has assisted with the
Attakapas District Fall and Spring Camporees for twelve years. Paul is a member of Nativity of Our Lady
Catholic Church where he is a Catechism Teacher, Lector, a Charter Member of
the Knights of Columbus Council #12997.
Paul is a 4th Degree Knight and served as Deputy Grand Knight, and Grand
Knight. Paul is currently a small
business owner and substitute Teacher for Iberia Parish Public Schools. He is a member of the Westgate
High School and Belle Place Middle School Band Parents
Committees, and a parent volunteer at North Lewis Elementary and Bell Place
Middle School.
The 2009 “Allen Bares”
Eagle Class also recognized are:
The Evangeline Area Council is very proud of its 2008-2009 Eagle class.
The Council honored this year’s crop of Eagles on August 6, 2009; the class
was treated to a moving speech by former Governor Buddy Roemer. Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable
in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Those who
attain this rank are called an Eagle Scout or Eagle. Since its
introduction in 1911, the Eagle Scout rank has been earned by more than 2
million young men. The title of Eagle
Scout is held for life, thus giving rise to the phrase "Once an Eagle,
always an Eagle".
Requirements
include earning at least 21 merit badges and demonstrating Scout Spirit,
service, and leadership. This includes an extensive service project that the Scout
plans, organizes, leads, and manages. Eagle Scouts are presented with a medal
and a badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout.
Additional recognition can be earned through Eagle Palms, awarded for
completing additional tenure, leadership, and merit badge requirements.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
2009
SILVER BEAVER AND EAGLE
AWARD RECIPIENTS.
*** Intended Audience: Commissioners
***
2009
Commissioner
Conference “E.A.C. Road
Trip”
December 5, 2009
The 2009 Sam Houston Area
Council Commissioner Conference is shaping up to be another great training
event for commissioners of all levels. We are excited to announce that they
will have as the lunchtime guest speaker, Mr. Larry Kellner, CEO of Continental
Airlines.
For those of you who attended in 2008; this year's
conference offers many new courses and many popular returning courses.
Click Here for the 2009 Course Catalog. Sign Up Online AND
Contact Dwayne Jones to secure your
spot on the Council Van by December
4, 2009 @ noon.
If you are an interested Commissioner eager to learn more about
your role and just want a good excuse to take the short ride to Houston; we’ll save a seat
for YOU!!
Council Van Transport
will depart at 5:15 am & return at approximately 8:15 pm
*** Intended Audience: Unit Leaders
***
Has your
unit qualified…Better Yet Have you applied?
Centennial Quality
Achievement
for Unit Award 2009
Hold Down the Control Button & Click the Patch to Download
the Printable Form
Contact Louise @ 337-235-8551 ext 101 for pertinent
questions.
*** Intended Audience: All ***
We would like to thank all the
Scouts, families and popcorn customers in Acadiana and the Evangeline Area Council
for the 5th STRAIGHT YEAR OF POPCORN SALES GROWTH!! The Council
total in 2009 equates to $601,285 (3.6% increase over
2008) at the moment with a few more units trickling in. Our hats off to all the
folks who made this year’s “Powered By Popcorn” Campaign a great success. Your dedication and success in the sale will
advance your units, the Boy Scouts of America and propel us to another great
year in 2010.
Council Pick up sites will be open in
each district from Thursday, November 19-Saturday, November 21, for units to
pick up their orders and receive their popcorn invoices.
Contact Your Local District
Executive (see directory below) for Warehouse location and to schedule your
pick up day and time!
Sales
Proceeds are due into the office by December 11, 2009 at 4:00 pm
For Questions Contact: Delores Stagg @ delores.stagg@scouting.org
Final Fill It
Up Winner Results During the 2009 Sale
Week # 1 Brandon Hoff, Pack 88 Youngsville, La.
Week # 2 Kasey Bourque, Pack 88 Youngsville, La.
Week # 3 Christian Kleven, Pack 24, Crowley, La.
Week # 4 Samuel Gossen, Pack 22, Lafayette, La.
Week # 5 Easton McGinn, Pack
156, Lafayette, La.
Week # 6 Trevor Wiggins, Pack 330, Morgan City, La.
Week # 7 Connor Taylor, Troop
91, Breaux Bridge, La.
Week # 8 Christopher Pitre, Pack 330, Morgan City, La.
Grand Prize Winner
***Drake Trahan,
Troop 162, Lafayette, La.***
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Intended Audience: All ***
Scout Night with the Icegators
In the first year
of their return to Acadiana, the Louisiana Icegators are making a pitch to
reclaim their fan base, including the youngest of the fan population. So for that reason they have been gracious
enough to host a Scout Night that will include pre/post game activities, the
game itself and a bunch of fun. More
details will be circulating in the coming weeks. We hope you choose to be in the thousands
that renew their support for the Icegators and take a Chomp out of the February 20, 2009 opponent.
