BRD Newsletter February 2014

February 2014
Bull Run District Newsletter
Remember Your Recharter
Please remember that all recharters are due (with checks) on Thursday, 13 February at the
Bull Run District Roundtable.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Tad Yergey: [email protected] 703.973.0723
or
Brian McGuire: [email protected]
On the Calendar
 BRD Roundtable,
February 13
 Venture-All,
February 5
 Merit Badge Day;
Merit Badge
Counselor Training;
Venture-All Training,
February 15
University of Scouting
 University of
Where: Hayfield Secondary School, 7630 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, Virginia
 District Dinner,
When: Saturday February 22, 2014, Doors open at 7:30AM
Cost: $30 early bird; at the door $45
Register: www.ncacbsa.org/event/uofs2014
Scouting, February 22
March 8
 BRD Roundtable,
March 13
 Scout Show and AllCounty Pinewood
Derby, March 15
Boy Scout Roundtable Break-Out Topic Schedule
Month
Topic
February
Advancement Fireside Chat
March
Campout Program Idea Forum
April
Conservation Awards (Hornaday)
May
Weather Awareness
June
Service Projects/Messengers of Peace
 Ninth Annual
Orienteering Meet,
March 29
 Northeast Region,
BSA, Bridge of Honor
and Sea Scout Ball,
March 29
Service Opportunities
Please feel free to contact Tamara Brown,
[email protected], for additional
information and /or assistance facilitating
a service project!
City of Manassas Volunteer Opportunities
http://www.manassascity.org/index.aspx?NID=349
Volunteers at the Manassas Museum make all the difference and make our mission possible. Among our dedicated core are
newcomers who volunteer for special events and those who have spent hours at the Museum every week for decades. We
appreciate the extraordinary efforts of all of our talented volunteers. Please call 703-368-1873 or email us for more
information, or to volunteer your time and talent.
Current Needs
Adult Weekend Visitor Assistants
Greet visitors and answer questions
Saturday and Sunday shifts are available from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Special Event Assistants
Help set-up and clean up for special programs
Organizations with opportunities all year round
GIVE (Growth and Inspiration through Volunteering and Education) is a non-profit organization founded and operated by
high school students. GIVE works towards promoting leadership of youth through projects that improve the quality of life in
their communities, by providing a free tutoring program for elementary students.
September 28, 2013 - June 14, 2014 From 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Central Community Library or Bull Run Regional
Library, 8601 Mathis Avenue Manassas, VA/8051 Ashton Ave, Manassas, VA Manassas, VA
Sahitya Allam ([email protected]), Rachel Zoll ([email protected])
Birmingham Green needs people to visit with seniors and clean up the gardens. Zach, 703-257-6252.
Prince William Conservation Alliance needs help with its conservation landscape project. 703-499-4954,
[email protected].
Prince William County Historic Preservation needs help with educational programs, giving tours, participating in
special programs and gardening. Rebecca, 703-499-9812.
Animal Shelter Information -148007 Dumfries Road Manassas, VA, 20112 703-792-6465
Keep Prince William Beautiful, Inc.- has many service projects available for units. Will work with units to create their
own service project. www.kpwb.org
Father Ramon -after school program in Georgetown South on Monday-Wednesday-Friday afternoons from 3-6pm. Come
help him work with the kids so they do good with their homework, or participate in fun activities and certainly being that
good role model. Please email him at: [email protected] for more information.
The lovely folks at PALS provide friendly visitors to adult survivors of brain injury. Volunteers are needed here in the
community. Please call Michelle at (703) 451-8881 ext. 232 to share a little of your time with another.
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Venturing
District Venturing Committee Updates
Happy Birthday Scouting, and Happy Olympic Games!
Members of Crews 617 and 1372 take to the lanes to show good
sportsmanship and Venturing sprit in the first match of the
District Venturing Challenge Trophy
(L-R from top): Nathaniel, Gene, Josh, Mandy, Garrett, Abby,
Elizabeth, Dacotah, Mary Kate, Mya, Robert and Cody.
What better way to celebrate Scouting’s birthday than for Venturers to engage in competition? The District Venturing
Officer’s Association announced for 2014 a new District-wide competition that EVERY crew can participate in: The District
Venturing Challenge Trophy. Each month, a Crew will be able to challenge another to be the keeper of the trophy for a given
month. The next month, the trophy holder will need to defend the trophy from another Crew. The sport will be determined by
the challengers, which gives every Crew a chance to share what they are good at.
For the inaugural challenge, Crew 1372 from Manassas Park, challenged Crew 617 from Manassas to a bowl-off. The Crews
agreed to take the scores from each Venturer over two games and average them. Both Crews had very respectable scores with
Crew 1372 scoring an average of 94.25, and Crew 617 averaging 95.75! Due to this being the very first challenge, Crew 1372
will be allowed to have a rematch in March. Starting at the March Venturing Officer’s Association meeting, any Crew will have
the opportunity to challenge the winner of the March matchup to try to bring the trophy back to their Crew!
An overview of our new Challenge Trophy event, as well as the official unveiling of the new trophy will be held at the District
VOA Meeting at this month’s Roundtable. Congratulations to both Crew 617 and 1372 for kicking off our new program, and
bringing every Crew a little bit closer together.
