Father and Son Banquet

This coming Sunday, December 6th, is the annual Father and Son Banquet. This year it starts at noon and we're back at Guys Party Center.

There will be photos taken before each tribe eats. Please bring your headdresses and vests to wear for your Tribe's photo.

Where: Guys Party Center

When:  Sunday, 12/6 at noon

Polar Bear Swim

Come cheer on your Nation's Chief and several members of council as they take the plunge into the frigid Portage Lakes in order to raise money for Project Saint Nicholas Returns.

Where:  Dano's Lakeside Pub
When:   Saturday, 12/5 at 1:00 PM

The Nation has supported PSNR for several years and nearly 100% of the proceeds go to those in need.  If you want to donate please contact your Tribe Chief and make a pledge.  This year's goal for the Nation is $1,200.

Last year's event:

Ice Skating (family event) at Center Ice

The November event was a family skating event at Center Ice Skating Arena in Jackson Township.  The Nation rented the entire rink this past weekend for a private event for Indian Guides and their families.  Fun was had by all.

If you have photos from this event and you'd like to share them with the rest of the Nation, please email the web spinner.

Fall Campout - Pics

What a great weekend!!!! The weather could not have been nicer, nice sunny mid 70's during the day and upper 50's at night. Perfect for a campout on the river mohican.

With about 170 of us, the turnout was very good this year. We stayed at the Mohican Reservation near Loudonville. It was so nice, a campout with 9 mile canoe ride, pig roast, nation games and a fire ceronomy under the milky way. If you missed it - you really did miss it.

Here's some pictures I snapped, but as always - please send me yours so I can include them with the slideshow.

Fall Camout - THIS WEEKEND!!! (sept11)

Fall Campout, tent / RV camping - Pig Roast!!!!

PLACE: Mohican Reservation 1-800-766-1167 http://www.mohicanreservation.com/

DATE: September 11, 12, 13S
SPONSOR: Apache Tribe
CO SPONSOR: Cherokee Tribe

CONTACT: Larry Murgatroyd or Rick Crowl with any last min questions - or check this month's SMOKE on the Web page

http://www.yindianguides.org/smoke.htm



Next Longhouse:
6:00 pm, Tuesday, September 15th
at Camp Y-Noah
All incoming chiefs AND council chiefs are required to attend.
This meeting is also open to the Little Braves. Food and drinks will be provided!

Big Dog

LongHouse this TUESDAY 8:00pm

Longhouse Notes
Next Longhouse: 8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 18th
at The Green YMCA
All current chiefs AND council chiefs are required to attend.
Note the later time! We will meet at 8:00 throughout the summer and early fall.
All Council members and Chiefs are required to attend Longhouse.
Chiefs, if you cannot attend, please get one of your tribe members to attend and sign in for you.

Manikiki Nation 2009 Fall Campout
September 11-13th

EVENT: Fall Campout, primitive tent camping
PLACE: Mohican Reservation 1-800-766-1167 http://www.mohicanreservation.com/
DATE: September 11, 12, 13
SPONSOR: Apache Tribe CO SPONSOR: Cherokee Tribe
CONTACT: Larry Murgatroyd 330-475-6964 or Rick Crowl 330-388-4807
HEAD COUNT: We need a head count at the August Longhouse meeting. Deadline for money is August 28. One check per tribe.

CAMPGROUND: This year we will have the entire area. We will move to the riverfront side with bigger sites that can handle RV/popups and large tents. All sites have power and water. Also better restroom facilities and a pavilion with grills, picnic tables, etc. We will have ball fields and a playground close by. Campsites will be assigned, so put in a request if you want to be close to a companion tribe.

PRICE: $75.00 per family
CANOEING: This year we will be doing a 9 mile canoe trip, lasting approximately 2 hours. We will be bused upstream and finish at the campground. We will do this canoe trip as a Nation on Saturday afternoon. A fun pass will be available that includes a canoe ride plus go karts and putt putt golf. This will not be part of the Nation schedule, but could be a good Sunday activity.
NATION GAMES: We would like to do Nation games/contests on Saturday morning. Ideas include: Tug of war, Sponge dodgeball, Capture the Lance, etc. Additional ideas are welcome.