Ticket prices, seating arrangements, order deadlines, etc. will be
announced in the very near future.
***
Intended Audience: Boy Scouting / Venturing **
2010 Boy Scout Summer Camp Kick-Off Meeting
Please join us for the 2010
Boy Scout Summer Camp Kick-off Meeting
on the evening of January 12, 2010
at the Evangeline Area Council, Knight
Service Center,
2266 S. College Rd. We
will enjoy appetizers, fellowship and the planning of the 2010 Boy Scout Summer
Camp Program for Mountain Bayou Lake Scout Camp. Plan to arrive at 6:00pm for
appetizers; the actual meeting will begin at 6:30pm.
If you plan to attend the Kick-off meeting, please contact Melanie LeBlanc, 337-235-8551 ext. 100, or e‑mail: melanie.leblanc@scouting.org
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Intended Audience: Boy Scouting / Venturing ***
Eagle
applications
Effective
August 1, 2009, the national office will no longer accept Eagle applications
prior to the 2009 printing. The new Eagle Scout application (512-728) can be
found on scouting.org. http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-728_web.pdf.
***
Intended Audience: Scouts ***
BSA
Lifeguard Roll Call!
Please have your BSA Lifeguards
email Craig Overland (craig.overland@scouting.org).
The Council Aquatics committee is working to ensure all Lifeguards are
registered and accounted for prior to Summer Camp.
If you are holding on to a Lifeguard application, please turn them into the
Council Office.
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Intended Audience: All ***
Help
Wanted: Camp master Volunteers
We are looking for an
energetic program oriented group of individuals that would like to bolster our
Camp master core. Camp masters rotate weekend duties at our 4 council owned properties
and the maintain each by landscaping, repairing and caring for our camps. We
have a pretty well organized core of camp masters at Mt. Bayou,
we would like volunteers or interest parties to maintain our other 3 camps
(Thistlethwaite, Brownell, and Steen).
The camp master
team is responsible for the supervision, operation, and maintenance of physical
facilities and property. The ranger serves as an ambassador of goodwill as well
as an enforcer of rules. Must possess the ability to work with a minimum of
supervision, relate well with people, friendly, helpful attitude toward the
Scouting family and general public. Must effectively enforce established
council policies and procedures. Skills to perform a variety of maintenance
skills, including plumbing, electrical and carpentry, specializing in at least
one technical – experienced in using hand tools. Must be able to coordinate schedule
personal and work schedules around designated camp supervision. Responsibility
schedule is flexible and includes weekend rotations. For more details, Ranger Bobby at 337-461-2921.
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Intended Audience: Boy Scouting / Venturing ***
2010
National Scout Jamboree:
July 26th - August 4th, 2010
Ft. A.P. Hill, Virginia
YOUTH CONTINGENT IS FULL AT THIS
TIME.
ANY
ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS WILL
BE
PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST
It is not too late for your scouts to sign up
for the 2010 Jamboree. Even though
our youth contingent is now FULL,
we are placing names on a waiting list! Slots are filling up for the waiting
list as well but if someone can not go, you want to be on the list to take
their place and attend this historic event.
Youth positions are
still available online and maybe accessed through www.MyScouting.org for non-BSA
employees. Applicants will need to use their BSA ID number or their Social
Security number to access the application Web site. This application does not
guarantee you a position for the jamboree, but does get you started on the
process to be approved as a participant.
Already
registered? Please be sure that you are current with your payment in order to
continue to hold a spot in the contingent.
Please do not apply
for any Scoutmaster positions. All Adult troop positions have been filled.
For further
information contact: Dwayne Jones @ dwayne.jones@scouting.org or Jane
Parra @ jeparra@cox.net
CONTINGENT
INFORMATION
NOTE
Please continue to make contingent payments to the
council office
include a note of reference when sending payment by mail
Medical Forms are being emailed at this time
Please be on the look out for them with
the email account you have set up on
the National Registration Process.
***
Intended Audience: Cub Scouting ***
Cub
Adventure Camp
Thanks to all of you who came out an attended
one of the five beautiful weekends of Cub Adventure 2009. For the most part the
weather cooperated and all the folks in attendance we treated to a great fall
program. Take a look at the fun and
we’ll see you this Spring @ Resident Camp……
*** Intended
Audience: All ***
Calling
all Commissioners! Our 2nd Annual
Commissioners’ Conference Road Trip will take place on
Saturday, December 5, 2009. Any new District, Unit, and/or Roundtable
Commissioner that seeks training can accompany our commissioner contingent as
we travel to the Sam Houston Area Council for their annual commissioner’s
conference. Come for fellowship; come
for fun; come to learn how commissioners can deliver “Centennial Service” by
engaging units; come to meet and hear from member of our National
Commissioner’s Support Staff in charge of Retention and Recruitment. Save the
date DECEMBER 5, 2009!! Lunch will
be provided and it is a one day trip. We
depart for Houston at 5:30 am and we should be
back at our Council
Service Center
by 9 pm at the very latest. Reserve your place by sending an email to Dwayne Jones at dwayne.jones@scouting.org
or call 337-235-8551 ext 104.
