Category IconLodge 185: 2008 LLD Whippoorwill

Posted in Atta Kulla Kulla 185, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on March 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 am

Atta Kulla Kulla lodge has recently issued its third whippoorwill shaped patch, intended for the lodge’s 2008 LLD.  As in 2006 and 2007 the patch is shaped like the lodge totem, the whippoorwill. The only text on the patch is the year, 2008.

Thanks to Brad Hutto for the image of this piece.

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Category IconLodge 104: New LLD Issues

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on November 19th, 2007 at 12:33 am

Occoneechee lodge held its annual LLD course this past weekend. Two new patches were issued for those there. One was for course participants and the other for staff.

I’m in a bit of a quandry over how to catalog these pieces. Similar issues from 2006 were used for that year’s LLD, but did not specificaly name that event. I understood last year that the LLD patches were intended to be used for several years and so listed them as lodge issues (R18?, R19?).

This year’s patches are similar. Rather than denote an event they indicate an arrowman either is LLD trained or staffed such training. They’re more of an award patch than an event patch. They also could have a multi-year life span. Can anyone confirm or deny the lodge’s intentions on this? So, until instructed otherwise, I’m going to listed these as lodge issues.

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Category IconLodge 185: 2007 LLD Whippoorwill

Posted in Atta Kulla Kulla 185, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on October 17th, 2007 at 1:57 am

Atta Kulla Kulla lodge has issued a patch intended for their 2007 LLD.   Like in 2006 the patch is shaped like the lodge totem, the whippoorwill.   The only text on the patch is the year, 2007.   This patch was first mentioned in the comments to an earlier post about this lodge’s issues.

Thanks to Brad Hutto for the image of this piece.

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Category IconLodge 185: Uncatalogued LLD Segments

Posted in Atta Kulla Kulla 185, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on March 5th, 2007 at 6:26 am

This is the last of the posts from the information Brad Hutto sent me.

There were five segments to accompany the R3 from this lodge, one for each year the patch was in use.   Until now, none of these were catalogued.

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Category IconNew Occoneechee LLD Rounds Issued

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on November 27th, 2006 at 1:04 am

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Occoneechee lodge has recently issued two new LLD rounds. One is for participants and the other for staff.

These were hurriedly ordered from Moritz after it was thought that there were insufficient stock of the previous version, R15 and R16, produced by BSA supply. Moritz graciously produced these with virtually no lead time. In the rush the fleur d’lis was left off and the slogan was incorrectly rendered as “Every Arrowman Deserves A Trained Leaders.”

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