The Roaming News Heard 'round the World

Check out this edition of the Roaming News. Also remember that Road Rally is coming up June 25th, and it is the bestest. Do it. See the details in this newsletter or email icgp@prodigy.net

February Roaming News Yo!

Roaming News right HERE

JOTA at the VOA Meeting

Our Council VOA meeting is coming up this Sunday, Oct 18th, 2pm at Loud Thunder. We will be introducing our new officers and participating in Jamboree on the Air.

What is JOTA I hear you ask? JOTA is the only World Scout event that happens simultaneously around the world. It a Ham radio event to bring scouts from across the world together. We will have Radios set up at camp with the capability of talking across the country, and possibly around the world depending on conditions. And the best part? You can use em! Also if you're a Boy Scout and working on your Radio Merit Badge you can complete a requirement or two.

For more info about JOTA visit this link http://jotajoti.info/ then come out to Loud Thunder this Sunday.

Venturing on the Rocks

The VOA is proud to announce our August event! Do you enjoy climbing and being up high? Have you not been climbing on real rock yet? Well then this is just the weekend for you. We are going on a climbing trip up to the Mississippi Palisades for real rock climbing. So clear your calendars for the weekend of August 28-30th and join us! All the details are in THIS flyer.

Road Rally Rescheduled

The new unofficial Illowa Council Road Rally will be happening July 18th, Saturday, at 1pm. We will be meeting at the Loud Thunder Forest Preserve (not camp), At the parking lot on the North side of the dam. See the map below. We won't have an official registration but we do need a head count for food and such. Please respond by email with how many you will bring from your crew. The cost is $5 a person. We will be having cookout type food for dinner. As for activities afterwards your only hint is bring your swimsuits and imagination. The evening closes with an outdoor movie. See you there!

Road Rally Canceled / Postponed :(

Sadly the Road Rally scheduled for tomorrow has been canceled due to low registration. We are hoping to reschedule the event for sometime later in the fall, we'll keep you posted! Again sorry for the late notice.

A New Roaming News Fit for the Masses!

Read up to your hearts content.

Check it out here!

Crew 212 Goodies

If you aren't aware crew 212 of LeClaire is one of our most active crews in the Council. They've got a lot of cool things coming up! Check it all out.

Downloadable Versions:

Trivia Night

Venturing Requirements

Lodge Dinners

Gosh Golly Gee Wiz! It's Ranger Escape 2015

April 10 - 12 at Loud Thunder Scout Reservation.

The Cost is $25, Sign up before its too late! 

REGISTER HERE

The purpose of this weekend is to help Venturers get a jump start on some of the core and elective requirements for the Ranger award. The Ranger award exhibits an increased knowledge of the skills needed and opportunities to experience the outdoors. Another purpose of this weekend is to introduce activities to the Venturing crews and to provide a weekend for the youth to get to know each other and have fun.

More details after the break.

February Roaming News

Here tis, enjoy!

The January Newsletter is Here!

Feast your eyes boys and girls. Link HERE

We gon go Tubing!

For this month’s VOA meeting we are going tubing at Snowstar. We are meeting at Snowstar this Sunday, January 11th, at 2pm. Please bring money for tubing and a warm coat. We will have our formal meeting in the lodge afterwards.

Venturing Leadership Award

Nominations due December 23rd!

The purpose of the Council Venturing Leadership Award is to recognize youth for dedicated service on the district or council level.  Recognizing youth for their service works to both recognize youth members already serving as leaders and to motivate others to be servant leaders within the council.  It is presented to Venturers who have made exceptional contributions to Venturing in Illowa Council at the council or district level and who exemplify the Venturing Oath and Code

In order to be eligible to receive this award an individual must meet the following requirements;

• Venturing Leadership Award candidates must be currently registered as a member.
• They must have held a leadership position or office on the unit, district, council, area, region or national level.
• And most importantly the candidate must show exceptional dedication and give outstanding leadership and service to Venturers and the Venturing program on the level appropriate to the award presented.

We have been fortunate, in the formative years of Venturing in Illowa Council to have youth that have shown the outstanding leadership and service qualities that make them worthy of such an award.  If you feel you know an individual is deserving of this award, I encourage you to nominate them.

Please fill out this form.

Nominations must be sent to the Illowa Council Scout office, c/o Bob Sutton by 12/23/14 with letters of recommendation included.  If you have questions, please contact Ina Pearsall at icgp@live.com

Harken one and all, Medieval VOA meeting this Sunday (9th)

We are having our monthly Council VOA meeting this Sunday, 9th, 2pm at Bethel Wesley UMC, 1201 13th St, Moline, IL.

At this meeting we’re going Medieval.The plans are for sword fights and probably eating with knives. We couldn't quite swing a whole hog roast but the food will be good and tasty and at least slightly medieval. So bring ye Knights and archers, join us!

Introducing our Officers (October Roaming News)

It is a new year for Venturing and so we thought you'd like to know who the officers are, and what they'd like to accomplish this year. Here tis!

Spooky VOA Meeting (Oct 12th)

We will be having our Monthly Council VOA Meeting Sunday October 12th, 2pm, out at Loud Thunder. At this meeting we will be having some really cool stuff (come to find out what), sloppy joe's, so show up hungry (yum!), and we'll even have an actual meeting. On top of that if you'd like to wear your halloween costume we'd love to see it. There may even be an extra point or two involved.

Get signed up now!

The Venturing mobile lock in is only a few days away (August 30th). That means the registration deadline is even nearer (August 23rd). If you don't want to miss out on water skiing (where else can you do that?!), mini golf, bowling, and pizza with some great friends I recommend you sign up now. The flyer / sign up form is attached. Just fill that out THIS FORM or call up the council office to get yourself a spot.

The Last Issue of the Year

In this issue we look back at the year we've had, and thank some of the people involved. Our next issue will be published by the new cabinet.

Link HERE

July's Roaming News is Here

Its chalk full of so much cool stuff we couldn't fit it all in two pages! Pop open a copy to read about Exploring past (where Venturing came from), the future of Venturing, and a very exciting interview with some VIPs from our Council.

HERE it is.

And the Victors are...... Crew 123

The Road Rally results are in! The victors are Crew 123, Aubrey Reed, Sean Reed, Jen Coe, and Joey McAllister. They had the least time deviation, answered all their questions correctly, and never needed bailed out. This is Crew 123’s second Road Rally win out of the three years the event has happened. Congratulations.