MEALS: Like last time, the Nation will be providing dinner Saturday night. It will be a pig roast done by Bob “Big Bear” Mahaney. He will need until 6:00 to finish the pig. Campers are responsible for breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, SATURDAY lunch will be provided by the Nation. Some tribes have done a group breakfast in the past and this can be a lot of fun and a good bonding experience. There are restaurants in the area including McDonald’s.

BEAN CONTEST: We will once again have our annual bean contest on Friday evening. One entry per tribe. We will have electricity in the pavilion.

NIGHT HIKE: Kevin Adkins has once again offered to lead our night hike on Friday night after the bean contest.

Gone Fishin'

An email will be sent shortly about the details -but plan on drive in movie July 17th.

Sorry but I'm off the air for a few weeks - there will be no blog entries for a while

Gone Fishin'

Relay for Life This weekend - Please Help

Relay for Life





The Tribe has a fair number of members that are or have family that are cancer survivers. That is why we choose to support this worthy activity. Community Service Project Friday June 19th , Green High School Stadium. We have always represented very well and I don’t expect any different this year. If you can come out and help us set-up/take down, work the booth, walk around the track for awhile or just come to try the tastywings we will be selling, it is well worth it. This Nation Service Project is a great way to spend an evening with your son. If you have never been, please consider coming out. You won’t regret it!

PLEASE HELP OUT!!

Volunteers are needed to help set up The Manikiki Nation booth, sell food and tear down the booth at the Relay for Life this weekend! Booth set up will start at 1:00pm Friday afternoon. And then at 5:00 we Start selling wings, water and popcorn.

Booth tear down will be at 12 noon on Saturday.The event runs all night long, but we will be there until we sell our 500 wings!!

Any Nation members that participate will receive a special bead and credit for a make up event. You don't need to ask or tell anybody - just show up at the event.

Also CANOPY NEEDED!We are looking for one more dining canopy to use at our booth. If you have one we can borrow for a day please let us know!Questions? Call Jeff Pearce, 330-714-7892



Last Months Poll Question closed:

Do we go back to Y-Noah next year?
21% I Love Y-Noah and feel strongly we should go back
57% I'm looking for somthing new
21% I don't care

NOTE - THIS MONTH's Longhouse is Tuesday June 16, 8:00PM. The original SMOKE that went out is incorrect. Longhouse 16/June at the Y -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

Trumpet in the LAND - this FRIDAY!!!

UPCOMING EVENTS

TRUMPET IN THE LAND

Friday June 12th at 8:30 PM, New Philadelphia (~40min drive)
“TRUMPET IN THE LAND” at the Schoenbrunn Amphitheatre

Ask for the 'special' Indian Guides admission price of $10 for Adults and $6 for Children under 12. This promises to be a great evening of entertainment for the ENTIRE family.

"TRUMPET", in its 40th year, is an unforgettable production that will sweep you back in history to a time when Ohio was the western frontier of America, to witness the founding of Ohio’s first settlement, Schoenbrunn, in 1772.

For more information on the show, and directions the website is:

White Man Savages Click Here for Big Indian Show



Relay for Life Community Service Project
Friday June 19th , Green High School Stadium
We have always represented very well and I don’t expect any different this year. If you can come out and help us set-up/take down, work the booth, walk around the track for awhile or just come to try the tasty
wings we will be selling, it is well worth it. This Nation Service Project is a great way to spend an evening with your son. If you have never been, please consider coming out. You won’t regret it!

This Month's Poll Question:

Be sure to vote in this month's Polling question on your left. Also the web site smoke and current event pages are up to date. Here is the link to the Smoke:

SMOKE 'Em if you Got 'EM

NOTE - THIS MONTH's Longhouse is Tuesday June 16, 8:00PM. The original SMOKE that went out is incorrect. Longhouse 16/June at the Y -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

The budget meeting is July 21st 6:00PM at John's House.

