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The Central Region is the administrative body that services sixty-nine local BSA councils in the Great Midwest of the United States . The territory spanned by the Central Region includes council headquarter cities in thirteen states, including all of Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia. As a whole, these councils positively influence the lives of over 715,000 registered youth in traditional BSA programs. Included in that figure are over 43,000 Venturers in over 3,600 crews (including Sea Scouts in over 90 ships).
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Area 7 Venturing Extravaganza Are all you guys ready for the 3rd annual Area 7 Extravaganza! This year our Extravaganza will be on Saturday October 5th, 2013 at Rainbow Scout Reservation in Morris, Illinois. Registration begins at 8 am and a bonfire will wrap up the day by 9 pm. The cost for those registering before September 27th is $30 per person, after is $35 per person. Lunch and dinner will be provided. This year’s event will have all of the old favorites from years past, such as a wide variety of shooting opportunities including shotgun shooting, archery, and pistol shooting. The Area 7 Venturing Top Shot competition has returned, and the trophy will pass to a new winner....or will it? This year competitors will also have the opportunity to utilize previously unavailable firearms! The extremely fun high COPE course is of course available again. Everyone make sure to register early to ensure a spot. Other returning events include Dutch Oven cooking and climbing. While we have many returning events, do not think that the Extravaganza will be the same as years previous! This year’s theme is the Olympic games, so bring your game face, a competitive spirit, and some friends to help give you a boost in our group competitions. Make sure you’re on the look out because more details on events are to come! Interested in camping? Want to make it a weekend? Camping is available for free to all registered participants for both Friday and Saturday nights. We are so excited to see everyone there and can’t wait to have a blast! You can contact Katlin Adams or Kris Zahrobsky with any questions and/or concerns, or send an email to: [email protected]! Register today at: https://www.threefirescouncil.org/oldsite/component/dtregister/?controller=event&task=options&eventId=191.
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The Central Point
Newsletter of Central Region Venturing | BSA
In This Issue:
Area 7 Extravaganza 1
National Advanced Youth
Leadership Experience 2
Caption Contest 3
Fall Fun Rally 3
Area 4 Training
Conference 3
Area 61-5Pages 4
Area 6-7 Pages 5
Area 5 Fun Event 5
President’s Corner 6
Venturing Oath:
As a Venturer, I promise to
do my duty to God and to
help strengthen America. To
help others, and to seek
truth, fairness, and
adventure in our world.
September Newsletter 2013
National Advanced Youth
Leadership Experience Each edition of the Central Point will
feature a photo from a Boy Scout camp in
the Central Region. Can you name that
camp?
This Month:
Last Month:
Flintlock Village at Camp Napowan
Northwest Suburban Council
Wild Rose, Wisconsin
If you would like your photo to be a
“Name that Camp?” clue, please email it
to Emily Mausshardt at vp-
National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is a leadership course that builds off of National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT). Over the course of a week, participants take the leadership skills they have already learned and apply them to real-world situations. For example, using communication skills, participants might learn proper radio codes and then use those codes during a Search and Rescue exercise. Pictured below, participants created fake skin and fake blood as part of a realistic First Aid exercise that involved developing teamwork skills.
Held at Philmont Scout Ranch and a part of the Philmont Training Center, NAYLE is held at Rayado Ridge Leadership Mesa. The summer of 2013 was the first time NAYLE courses were held here! Participants also get to explore the backcountry of Philmont on an overnight backpacking trip.
Are you interested in attending NAYLE? Pre-requisites include having attended NYLT and holding/having held a Crew leadership position. For more information, go to http://www.philmontscoutranch.org/PTC/YouthPrograms/NAYLE.aspx.
~ Emily Mausshardt
Name That Camp!!
Did You Know…
You use 14 muscles to smile
and 43 to frown. Keep
Smiling!
The only 15-letter word that can
be spelled without repeating a
letter is "uncopyrightable."
The average person generates
over 4 pounds of trash every day
and about 1.5 tons of solid waste
per year.
Caption Contest
Area 4 Training
Conference
Getting started in your VOA can
be tough. Don’t worry! There is
an Area 4 VOA Training
Conference in Zanesville, Ohio
on October 4-6. For the first
time, there will be classes for
youth and advisors to learn the
purpose of the VOA and
understand the Venturing
advancement changes taking
place in January. You will be
able to meet the Area 4 and
Central Region President and
help plan the Spring Fun Event!
This will be the perfect place to
connect with other youth in our
area, get ideas for your VOA,
and get excited about Venturing
in Area 4!
~Hampton Zobrist
We know you can do better than this caption! Send in your caption, name, and council you are from to [email protected]. If you win, your caption will be featured in next month’s newsletter and on our Facebook page. Check back next month to see who wins.
Last Month’s Picture:
Area 7 taking a break from training to
explore Chicago...on a boat! Don’t you wish it could be this easy?
“The spirit is there in every
(Scouter); it has to be discovered
and brought to light.”
This Month’s Picture:
Membership Standard—Implementation Support
This fall, the BSA will release training materials designed to assist councils in communicating policies and guidelines related to the new membership standards.
It is recognized that there is no way the BSA can answer every possible question that may arise. Ultimately, people in leadership positions must exercise good judgment, all the time asking the key question they have always asked: “What is in the best interest of the youth we serve?”
