Archive March, 2017
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 28, 2017
The other activity I did with all the Cubs last night was a quick talk on the tradition of European style campfire blankets. If you want to get elementary school age kids excited about Scout patches the thought was let them put on some neat patch blankets and get their picture made. This snapshot is of one of our...Read More
Camp Book II Version 2 Published 2014 Features Every Boy Scout Camp
What is new in the 2014 edition? We have added over 2500 camp listings and added over 400 new Council names (including the second class councils that existed in the teens and 1920s. We have rewritten virtually all of the comments by including the camp locations where known and moved the comments to the camp data sections of the book...Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 26, 2017
When I first got into this hobby and started online I was kinda in love with logos. That was the kid that grew up in the 1980s and went to college in the early 1990s. But today's world of social media has pushed me to come out from behind the logos. So in this new redesign of the website that...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 21, 2017
I got a very helpful PowerPoint from Tripp Clark for a class that he created with input from others. However, whereas his was a little more of the "how" to collect patches my talk leaned towards the "why". Facing an audience of Generation Z (did you you know that's what anyone born since 1996 is called) I tried to spark...Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 19, 2017
At the lodge event patch trading was actually on the schedule Friday and Saturday night. In addition Tim Hellaby II ran a class Saturday on how to design patches. It was pretty neat to see some younger buy as crazy about thread as I am. I will try and post all this up on CarolinaOA.com later in the week but...Read More
Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 17, 2017
Last night we had a Pack leaders meeting to firm up volunteer manpower for the Charlotte TOR. Would you believe I am still getting checks in the mail for table rentals even though we sold out a month ago. Chris Jensen told me on the phone yesterday this might be the first time that a start up TOR has sold...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 14, 2017
Over the next two weekends just about every OA lodge in my part of the country is having a Spring event. For some lodges is a Pow Wow but most call it their Spring Fellowship. I've secured a kitchen pass to bug out for the entire weekend (if you count coming home at the crack of dawn Sunday to make...Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 12, 2017
In today's Hot Finds you can find a video that I just published which gives folks a walk-around tour of a Boy Scout Trade-O-Ree. I imagine a few of you have been to 1 or 2 of those. My idea was just to grab the camera and do a walking and talking tour of a show. It might be ideal...Read More
Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 10, 2017
One of the tricks we are trying to spread the word is making 400 patch business cards were distributed last night. I printed labels that had all the key details and put them on the back of patches. My thought was people are less likely to toss those in the can and would actually share them with the key volunteers...Read More
Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 7, 2017
I knew that in the beginning there would be a bump in sales as people got into picking a new booth. So I've almost got my March rent covered. You'll hear me talk about this as my clearance booth. So my goal here is to move out inventory not make a mint. To that end I retagged every item in...Read More
Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 5, 2017
I don't know if this has ever happened to you but while I was at the Yorktown I couldn't help but notice interesting stuff on folk's Scout uniforms. Its like I was scoping out their patches! One guy from the mountains of North Carolina was wearing a 1985 Diamond Jubilee lodge flap from Tsali #134 with a green border. That's...Read More
Moral lesson in patch trading and buying stuff from Boy Scouts
Sometimes the Scout Law comes to life in this hobby and you are reminded how lucky we are to be dealing with people who are Trustworthy. In this short video I share not only the prized jewel of my Girl Scout memorabilia collection but also tell the tale of how it came home almost 2 years late.
Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 3, 2017
One thing that is taking me so long is that I decided to really match my new strategy for the booth that I had to retag and reprice everything. So for the books this meant going in and erasing the old price (written in pencil) and updating it. Luckily, I borrowed a chair from my neighbor because yesterday I processed...Read More
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Camp Director, Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor Member and past Chief, lifelong Scouter and patch collector.Jason Spangler
14039 Hwy 74 East
Suite A6, #116
Indian Trail, NC 28079
(910) 671-4919 [text or call – leave a message]
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I 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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