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Intended Audience: Adult Scouters ***
University of Scouting
It’s Coming….
Saturday, January 16, 2010
New Iberia Senior
High School
8 am-5 pm
Registration Opens on Dec. 14th.
Be on the look out for the Class Registration Grid and course
descriptions
Contact:
Jack Bolinger,
University President at Bolinger@cox.net
Or
Stuart
Goins, 2010 Course Staff
Advisor at stuart.goins@scouting.org
*** Intended Audience: All***
To submit tour permits online please log into
http://www.scouting.org/myscouting
again, if you cannot see the link there for tour permits
go to my profile and then to modify profile
to make sure that the radio button for tour permits
is in fact checked to access.
for those that need
directions for the process
we have a
.pdf document here with the details
*** Intended Audience: All***
Annual
Health and Medical Record [Prints on single 8.5 x 11 sheets]
Annual
Health and Medical Record [Prints on 11 x 17 sheets]
The use of the new form, No. 34605,
will be required
effective
January 1, 2010
to answer a bunch of your questions
http://www.scouting.org/HealthandSafety/Resources/MedicalFormFAQs.aspx
*** Intended Audience: New
Scout Leaders ***
This is Scouting
Required
Training Course Change:
Effective April 1, 2009, the new This
is Scouting
course
replaced New Leader Essentials as a required training course in
ScoutNET.
to view the course please follow this link
MYSCOUTING can be found at scouting.org
For
dates, location, flyers for trainings happening in the Evangeline Area Council
Please refer to the Training Pages for information.
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YOUTH PROTECTION TRAINING
ARE YOU UPDATED !!
UPDATING REQUIRED EVERY 2 YEARS
REGISTERED
LEADERS, ASSISTANTS, MERIT BADGE COUNSELORS
ARE YOU UPDATED !!
*** Intended Audience: All
Scouters ***
This training is ONLY
available online on the e-Learning portal from
MYSCOUTING at scouting.org
There is no CD/DVD or live training session available for this
and users must create user accounts and have their BSA ID numbers
(ID #S can be found on recharter forms/unit rosters/ID cards,
etc.).
Training takes about 1.5 hours.
*** Intended Audience: All
Scouters ***
Welcome to the Scouting
Community.
The
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has implemented the Scouting
Community system to test the use of social networking. This platform is
designed to provide social networking capabilities to all employees,
volunteers, and youth members over the age of 13.
The
platform is accessible through the MyScouting portal http://www.scouting.org/myscouting
to
any council employee and/or volunteer. In order to access the system,
a
user must enter their BSA member ID on their MyScouting profile page. This
platform will be a closed system available only
to
members of the Boy Scouts of America.
New Scout Office Email
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Scout Shop
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Crystal
Ryder-Manager
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Crystal.ryder@scouting.org
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Office
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Office Manager
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Melanie.leblanc@scouting.org
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Registrar
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Louise.guthrie@scouting.org
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Account Specialist
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Delores.stagg@scouting.org
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Finance Executive
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Chavanne.stine@scouting.org
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Council
Administrative Staff
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Council
Scout Executive
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Art.hawkins@scouting.org
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Field
Director
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Dwayne.Jones@scouting.org
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Unit Serving Executive Staff
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Coushatta District Executive
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Stuart.goins@scouting.org
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Beau Bassin Sr. Dist. Executive
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Scott.morgan@scouting.org
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Chitmacha District Executive
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Craig.overland@scouting.org
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Attakapas Sr. District Executive
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Scott.Fischer@scouting.org
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Acadia District Executive
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Lauren.taylor@scouting.org
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Intended Audience: All ***
This
“Scouting
News”
Council Web update/email distribution is provided as a service by the council
and is intended to remind and alert our volunteers and interested parties of
council related activities being held within a 45-60 day window and of national
policy changes. We make every effort to send this distribution bi-weekly. If
you are directing a council event and would like to have your event included,
please submit a brief article to Dwayne Jones
at least one week prior to the next distribution
date. If you have any questions regarding this update, please feel free to
contact Dwayne via email, dwayne.jones@scouting.org.
Scouting News Upcoming Distribution Dates:
Friday, December 11, 2009 *Last of 2009*
