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September 2, 2010 *** Enews from The NBO Scout Training Team and BSA Crew-911 ***
Our Fall/Winter and Early Spring schedule is now up on the "schedule" tab on our web site.
Sunday, September 5, 2010 - Crew-911 meeting at The American Red Cross office, The Woodlands
Friday - Sunday, September 24, 25 & 26 - The Deer Lake Canoe Clinic at BSA Camp Strake.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 - Wilber will be appearing at The Woodlands National Night Out
Friday - Sunday, October 8, 9 &10 - SHAC-JAM at The Texas Motor Speedway
Friday, October 15 - Crew-911 Event at BSA Camp Strake Grand Lake Dining Hall
Saturday - Sunday, October 16 & 17 - Wilderness and Remote First Aid at BSA Camp Strake, Grand Lake Dining Hall
We are off to a great start for our Fall activities.... as always, there is a lot going on!
This Sunday, October 5, 2010, Crew 911 will be holding one of our very rare meetings! Plan to come by and see what all is going on. We will be meeting at 2:00 PM in the new training room at our new American Red Cross home. The Woodlands American Red Cross office is located at 210 Spring Hill Dr. Suite 150, Spring,Texas 77098. Here are a couple of good ways to get there:
Exit I-45 North or South to Rayford Road East.... first light turn right (South) on Oakhurst Drive.... then left on Pitkin Rd (also South... your only choice). Pitkin will cross Spring Hill Drive.... through the gate and the ARC office will be on your right.... head on to the back door (second drive).... our only access is through the training room door which is on the back side of the building....
If you are South bound on I-45.... pass the Rayford Road exit and take exit 72A at the next opportunity which should be marked Pruitt Road.... Stay on the I-45 access road and cross under the freeway to the I-45 north bound feeder (the crossover is just before the Spring Creek bridge)... then right on Spring Hill Drive... you will see the ARC office on your right just before Pruitt Road. OR, if you are North bound I-45.... take exit 73 which is the Rayford Road exit.... then right on Spring Hill Drive.
We have some great ideas for our programs this year... we will have our training schedule and some suggestions for fun activities too. We also have several unique opportunities that come to us as a result of our teenagers level of training. Want to spend next summer in the South Pacific... It could happen. We also have an opportunity to work with the professional medical service at SHAC-Jam so this is a meeting you will really want to make... Did I mention that we may be assembling a sports car too? Let me or Kimi know if you are planning to attend. Bring a friend that may want to join Crew-911.
The Fall Deer Lake Canoe Clinic will be held September 24-26. We have a great class planned and we will need our canoe aids to help pull this one off. We need our lifeguards Friday night at The Conroe Swim Center and we need help on the waterfront Saturday and Sunday. As always, we need our trained canoe aids and all our FOC-Instructors too. Please let me or Dal know if you will be teaching or aiding. We also need to cover some activities at Powder Horn that weekend so all our Crew-911 members along with our green shirted friends are needed!
Saturday, October 2, Wilber's presence has been requested for a command performance from 1:00 PM through 5:00 PM at The Woodlands National Night Out at North Shore Park. We will need his usual entourage as well as a chauffer to pick him up at the chapter... Perhaps war canoes on Lake Woodlands? What a Kodak moment. Wilber will be sleeping over too so he can join us the following weekend at SHAC Jam....
Friday through Sunday, October 8, 9 & 10 we will be at SHAC Jam! Crew-911 will be providing minor first aid coverage for the event. Our guys will be working closely with the professionals from Brazos Event EMS too. What a unique opportunity for our trained first responders. We need all our trained teenagers for this on. Plan to attend our Sunday, September 5 Crew-911 meeting. This event will requires a lot of pre-planning on our part. Please plan to be a part of it.
Our first Wilderness and Remote First Aid class is scheduled for October 16 and 17 at BSA Camp Strake Grand Lake Dining Hall. We will be camping guys. Our crew officers should be planning our now infamous Crew-911 event for Friday night... I can't wait for the cold pizza and loud music.
