{"id":2427,"date":"2008-10-29T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2008-11-10T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:07:46","slug":"possible-council-merger-trails-west-and-okaw-valley-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/possible-council-merger-trails-west-and-okaw-valley-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Council Merger &#8211; Trails West and Okaw Valley Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While not from New York State, I thought I&#8217;d pass along a potential merger of two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegraph.com\/news\/west_19618___article.html\/trails_council.html\" target=\"_self\">Illinois Councils<\/a> currently under discussion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A committee of the Wood River-based Trails West Council of the Boy Scouts of America will meet Wednesday in Edwardsville to discuss the possible merger with the Belleville-based Okaw Valley Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the meeting is tonight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the meeting, to be held Wednesday evening, the committee will share its findings with the Trails West Council Board and there is a possibility of a vote. If the council board votes to proceed, another meeting will be held after a 60-day period and the Trails West full membership will vote on the merger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoutingnews.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Scouting New<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quotebig\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"author\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Dorothy_Parker\/\">Dorothy Parker<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>US author, humorist, poet, &amp; wit (1893 &#8211; 1967)<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not from New York State, I thought I&#8217;d pass along a potential merger of two Illinois Councils currently under discussion. A committee of the Wood River-based Trails West Council of the Boy Scouts of America will meet Wednesday in Edwardsville to discuss the possible merger with the Belleville-based Okaw Valley Council. Apparently the meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[102],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-in-the-news","tag-merger","wpcat-79-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-D9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}