Join us at the Abraham Lincoln Council’s Annual Eagle Scout Recognition to be held February 26, 2024, at the Illinois State Capitol Complex. 

Thank you to Land of Lincoln Credit Union for being this year’s distinguished Sponsor as well as The Stewart Law Firm for their outstanding sponsorship of this event and finally the Illinois Concrete Pavement Association to help recognize the outstanding achievement of our local Eagle Scouts from 2023. 

Click Here to become an Eagle Sponsor Eagle Sponsor Form 

 The below yard sign will also be presented to every new Eagle Scout in 2024 at their board of review, Thanks again to Land of Lincoln Credit Union for making this possible!

Click on the Image Above!

Join the Abraham Lincoln Council as we recognize the work that our dedicated volunteers do each and every day - year to year - with only one mission in mind: help today's youth become leaders and good citizens of their communities! We will be awarding Silver Beaver, District Award of Merit, James E. West, and other Training awards.

The 2024 First Aid Meet is scheduled for February 24, 2024. 

The first flight will start at 8am and the second
flight will start at 11am. You can start to check in 30 minutes prior to start time.

Jerry Daniels 

Office Manager 

jerry.daniels@scouting.org

Partner with ImpactLife to connect volunteer donors to a blood drive in your community. Blood drives can be scheduled in an approved room within your facility, on our ImpactLife donor bus or at one of our convenient donor centers.

Did you know the B.S.A. recognizes Religious Emblems for wearing on the B.S.A. uniform? There’s even a knot for them?

Join us on Zoom on Thursday, February 22nd from 7pm-8pm (central) to learn about these programs. This FREE session will explain how to start earning the appropriate emblem for your faith group. We encourage youth, parents, unit leaders, and faith leaders to attend. As such, we can’t record these sessions. So don’t miss out!

Schedule

6:50 Zoom Room Opens

7:00 What are Religious Emblems?

7:10 Breakout Sessions

8:00 Zoom Room Closes

MAY 18th, 2024

We will start at 10am at the Jacksonville Sportsman Club and break for lunch that will be provided, we will also have a silent auction set up for participants to bid on while waiting to shoot. The event is designed for anyone that enjoys sporting clays, bidding on items and having a good time.

CHECK IN: 9 A.M. - 10 A.M.

SHOOTING: 10 A.M. - NOON

LUNCH PROGRAM: NOON

SHELLS, FIREARMS, AND SAFETY EQUIPMENT ARE NOT PROVIDED!

BSA is offering a glow-in-the-dark Total Eclipse 2024 Emblem to youth members who complete five simple requirements.

1. Locate a site suitable for viewing the eclipse. There are lots of good sources out there, but I’m partial to NASA’s official site, which lists all the major cities over which the eclipse will cross, with the exact times that Scouts and families need to be ready.
2. Describe how to safely view the eclipse. It is not safe to look directly at the sun without specialized eye protection for solar viewing. This includes looking at it through binoculars, a telescope or your phone’s camera. Solar viewing glasses are thousands of times darker than regular sunglasses. Look for solar viewing glasses that comply with the ISO 12312-2 international standard. You can also safely view an eclipse using an indirect viewing method, such as Scout Life’s shoebox viewer.
3. Discuss with your group what you saw and felt during the eclipse. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and Earth. Depending on how close you are to the path of totality, you may see the sky darken considerably. Depending on the weather, you could see stars, as if it were nighttime. In some instances, night creatures might even come out.
4. Do the following:
   • Cub Scouts: Discuss what a solar eclipse is with your leaders.
   • Scouts BSA members: Draw a diagram of the positions of the moon, Earth and sun to show how the solar eclipse occurs.
   • Venturers and Sea Scouts: Research Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington’s 1919 experiment and discuss how it confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
5. Ask your unit leader to purchase the BSA Total Solar Eclipse 2024 Emblem! Scout Shop is also offering a glow-in-the-dark patch set and a nifty looking glow-in-the-dark T-shirt, if you really want to go all out. (How cool would it be if a group of Scouts all wore that glow-in-the-dark shirt at a public viewing event in their community?!?)

Scouting thrives on volunteers, and the scouting programs work best when volunteer driven.Each year our units depend on volunteers to help put on district and council wide activities and events.These volunteers come from units like yours who are busy but willing to invest in the things that make scouting fun and exciting.

To ensure that activities and events occur that help our units experience scouting at its’ best, we need each unit to invest in the efforts required to plan and implement these activities and events.To that end, we are asking each unit to please designate a unit volunteer to work with district and council volunteers to help plan for activities and events in 2024.These unit volunteers will be working on those activities and events that will help bring the fun and excitement of scouting to your units.

Please email Arlan Juhl, V. P. For District Operations, at arlan.r.juhl@comcast.net with your designated unit volunteer.

Thank you in advance for supporting scouting!

New Program Highlights and 12-month Calendars.

The Council Program Committees have out together a Pack and Troop version of our calendar and events. This will be mailed out to every Scouting family in September. This is designed to help communicate when our events are. It’s also designed to help Troops and Packs plan to go to these events with their Scouts.

Button below for Calendar Highlights

Click on the image above for all the information!

Friends of Scouting is the annual giving campaign for the Abraham Lincoln Council that helps provide the necessary funds to ensure a quality Scouting program for every youth. Friends of Scouting donations make up 15% of our income each year, and is vital to the programs and services of the Council.

The preferred method to take this required for ALL leaders training is online via my.scouting.org/. If you would like someone to do an in-person training contact your local pro for more information