Smoke Signal - September 2007
The Smoke Signal details news as reported by individual tribes.
Hunkpapa
The Mighty Hunks’ are back in business for the 2007/2008 season!!!! New Chief Sam Thurman has taken over the leadership duties and will certainly lead us to bigger and better achievements this year. Most of last year’s crew is returning along with several possible new members. We will miss our graduates, Danny Barrett, Zach Linquist and Brian Lewison, but will probably see them all when the Trailblazers participate in Y Guides events.
At our September meeting Chief Sam “rocket man” Thurman showed off his aerospace program management skills by facilitating the construction of rubber band powered balsa wood airplanes that were then used to strafe his Northpark neighborhood. We closed the meeting with lectures on computational fluid dynamics and Bernoulli’s principle.
Everyone is excited about the upcoming Big Rock Creek event and the Hunkpapa’s will be well represented there.
Chickadees
The Chickadees had their very first meeting as a tribe in the month of September. The September tribal meeting went off in style as the Olstad Teepee hosted our beautiful band of Chickadees. This was the first time the girls had gathered as an Indian Guide Tribe and we look forward to many more gatherings - and learning and growing together.
The evening began with the princesses playing air hockey while the dads discussed preparations for Big Rock Creek. After the “puck particulars”, the girls made calendars for the upcoming season and decorated them with lots of stickers and colors. Now they know what to look forward to in the coming months. Next came a snack of juice boxes and cookies the size of manhole covers. Nothing was left of the feast except empty cartons and a layer of crumbs half an inch thick.
The girls then took turns with the talking stick introducing themselves to the rest of the tribe and sharing what fun things they had done in the previous month. This was a first of all of our Indian “Warrioresses” but they all did a marvelous job. For our farewell of the evening we went outside and started our Chickadee traditional send off. We recited the Chickadee motto and tossed the kids in to the air…
Run-a-muks
The late, great author Frank Herbert once penned these simple but profound words, “A beginning is a delicate thing.” However, the talented scribe, known for his futurist ideas and prodigious world building abilities, never could have a imagined a beginning quite like the particular form of genesis produced when the mighty RUN-A-MUKS embark on another season of Y-Guides! Delicate? A Run-A-Muk beginning? Well… let’s just say that had Mr. Herbert himself been present to witness the first tribal meeting of the 2007-2008 season he might have added an asterisk noting a peculiar exception to this profound rule in the reference section at the end of his great work.
So here we go again, Gentlemen. Off on another grand adventure which will include return trips to some of our old favorites — Big Rock, Pinewood Derby, Camp Whittle, and the ever popular Surf Camp — and new and exciting expeditions to parts unknown (and still to be determined!). Welcome back to the veterans, and a hearty WAHOKA to our new members! I think I speak for all of us when I say that once again I’m honored to be in such fine company, and am look for-ward to another year of fun, friendship, and memories that will last a lifetime. I’ve said it many times, but I think it bears repeating…
DON’T YOU LOVE BEING A RUN-A-MUK?!
