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April 15th, 2012
Looking for Trading Stock?
Over the past several years I have accumulated an abundance of flaps. This is an opportunity for you. I can now offer lots of ten (10) different and assorted flaps, all mint and no spoofs/fakes, for $40 postpaid to US addresses.
Please, at this time this is a limit of one lot per person. No requests for particular issues or lodges can be honored. My extras are stored in boxes and I will pull them out ten at a time at random.
If interested please send payment via PayPal to me at jpannell@triad.rr.com. Please remember to include your address. Thanks and happy collecting!
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March 7th, 2012
Lodge 296: Region Chief Flap, "MVE"
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of two RED bordered 2012 Home of the Region Chief flaps, showing something he noticed about them. Apparently there may be thin and thick letter variations in this issue. To me this is not significant enough to be listed as a variety. It is for cases like this that my site uses the notation, "MVE" (minor variations exist).
I told Greg I would share this image with fellow collectors. What do you think? Chase after this variation or not; that is completely up to you!
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March 5th, 2012
Breast Cancer Patch Checklist
Now that there is a growing list of breast cancer related patches as well as a devoted group of collectors chasing after them, I thought now is a good time to put together a list of those issues. I now know of at least 18 issues from 12 lodges, including a key fob and one chapter issue.
"Continue reading" to see the list.
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March 4th, 2012
Ahoalan-Nachpikin Issues Breast Cancer Flap
Ahoalan-Nachpikin lodge from Memphis, TN has joined the growing list of lodges (and one chapter) that have issued patches in support of breast cancer research. As with many others, this issue is also a pink monochrome. Thanks to Nick DeMarco for supplying this image.
If you know of any other patches that have been issued for this cause, please either send the images to me or comment on this post below. Thanks.
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February 21st, 2012
2012 NOAC Issues Page Added
I have just added a page to this site showing lodge issues for this Summer's National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). You may view it here:
http://www.oaimages.com/noac12.shtml
Presently on a few issues are shown. If you know of any that should be added, please let me know. This list should grow rapidly as we get closer to NOAC.
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Archive for March, 2007
Here in the Southeast we hold our Section Conclaves in April. It is customary for lodges to have a theme for their delegations, in order to create an espirit d’corps among the brothers. If a lodge decides to issue a conclave flap, it will usually depict that theme.
Usually this theme is not disclosed outside the lodge until conclave, so I breaking custom by disclosing it here. Picture here is the artwork for Lodge 70′s conclave flap. The theme should be self-evident.
Occoneechee 104 chose “Happy Halloween” as their theme this year and have already issued several patches. This is where things start to get odd.
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"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."
John F. Kennedy
A bevy of new issues debuted at the 2007 Pow Wow. This included several issues for the 2007 SR-7B Conclave and three new flaps for the lodge’s 70th anniversary.
Both the jacket patch (J18?) and odd-shape (X32?) are on black velveteen. Some have already dubbed the jacket patch, the “Velvet Elvis”.
Thanks to Greg Grimes for providing the images of these and the Pow Wow event patch. All the images can be found on this site’s Occoneechee Lodge page. Continue Reading »
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"The business of America is business."
Calvin Coolidge
Occoneechee lodge held its 2007 Spring Pow Wow last weekend. A new event patch was issued for it.
Also unveiled this past weekend were a slew of new issues for the 2007 SR-7B conclave and the lodge’s 70th anniversary. These will be detailed in a separate post. Continue Reading »
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"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."
Francis Keppel
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii had its Spring (Winter?) Fellowship this past weekend at Cherokee Reservation. In spite of a meteorological reminder that it still is Winter, and a rainy start to the event, it was a good weekend. Continue Reading »
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"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll
I was recently sent an image by Jeff Ansley of a chapter patch from the Hyas Lamonte chapter of Lo La ‘Qam Geela 491. To be honest, there’s nothing extraordinary about the design. It’s rather plain. Even though it fails to explicitly identify the lodge, it serves the purpose of identifying members of the chapter. Presumably a knowledgeable person could figure out what lodge this is from based upon the unusual chapter name.
However, I thought the shape and color scheme was a bit peculiar: I’ve seen it before. Continue Reading »
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"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
Calvin Coolidge
This is what folks on another forum I read would call a “vanity post”: generally off-topic and about myself…
After a rather odd winter — a warm January followed a chilly February, and no ice storms of note — Spring seems to have arrived on cue here in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
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"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
Calvin Coolidge
Thanks to Brad Hutto for sending me several images of recent event patches from Skyuka 270.
Three of these are 2006 events issues not previously mentioned here. They were issued for the lodge’s Pre-Dixie Fellowship, Summer Ordeal, and Fall Fellowship. As with the first two events patches for 2006, these are designed to be worn around the 2006 arrowman patch, to be listed as R2.
The fourth patch, pictured to the left, was issued for the lodge’s 2007 Banquet.
Blue Book information for these is below.
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William H Gass
Monday evening I was sitting at home and adding images to the site for a bunch new issues from Wipala Wiki 432. As I added the image for what should become their S136 (I’m still missing images for S128 through S133) I started to wonder which lodge issued the most* patches.
The answer is not what you might think. Continue Reading »
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John F. Kennedy
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.
Blue Book data for these segments are: Continue Reading »
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. "
The Dalai Lama
This is the second of three posts about new issues from Atta Kulla Kulla 185.
This piece references the 10th Anniversary Gobbler Grab, so should probably be listed as an event patch. However, Brad Hutto calls it the R4 for this chapter so that’s how I’ll show it here for now.
Blue Book information for this issue is as follows: Continue Reading »
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This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years."
Douglas Adams
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Recent OAImages News
April 1st, 2012
April Fool!
It should go without saying that my post about this site being sold to a Google/eBay partnership was my annual April Fool's post. I have no plans at this time to give up or sell this web site. Long time readers will know this has become quite the tradition here and I usually start planning the posts several months in advance. The most famous (infamous?) of these was 2008's post concerning the abolishment of lodge names. It still creates difficulty from time to time for those in authority in the OA and BSA due to the inability of some to detect obvious (in my opinion) satire.
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April 1st, 2012
OAImages Soon Under New Ownership
This post contains important information regarding the future of this website. Please read carefully.
Many have noticed that I have found it hard to maintain this website for quite some time now. Due to various reasons, some of them beyond my control, updating the price guide regularly has become all but impossible. Things have become a bit less chaotic, but after 15 years this has become a chore. I also know that there will come the day when control of this site will need to be passed to another. With all that in mind, I have been considering various options for the future of OAImages. In the midst of this, a several months ago I was contacted by someone who made me an offer that was too good to resist. After many months of negotiations I am now free to announce that this site has been purchased by a combined partnership of Google and eBay. This will be effective July 1, 2012.
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January 30th, 2012
Tschipey Achtu Lodge: Update
Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.
I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.
The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.
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January 14th, 2012
An OAImages iPad App?
Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.
I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?
Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion.
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October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches
I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.
To view these items, go to OA Images: National and Special Events Patches page and select either of these events from the "Other Specialties" drop down box.
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August 27th, 2011
Coming out of Hiding About April 1st
It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.
I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.
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Lodges 70 and 104: A Very Odd Coincidence
Posted in Occoneechee 104,SR-7B Lodges,Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 by John E. Pannell on March 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 am 
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