Cheers

-Big Dog

Memorial Day Parade

The tribe walked the annual Green Memorial Day Parade again this year. I think 1/2 of the city of Green is in the parade and the rest come to watch. The kids have a blast - just being in a parade and able to throw candy out is a huge hit among the little braves.

The web site is up to date - here is the link to the May Smoke:

http://www.yindianguides.org/smoke.htm



Also Jeff P and Charles sent me more pics from the campout - so I added them to the spring campout slide show. If anybody else has more pics they want me to post - just use the free system from Google called Picasa and send them to me.

Next event:

Friday June 12th - Trumpet in the land

If you don't know about trumpet in the land, then here is their web site is:
http:// www.trumpetintheland.com

TRUMPET, in its 40th year, is an unforgettable production that will sweep you back in history to a time when Ohio was the western frontier of America, to witness the founding of Ohio’s first settlement, Schoenbrunn, in 1772.

Many of us have seem the play as kids with our parents, and it is one of the lasting memories from our childhood. You will not be disappointed. For this event we just need you to tell your cheif headcount - tickets will be at the door (tell them you are with indianguides / manakiki nation for the discounted rate)

Show starts at 8:30 Friday night, and is in New Philledephia which is ~45min drive



(note: Blogger is not letting me insert links today - so you will have to cut past the web address to go to the sites)

Be sure to vote in this months question. We want to know your feedback for next year's spring campout.


Cheers,

-Big Dog

Y-Noah Spring Campout 2009

What a great weekend at Camp Y-Noah!!

I’ve put up a wide Varity of pictures from the campout. I also included some quick videos one of the fire and the kids horsing around in a barrell. I embedded the videos in with the pictures, but also they should so up in youtube (as well as on this blog in the bottom right)

While we had a little bit of rain – Mother Nature did spare us and in fact it turned out to be a good weather weekend. The rain was hard but came in very brief moments.

The nation games were fun. Each tribe blindfolded a little brave and then had him run and find various articles. The challenge is that you had to use animal noises to guide the brave. Oink = for straight, woof for left, meow for right and Moo for down. It was a great sight seeing the boys make all that noise. Congrats to the Cherokee tribe who avoided a lot of penalty seconds and won the event by over 30secs. The landing picture this week is the Cherokee braves.

The fishing derby was my personal highlight of the weekend.

Tribe campfires burned bright each night. The fire ceremony had the highest flames in recent memory, I good way for us to break in the new fire bit built by our nation.

Enjoy the pics –

Note: Lineup for this weekends parade – we are slot 41

-Big Dog

CAMPOUT - THIS WEEKEND May 15th!!!

Are you ready for the Spring Campout at Y-Noah this weekend?

Everybody is looking forward to it.

See you there.

Big Dog


FRIDAY

5:00PM Arrival/Registration/Check In
(In Dining Hall)
Receive Wrist Bands

8:30 PM Chilly Cook Off and grilling dogs
9:30PM Dad’s Meeting- sign up for wall, horses ($5 arena rides and $15 for trail rides) and alpine tower ($10 per climb and 9 yrs and older)
Night hike after dad’s meeting
Receive Horse Rides and Wall Tickets

11:00 PM – 7:00AM Please respect quiet hours



SATURDAY
8:40AM Hoppers to the Dining Hall
One father/child per cabin - to set table.


8:45AM Breakfast (Please be on time)
Please leave your table clean.

9:00AM – 12:00PM Camp Activities
-Horseback riding (by sign up)
-Climbing Wall – (by sign-up)
-Crafts
-Canoeing
-Archery -Hiking*
-BB’s -Frisbee Golf*
-Fishing* (catch and release)
9:00-11:15AM Fishing Contest (Kastner)
11:15-12:00PM Fish Weigh In


12:40PM Hoppers to the Dining Hall
One father/child per cabin - to set table.

