Venture2000

Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have an amazing weekend coming up with some one-of-a-kind activities planned:
1. This weekend features the once-in-a-century opportunity to participate in the Adventure Base 100. This is a special centennial event (once every 100 years) that is touring America and making a stop in Cedar Rapids (located on the Kirkwood Community College campus). We have been advised that V2K will be the featured topic for this event. We will pulling out all the stops for this, so we are asking you to do the following: * We will be presenting a skit on the Adventure Base 100 stage at 2 PM Friday and 2 PM and 5 PM Saturday. The skit text is written, props have been manufactured and several members have been preparing, but we need everyone to be there. * Following the 2 PM performance on Saturday, many of you will be filmed and interviewed regarding our 4 specialty areas. * Members should wear either the V2L polo, Creak Freak t-shirt, Wilderness Medicine t-shirt or our new Radio Club t-shirt (available to licensees at the event).
2. There will NOT be a regular V2K meeting on Sunday. Instead, we will assemble at the Ikes at 3 PM for a rousing paint ball war. At 6 PM, Crew members will have a short business meeting, following a cook-out prepared by adult/parents/advisors. I need volunteers to help with the cooking and food prep.

Hey Everyone:
Most of you know that our own Tom Santacroce is about to embark on the bicycle race of a lifetime: a 2745 miles trek down the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico !! More details about the race can be found at the website Tom has provided below. Check out his note below on how to follow his progress via his GPS locator:

Here’s a link to the tour divide’s official website: http://tourdivide.org
and here’s a link to the GPS tracking page. My tracker will be labeled with my name. http://tourdivide.org/leaderboard
Also, I’ll be able to call in and leave a voice mail. That voice mail will then be uploaded to the web so the world can listen to me suffering. No link available yet but will probably be under the Blog Tab. The “ABOUT” tab has a bunch of great info too, everything else is pretty self-explanatory.
Disclaimer: I’m not responsible for anyone becoming addicted to following these little dots or any subsequent jobs loss or financial situations that may arise.
I’ll be picking up my SPOT GPS locator Wed. evening or Thurs. Morning

Hey Crew we need some help with Hawaiian Ice this weekend. We need one adult and one youth. Commitment is from 10 to 3 on Sunday (the 13th.) Please email me if you can help.
Eric Walker ejwalker@mchsi.com

The next V2K meeting is June 6th. This meeting will be dedicated to CPR/AED certification and will start at 3 PM, not the usual 6 PM. In addition to the CPR activities, persons needing to retake the Wilderness First Aid test may do so at the class. All members and their families are welcome to take the class. There will be a $10 charge per person, payable at the class.

To register for this event, go to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/710475050

BB Coaches!!
The Red Cedar District Cub Camp is just around the corner - Tuesday June 15 through Thursday June 17. The Crew/Troop/CSSC will be conducting the BB Shooting activity again this year. If you would like to coach, please go to Eventbrite and select any or all of the sessions. You can choose morning or afternoon sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Coaches will be given an instructor’s T-shirt to wear while you are coaching and will receive lunch and drinks. I will be personally present during each session, but I could also use adult help as well. Adults may sign up using the same Eventbrite sessions.
Mr. B

Ladies and Gentlemen:
There are two upcoming events which you should note on your calendar:
1. The next V2K meeting is June 6th. This meeting will be dedicated to CPR/AED certification and will start at 3 PM, not the usual 6 PM. In addition to the CPR activities, persons needing to retake the Wilderness First Aid test may do so at the class. All members and their families are welcome to take the class. There will be a $10 charge per person, payable at the class.
2. The crew has signed up for three half-hour sessions on the stage at the upcoming Adventure Base 100 event at Kirkwood Community College on June 18-19. We can use the ½ hour to showcase anything we do. We will probably showcase at least the radio and medical programs. Please think about program ideas and reserve the slots of 5 PM on Friday, June 18th and 2 and 5 PM on Saturday, June 19th. Mr. B

Hey Gang:
Here’s the scoop on the weekend. Some of you still need to sign up on Eventbrite:

1. CREEK FREAKS 2010………We have a really amazing opportunity for any of you interested in the environment. We will be hosting a first-ever seminar in water quality testing and monitoring. This workshop is the first of its kind conducted in the USA. We are collaborating with the National Izaak Walton League of America in presenting this session. Experts from Washington, New York and the University of Iowa will be present to teach us how to perform the technical aspects and how to present this curriculum to others. We need ADULTS and YOUTH to help with this program. Here’s the schedule:
a. On Thursday, May 13th, ADULTS meet at Mr. B’s house @ 7 PM for refreshments and a briefing
b. On Friday, May 14th, ADULTS and CREW MEMBERS meet at 6 PM at the Ikes for dinner and a program overview
c. On Saturday, May 15th, ADULTS and CREW MEMBERS meet from 10 AM to 4 PM for technical training. At 4 PM we adjourn to a Dutch Oven cook-off. The Mt. Storm Command Center will be present after dinner for those who are interested in a demonstration of the new Tippmann pump markers.
d. On Sunday, May 16th, ADULTS, CREW MEMBERS and SCOUTS meet from noon to 6 PM to conduct a practice teaching session.
2. We have a huge opportunity Saturday to show off and learn something new with our Dutch Oven Cook-Off, the Original IRON CHEF CHALLENGE!!
Starting at 4 pm on Saturday, May 15th, at the IKES we will be cooking our way to culinary perfection in the outdoors. There will be a panel of Judges, and prizes awarded to the winners.
Let me know if you need a Dutch Oven, or if you have any questions.
Participants in these sessions will accomplish a Gold Award goal, Dutch Oven cooking is a requirement in the Ranger cooking segment, participants who signed up on Eventbrite will receive a t-shirt commissioned for the event and graduates of the program will be able to participate in the Iowa Water Quality Project in the future.
YOU MUST SIGN UP ON EVENTBRITE

