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Ok, so I am a little late with this post.   2009 saw the change of W-1A into W-1S and with it some advisorship changes.   I became the Merchandising advisor for the section.   What that entails is that the Trading Post, On-Line Trading post, Merchandise marketing and anything that is not food or program materials come under my leadership (of course I have a Conclave Vice Chief that works with me).

The conclave this year was well attended with over 450 Arrowmen from Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado and Idaho in attendance.   The conclave was held at Camp Baker (Oregon Trail Council) on the central Oregon Coast.   Food was outstanding and the fellowship was superb.   The shows was spectacular thanks to Paul Collett and crew.

Since we had a new designation, I went all out to exploit it.   Thus almost all the patches made for this year have Charter Member on them.   We stuck with what the previous advisor had done and issued 4 pocket patches.   Red Border for Participants, Blue Border for Staff, Gold Mylar for Auction Donation and Black Border for the Collector’s set.   The amount made decreases with each batch with only 120 made of the black border.

There were 4 jacket patches made this year.   The regular Charter Member Jacket Patch (150 Made) was the most common.       All of these had less than 30 made.   The Special Edition Jacket Patch (14 Made), The Patron Jacket Patch (30 Made) and the Guardian Jacket Patch (6 Made).   The special edition was by special collector’s lottery only (Yes I got one).   The Patron Jacket Patch required a $300.00 donation in cash and/or memorabilia (I got one of those too) and the Guardian required spending $1000.00 at the auction (I did not get this one).   All of the patches are pictured in this article.   I still have some of the participant, staff and auction patches available, along with the Charter Member Jacket Patch.

Next years conclave is scheduled to be held at Camp Rilea (Oregon National Guard), near the mouth of the Columbia River.

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