There is still room for more participants for Wood Badge course SR-1069. Some of our youth members and green shirted friends have been asked to accept staff position too. Remember, this is the first Wood Badge course in our council that will accept Venturing youth members, eighteen and older. We have several Crew-911 members that will be attending as participants. Wood Badge has traditionally been an adult program... The management skills presented will give our mature teenagers and young adults a head start at college or in their chosen profession. I am having a ball preparing to help put this course on as a Troop Guide. This is your invitation to join what is shaping up to be a memorable and fun experience! Email me for more information. See our earlier enews for links to the registration materials. The course fees for Wood Badge are $275.00 and must be submitted with your application. The elves from Crew-911 have a few scholarships left for youth participants. Email me for details on how to apply.
Jay Walker
Advisor, BSA Crew 911
The Woodlands/Conroe Texas
www.scoutcpr.org
August 12, 2010 *** Enews from The NBO Scout Training Team and BSA Crew-911 ***
Friday-Sunday, August 13-15 - Venturing Summit at Bovey Scout Ranch near Navasota
Saturday, August 14 - Venturing Recognition Banquet at the Summit
Saturday, August 21 - Council Trainers EDGE at the Cockrell Scout Center
Sunday, August 22 - Eagle COA for Matthew Goelzer
Sunday, September 5 - BSA Crew-911 meeting at The Woodlands American Red Cross office
Friday - Sunday, September 24-26 - Deer Lake Canoe Clinic at BSA Camp Strake
We are once again off to a very busy Fall! Lots going on guys and it should be fun...
Our Crew-911 members and our green shirted friends that have agreed to Lifeguard at the Venturing Summit should be coordinating with JD.... If you want to help, let JD know quick... my bet is he will find a place for you! All Crew-911 members and all of our many green shirted friends should plan to attend the Recognition Banquet on Saturday evening at The Venturing Summit too. If you have not registered, I suggest that you follow the attached link and then beg for mercy! We were unable to make a group reservation for the banquet this time. The Venturing Leadership Award is very special guys and several of our very close "green shirted friends" will be recognized this year.
Here is the link to information about the Venturing Summit: SHAC Venturing Summit 2010
Our council is offering The Trainers EDGE course on Saturday, August 21 at the Cockrell Scout Center, 2225 North Loop West @ TC Jester. This is a great opportunity for our Crew-911 members both youth and adult along with our interested green shirted friends to learn how to present BSA programs. Our instructors that are working with us presenting the Wilderness and Remote First Aid program should consider taking this training.
Here is the link to information about The Trainer's EDGE: SHAC The Trainer's EDGE
Matthew Goelzer's Eagle Court of Honor will be Sunday, August 22, 3:00 PM at the Celebration Church (formally Crossroads Baptist Church), 6565 Research Forest Drive, The Woodlands, TX.
Congratulations Matthew-- It is about time!
Sunday, September 5, from 2:00 PM - about 4:00 PM we will hold our first Crew-911 meeting for the Fall training season at The Woodlands American Red Cross office, 210 Spring Hill Dr., Suite 150
Spring, Texas 77386. Use the entrance on the South side of the building. As most of you know, we will be providing First Aid support for the upcoming Council wide SHAC Jam event. This will be our initial planning meeting for that event and we will introduce the Fall training schedule. The youth officers will be presenting our Fall Crew-911 plans too. Lots of stuff going on guys along with a few changes that should make our program even better. Please plan to attend this meeting.... Our green shirted friends are welcome as are prospective new members. Please let Kimi or me know if you plan to attend. Please let me know if you need directions. Wait until you see the new training room!
The Deer Lake Canoe Clinic is coming up soon too. As of this evening we do have room for more participants this time in both the canoe and kayak programs. All our FOC Instructors should plan to help with this one. It may be a bit smaller than usual but it will be a lot of fun. We need all our trained aids too. Please let Kimi or me know if you are planning to help.