I have received many inquiries regarding where and how to obtain Hunter Education certification in the State of Iowa. Iowa law requires that anyone born after January 1, 1972 must be certified in Hunter Education before they are eligible to purchase an Iowa hunting license. A person who is 11 years old or older may enroll in a course, but those who are 11 and successfully complete the course will be issued a certificate which becomes valid on that person’s 12th birthday. Iowa residents under the age of 12 can be issued a deer or turkey license; however, a licensed adult hunter must accompany each youth hunter.
The Crew will be using a new on-line resource to help you obtain your certificate. In order to utilize this resource, you simply log onto a special educational site (ctrl click on the link below) at
http://www.hunterexam.com/usa/iowa/
and work your way through the on-line curriculum. You will read sections, check out visual aids and take periodic quizzes. You can proceed at your own pace, even log out and return as many times as you wish. There is no charge for the course until you successfully pass the course, at which time you will need to pay $24.95 to receive a “field day voucher”. This voucher will serve as your ticket for admission to our field day event that will be scheduled later this year. By taking the internet-based course and receiving this voucher, you shorten the actual classroom time to a few hours instead of a few days! Here’s the promotional language provided by the class provider:
Through HunterExam Iowa’s hands-on course, you will learn and experience all the topics you need to pass your Field Day with flying colors! HunterExam is the only online hunter education course that offers a fully narrated study guide (sit back and let us walk you through the study guide), over 60 interactive exercises (check out our online shooting ranges… a HunterExam exclusive) and upwards of 400 detailed illustrations (more than ANY other online course). HunterExam.com is also the only online course where you will see visual aids in every exam question (a must for visual learners!). Log your study time and complete the course at your own pace, and print your “Field Day Voucher” immediately once you’re done. Best of all, it’s free to register and you pay only when you pass! Visit HunterExam.com Iowa today and find out why students love our course!

Please join us for Ben Fiedler’s Court of Honor on May 23rd at 1:30 PM. The Court of Honor will be held at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church at 8300 C Ave. A Celebration of Ben’s Eagle Scout and his graduation from Kennedy High School will be following the COH and until 7 PM at the Fiedler residence at 4321 Cloverdale Rd.
Ben’s Eagle Project was to assist the Linn County Veteran’s Affairs office organize their food pantry and to restock it with a food drive. The VA office is again in need of food items for the pantry. If you would like to bring canned goods or a monetary donation to the Linn County Veteran’s Affairs Food Pantry, those donations will be taken to the pantry.

Creek Freaks:
At the last V2K meeting, 15 people signed up for the Creek Freak program next weekend (see my last e-mail to you). Each person interested in this event needs to sign up on Eventbrite, as we are ordering food and T-shirts and I need to see who is coming to get the order right. In addition, please see the note below from Leah Miller. Leah is one of the faculty members for the event. We still have openings for this event. Persons who signed up at the meeting who still need to log into Eventbrite are: Spencer Kelly John Bradford Connor Roseke James Bradford David Bradford Kevin Downey Ben Fiedler April Graves Jonathan Jenkins Hunter Wille Brandon Walker Joshua Svenson
Note from Leah:
We went ahead and put up a “Creek Freaks” Facebook page to get ready for the workshop. We would like all of the adults and older kids involved to use the page to post ideas for better ways to put materials together for activities and run sessions for younger kids. We also would like adults and older kids to post information on upcoming/past field sessions with younger kids following the trainings (with numbers of kids participating), upcoming trainings for new volunteers (with numbers participating) and photos/videos of these events. Feel free to post your questions to each other, too.
We also would like the participating kids to post photos, stories, videos, and data collected on their streams through this site.
We will be promoting this site at the upcoming workshops. In the (hopefully near) future, we will be transferring this function to a much more robust and exciting web site connected to the League’s main pages. In the meantime, we would like to get as much as possible on the Facebook page.
It would be great if all of you could log in to Facebook, search for “Creek Freaks”, visit the page, and click “like”. Our Creek Freaks site has the closeup picture on boots next to a stream, with the words Creek Freaks in green over top of it. [Like is the new way to 'become a fan'.] Once we have 100 “likes”, we can have a dedicated url for the page that we can send out to everyone as a link. Feel free to ask any of your volunteers and venture crew students to “like” the page, too. Also, feel free to post items on there before the workshop. I would really like to get the site hopping prior to the workshop.
Thanks so much for your help!
Leah Miller
Clean Water Program Director
Izaak Walton League of America, Inc.
707 Conservation Lane
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
301-548-0150 ext. 219
301-548-0146 - fax
leah@iwla.org
www.iwla.org