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OA Annual Banquet
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Mercer Island Presbyterian Church

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Lodge Executive Committee Meeting
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Chief Seattle Council Service Center

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• Marmot's Whistle Express - Wednesday, 08 September 2010

  	Upcoming Events View Full Calendar OA Ordeal - Camp Pigott Fri Sep 10, 7:00pm to Sun Sep 12, 12:00pm Camp Pigott Longhouse Groundbreaking Sat Sep 11, 5:30pm to 9:00pm Camp Pigott Lodge Executive Committee Meeting Wed Sep 15, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Chief Seattle Council Service Center National Public Lands Day Sat Sep 25, 8:00am to 5:00pm Lodge Officer Meeting Wed Oct 6, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Chief Seattle Council Service Center OA Annual Banquet Sat Oct 9, 5:30pm to 9:00pm Mercer Island Presbyterian Church Lodge Executive Committee Meeting Wed Oct 20, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Chief Seattle Council Service Center Lodge Officer Meeting Wed Nov 3, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Chief Seattle Council Service Center Subscribe to RSS Feed Membership Renewal Renew your OA membership for the 2010-2011 program year! Click here renew online - it's fast, accurate, and secure. If you attended your Ordeal in April, May, or June 2010, your dues are already current through June 30, 2011. Where To Go Camping Destination Search Find a hike or camping spot by entering part of the destination name below. Links Chief Seattle Council National BSA Jumpstart - New Arrowmen Section W-1N Western Region OA National OA The Marmot's Whistle is an official publication of T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Order of the Arrow Chief Seattle Council Boy Scouts of America Contact Us 3120 Rainier Ave South P.O. Box 440408 Seattle, Washington 98114
  Hi [username]! This is your monthly news update from T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge.  We hope you find this information useful, and look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event or service opportunity! Please contact us if you have any questions. Help out with the PTC Service Corps! The annual Council Program and Training Conference will again be held at North Seattle Community College on October 16. The Lodge is looking for volunteers to help man the T’Kope Kwiskwis info booth as well as provide service for the event. If you are interested, plan on arriving by 6:30 AM and expect to provide cheerful service until mid-afternoon.  Lunch is provided.  If you’re not able to be there the whole day, we’d love to see you for a few hours! Read more... Get Ready for the Lodge Banquet! Remember what October means? The Lodge Banquet! Get together with your fellow Arrowmen to celebrate the achievements of the Lodge and its members over the past year. Learn about the history of the Longhouse, the upcoming ArrowCorp 502 service project, meet the 2010 Vigil class, and celebrate unbelivable Quality Lodge three-peat. This year the Banquet will be held at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church. Cost is $20 for pre-registered Arrowmen and guests and $30 at the door.  Don't miss it!   Read more... National Public Lands Day Join your brothers for a weekend of service at Mt. Rainier National Park! Working out of Camp Sheppard and the Ranger Creek Campground, this weekend will be a test run for the upcoming ArrowCorp 502 project. Build trail, clear brush, pull stumps and give service to one of America's premier National Parks. This project will be done in conjunction with National Public Lands Day, a day for people all around the country to give back to the public lands they love. If you’re interested in helping out at ArrowCorps 502, this is the place to be!     Click here to learn more about National Public Lands Day: http://www.publiclandsday.org/ Read more... Introducing National Outdoor Badge and the National Outdoor Achievement Award Hello Arrowmen of T’Kope Kwiskwis,                 I am Lodge Service Vice Chief writing to inform you about a great new award program that is provided by National for You, the Youth of Boy Scouts. This program is called the National Outdoor Badge, it is designed to cover five major activities: Camping, Hiking, Aquatics, Riding and Adventure. These awards are designed to really test your discipline and toughness in forcing you to do more than is required for other awards. The reason I bring up this great program is because I can help you earn some of those badges! The requirements for the camping badge for instance require twenty-five nights of camping, with six days being a consecutive camping trip. The “Where To Go Camping Guide” is a perfect place to find cool places to fill out those camping trips! Follow this link to take a look: http://tkopekwiskwis.org/gocamping/destinations . In addition I can provide service project opportunities for you to help you earn a 50-miler award. For more information on the National Outdoor Badge program see the requirements here:   http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts/Youth/Awards/NOA.aspx Read more... TWO MORE Elangomat Awards The April 3rd-5th 2009 Ordeal at Camp Pigott marked the official kickoff of the new Elangomat Award program. In order to earn this special limited edition lodge flap that tells the world that you are a great Elangomat, members must have cheerfully served as an Elangomat starting at that ordeal. Now the T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge is proud to announce the next two recipients of the Elangomat Award. The Elangomat award is the same as the lodge flap but with a Silver Mylar border. Congratulations to the most recent recipients: Youth: From the Sunyakwa Chapter - Clay M From the Sahaptin Mox Khan'-nice - Dylan EC B Read more... Lodge Leadership Development Conference Next weekend we will be holding our first training event of the year, Lodge Leadership Development! This training will focus on preparing Chapter leadership for the coming year. Unlike in past years, however, this training will combine a focus on the very basics of leadership, like assembling a team and making decisions, with a leadership retreat. The training will be held at Camp Sheppard from 7PM on August 27 to 1 PM August 29. The cost for the weekend is free, but please pre-register. See you there! Ian Bellows Lodge Secretary<--> Read more...
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• Marmot's Whistle Express - Sunday, 08 August 2010

