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If you’re planning to attend the upcoming Ordeal at Camp Comer, the pre-registration deadline for Ordeal Candidates is August 29th. If you’re already a member, you can register at camp when you get there. If you’ve been an Ordeal member for 10 months, it’s time to seal your membership and become a Brotherhood member!

If you’re a member, the cost for the weekend is $10. There is no fee for Brotherhood Candidates. If you bought a 2008 Event Pass, your fees are already paid!

For Ordeal Candidates, the cost is $35 if you pre-register by August 29 or $40 if you miss the deadline. This price includes your new sash, your OA handbook, and other materials that will be provided by the Lodge upon the completion of your Ordeal.

Ordeal Candidate Pre-Registration Form
Instructions for Your Ordeal
Brotherhood Info: Order of the Arrow “JumpStart”

Here it is!  The 2009 Coosa Lodge Event Calendar has been added to the “Calendar and Events” page.

Please be aware that some of the dates may be different from the published Council Program Calendar, but that the dates published here supersede those published in the council calendar.

This weekend featured another successful Ordeal.  The weather was perfect, Camp Sequoyah got some much-needed work done, and we inducted more than 180 new Ordeal members!  While all of that was happening, 41 Arrowmen sealed their membership and attained Brotherhood.

The last Ordeal of the season is just a few weeks away (Sept. 5th) at Camp Comer and Fall Fellowship is just three weeks behind that.  If you haven’t made plans yet to attend either event, it’s time to send in those registration forms!

I just noticed that the map link (on the right) to Camp Sequoyah is no longer working correctly, so I updated the link to use lat/lon coordinates instead of the street address for camp. I suspect that Google updated its mapping database, which managed to drop the address somehow.

For those interested, here are the lat/lon coordinates for Camp Comer and Camp Sequoyah:

Camp Comer: N 34° 31′ 24″, W 85° 37′ 50″
Camp Sequoyah: N 33° 31′ 44″, W 85° 40′ 21″

If you have the coordinates for the rest of our camps or any other point of interest in the council, email me and we’ll maintain a list of them here on coosa50.org.

edit: I fixed the Chapter Map page, too. Thanks.

If you were born after 1980 or so, the idea of social networking is nothing new to you. If you were born before 1980, you can probably tune out for this one.

For a while now, Coosa Lodge has had groups on Facebook (group link) and MySpace (group link). The MySpace group has sort of flailed and never really found its feet, while the Facebook group has grown to nearly 100 members and more people join every week. These have been great tools for getting info out to our members and helping our members keep in touch with each other.

Just this week, Coosa Lodge extended its social networking footprint to include Twitter. If you’re a Twitter user, just click over to twitter.com/coosalodge and click on the “Follow” link to get periodic updates from us in your Twitter feed.

If anyone wishes to send anything to Don Burt’s family below are the addresses:

Mrs. Debbie Spilman
482 Peak View Lane
Peaksville, UT 84029
debbie_spilman@hotmail.com

Mrs. Chris Buse
143 Driftwood Lane
Waxahachie, TX 75165

Mr. Don Burt
1557 Hummingbird Lane
Virginia Beach, VA 23454

If you’re and Ordeal candidate and are planning to pre-register for the upcoming Ordeal at Camp Sequoyah, the deadline to do so is this Friday, August 1. Any registration forms received with a postmark on or before August 1 will be accepted at the discounted price.

For more info, see this news entry from last week.

edit: Fixed the link (it wasn’t working correctly).  Sorry ’bout that.

Lewis Ingram Funeral (father of John Ingram and Dan Ingram).  

Lewis Ingram passed away Thursday morning July 24 after a short illness.

Graveside Services are at Macedonia Baptist Church (Maplesville) 

Tuesday, July 29th at 10:30 AM.

Directions:

I-65 South to Jemison.  

In Jemison turn right at McDonaldsat the light.  

Go one block to next light and turn left.  

Go to mile marker 7 on Hwy 191.  

Turn right on County Road 36 and go 1 mile
to church.

The service will be outside - graveside.

MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH
850 County Road 36, Maplesville, AL 36750
(205) 646-2386
REV. DAVID BISHOP,  Pastor
11693 County Road 15
Maplesville, AL  36750
(205) 755-7903

If you’re planning to attend the upcoming Ordeal at Camp Sequoyah, the pre-registration deadline for new candidates is August 1st. If you’re already a member, you can register on-site. If you’ve been an Ordeal member for 10 months, it’s time to seal your membership and become a Brotherhood member!

If you’re a member, the cost for the weekend is $10. There is no fee for Brotherhood Candidates. If you bought a 2008 Event Pass, your fees are already paid!

For Ordeal Candidates, the cost is $35 if you pre-register by August 1 or $40 if you miss the deadline. This price includes your new sash, your OA handbook, and other materials that will be provided by the Lodge upon the completion of your Ordeal.

Ordeal Candidate Pre-Registration Form
Instructions for Your Ordeal
Brotherhood Info: Order of the Arrow “JumpStart”