Lodge Fellowships

Winter Fellowship held December 15-17, 2000 at Camp Thunderbird. Ad: Don’t miss out on the Friday Casino Night – with lots of great prizes. There will be a great snack bar with rootbeer floats, chips & soda. Workshops like Patch Creation & Brotherhood Retention. All kinds of exciting activites on Saturday afternoon; including blow-up events like bungee run, sumo & joust. Back by popular demand—video game room. LOTS OF FUN STUFF TO DO!

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The lodge will be offering its assistance to the Armed Forces Weekend "Camporall" at Area 15 in Fort Lewis on May 16-18, 1997. Jason Buckner is the youth in charge. Haida, Tsaw and Chet-a-Pook chapters will be participating.

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The Haida Chapter will be sponsoring a chapter Fellowship on February 27-March 1, 1997 at Camp Kilworth to clean-up from the storm damage. An all-you-can eat dinner will be prepared by Dave Matzen.

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The second lodge fellowship was hosted by the Haida Chapter at Camp Kilworth on February 16-18, 1996. Unfortunately, there was not much of a turn out outside Haida Chapter.

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Matt Carlson was the youth chairman of the first Lodge Fellowship. Kevin Rudesill was his adviser.

In a thrilling victory, Team #4 from the Tsaw tribe of Tahoma Chapter clinched the Volleyball championship. They beat Team #1 consisting of arrowmen from Tyee & Kiona clans from Tillicum Chapter as well as arrowmen from Kcum Kum Chapter. The final score was 15 to 9. 

Fellowship coordinator's chose three of the brainiest OA members from each chapter to compete in OA Jeopardy! They included Troy Young from Tillicum Chapter, John Bramstedt and Tim from Kcum Kum Chapter, and Brendan Keaveny from Tahoma Chapter. You may ask who won? Our Provisional Lodge Chief, Troy Young, of course! The Final Jeopardy answer was: "The four ceremonial figures and what they represent." Thank You's go out to Kevin Rudesill for creating OA Jeopardy for this event, Squeek Carr for playing the part of Alex Trebeck, Jeff Granger for playing the part of "Vanna" (You had to be there to understand that), and Todd Labrecque for being the "biased" judge.

We also did a scavenger hunt. Basically, the first seven arrowmen who found milk crates with red ribbons tied around them received lodge flaps donated by Andy Pond. These milk crates were hidden around Camp Thunderbird. One milk crate was red and the recipient received the "oldest" of the donated flaps.

At the two workshop/training sessions offered at Fellowship, interested arrowmen learned about button blanket making, camping promotions, dance teams, newsletter/publications, and unit elections. The camping promotions workshop was especially interesting because the trainer brought a camping video as an instructional guide. The afternoon dance team workshop brought together 11 arrowmen from Tahoma and Tillicum Chapter's to learn the dance, "Thunderbird and his three sons," a Tillicum Lodge classic. Although the new "team" didn't get to perform their dance after dinner, due to other activities running late, the workshop was still very meaningful. Nisqually Lodge thanks Kevin Rudesill, Brian McCoy and Kevin Ivey for leading this workshop.