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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.
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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 November, 2007
duWayne Amen sent me the follow message about an upcoming Trade-o-Ree.
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The 14th annual à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹Å“Old Hickoryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ Trade-O-Ree is coming up on December 22, 2007 from 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM at Summit School in Winston-Salem.This yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s event will be held in the classroom building (teaching/learning center) where we use to be located because our gym is surrounded by construction.
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"When you control the ball, you control the score. "
Pele
This is the ninth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
As we approach the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, the egg nog drinking season, I thought I would turn my attention to looking for patches in the shape of the Nutmeg State.
I could only find one patch shaped like Connecticut. This is the J1 from Owaneco 313. The lodge’s territory in the southeastern portion of the state is outlined in blue.
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"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
Leonard Bernstein
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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"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
Robert Orben
After seemingly doing their best to throw away their season opener against Davidson last week, the Tarheels came back with a decisive thumping of the Iona Gaels today. Granted, Iona is not the opponent that Davidson was, but it’s still nice to see a good thumping every once in a while, even if it was a game devoid of drama. It might seem odd, but the game was not nearly as close as the score may make it look. 
“CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Tyler Hansbrough never saw the guard who tried to stop his transition slam. Not until after North Carolina’s star forward had thrown down the dunk and landed on top of the would-be defender…”
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"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. "
Anthony Burgess
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge held their Fall Fellowship this weekend. For the first time since before the lodge was formed, I was not registered for the weekend. However, I did go up to camp for the Saturday afternoon and evening events.
Lodge rules were revised and the newly elected officers will serve for 18 months. The Founders Award was presented to three Arrowmen and our annual patch auction was held.
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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
Here is the next installment in my series of activity patches from 442 Wauna La-Monà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢Tay. In 2007 the lodge issued patches for their 3 major events, as they have done the previous couple of years.
The first event was our winter fellowship – the Native American Arts & Ceremonies Seminar. This patch featured a bear raising itself over a ledge. A kind of neat looking patch. This event was well attended and marked the first time that the lodge allowed a display competition (patches, scouting or Native American). It marked a turn around of several years of apathy toward collectors.
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"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
Winston Churchill
This is the eighth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
The Florida lodges are known for their innovative patch designs, especially when it comes to lodge activity and chapter patches
Aal-Pa-Tah lodge is the only lodge to have issued patches in the shape of this state. The same basic design was used many times throughout the lodge’s history. These are listed in Blue Book as the C2, J1, X3, X4, X5, X7, X8, X16, ZJ1. Some of these issues have multiple varieties.
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"The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Lewis Carroll
The following obituary and message from J-T Wells, Lodge Chief of Occoneechee #104, were passed on to me this morning. While we remember Charlie and celebrate his life of service, please remember his family during what will be a difficult time for them.
From The Herald-Sun:
DURHAM – Charles Scott Sullivan, 87, died Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at Croasdaile Village. He was born on June 1, 1920, in Asheville, the son of the late Emmett Banks Sullivan and Claire Scott Sullivan.
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"There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace."
Ronald Reagan
In the third installment of the latest from Tipisa 326, we have two new neckerchiefs from Tomoka Chapter. For their 50th anniversary, the chapter has made a direct-embroidered piece on a poly-cotton cloth (N-2), and an identical piece stitched into satin cloth (N-3).
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"You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. "
J. D. Salinger
Semialachee Lodge 239 hosted the Section S-4S Seminars, held at Camp Wallwood, outside Tallahassee. This event is different from the Section Conference, with a greater emphasis on training in lodge administration, native American activities, and ceremonies. Over 230 Arrowmen attended from all over peninular Florida.
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill
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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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Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on November 21st, 2007 at 12:05 am 
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