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2009 marked a big change in the alignment of W-1C.   When the new designations came out, W-1C lost two lodges and became W-1E.   Gone are the two lodges that are home based in Idaho, and that makes W-1E conform to the old borders of 11-C.

The conclave this year was held at Camp Fife (Grand Columbia Council), which is in the shadow of Mount Rainier.   The first time in awhile that a council camp was used as a conclave site.   It was a great weekend with plenty of sunshine and decent temperatures. (It did get down to below 32 degrees Saturday Night, which caused frost on my windshield.)

There were 5 patches issued for this event.   There are rumors of a sixth, but I have not seen it yet.   The sixth would be for the $300.00 worth of auction purchases jacket patch.   The first patch is the W-1E Sashman patch.   Sashman is the totem of section W-1E.   This is their version of a charter member patch.   The section issued three oval patches for the conclave.   The grey border is for the participants,  white border for the staff and light blue border for auction donation.   The Jacket Patch is a mirror copy of the participant patch except it is bigger.

I would say this this conclave was above average for this section attendance wise and the food was decent enough to prevent me from jumping in my car and looking for a Chinese Buffet.   The conclave had attendees from Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho and Washington.   Yes I did say Hawaii.   The section chief from Hawaii attended, along with the section  chief from  W-1N who happens to be from Alaska.   A great conclave as I taught Patch Trading and a lot of new youth caught the bug.   There is a core group of us that travel the Pacific Northwest and attend of of these conclaves.   If I missed your name please forgive me:   Paul Collett, Jeff Ansley, Kevin Rudesill, John Riekena, Ken Hayashi, Peter Kruse and Bill Harris.     We have a lot of milage racked  up, we also made it to NOAC and will most likely be at the NLS/NLATS in Portland later in November.

This wraps up the conclave season in the Pacific Northwest.   Now back to regular issues.

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