Council News

John Akerman announces the promotion of Connie Bowes to Scout Executive of the Daniel Boone Council in Asheville, North Carolina.

A farewell reception will be held on July 30 at the council office at 3231 Atlantic Avenue in Raleigh from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. If you plan to attend the reception, please notify Dona Johnston at the Council office before July 25th. (1-800-662-7102 or 1-919-872-4884)

We wish Connie and Maria all the best in his exciting new endeavor.

Broken Arrow ceremony for Iowa Scouts

The Order of the Arrow Lodge #104 will be presenting a Broken Arrow ceremony for the young men that were tragically killed at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in western Iowa on June 11th. The Occoneechee Lodge will hold the ceremony at Camp Durant, Carthage, North Carolina on June 25th at 8:30 PM.

The Broken Arrow Ceremony is a solemn and respectful way of commemorating the lives of Scouts or Scouters who have passed away.

The general public is invited. If you have never witnessed this ceremony, I am sure you will not want to miss this Wednesday night.

Directions

Sample Broken Arrow Ceremony for OA members

Boy Scouts of America Disaster Relief Fund

Our prayers go out to the families of the Scouts and Scouters affected by the recent tornado in Iowa that touched down at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch. On June 10, an F3 tornado caused a chimney in the bunkhouse to collapse resulting in the death of 4 young Scouts and causing injury to many others. Individual funds have been created to provide direct assistance to the families of those victims. We have been given some information about those private funds and we will provide additional information as it becomes available. The Boy Scouts of America has established a Disaster Relief Fund to help rebuild Scouting in those areas of the mid-west that have been affected by the ongoing weather related damages including tornadoes and floods.

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Contributions to Victims Families

The families of the victims of the Little Sioux Scout Ranch tornado have set up various funds to provide direct and immediate support in their time of need. We are aware of the following funds at this time. We will continue to add more information as it becomes available.

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An Update on BSA Criminal Background Check Policies

As dedicated BSA volunteers, you understand the importance of keeping our youth safe in the Scouting program. To ensure Youth Protection, our organization has conducted criminal background checks on all new volunteers since April 2003. Because some volunteers have been continually registered in the program before April 2003, some have not had a criminal background check. In the next few months, we will be communicating with those volunteers on this issue.

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The Occoneechee Council newsletter, "The Scout Sign" was a winner in the The Tenth Annual National President’s Award for Marketing Excellence (Nat’l BSA).

A message from our hosting service. The Occoneechee Web site might be inaccessible on May 28, 2008

Here is what they had to say.

"We've been very diligent in planning the move of our data center and we're on schedule with all preparations. Our primary target date for the relocation of all servers is the end of next week: Midnight, Friday March 28th. At that time, for a period of up to 48 hours, there will be service unavailability. It is not certain when your account will become unavailable or how fast it will come back up. Please allow ample time for us to make the move safely and securely. I know I'm asking a lot of you and am truly thankful for your patience. You can expect significant service improvements with this move. It is likely that most accounts will only be down a portion of the allotted 48-hour window."

We do not know that this will affect our site but, we felt it necessary to inform you of the possibility that we may have service interruption.

A scout is courteous.

Welcome to the new Occoneechee Council web site.

Many hours were spent designing the site to comply with industry standards and care was taken to ensure portability for every browser type at a resolution of 1024x768 or higher. In addition, we kept the site clean and not cluttered with a lot of graphics to ensure that all our users, from dial-up to broad-band connections will have a pleasant experience and not have to wait for pages to load.

The site is compliant with section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (for disAbled users) and adheres to the standards set by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.

The web site isn't close to being finished yet but, we felt it was enough to give greater benefit than the older version of ocscouts.org

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