Wood Badge SR-1069... I have the privilege of serving on the staff of this Fall's Wood Badge course SR-1069. One of the tasks the volunteer Wood Badge staffers have is to spread the word to Scouters that may be interested in attending our course. I would like to offer all our eligable green shirted friends my personal invitation to join our course. Mature teenagers serving as trained ASM's for a Troop as well as eligible youth Venturers are welcome as participants in SR-1069 too. This is the first Wood Badge course in our council that is open to Venturing youth eighteen and older. Wood Badge training is designed for adults but the experience is also well suited to our young adults that are beginning their college experience too. Wood Badge is, among many other things, a great personal development course. The management skills presented focus on Scouting but are very adaptable to the "real world"! SR-1069 October 29-31 & November 19-21, 2010 (begins Friday at 7:30 AM, ends Sunday at 5:00 PM)
Here is the link to information about Wood Badge Course SR-1069: Wood Badge Course SR-1069
We are looking for a few of our veteran youth Venturers that have served on previous Wood Badge courses that would like to be a part of SR-1069. This is also an invitation to our many green shirted friends that are interested in making SR-1069 their first Wood Badge youth staff experience. Contact me or talk to JD or Kimi for more information. We do have room for a few more youth staffers for our second weekend. You will need to make arrangements for an excused absence from school for Friday, November 19. Our youth staffers will participate with us both Friday and Saturday.
We are off to a great Fall guys.... Our Volunteers are what make Crew-911 unique! Thanks for volunteering. Believe me, your efforts are appreciated!
Jay Walker
Advisor, BSA Crew 911
The Woodlands/Conroe Texas
June 25, 2010 *** Enews from The NBO Scout Training Team and BSA Crew-911 ***
Just a brief Enews this time...
This weekend Friday-Sunday, June 25,26,26 - Wilderness and Remote First Aid at The Woodlands ARC office
David and I will be teaching a WaRFA class at the new Woodlands American Red Cross Chapter office this weekend... This is NOT an official Crew-911 event and we are actually teaching with our American Red Cross volunteer hats on this time and not as NBOSTT team members... Same long hours and the same pay! The class should be a lot of fun though. We have the full 20 enrolled for this one and it will be the first time for us to teach in the new training room. We will probably not be doing the fully moulaged scenarios like we do at BSA Camp Strake but all our Green Shirted Friends and Crew-911 members are welcome to help out. Also, any currently authorized FA-CPR/AED-Instructor that wants to co-teach this class is very welcome too. Please yell if you want to assist with this one! Our ER trained guys are welcome to drop in too... you can assist with the demonstrations. You can get directions to The Woodlands ARC Chapter office from the ARC web site... or email me.
David and I could use some help Friday during the day getting the training room set up too... The class starts at 5:30 PM. We will be installing the video projector, screen and sound system.
While we are not planning full scenarios like we usually do, we CAN add some realism on Sunday if we have a few volunteers that want to take that on. If we get sufficient interest, I'll bet we can pull it off. Otherwise, we will follow the syllabus as written and work in the scenarios using the participants. Class times are Friday evening 5:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM... We do expect to finish early on Sunday.
Have a great summer guys! but we do have lots coming up.... The Venturing Summit, at Bovay Scout Ranch August 13-15 (we are providing Lifeguard support for the event) and the SHAC JAM at the Texas World Speedway, October 8-10 (we are staffing First Aid Stations)... ALSO, Wood Badge course SR-1069 has lots of room for participants! Venturers, eighteen and older can sign up for this course... Eligible youth candidates should talk to JD if you are interested or email me for more information. Special scholarships for youth participants are available.... Sam Houston Area Council Scouters are very welcome too... AND all our Crew-911 youth members as well as our green shirted friends may have the opportunity to participate as staff on this course. Check with your Crew Advisor or email me for more information... Youth staffers at a Wood Badge course have a blast!
Thanks for volunteering guys. You are the key to making our programs work!
Jay Walker
Advisor, BSA Crew-911
The Woodlands/Conroe Texas
www.scoutcpr.org
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