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  At their recent Spring Conclave, Tipisa Lodge 326 continued their series of activity patches with the Northwestern tribal designs.  Pictured here is the 2007-08 year patch, and the depiction of the canoe is very impressive.  Measuring 10.5 inches at its longest point, it has a laser cut edge, it has some pretty impressive details.  The lodge ordered 200 of these, and will be ordering another 100 in time for their Service Weekend in May.

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Brad Hutto recently sent me images of three new chapter issues from Skyuka lodge.   There is one each from Cherokee, Union, and York chapters.

The Cherokee Chapter item is the first patch issued by this chapter known to me.   The patch, pictured, is in the shape of a square with the upper right corner rounded off.

Union Chapter has previously issued three arrowheads and two round chapter activity patches.   They break new ground with their first triangular patch.   The classic design features the lodge’s totem on a black background with a white rolled edge border.  BSA is in black above the chapter name.  It is very difficult to see on the image.

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Here is another update on recent and forthcoming issues from Catawba lodge.

As is customary in recent years, Catawba will be issuing two patches for the delegates to this year’s Dixie Fellowship, the SR-5 Conclave.   Both items follow this year’s superhero them.

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Catawba lodge has adopted a super heroes theme for this year’s activity patches.    The first event of the year, Spring Fellowship, is not until the weekend of March 14th, but I have already been sent an image of the patch that will be issued.  The Spring Fellowship features “Meck” costumed as The Flash.

The fleur d’lis is kind of hard to see in an images, especially if you don’t know where to look. It’s on The Flash’s right boot.   The patch has a “laser cut edge” and was produced by Shelby Patch Company.

Thanks to Larry Banks, I have also been sent images of the rest of the 2008 activity patches for Catawba lodge.   I will post these later.   Blue Book data for the Spring Fellowship patch is as follows: 

Skyuka lodge went through a period during the 1970s and 1980s where their Spring and Fall activity patches shared the same design.   Some of these events name both patches on each event, with the only distinguishing difference being the border color.  Unless one was familiar with the lodge’s issue (or carefully read this site) there would be no way of knowing which patch was for which event.  

Certainly this has confused folks over the years.   Some may have even erroneously thought that either patch was for both events.   Given that there has been less than perfect editing of the South Carolina lodges in the past, it is not at all unreasonable that an event patch might be missed under these circumstances.   This is one such missed patch.

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The activities listings of Tomo Chi-Chi lodge haven’t been updated in a few years.   Presumably this was because of a general lack of information about new issues from this lodge.    I suspected the listings were out of date but neither I nor the SC Blue Book editor had any more recent information.

It amazes me that Scouts today still look to Elvis Presley for patch design ideas.   I can remember when listening to your parents’ music was a “bad thing”.   Perhaps this is evidence of the quality of today’s artists?

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I can finally report on the 2006 activities patches from Unali’yi lodge.  Thanks to Brad Hutto for the images of these patches.

Following recent practice, four activity patches were issued for the lodge’s Spring and Fall fellowship and Ordeal.  The patches all follow an icthyological theme.

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