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