12:45PM Lunch (Please be on time)
Please leave your table clean

1:30 – 5:00PM Camp Activities
-Horseback riding (by sign up)
-Canoeing 2:30-5:00
-Alpine Tower (by sign-up)
-Crafts
-BB’s
-Archery - Hiking*
-Frisbee Golf* -Fishing*

3:30 PM Tribe Competitions- Obstacle Course

4:30PM Council and Chief Meeting


5:40PM Hoppers to the Dining Hall
One father/child per cabin - to set table.

5:45pm Dinner (Please be on time)
Please leave your table clean after the meal
8:45PM Line up

9:15PM Main Fire Ceremony

11:00 PM –7:00AMPlease respect quiet hours

*Parent lead Activity

SUNDAY


Continental Breakfast 8:00
9:00 – 10:45AM Camp Activities
-Horseback riding (if needed)
-Climbing Wall by sign up
-Crafts
-BB’s -Frisbee Golf*
-Archery
-Hiking*
-Fishing* (catch and release)

11:00AM Clean up and Pack up
Clean and sweep your cabin, stack the mattresses, pick up trash and remove all of your belongings.

11:30AM Check Out

Late Nighter was really fun

We had about 130 of us for the late night at the Y. This year we had pizza, popcorn, texas sized marshmellows and a whole lot of fun.

Dodgeball was a big hit (get it 'hit') with the kids using those foam balls that don't hurt (that much). AS well as swimming and releays. I think we had over 100 in the pool area at the sime time.

The movie in the racketball court worked out great - the kids seems to like the veggietales as well as the new movie "BOLT".

Basketball was popular, as well as we had two corn hole bean bag sets going. Those cornhole sets were made by Tom - and they were great sets (see his commemt below if you want to order a set)

Here is the slideshow from the pics I have. If anybody has additional picture - send them my way and I will post.

For those of you that missed this event, you did miss out on some simple easy to understand fun between father and sons. Remember as a father you really only have a few more years to made a difference in your kids life - are you doing a good job?

Longhouse for chiefs this Tuesday at 8:00. Everbody else it is time to pay for the Y-Noah Campout. Get your money to your chief.

YMCA - Late Night - is next event

Below I copied in some Pics from last months bowling - it turned out to be a great event. Thanks Tom for the pics!!.






Upcoming Events:



Y-Late Nighter

Saturday April 18th – 9:00pm until Late

Green YMCA
Free Event! The Green YMCA opens late just for us. Bring your swimming trunks and your gym shoes for Open gym, swimming, dodge ball, snacks and a little friendly competition.

This year we are NOT sleeping over but leaving by 5:00am. Many come for just a few hours, eat some Pizza and play a few games then get home at a respectible hour. Some choose to stay into the wee hours of the morning.

There will be food, drinks, movie, games etc. Plan on stopping by for just a little bit - it's a great time



And don't forget the Spring Campout

Saturday/Sunday May 15th-17th Camp Y-Noah.

Trailblazers Event

LaserQuest April 3rd from 10pm to midnight

Open to all dads/sons with boys over 10.

We have two sessions...11pm and 11:30pm. Cost per person is $10 per person (actual cost $12 per person, with the nation picking up the extra $2) per sesson. Right now, we have 40 sign ups...can take 34 per session, so have spots open for 18 more people. Although the deadline was Thursday, March 20, with extended group size, we can take 18 more people. We are playing the Iron Man Challenge, a 30 minute extreme laser quest session (normal sessions run 8-10 minutes max)

They can e-mail Kurt, Nation Sachem at kurtwone@hotmail.com to place their name on the list.


Of Course - Check the website for the SMOKE for more details

Be sure to vote in this month's Poll. We have some options as to what to do this summer and looking for feedback. These poll contains events we have done as summer events in past years.




Big Dog

Bowling - Sun March 15th.

Bowling - Sun March 15th.





Don't Forget Bowling Sunday March 15th from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Akron Lanes on Rt. 224 just east of Canton Rd (Rt. 19) in Springfield Township.