Yours in Venturing;
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Venturing
From the President’s Desk…
Fellow Venturers;
Happy February! I would like to start out by thanking Crew 1372, Crew 617, and others who came out to be Zombies at the
Winter Camporee at Camp William B. Snyder. Without them the camporee would not have had been as much fun as it was.
We would love to see your best pictures from the camporee, feel free to post them online on our District or our DVOA’s
Facebook pages.
February 15th will be our Venture-all, with both CPR and Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews being offered. If you
haven’t taken the ILSC, now’s a perfect time, get registered at http://www.ncacbsa.org today!
University of Scouting is coming up on the weekend of the 22nd and it will have couple of Venturing specific courses being
offered. More information on this can be found online at www.ncacbsa.org .
Area 6 Phenomenon at Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation will be held April 4th -6th and registration is already up on Area
6’s page, http://nerventuring-bsa.org/areas/area-6/area-6-information/. Sign up and join over 300 of your closest
Venturing friends for an amazing fun filled weekend!
Do you like having fun? Do you like planning and hosting events and improving yourself and others? Then come join us on
the Bull Run District Venturing Officer Association. We’re always looking for new Venturers and new ideas for exciting and
fun programs to share with the District. We meet during the district roundtable and your input is needed and
welcomed. We’ve already kicked off the DVOA Challenge Trophy contest to encourage friendly competition between the
Crews and Ship in our district, and we’ll be presenting the first winner, and having our first challenge at the meeting. If you
have any questions about Venturing, please feel free to contact me or our District Advisor, Jon Stone.
Yours in Venturing;
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Safety
Resolve to Prepare Your Family for Emergencies in 2014
RICHMOND, Va. – Ready Virginia, the commonwealth’s emergency preparedness public outreach initiative, is joining with
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the national Ready campaign to ask Virginians to Resolve to be
Ready in the new year.
“There is no more important resolution to make than to renew our personal efforts to be sure our families, homes and
businesses are ready for disasters,” said Michael Cline, state coordinator of emergency management. “Everyone – the whole
community – has a role in being ready for emergencies. We all can take steps now to be more prepared for any emergency
that may happen in 2014.”
Resolving to be Ready can be as simple as knowing who to call, where to meet and what to pack in the event of a
disaster. Emergencies can happen at any time, and families may not be together. Power could be lost, and cell phones may
not work. Families should discuss these topics and decide what to do as well as fill out an emergency plan.
Some questions to consider:
 Do you and your family members have contact phone numbers memorized or written down and available in
backpacks and wallets?
 Do you have a plan on how to meet up with family if you are separated?
 Do you know how to contact your children’s school in case of an emergency?
 Do you have three days of emergency supplies and water set aside?
Individuals and families can fill out an emergency plan, post it in homes, and share it with family and friends. Get free plan
worksheets, wallet cards and emergency supply checklists at www.ReadyVirginia.gov or on the new Ready Virginia app for
iPhone and Android devices.
“Winging it is not an emergency plan,” said Cline. “Take just a few minutes in the new year to decide who to call, where to
meet, and what to have on hand at home in case you can’t get out or you have to evacuate because of a bad situation. You’ll be
glad you did.”
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Orienteering
Ninth Annual NCAC Scout Orienteering Meet
Where: Little Bennett Regional Park, off Route 355 near Clarksburg, MD
When: March 29, 2014 (camping available both Fri. & Sat. nights)
Cost: $9 per Scout
Event online Registration: http://www.ncacbsa.org/orienteering
What to Bring: Compass and a sense of direction
Online REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED -- Please be aware that your unit
must register online to take part in this event.
Summary: This event is open to all Boy Scout Troops, Girl Scout units (ages 11 and up) and Venturing Crews. Scouts will
be paired up and compete for awards to be presented to the first 15 places in each event. The morning sessions will
include: instruction in Orienteering for Scouts new to the sport, competitions in one of four levels of orienteering courses,
and a map skill-building event. Each Scout pair will have an opportunity to choose two events in the morning. Although we
are offering instruction, we strongly recommend instruct take place at a unit level so you can ensure the use of Teaching
EDGE instruction that we are unable to provide. Competition will be broken into two age groups, under 14 years of age and
Scouts 14 years of age or older. Venturing Crews with members over 18 years old may be scored as a third grouping to try
to ensure fairness. After a brief break at 1pm, the afternoon event will be a 90-minute Orienteering score course. The event
will be completed with awards from the morning events at 5:00pm.
This event is run with volunteers from and supported by the NCAC and has the added experienced of help from the
Quantico Orienteering Club (http://qoc.us.orienteering.org).
Buddy system is strictly enforced with all events and adults are not permit “in the woods”
during the competitions.* Morning competition will be on the individual (scout) pair level and
on the unit level. Each troop or crew unit will have a unit score from this event based on the
average of the unit's top five pairs from that unit.
Camping will be available on both Friday and Saturday nights. Leaders from individual
units need to make arrangements after January 2nd with the Park by calling (301) 972-9222.