At the heart of the implementation of the new standards is the recognition that as if continue to focus on what is best for youth and we follow our successful youth protection guidelines, implementing the more inclusive membership standards will allow us to continue offering excellent programming to youth.
Guidelines for implementation issues are available through a new BSA website: http://www.scouting.org/Training/Membership_Standards.aspx.
Membership information to support Venturing is available through the Central Region Venturing website: http://crventuring.org/Membership/Overview/.
~ Ken King
Central Region Venturing
Associate Advisor of Administration
Fall Fun Rally—Area 3 Fun Event Hey Venturers! As the Central Region Area 3 Venturing President, I
could not be more excited for the upcoming Area 3 Fall Fun event known
nationally as the Fall Fun Rally. There are plenty of reasons for you to join
us in our fun on September 27-29,
2013, and plenty of people that
have recognized those rea-
sons. Nearly 900 attendees from
12 different states and 105 different
units have registered, all of which
are ready to travel to Beaumont
Scout Reservation near St. Louis,
MO. During this weekend, we will
celebrate the 15thanniversary of
Venturing by hosting countless ac-
tivities, selling commemorative anni-
versary patches and other items,
and being superheroes at the Fan-
tastic Fortieth Fall Fun Rally!! It's
coming up at the end of the month,
so the question is, are you ready?!
~ Lizzie Schneider
Area 1
Upcoming events:
September 27-29th, 2013, Smileys Fall Venturing Event,
Rhinelander, WI
President: Mikaela Boston
Advisor: Chris Sandberg
Area 2
Upcoming Events:
No upcoming events. If you have an
event you would like listed here, please
submit it to http://www.crventuring.org/
event_submission.php.
President: Jasmine Dittel
Advisor: Jeff Geralds
Area 3
Upcoming events:
September 13th-15th, 2013, Leave No Trace/Tread Lightly Trainer
Training, Camp Drake, Oakwood, IL
September 27th-29th, 2013, Fall Fun Rally, High Ridge, MO
September 27th-29th, 2013, Wood Badge, Peoria, IL
October 25th-27th, 2013, Certified Angler Instructor Training,
Farmington, MO
Also, check out Area 3’s YouTube page!
http://www.youtube.com/user/CRVenturingArea3
President: Elizabeth Schneider
Advisor: Bob Vogt
Area 4
Upcoming
Events:
September 13th-15th, 2013, Kodiak,
Sunbury, OH
October 4th-6th, 2013, Area 4 Training
Conference, Zanesville, OH
President: Henry Gunther
Advisor: Duane Zobrist
Area 5
Upcoming Events:
September 13th-15th, 2013, Powder Horn, Bonner Spring, KS
October 19th-20th, 2013, Area 5 Fun Event, Kansas City, MO
President: Mallory Ware
Advisor: Julie Dalton
Area 6
Upcoming Events:
No upcoming events. If you have an event you would like
listed here, please submit it to http://www.crventuring.org/
event_submission.php.
President: Mandi Forsythe
Advisor: Carla Gargas
Area 7
Upcoming
Events:
October 5th, 2013, Area 7 Venturing
Extravaganza, Morris, IL
March 1st, 2014, Area 7 Venturing
Conference, Gurnee, IL
April 11th-13th, 2014, Powder Horn,
Oregon, IL
June 30th-July 5th, 2014, National
Youth Leadership Training: Eagle
Claw, Morris, IL
August 8th-10th, 2014, Scout Air Fest,
Romeoville, IL
President: Katlin Adams
Advisor: Kris Zahrobsky
Submit your Venturing event
on the Central Region
Website!
Go to http://crventuring.org and click on
the “submit a calendar event” button on
the lower left side of the page. Fill out
the form, and now you will be able
reach thousands of Venturers to come to
your event!
The zombies are coming! The zombies are coming? Are you prepared? In just under one month, Area 5 Venturing will be taking over Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri! Area 5’s Fun Event will be happening October 19-20, 2013. More information will be available shortly! If you haven’t been to an Area 5 event before, check out the pictures below to see all that they offer!
The Zombies are Coming!
Central Region Venturing President:
Christina Vogt
Central Region Venturing Advisor:
Keith Gehlhausen
Central Region Venturing Vice President of Communications:
Emily Mausshardt
Central Region Venturing Associate Advisor for Communications:
Deb Keyes
Hey Central Region!
Fall is here and it’s time for those
great weekend camping trips, but it is
also the most important time of the
year. The fall is a great time for
recruiting new youth in to your crew.
A great way to recruit new youth is to
have an Open House where people
can come and learn all about your
crew. Make it a challenge for current
crew members to have the most
friends there. Have some games ready or a picture slide show
to get people excited about the great program opportunities of
Venturing. An even better way to promote your crew is to use
the Peer to Peer Recruitment Program! You can order the Peer
to Peer packets at http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/
Venturing.aspx for free! This program has multiple handouts
that can help get the word out about your crew, but it also has
brochures on what Venturing is all about. No matter how you
are recruiting it’s important to be doing it year round, but the
fall is a great time to have a big Open House to promote your
crew. Have a great beginning to fall sitting around the campfire
and having great AdVentures!
~Christina Vogt
President’s Corner
Venturing is a Scouting pro-gram for male and female youth ages 13-21 that lets youth experi-ence new activities, build leader-ship skills, earn awards, make new friends, and of course have fun.
The Central Region is one of four regions of the Boy Scouts of America. This region includes the states of: Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kan-sas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia.
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