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If you haven't already linked your Fred Meyer Reward card to the Midnight Sun Council, click here for more information.

Help the youth of the Midnight Sun Council while you shop!

Thank you for your support.

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Please use our temporary entrance 

off of 14th Avenue 

during the ongoing construction on Gillam Way.

14th Avenue runs parallel to Airport and will bring you right up to the office. 

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Fall Membership Recruitment 2019

Advanced planning now, assures that units will be ready to start when school is back in session. Being organized, with a calendar of activities set in place ensures kids are ready to join. Families are looking for Organized Programs, so be the OUTSTANDING Program and you will find people will be ready to join or volunteer. Be sure to advertise all summer about your activities.

 Be prepared to be at your school's Ice Cream Socials.

 The Council Office is prepared to make flyers up for your recruitment efforts.

Please give us plenty of time, as flyers need to be approved by the school district.

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Daisy Products Discount

Daisy, the Official BB Gun of the Boy Scouts of America, is offering a 30% discount off retail prices on any of their products sold online to anyone associated with the BSA. This includes all BSA members and their families, as well as BSA employees.

Check out Daisy.com to purchase everything from BB guns, accessories, archery products, targets, safety equipment – and even the classic Red Ryder.

Go to Daisy.com to place your order. Please be sure to use the code BSA302019 to receive the 30% discount. The offer expires on September 1, 2019.

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Internet Advancement 2.0

The new tool to quickly input advancement data, Internet Advancement 2.0 (previously known as Scoutbook Lite) is now live.

This free solution replaces the previous Internet Advancement platform, which will be retired (for all programs except Exploring) on June 10, 2019.

Internet Advancement 2.0 will feature a clean, new user interface and will be optimized to whatever device you use: desktop, tablet or smartphone.

Internet Advancement 2.0 will offer optimized functions for everything found in the current Internet Advancement platform and can be accessed by Unit Key 3 users, Unit Key 3 delegate users and Unit Advancement Chairs.

End users will access Internet Advancement 2.0 via one of the following locations using their my.Scouting credentials:

Scoutbook.scouting.org

From the Legacy Tools menu in my.Scouting.org

A link in Scoutbook.com

From the current Internet Advancement Platform

After initial release, the BSA IT team will continue to add additional features on a regular basis. Updates and new features will be communicated with the field as they are delivered.

Visit
http://help.scoutbook.com for answers to commonly asked questions.

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Prorated Fee for Transfers to Extended Registration and Subscriptions

An annual registration fee is required for all youth and adults who are members of the Boy Scouts of America. Most councils have a common expiration date for all units, so when a BSA member transfers from one unit to another, no additional registration fee is required. In some cases, a BSA member may transfer their primary registration to a unit or non-unit position with an expiration that exceeds their current expiration date, for instance when a new unit registers with a long-term charter. When this occurs, a portion of an individual’s annual registration goes unpaid and there is a lapse in Boys’ Life and Scouting magazine subscriptions service, which ends at the time of the individual’s original expiration date. This results in a loss of revenue to the BSA and dissatisfied Scouts and Scouters when magazine subscriptions unexpectedly stop. To resolve these issues, BSA is changing the current business practice and will begin collecting prorated registration fees from individuals that transfer to a unit or non-unit position that expires later than their current registration.

For example, a Scout that transfers from a unit that expires 11/30/2019 to a unit that expires 6/30/2020 will need to pay $19.25 to extend their registration for 7 months and an additional $7.00 to extend Boys’ Life if they have a current subscription.

It is important to remember that only paid registrations (a transferred registration is considered a paid registration) are included in membership totals. Multiple registrations are not included.

This business practice is changing in 2019, and it will take time to update the BSA registration system. We anticipate this change to be effective mid-to-late summer but are announcing this change now so councils can begin communicating this change to council and district volunteers and unit leaders. You will receive a follow- up communication when the exact effective date is determined.

Thanks for your patience and flexibility as we implement important changes for the organization

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Congratulations

Patrick Landers

for winning the

GoPro BSA contest!

Nicely done!

Patrick compiled a video that shows some of his experiences in Scouting with Troop 75 of Tok.

click here or on the image to view the video

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