  	Membership Renewal Renew your OA membership for the 2010-2011 program year! Click here renew online - it's fast, accurate, and secure. If you attended your Ordeal in April, May, or June 2010, your dues are already current through June 30, 2011. Lodge Leadership Development Conference Fri, Aug 27th Lodge Leadership Development Conference Sat, Aug 28th Lodge Leadership Development Conference Sun, Aug 29th Ordeal Weekend Fri, Sep 10th Ordeal Weekend Sat, Sep 11th Where To Go Camping Destination Search Find a hike or camping spot by entering part of the destination name below. Links Chief Seattle Council National BSA Jumpstart - New Arrowmen Section W-1N Western Region OA National OA The Marmot's Whistle is an official publication of T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Order of the Arrow Chief Seattle Council Boy Scouts of America Contact Us 3120 Rainier Ave South P.O. Box 440408 Seattle, Washington 98114
  Hi [username]! This is your monthly news update from T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge.  We hope you find this information useful, and look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event or service opportunity! Please contact us if you have any questions. FREE PIZZA - National Public Lands Day Kickoff I'm glad I caught your attention, now I am here to invite you to one of the first events of a new lodge year; National Public Lands Day Kickoff! This is event is to allow our lodge's arrowmen to ask questions about NPLD and aid the planners in making NPLD an event that will be remembered for years to come. As I subtly said earlier, it is a free event and yes there will be plenty of food. At this event we will also be unveiling a new Service Award Program. The, "H2 Program" or "Hard Hat Program" is designed to recognize those Arrowmen who give exemplary service through Chapter/ Lodge Service Projects, and select OA Events. To find more information be sure to attend the NPLD Kickoff. The NPLD Kickoff will be held at the Chief Seattle Council Service Center, it will be on August 14th, 2010 from 9am to 3pm. Be sure to save the date because this is an event you do not want to miss! Mathew A., Lodge Service Vice Chief Read more...
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• Marmot's Whistle Express - Thursday, 08 July 2010

