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Since 1998, Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 has served their fellow Scouts at the Gulf Stream Council, literally, by running a booth that sells meals to the attendees.  Patches have been made each year for the barbeque pork and fried turkey since that first year, with additional pieces for the staff of the event.  This year continues the baseball theme that began in 2006, but this was the first year with a different patch for the pork and turkey*.

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The theme for the activity patches for Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 in 2008 is the ArrowCorps5 program, as previously mentioned in an earlier blog entry.  What had been pictured was the first “year theme patch” design for 2008, the large version of the pentagon AC5 fundraiser, with more to come.

Well, more has come, in the form of a second year theme patch, and this is sure to set a record.  The patch has 30 sides.  I have also been told that there are 32 different colors, but I have not confirmed this.  With this configuration (also measuring 11 inches tall, 11 1/2 inches wide), it is also unlikely to be sewn onto a jacket. Continue Reading »

Semialachee Lodge (239) has had a couple of new activity patches in the last few months.  First is for their recent Spring Fellowship, the other is for a council event to prepare Wallwood Boy Scout Reservation for the upcoming Summer Camp season, but with the lodge name on the patch.  This is similar to two issues that Echockotee 200 had made for camp preparation.

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Timuquan Lodge 340 is ending one year of themed activity patches (2007-2008 “Classic Muscle Cars”) and beginning a new annual theme (2008-2009 “Pre-Columbian Florida Natives”), all in the same weekend.

The 2008 Summer Conclave will kick off the new annual series.  The Lodge Banquet is held on Saturday night of the Summer Conclave, and for this event-within-an-event, the old theme will be completed, with the depiction of a 1969 Pontiac GTO.

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