Brother Andrew Kosmowski had previously sent along word of a proposed merger of two Western New York Councils.

Iroquois Trail and Greater Niagara Frontier Councils Merger?

He recently sent along another link which implies the merger is a done deal, all though it is not clearly stated.

Clicking on the image will bring you to the full article.

I’ve not seen any confirmation that any votes have been held by either council.

Nothing on how the lodge merger might be handled, but policy would indicate there would be only one 2024 Lodge charter i9ssued by National if the Concil merger is completed.

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“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 issued an Elangomat patch, not sure when it was first issued, but it has just come to my attention.

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 Elangomat Patch X7

The stats would be:
X 7 RED R WHT GRN RED FDL; RED WWW, GRN Elangomat

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“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” –George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

Each NOAC going back a couple of decades, Section NE-3A and its predecessors have issued a set of flaps including one for each member lodge. Currently members of each lodge could order individual flaps from their home lodge and sets of the 5 lodges which make up the section. So their are different numbers made of each flap. For NOAC 2018, each flap shares a common design with the individual lodge name and a different border color for each flap.

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 has an red border.

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 2018 NE-3A 2018 NOAC Red Border S30

The stats for this one are:
S30 RED R BLK RED WHT FDL; RED NE-3A, NOAC 2018, Weld Tightly Every Link, BLK WWW – Section NE-3A Set

According to the OA Section List, Section NE-3A contains:

• TKäen DoD Lodge #30
• Tschipey Achtu Lodge #95/397
• Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee Lodge #159
• Lowanne Nimat Lodge #219
• Ashokwahta Lodge #3390

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“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” –John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 issued a flap for hosting the 2018 NE-3A Section Conclave.

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 2018 NE-3A Conclave Hosts SMY Border S29

The stats are:
S29 SMY R LGR RED YEL FDL; ORG 2018 NE 3A Conclave Hosts RED WWW (200)

Patchscan shows that 200 of the conclave host flap issued.

I’ve posted several more Ashokwahta Lodge #339 to post issued since the 2017 Jamboree, not sure if I am missing any. Please let me know if you are aware of any other issues.

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“How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?” –James Madison (1788)

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 issued a set of two flaps to commemorate its winning the E. Urner Goodman Award issued by the Order of the Arrow each year. The award was earned for 2016 and presented in 2017.

The E. Urner Goodman Award was established in 1969 as a tribute and testimonial to the Order’s founder, E. Urner Goodman. Its purpose is to encourage and challenge Order of the Arrow members and lodges to increase their effectiveness in promoting and increasing Scout camping in each council. Awards are presented to two outstanding lodges in each region annually. For a lodge to be eligible for consideration, the E. Urner Goodman Camping Award petition should be completed and forwarded with the lodge’s charter renewal application.

Here is the second flap:

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 2017 E. Urner Goodman Winner SMY Border S28

The stats are:
S28 SMY R RED BLK BLK BSA; BLK WWW, E. Urner Goodman Winner WHT 2017 (100)

Patchscan shows that 100 of the SMY border were issued.

I have several more Ashokwahta Lodge #339 to post issued since the 2017 Jamboree, not sure if I am missing any. Please let me know if you are aware of any other issues.

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“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 issued a set of two flaps to commemorate its winning the E. Urner Goodman Award issued by the Order of the Arrow each year. The award was earned for 2016 and presented in 2017.

The E. Urner Goodman Award was established in 1969 as a tribute and testimonial to the Order’s founder, E. Urner Goodman. Its purpose is to encourage and challenge Order of the Arrow members and lodges to increase their effectiveness in promoting and increasing Scout camping in each council. Awards are presented to two outstanding lodges in each region annually. For a lodge to be eligible for consideration, the E. Urner Goodman Camping Award petition should be completed and forwarded with the lodge’s charter renewal application.

Here is the first flap:

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 2017 E. Urner Goodman Winner White Border S27

The stats are:
S27 WHT R RED BLK BLK BSA; BLK WWW, E. Urner Goodman Winner WHT 2017 (300)

Patchscan shows that 300 of the White border were issued.

I have several more Ashokwahta Lodge #339 to post issued since the 2017 Jamboree, not sure if I am missing any. Please let me know if you are aware of any other issues.

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“[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 issued a Vigil patch designated the X6.

Ashokwahta Lodge #339 Vigil Patch X6

The stats for this one are:
X6 RED R WHT YEL – RED WWW, YEL Brotherhood Service Cheerful TR

I have several more Ashokwahta Lodge #339 to post issued since the 2017 Jamboree, not sure if I am missing any. Please let me know if you are aware of any other issues.

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“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.” —James Wilson (1791)