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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 February, 2012
During the three decades that the Boy Scouts of America held their National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill they benefited from a large amount of military support. Not only was the Jamboree held on a military base but US military personnel also contributed untold thousands of man hours of labor in support of this event. The BSA would not benefit from this support at the Summit.
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
Calvin Coolidge
I received word this afternoon via patch-l that Shawnee Trails Council (Owensboro, KY) will shut down at the end of March. All units in the council will be transferred to Lincoln Heritage Council (Louisville, KY) . This is not a merger. Reportedly Shawnee Trails Council will exist for sometime after this date in order to wrap up its affairs. From the sounds of it, the council is being dissolved.
There is no word of this on the council’s website. However, that site appears not to have been updated since last October.
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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
News from the first lodge merger in Michigan, part of what I have dubbed the Great Michigan Merger, has been announced.
According to Dan Jechura, the Manitous 88 (Great Sauk Trail Council #255, Ann Arbor) and Nacha-Mawat 373 (Southwest Michigan Council #270, Kalamzaoo) lodge creation teams are proud to announce the creation of a new lodge. The new lodge name will be Kishahtek Lodge and will use the number 88. The lodge totem will be a Wolverine.
According to the “Scouting in Michigan” page on Wikipedia, these two councils have already merged into “Field Service Council C”, part of the Greater Michigan Council, with a permanent name to be determined by the end of February 2012.
No further details are known at this time.
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John W. Gardner
Nayawin Rar 296: S52 Varieties?
Nayawin Rar lodge recently issued a new version of their standard flap. Instead of using the BSA’s Supply Division, AB Emblems produced the flaps. The lodge intended the flap to remain unchanged, but as usually happens when a different manufacturer is used, there were noticeable changes. Thanks to Wes Drennan, both flaps are pictured at the head of this post. Also thanks to Charlie Aman for previously tipping me off on this new flap.
I have previously listed this newer version on my site as “S52b?”, and the previous version as “S52a?”. I am re-thinking that.
As you can see there are many differences between these two patches: the shade of yellow in the moon, the coloring of the bird’s right wing, the pattern of the black lines in the body and wings, the shade of light blue, and the height of the “296″. In my opinion, most of these would be hard to describe so that someone unfamiliar with the patches would know which he has without a reference collection.
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Lewis Carroll
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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Nayawin Rar 296 S62?
As I was adding posts last week for the patches issued for the 2009 – 2011 Order of the Arrow Regional and National officers, I also added the first two images of patches issued for a 2012 officer. Nayawin Rar has recently issued two flaps in honor of David Joyner, the 2012 Southern Region Chief. Thanks to Charlie Aman for sending these images to me.
The red bordered version of this flap (S62?) is available to the general membership of the lodge. The yellow bordered version (S63?) will be distributed only by the region chief at his discretion.
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Tibetan Doctrine
Aal-Pa-Tah 237: 2012 Uncut Year Set
Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 is commemorating its 70th anniversary in 2012, with its activity patch set for the year. At the recent Palm Beach Trade-O-Ree, a complete set of activity patches and the anniversary flap were sold in auction to one impatient collector who could not wait all year to obtain the full set one piece at a time. Each of the weekend pieces of the year’s activities are one letter of the word “GATOR”, as well as a segment of an alligator. Once the full set is assembled, the word is spelled and the alligator is complete. The year patch is the log upon which the gator lays, fitting like a jigsaw puzzle with the feet of the gator. There will also be an “uncut” set available, with all of the pieces together as one patch.
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Robert Heinlein
Back in 2007 I wrote several posts highlighting the patches issued by the various lodges over the years for the national and regional officers of the Order of the Arrow. The first of these posts covered patches issued for the Lodge of the National Chief. I also published an update for the 2008 National Officer patches. Over the past week I have also added updates for the recent national and regional officers. Here is the last installment for the recent Western Region Chiefs.
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Echockotee Lodge 2012 Winter Fellowship
The 2012 Winter Fellowship for Echockotee Lodge 200 was the first weekend of their annual series of activity patch theme, “Camp Shands Structures”. Camp Shands is where Echockotee has been holding its weekend activities since 1968. The Winter Fellowship patch depicts the “tree houses”, a coveted site at Shands where campers sleep in small cabins set about 12 feet off the ground. The name and date of the event have been embedded into the design, in the lower right corner. Other patches in the series will depict the camp chapel, council ring, climbing tower, a cabin, and the camp water tower.
The irony to this series that the Winter Fellowship may be the last lodge weekend event held at Shands for several months.
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Back in 2007 I wrote several posts highlighting the patches issued by the various lodges over the years for the national and regional officers of the Order of the Arrow. The first of these posts covered patches issued for the Lodge of the National Chief. I also published an update for the 2008 National Officer patches. Next up are patches for the recent Southern Region Chiefs.
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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 Scouting News by John E. Pannell on February 28th, 2012 at 9:43 am 
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