Lakota Chapter Trail Crew

I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about a pair of related opportunities that we're working on for arrowmen in the Lakota Chapter.

We're hoping to adopt a trail (probably the Slide Canyon trail) this summer. In doing so, we'll need to make three hikes along it to perform trail maintenance and general clean-up. At this point, we're planning on going in July, August, and September. To help sweeten the pot, we're going to create a "Lakota Chapter Trail Crew" tee-shirt suitable for use as a Class B or activity uniform shirt. Any Lakota Chapter arrowman going on at least two of the maintenance hikes will get one of these shirts for free.

We need to come up with a design for the shirt though, and that's where the second opportunity comes in. It's time for another contest. Starting today, we're going to accept shirt designs from arrowmen or candidates in the chapter. We'll collect submissions until May 14th (the day before our fellowship weekend). At the fellowship, we'll announce the winning design. The arrowman who's entry is selected will win a free shirt to be awarded at the first maintenance hike.

So there you go, in addition to all the other stuff going on this year, you've got three more service opportunities (open to you and the non-OA scouts and scouters in your home unit), a chance to earn a shirt, and a chance to design the shirt. How much more can an arrowman ask for?

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Don't forget, you have a chance to win a patch by commenting on the entries here at this blog. We ended up not having any comments in March, so we didn't give out any patches. In April, we'll give out two to make up for it. Please add your feedback here — who knows, maybe you'll end up winning one of the patches.

Win a patch!

At our last leadership meeting, we kicked around some ideas about our blog, and one of them really seemed to get everyone's attention: a patch contest. We liked it so much, that Steve Bunker and I both agreed to pitch in some patches from our collection.

How does it work? Well, here's the deal. Every month, at our chapter activity (or at the activity we attend, like the multi-chapter activity in March), we'll give away a patch to someone who has commented on our blog during the month and who's at the activity.

Every blog post that you comment on will count as an entry (just one comment per post counts though), so the more posts you read and comment on each month,, the better your chances of winning. We'll hold a drawing at the beginning of each activity, and hand out the patch to the winner right there.

So, wanna win a patch? It's time to start reading (and commenting on) the blog.