Welcome toWhite Eagle District January

Roundtable

OPENING

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCESCOUT OATHSCOUT LAW

REMINDER

• Make sure that you sign in at every Roundtable.

• We will be tracking attendance for the most represented Troop, Crew or Pack; AND

• The Scouter that attends all Roundtables.

• WHEN: January 20, 2018

• 8 AM – 4 PM

• WHERE: Camp Lowden

• Registration on back table

2018 Merit Badge DaySponsored by:

White Eagle DistrictWhen:

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Where:

Byron Nuclear Plant

Registration Opens 12/8 @ 7 AM

Register at:

http://www.blackhawkscouting.org

$20 Per Scout Includes Lunch.

2018 Merit Badge Day

When:

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Where:

Byron Nuclear Plant

We are looking for help, please

contact Dan Hawkins if you are

interested.

Friday, February 23-25, 2018

– Camp Lowden – Boeger Lodge

– All Scouts 14 years of age & older

– Cost: $30.00 -Includes all meals and lodging –– First Come First Serve for Boeger Lodge for sleeping.

– Registration on line at Blackhawk Area Council Website– Planned events include fat-tire bikes, pistol shooting, climbing, archery, crate stacking, tomahawk and knife

throwing, astronomy, snow shoeing and much more! Other activities include evening social/dance, night hike and evening cracker barrel! Activities are subject to change based on weather.

Rockford Ice Hogs

Scout Nights With The IceHogs – March 3rd

Boy Scout and Girl Scout Troops can receive a special group discount on their IceHogs tickets for the 2017-18 season. Save over 20% on your tickets to an upcoming IceHogs game and entertain your Scout Group to a great night of IceHogs hockey!

Order Forms on Back Table

You are coordially invited to the

Blackhawk Area Council 2018 Youth & Adult Recognition

Dinner

$35 / person $50 / Eagle Sponsor

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018RADISSON CONVENTION CENTER

200 S. BELL SCHOOL ROAD

ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

You may register at www.blackhawkscouting.org

SOCIAL GATHERING

1:45 P.M.DINNER

2:30 P.M.

First Aid/Medicine Merit Badge

• March 10, 2018

• CGH Medical Center

• 100 E LeFevre Rd, Sterling

• Contact Don Rastede @ 815-631-6470

• Registration Forms on back table

White Eagle District Dinner

• WHEN : Saturday, April 7, 2018

• WHERE: Cedar Stone, (Same place as last year)

• Cost: $20.00

Make A Difference Award

• All Nomination forms due TONIGHT

• Nomination for the White Eagle District Making a Difference Award

• Nomination forms on back table.

• Council Pine Wood Derby – April 14-15, 2018

– Pecatonica High School1300 Main St.Pecatonica, IL 61063

• Contacts – Bob Gingras - Dixon, IL - 815-288-5262

– Cannie Ware - Rockford, IL - 815-397-0210 Ext.7538

Blackhawk Area Council

Pine Wood Derby

WILDERNESS FIRST AID • Date: April 13-14

• Time: Friday 6:00pm to 9:00 p.m. and Saturday 8am to 5pm

• Location: Kiwanis Youth Cabin N 2997 Youth Cabin Rd Monroe, WI 53566

• Fee: $60 (includes books, training supplies, handout materials, certification fees, and all meals)

Due to demand for training and limited class size, the course is 30 anticipated to fill early. The course This 2-day course is designed to give the individual the skills needed to handle first aid situations that could occur in a remote situation. This Course will fulfill the BSA National requirements for high adventure. The only prerequisite for the course is a basic knowledge of CPR and first aid. Participants must attend both days of class room sessions, outdoor scenarios, skill challenges, and pass all written exams to receive certification in ECSI Wilderness First Aid and Adult CPR. Overnight camping is available for anyone wishing to stay Friday night. Enrollment is limited to 30 participants for the course. Please do not hesitate in getting your registration and fee in to confirm your spot in your selected course.

