Congratulations to our 19 new Ordeal and 46 new Brotherhood!

The Saturday evening Carnival theme was Halloween Comes Early complete with candy trading, a costume contest and a Chapter Chief pumpkin carving contest.

As always, the Wahunsenakah Kitchen Crew served everyone great food.  The Kitchen Crew wants to know what you want to eat at the next event; an event food survey will be released soon.

This weekend also marked the return of the Duck Calls.  The PDF version is below; it is worth the read!

Photo credit: Mrs. Stukes and Chaplin Dan from Wahunsenakah Lodge 333 Facebook Group

Summer Service Weekend is rapidly approaching!  Mark your calendars for September 13-15 at Pipsico Scout Reservation's Camp Lions.  Get ready for food, fun and service. Sign up today! Hurry, the late fee begins September 7.

NOAC 2020 pre-registration is now OPEN for Wahunsenakah Lodge #333! 

From Jeff Westling, 2020 NOAC Contingent Adviser:

• All youth who deposit $100 prior to 30 September 2019 will have a reserved spot as part of the NOAC 2020 contingent.
• Payments are made in person at the Colonial Virginia Council Scout Shop.
• Once you place your deposit of $100 with the Scout Office, send me (Jeff Westling) an email with your name and contact info so I can build the roster of those who have committed participation. Youth and adults should copy their Chapter Adviser and/or Chapter Chief regarding their attendance for awareness. wahunsenakahNOAC2020@gmail.com
• While there is no hard ratio (we can go 1:1) for adult attendance, National OA has recommended that we cap the attendees at 1 adult for every 3 youth. While that is a target to maximize youth attendance and participation, we have some flexibility. Adult members who are interested in attending NOAC as part of our Lodge contingent, are expected to assume an active role in our preparations, to include facilitating the planning, fundraising efforts and execution of our trip.
• We still need a youth Chair to lead our Contingent planning effort. This youth member will be the Contingent youth leader once on-site and will work in partnership with the Lodge Chief and/or ranking Lodge Officer attending to maximize the NOAC experience for the contingent.
• The National fee is $545 plus our contingent fees for travel, meals during travel and lodging en route. Our goal is to cover these costs for youth through fundraising efforts and possibly defray the cost of transportation for the adults (no commitments for the adults until the budget has been finalized and fundraising proceeds have been collected).

If you have any questions, contact Mr. Westling directly at: WahunsenakahNOAC2020@gmail.com.

Please take 2 minutes of your time to complete this survey.   We cannot make decisions without data!
​The deadline to complete the survey is Friday, August 23, 2019. Your input is more valuable than a boatload of rubber ducks!

The 2019 Vigil, Silver Duck and Founders Award nomination deadlines are approaching fast!  Use the forms* below to submit your nominee.  Submission directions are included on the form. 

Vigil nomination deadline: Wednesday, August 14
Founders Award nomination deadline: Saturday, October 12
Silver Duck Award nomination deadline: Thursday, October 31

Congratulations to our new and returning brothers!  You accomplished a lot!

Please welcome our 2019 - 2020 Lodge leadership:
Lodge Chief: Henry Harris
Lodge Vice Chief: Collin "Fred" MacDonald
Lodge Secretary: Chris Westling
Lodge Second Vice Chief of Administration: Ashleigh Stukes
Lodge Second Vice Chief of Program: Matthew Shaffer
Lodge Treasurer: Noah South

Image Credits: Mrs. Stukes & Mrs. Bascom

This year's Conclave ... CONCLAVE! was a big one; there were over 1250 attendees, 235 of them where from Wahunsenakah, making the 2019 SR-7A Conclave the largest Order of the Arrow gathering other than NOAC.  What a way to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the OA in VA!  This year, Wahunsenakah earned two awards: the SPIRIT award and the We Support Camping award.  Thank you to all you hard-working arrowmen who helped make this happen!  Duck - duck - mighty duck!

Photo Credits: Jeff Westling, Mark Phinney, Erik Rummel, and Christine Stukes.

As per the clarifications in Mr. Robinson's email, no shoes are being collected at Conclave, just SOCKS. 
Thank you Mr. Fabry for finding out this change.  We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

See our Conclave 2019 Service Project post with the link below for more information:

Visit our Conclave Page!

The 2019 Conclave Service Project (brought to you directly from the lodge Facebook page):
"This year, SR-7A is proud to announce that we have partnered with Shood, an organization dedicated to providing proper shoes and foot care to those living in poverty around the Richmond area.  At Conclave, we will be assembling foot care bags to help Richmond's homeless population.  For these bags to be complete, bring at least four (4) pairs of new men's or woman's athletic socks of any brand, color, or size Friday night and we'll pick them up Friday night to be put in the bags on Saturday.  Help others with the Conclave Service Project, and compete against other lodges in SR-7A to see who brings the most socks!"