Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 18, 2018
If you thought Boy Scouts had an opinion just wait! I posted a comment/question in a Girl Scout leader thread and so far it has 100+ responses! This will come no surprise to those of us who are married. The basic premise of the thread was the predicament that my daughter will be in. Her Girl Scout troop is...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 15, 2018
I have been writing the Hot Finds for almost ten years now and today might be a first. I'm publishing this issue from the courthouse. Sounds like a good Johnny Cash song. In 18 years of living in a small North Carolina town I was never called to serve on a jury. Now in my 2nd year of living...Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 13, 2018
Yesterday was a smashing success. We nearly filled up a 24' truck with old electronics. I just don't know where all the people were coming from. Our get out the word campaign was pretty successful. In six hours of work we recycled countless tvs, computers, monitors, laptops, cords and even a couple of record players. One of the neat...Read More
Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 11, 2018
Tomorrow is the big day. My daughter will be running her ewaste drive tomorrow. I met the truck driver today and everything is in place. We even had someone from the church drop off a bunch of stuff at our house this morning. It's going to be nice and warm for our 6 hour shift collecting broken electronics to be...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 8, 2018
This weekend my daughter is rounding home when it comes to being a Cadette Girl Scout. For her Silver Award project she is hosting an electronic waste recycling drive at our church. She has been working on this for a couple months and we are looking forward to knocking it out Saturday. The biggest issue now is just publicity....Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 6, 2018
The weather was beautiful for our camping trip. It was overcast with the temps getting up close to 80. The threat of rain never materialized until about 3 AM this morning and even then it was just enough to knock the dust off everything. Our den played kickball, went on a hike, shot slingshots and caught some fish. We also...Read More
Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 4, 2018
The danger I am falling into a little bit is trying to make sure everything is 100% the way I want it in the new space. I still have a few more days of work to get the shelving just right. The goal right now is to get the mounds of stuff off the floor and then over time I...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 1, 2018
I think they have taken an interesting approach to the logjam of cataloging the last 10 years of OA issues since the Blue Book effort wrapped up. It sounds like they have the architecture to grow the catalog out and add functions that would be very helpful to collectors including print on demand PDFs and potentially a needs list generator....Read More
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Jason Spangler
Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor Member and past Chief, lifelong Scouter and severely addicted patch collector338 S. Sharon Amity Rd.
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(910) 671-4919 [leave a message] email to santeeswapper@yahoo.comI started collecting Boy Scout memorabilia when I was inducted into Santee Lodge 116, Order of the Arrow at Camp Coker in the summer of 1986. All the guys of ISWA chapter in Elk campsite seemed to be trading and since my dad sent me to camp with a small bag of patches, I jumped in and never looked back....
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