Each brave (big and little) will bowl one game individually and one as a father/son team. Everyone will get a coupon for their own 16 oz pop. Food is not included. If you would like to buy pizza ($10 for a one topping pizza) for your tribe please let me know, one week in advance, so they can thaw enough crusts. All other concessions will be available for purchase on a first come first served basis. There will be prizes drawn randomly for the little braves throughout the event.

If questions contact Brad Borne


Just a couple reminders of upcoming events:


1. Bowling – Sunday, March 15th – 2-4PM – Akron Lanes – FREE EVENT – Sponsored by the Creek
2. Longhouse Meeting – Tuesday, March 17th 7:30 YMCA - REquired meeting for all cheif's and council
3. Innaugural Trailblazers Event – Iron Man Laser Tag – Friday, April 3rd – 9PM-??? – To be discussed further at Longhouse – open to 10 years old and up
4. Green YMCA Late Nighter – Saturday, April 18th – 9PM-2AMish – FREE EVENT - Sponsored by the Mohawk

For more information see the Feb 2009 smoke:




http://www.yindianguides.org/smokes/2009_february_2009.html




Big Dog

FUNDRAISER - MARCH 7 -6:00pm Guys Party Center

Reminders for the Silent Auction Fundraiser: If you have items for the silent auction be sure to drop them off at Guy's Party center the day of the event from Noon until 3PM.


If you have any questions contact Jeff. If you need any donation forms or letters see the end of this month's Smoke.

Here is a link to the Feb 2009 smoke:

http://www.yindianguides.org/smokes/2009_february_2009.html

Be sure to take this month's Poll. At the last concil meeting one of the topics we talked about is falling attendance at the fascar event. Should we drop this event - is our tribe too old for fascar - are kids into Xbox and not car? Let us know your thoughts.

Last month's poll was a 50/50 split between going to a Y-Camp vs primitive campout (with 3 people incluing myself voting "don't care")

Looking forward to the Raffle - see you all there.

-bigdog

FASCAR - Results!!!

What a good time - eh? Many thanks to Tom and the rest of the Comanche for sponsering and running today's fascar event. I think all went very well. You guys just seem to have the system down and run this event like a well oiled machine.

We took a lot of photos - many of which have captions, so be sure to scan thru them. Also feel free to put in some captions/words of your own.

As far as tips/tricks I talked with a lot of the winners this year. No real secrets on building a car. Most this year used graphite based lube (i.e pinewood derby dry lube) last year the big winners mostly used 3-1 oil or WD40 (that was Kurt). Some of the cars had the dad do a lot of work, but some of the fastest carst had no work other than adding weight and wheels.

I found another blog site of a Y-group in texas and some guy put up his tips. This guide groups runs with 24oz on their cars so some things are different - but this guy does have some interesting tips:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-.jkL7TI0aLJybX6ywtqd?p=20

For our event - Here is some youtube video of two of the finals:

8-9 year old finals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCkRUJ6LD4

Congrats Blaine and Scott

10-12 year old Finals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6v6yJrJf9c

Congrats to PJ and Paul

Sorry but I did not video the 5-7 year old finals (forgot my flip camera and had to run back home to get it)

Here are the Results:

1st Place - Indian Theme Ages 5-7 William Campbell Apache
2nd Place - Indian Theme Ages 5-7 Tyler Crawford Seneca
1st Place - Open Theme Ages 5-7 Spencer Ausel Comanche
2nd Place - Open Theme Ages 5-7 Gauge Krumlauf Mohawk
1st Place - Speed Ages 5-7 Logan Breslin Arapaho
2nd Place - Speed Ages 5-7 Barrett Scheatzle Arapaho
3rd Place - Speed Ages 5-7 Noah Leemaster Navajo
1st Place - Indian Theme Ages 8-9 Logan Knoebel Comanche
2nd Place - Indian Theme Ages 8-9 Justin Morris Mohawk
1st Place - Open Theme Ages 8-9 Justin Crowl Cherokee
2nd Place - Open Theme Ages 8-9 Will Smith Cherokee
1st Place - Speed Ages 8-9 Blaine Rossiter Cherokee
2nd Place - Speed Ages 8-9 Justin Crowl Cherokee
3rd Place - Speed Ages 8-9 Brevan Miller Crow
1st Place - Indian Theme Ages 10-12 Matt Campbell Apache
2nd Place - Indian Theme Ages 10-12 Brandon Morris Mohawk
1st Place - Open Theme Ages 10-12 Jake Ewing Cherokee
2nd Place - Open Theme Ages 10-12 Peyton Krumlauf Mohawk
1st Place - Speed Ages 10-12 PJ Scheatzle Arapaho
2nd Place - Speed Ages 10-12 Jacob Waller Apache
3rd Place - Speed Ages 10-12 Michael Livers Crow