  	Membership Renewal Renew your OA membership for the 2010-2011 program year! Click here renew online - it's fast, accurate, and secure. If you attended your Ordeal in April, May, or June 2010, your dues are already current through June 30, 2011. Lodge Leadership Development Conference Fri, Aug 27th Lodge Leadership Development Conference Sat, Aug 28th Lodge Leadership Development Conference Sun, Aug 29th Ordeal Weekend Fri, Sep 10th Ordeal Weekend Sat, Sep 11th Where To Go Camping Destination Search Find a hike or camping spot by entering part of the destination name below. Links Chief Seattle Council National BSA Jumpstart - New Arrowmen Section W-1N Western Region OA National OA The Marmot's Whistle is an official publication of T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Order of the Arrow Chief Seattle Council Boy Scouts of America Contact Us 3120 Rainier Ave South P.O. Box 440408 Seattle, Washington 98114
  Hi [username]! This is your monthly news update from T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge.  We hope you find this information useful, and look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event or service opportunity! Please contact us if you have any questions. Longhouse Groundbreaking Announced At its June meeting the Lodge Officers voted on a proposal from the Longhouse Committee to hold the groundbreaking ceremony for the new OA Longhouse at the Fall Ordeal September 11, 2010 at Camp Pigott. All current members and alumni of the T'Kope Kwiskwis lodge are invited to attend this historic event! We encourage all current members to come up for the whole weekend and welcome our newest members by staffing the Ordeal. We have arranged the schedule so that if you provide cheerful service and staff you will not miss out on any of the Longhouse festivities.   Please join us in the celebration of this momentous occasion by registering for ONE of the following choices: To register for the Ordeal Staff: To register for the ground breaking and dinner only: The groundbreaking will be held at 5:30 pm Saturday September 11, 2010 with dinner at the Pigott Dining Hall to follow. Come be a part of History! Read more... THREE-PEAT! T'KOPE KWISKWIS QUALITY LODGE 2010! In an impressive fashion 2010 became the third year in a row that T'Kope Kwiskwis is a Quality Lodge. Congratulations to our chapter and lodge leadership who tirelessly gave cheerful service and guided us this entire year. This third award in a row is unprecedented in Lodge history and is extremely difficult to achieve given the requirements require positive growth every single year and a 30% brotherhood conversion rate. Quality program = Quality Lodge Read more... 15 Seal Their Membership as T’Kope Crosses the Finish Line We encourage everyone to congratulate our latest brothers who sealed their membership in the Order by going through the Brotherhood Ceremony in the month of June 2010. These brothers helped put us over the top of our 30% goal for Quality Lodge! We ended the year by welcoming 92 new Brotherhood members in 2010 or a conversion rate of 32%! These are the brothers who got us over the finish line: Read more... National Public Lands Day Kickoff I am here to tell you about a great opportunity for you to not only party with some of your fellow Arrowmen but also to get you informed about a great pre-ArrowCorps502 service project. This project is known as National Public Lands Day (NPLD). Many may recognize it as a national event for the public, but you have the opportunity to rock the OA sash on the mountain while cheerfully serving! This is an event you do not want to miss! If you want to get more information, why not get it while partying with your fellow Arrowmen, complete with free pizza. The NPLD Kickoff will be held at the Chief Seattle Council Service Center, it will be on August 14th, 2010 from 9am to 3pm. Be sure to save the date this is an event you do not want to miss! Mathew A. Service Vice Chief Read more... 2010-2011 Lodge Officers Elected Congratulations to our new lodge officers who were elected this past weekend at the Spring Fellowship at Camp Pigott.  The officers officially take their new positions on July 1, 2010. Lodge Chief: Brian S. Secretary: Ian B. Treasurer: Garrett J. Activities Vice Chief: Chris Z. Inductions Vice Chief: Logan C. Service Vice Chief: Mat A. And a big THANK YOU to Peter H., Keith P., Garrett J., Chris Z., Ryan M., and Evan S. for leading another Quality Lodge year! Read more... Pigott Barbecue Shelter Complete After 20 months of hard work by many members of our lodge, the Camp Pigott Barbecue Shelter is ready for use -just in time for Summer Camp. Many thanks to all the project contributors:   Read more...
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