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Lodge Ledger

Lodge Ledger has been replaced with Officer Outlook. For most recent communications, please visit oa-bsa.org/news/officer-outlook.

News, ideas, and information for lodge leadership.

Lodge Ledger: T-Blaza: Overcoming the "All Work and No Play" Perception of Ordeals

Think back to your Ordeal. Specifically, the time immediately after your ceremony. If you're like me, all you remember is...

Lodge Ledger: Alabama Lodge Teams with Venturing Leaders at Council Camp

This summer, the Greater Alabama Council's Hugh M. Comer Scout Reservation got a big hand from some of Coosa Lodge's...

Lodge Ledger: Centennial Blaze #3 - Special Opportunities

Two special opportunities exist for lodges as we draw closer and closer to NOAC 2015. With an expected attendance of...

Lodge Ledger: NLS - Not Your Ordinary Leadership Seminar

If you were elected by the fellow Scouts in your troop, or if you are an adult who was nominated...

Lodge Ledger: Ohio Lodge Creates Program to Engage Membership

Many lodges struggle with membership retention, and others with simply recruiting new ordeal members. Marnoc Lodge of Great Trail Council...

Lodge Ledger: Community Outreach - Scatacook Chapter of Owaneco Lodge Reaches Out to Local School

Lodges across the country make service to their council, camp and community a focus of their yearly program. Recently, the...

Lodge Ledger: Lodge History Spotlight - Tetonwana Lodge

Not many lodges make it 50 years, let alone 75. Based in eastern South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota,...

Lodge Ledger: A Brotherhood Hike to Remember

Is your lodge looking for a new idea to encourage and promote Brotherhood conversion? Lodges across the country are turning...

Lodge Ledger: Centennial Blaze #2 - Suggested NOAC Timeline - Top Ten Ideas

Leadership Selection - Each lodge was previously encouraged to recruit a youth/adult Contingent Leadership Team (Update #1). If you have...

Lodge Ledger: Forming the Circle: Lodge Dedicates New Longhouse

On April 12-14, 2013, the members of T'Kope Kwiskwis Lodge completed their biggest and longest project in recent memory. The...

Lodge Ledger: Brief History of the Order in the Nation's Capital - Amangamek-Wipit Lodge

The year was 1952 when Navy Captain Jack A. Obermeyer and Ralph P. Lutz founded Amangamek-Wipit Lodge. Prior to that,...

Lodge Ledger: Nawakwa and Portage Lodge Receive National Recognitions

Nawakwa Lodge and Portage Lodge were each recognized with the National Service Award and E. Urner Goodman Camping Award. To...