We have a lot of pictures this time - some from me many from Jeff. I just added in Jeff's: Feel free to make comments. (Double click images to bring up a new window)
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FASTCAR - This SATURDAY!!!

Some earlier versions of this month's smoke were wrong.












HERE ARE THE CORRECT TIMES FOR this weekends FASTCAR Derby

Location: Camp YNoah Dining Hall

Race date: Saturday, February 7th

Times: Races will start promptly by age group as follows:

Ages 5-7: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Ages 8-9: 10:30 - 12:00 pm
Ages 10-12: 12:00-1:00 pm

REMEMBER YOU MUST CHECK YOUR CAR IN ON FRIDAY NIGHT (from 6-8pm). Every year there is always some poor little brave who did not check their car in and just shows up at the race. Wewill NOT let them race. It would be unfair to the rest of the tribe. There are reasons for the nightbefore checkin. Remember Anybody can check a car little brave not required to be there.


Also - for those that go to the web site (there is 3 perhaps 4 people) - the hosting service AGAIN will not let me update the site. I'm sorry but the smoke and monthly updates did not happen. I've just spent the better part of a Sunday afternoon fighting with that web hosting and that site. An afternoon that I am sitting inside while my kids are outside playing WITHOUT me. Anybody have issues if I shut the site down? Anybody use it? I'm more than frustrated today about that web site.

Don't forget sell raffle tickets, and let your chief know if you will be staying over for the campout Sat night

As an update the WEB site is again updated. I have updated and here is Jan's SMOKE:

http://yindianguides.org/smoke.htm




-Big Dog

CAMPING - Primitive or a Y-CAMP?

Here is an image from a primitive' campout. That guy on the right is our nation chief enjoying a morning cup of joe.

The spring campout this year is May 15-16 at Camp Y-Noah in Green. That has already been booked. We are now trying to figure out where to go for the fall campout. The big question is do we go to another Y-Camp -like Christopher, Fitch /Tippecanoe or do we go to a primitive campout like on the river in Mohegan.

It's been since 2005 since our last non YMCA campground campout when we went Mohegan. This fall we have the option of staying at normal YMCA owned campgrounds like Christopher/Fitch or going to a private campground like we did in 2005.


If we pick a private campground we will make sure the campgrounds has the facalities to hold us and with a large firepit for our ceromony. Many of these type of places also offer canoe, put-put, go cart racing etc. It's drasticly different than a Y-camp as there is no kitchen, everbody cooks for themselfs and you need to bring your own sleeping arragements (i.e. Tents or RV's)


Take the Poll at the left to let the tribe know who you feel.

Bowling - Sun March 15th.

From Dec 2008_blog_images

Guys,


Bowling will be a free event held on Sunday March 15th from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Akron Lanes on Rt. 224 just east of Canton Rd (Rt. 19) in Springfield Township. Each brave (big and little) will bowl one game individually and one as a father/son team. Everyone will get a coupon for their own 16 oz pop. Food is not included. If you would like to buy pizza ($10 for a one topping pizza) for your tribe please let me know, one week in advance, so they can thaw enough crusts. All other concessions will be available for purchase on a first come first served basis. There will be prizes drawn randomly for the little braves throughout the event.

Let me know if you have questions, comments or suggestions. ..



Regards,

Brad Borne