Please make sure you advise them that you are attending the NCAC Orienteering event. Sites A,
B & C will be available to scout units at $25 a site (to be verified), with each site restricted to 10
people and two cars. There is overflow parking available. Camping information can be found at
http://www.montgomeryparks.org/enterprise/park_facilities/little_bennett/
little_bennett_campground.shtm.
This event is restricted to Scout Troops and Venture Crews only: Because of the large volume of Scouts
attending this event and the level of competition, we cannot accommodate Cub Scouts or Webelos at this event. The youth
must be registered member of a Troop, Team, Ship or Crew.
Registration: Registration is to be done on a unit level: register all of your unit's Scouts at the same time, in one
registration. Registration and event information is posted at http://www.ncacbsa.org/orienteering in the near future.
Walk up registrations may not be accepted, however reasonable adjustments to existing registrations on the morning of
the event will be allowed.
This event is restricted to Scout Troops and Venture Crews only: Because of the large volume of Scouts
attending this event and the level of competition, we cannot accommodate Cub Scouts or Webelos at this event.
For more information and updates, contact James Chaplin at (703) 380-9631,
or by email at [email protected] (best).
Check out our website for more events, details and information: http://www.ncacbsa.org/group/bullrun
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Sea Scouts
News from Ship 100
Sea Scout Ship 100 was awarded NCAC Outstanding Ship of the
Year, the highest award available in the Squadron. The Ship was
represented at the Banquet by Boatswain Ryan Stark, Boatswains
Mate Griffen Hedrick, Purser Michael Kennedy, and
Midshipmen Aidan Wiecki and Zach Skiles. Nominations for
this award come from the Squadron and Regional leadership.
Bull Run Sea Scouts have completed their fleet with 4 boats. In January, they added
the SV Blue November, a 30ft Catalina yacht to be docked at Paradise Marina in
Deale, MD. She joins the SV Ol' Blue and SV Benjamin Chase, both docked at Fort
Washington Marina, and the SV Dominion at Lake Anna.
Ship 100 is sending 4 Sea Scouts to the William I. Koch Sea Scouts Cup - an international CFJ-class
sailing competition which attracts Sea Scouts from around the world. The competition will be held
June 22-28, 2014 in Long Beach California.
Applications for SEAL (Sea Scout Experience Advanced Leadership) are
due March 1. Applicants must be Ordinary Rank and pass a series of
skill examinations with 8 points out of 10 for all areas. The Course will
be taught in Newport Beach CA, Galveston Bay TX, Chesapeake Bay
MD, and Long Island NY. Scouts who successfully complete SEAL earn
the right to wear the SEAL Badge.
The SB-MD-2014 Sea Badge course will be held aboard the SSS John Brown in Baltimore Harbor,
Sept 19-21, 2014. Sea Badge is similar in nature to Wood Badge for Sea Scouts. Candidates who complete
Sea Badge requirements earn the right to wear the Sea Badge Trident pin.
For more information, Scouts and Scouters can visit the NCAC Sea Scouts website: http://www.ncacbsa.org/group/SeaScouts
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Eagle Scouts
Congratulations to Bull Run District’s 2013 Eagle Scouts. These 54 scouts assembled and managed teams
of volunteers who logged in more than 8940 hours doing service projects throughout our Virginia
communities.
Job well done EAGLE SCOUTS!
Steven Block
Brian Hammack
John Norton
Michael Boyle
Tristan Hamrick
Peyton Olszewski
Vincent Bryk
David Hanggi
Joshua Pape
James Harbour
Alberto Post
Ryan Carpenter
Aaron Champ
Steven Hillenbrand
Philip Rackham
Patrick Cox
Eugene Hoitt
Ryan Raksnis
Trevor Curran
Justin Janke
Paul Renfro
Zachary Curran
David Jensen
Connor Scott
Scott Cushanick
Nathan Johnson
Dane Smith
William Dalton
Ryan Kunzer
Tanner Stark
Jason Deisher
David Kusterer
Matthew Thatcher
Andrew DellaFera
Charles Lawrence
Hunter Toma
Christopher Dzaran
Richard Martinez
Forrest Voelker
Skylar Edwards
Alexander Meyer
Drew Weil
Stephen Foeckler
Adam Minke
Daniel Westley
Scouts
Welcome, Troop 226
Victory’s Crossing Church in Bristow is chartering Troop 226. The troop number is significant in that it is taken from
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” The Mission of Troop
226 is to develop future leaders in our families, community, country and world using the proven methods of the Boy Scouts of
America and applied in a Christ focused environment.
Our youth must make mature decisions about many things that their limited experience with life has not prepared them for.
Many of these decisions will have long-term consequences. Boy Scouting has successfully assisted more than 98 million
members since 1910 to develop the character and peer group associations to make ethical decisions and become role models
in their communities. At Troop 226 we hope to continue this success with a Christ centered focus and community service.
We are seeking scouts and adults who share our vision of building an exciting troop and building friendships to last a lifetime.
If you know are interested in becoming part of this exciting journey please contact Larry Moss by email or phone. You may
also visit our troop website, https://sites.google.com/site/troop226va/home and Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/
Troop226BristowVA, for more information.
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