Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 13, 2024
It’s often true that for something to become a trend among teens that the “cool kids” must be doing it. At least that was my experience back in the 1980s. So in my lodge right now (somehow) it’s cool to have a patch briefcase. At Fellowship this weekend I took three that I got in recent collections and gifted them to interested Scouts.
But the big splash for me was bringing about 5 pounds of BSA stickers and pouring them on a table for adults and youth to pick through. My idea was that if you have a patch briefcase then you need to decorate it. I am sure that many of us that got started back in the day did the same. I may have given away a hundred or more stickers that I got from collections Saturday night. Recycling goal accomplished!
One of my camp staff alumni was running the lodge auction that night so I also enjoyed working with him to donate some items for the event. I had obligations back home so I had to leave before it started but I feel like with the crowd in that room it would have been a success.
On eBay I have 130 live auctions running on camp patches, OA and SAPs this week. Today I am meeting a family at the warehouse that are bringing some items that need to find a new home. The wheel keeps on turning.
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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
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Indian Trail, NC 28079
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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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