I just recieved word that Suwannee River Area Council is getting close on their Jamboree Shoulder Patches.
Right now they just have their “PATRON” (ie. fundraiser) JSP available. There is believed to be approximatly 100 left at the Council. Otherwise this is one that you see on eBay from time to time.
The new council that was formed with the merger of Otetiana Council and Finger Lakes Council has announced its new Council name will be “Seneca Waterways”.
According to the Council’s website:
The new council name, “Seneca Waterways”, was chosen to represent the two former councils, “Otetiana” and “Finger Lakes” and the five counties of the merged council.“Seneca” reflects the fact that many local names, such as Seneca County, Seneca Lake, Seneca Park, etc. are found within the five counties and that Otetiana came from a Seneca word and was the name of a Seneca Chief who lived in the Finger Lakes region. Also, the historic Seneca Nation boundaries were similar at times to our new boundaries.
“Waterways” includes the abundance of local freshwater bodies such as the Finger Lakes, the Genesee River and Lake Ontario and the Erie Canal, so this name again includes the area of both former councils.
While “Waterways” alone could signify many parts of the U.S., “Seneca Waterways” is unique to our area.
They have also issued a design for their new CSP. No word on when it will be available.
I just recieved word that David Franck’s Council Shoulder Patch (CSP) collection was being split up and sold by his relatives. Franck passed away in 2002 and was a long time editor for “An Aid To Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Insignia with Valuation Guide”.
According to the email, they are not interested in trading, but are attempting to sell the entire collection. They have posted the list of CSPs online and will be updating it after a decent amount of the patches have been sold. Requests for scans can be facilitated. There are about 3,600 unique CSPs with many duplicate issues.
You can see the entire list, and the email address to arrange purchases or scans at http://www.the-cables.net/csp.html
Information is starting to leak out that the voting members of Detroit Area Council and Clinton Valley Council approved their consolidation.
This was seen on a Detroit Area Council District Executive’s twitter page earlier today:
I am now a charter member of the NEW MICHIGAN COUNCIL. Council Board Members from DAC & CVC voted overwhelmingly in favor of consolidation.
No information about the votes outcome has been posted on either Council’s website, the Consolidation Study website, or released in a press release yet.
The last official news was that on June 16, 2009, both of the Council’s Executive Boards met and overwhelmingly and enthusiastically voted to support a consolidation. The voting members of both councils (Executive Board members, Council Members at Large and Charter Organization Representatives) will vote on the proposed consolidation Tuesday, August 4, 2009.
Start collecting those Detroit Area Council and Clinton Valley Council patches today before word gets out! We will keep you informed of the new Council as information such as name and first CSP are released.
I’d like to welcome anyone visiting from New York OA Trader after he posted about CSP Corner on his blog.
There are big dreams for this site! I’ve never been happy with any of the resources out there for CSPs. Personally I want Scans! I want Details! I want everything listed in one resource, not one for JSPs and one for CSPs! (I know I’m picky)
Functionality is not all here… you can tell that. First off the design ended up not suiting us well, not enough content space so that will be fixed eventually. The marketplace is going to be the last feature of this site activated.
What are we working on?
We are working on getting all of the Councils listed and at least one CSP from each Council listed. While this is happening, we are trying to fix the back end (the administrative features) to make updates easy. Eventually what we want to have is one or two “experts” from each Council who will be in charge of keeping their Council’s issues up to date. The local individuals are the best resource on knowing what is what from their Council. We have already started collecting realized prices from various sources, however they have not been analyzed or formatted yet.
The major promblem we are facing:
What classification system to use? Everyone we talk to suggest we just use An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches, however due to copyright restrictions, that is not possible. So we’ve been trying to come up with a new system, which is a lot harder than it seems. If you have any thoughts or have a good system let us know!
Please post any suggestions or thoughts! They will be considered.