If you have any questions email Jim Gerhards at gerhards4@hotmail.com or call (563)581-2502.

Registration deadline: March 31, 2017

FORMS ON BACK TABLE

Leave No Trace Trainer Course

WHO: EVERYONE Youth 14 + & Adults

WHEN: May 11-13, 2018 WHERE? @ Camp Lowden

WHY: You can become a Trainer for LNT by completing this course.

• Come and see what you have been missing. Learn new techniques for sharing the information that you will obtain. Play games to make it fun for all. Seek the opportunities to make every moment of a child’s time in nature as an opportunity to explore what it means to have fun outside while taking care of it.

COST: $50 / person

HOW: See the council training calendar to register @ www.blackhawkscouting.org

QUESTIONS: Contact Marian Walters – marian5355@aol.com

BOY SCOUT SUMMER CAMP 2 Amazing Camps!

Which one will you choose?

Check out the video on line at:

Blackhawkscouting.org

Campership Due April 15, 2018

Summer Camp starts:

6/18/17 and continues every week

for 5 weeks.

Register at:

www. Blackhawkscouting.org

• NYLT Camp Lowden

– Session 1: June 10th - June 15th

– Session 2: August 5th – August 10th

– 2018 Course Fees: $220.00 per participant

– $30.00 discount for registration by 5/1/18

– Flyers on back table.

White Eagle District Day Camp

at Camp LowdenTiger Camp

When: July 30

Wolf & Bear

When: July 31-August 1

Webelos & Arrow Of Light:

When: August 3-4, 2018

Please contact Josh Stone (joshstone1@gmail.com) with any

questions.

Leaders Guide is on line at Blackhawkscouting.org.

SAVE THE DATE WHEN:

September 28-30, 2018

WHERE :

Rockford Airport

If interested in helping contact:

Nancy Johnson @ nmj1964@gmail.com

Or

Dan Frommelt at danielmfrommelt@gmail.com

• WHO: Den Chiefs, Senior Patrol Leaders & Assistant Senior Patrol Leaders.

• WHY: Would like to hear from the youth scouts on how the SPL & ASPL & Den Chiefs

• WHEN: February Round Table

• Re-charter packets will be pass out February, 2018 Roundtable.

• Start verifying addresses, phone numbers & adult training records if needed.

• Remember Price Increase

SCOUTERS: We have each blazed a path and have a wealth of

information regarding places for our troops to go camping, let us all

make sure that we now mark those trails for the new leaders to

follow. Remember it is all about the scouts. Please fill in the paper

that will pass around tonight with winter and summer places to

camp. Phone numbers/contacts are great if you have those too, but

we can fill those in after as needed. We need your help. These will

then be added to this slide and updated as more are submitted.

Thanks and GO CAMPING! Thomas Halla – Camping Chairman

Make sure your are entering all

Service Hours for your, Pack, Crew

or Troop in the Journey to Excellence

website.

Questions:

See Kate Lehrke

• Meetings 1st Wednesday of the month at Camp Lowden

• Announcements from White Eagle’s Key 3

Bob Sutton

Dan Hawkins

Myles Newberry

• First timer at Roundtable

• Door Prize Drawing

Big Rock Topic: Friends of Scouting

Closing at 8:25

January Roundtable Program:

Youth Protection Training

Cubs, Boy & Venturing

Next Roundtable

We’ll see you at

Roundtable:

Thursday, February 8th

7:00 p.m.St. Paul Lutheran

Church

421 South Peoria Ave.

Dixon, IL 61021

Next Meeting: Thursday, February 8, 2018

Big Rock Topic:

Cub Scouts Break Out: What are Den Chiefs??

AND

Boy Scout Break Out:

What does an SPL do?

CLOSING: OUTDOOR CODE

As an American, I will do my best toBe clean in my outdoor manners.Be careful with fire.Be considerate in the outdoors.Be conservation minded.