Last Frontier Council 2010 Jamboree Blog

The largest ever National Scout Jamboree is set to begin on July 26 – Aug 4.  This event is the highlight to the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

The Last Frontier Council serves the OKC area.  We have 3 Jamboree contingent troops with 120 Boy Scouts and leaders set to embark on July 22.

The leaders will be blogging with a digital diary and pics updated several times a day at LFCJambo.org.

The airlines leave the airport on this schedule.

Will Rogers World Airport

July 22  Departures : (Contact Author for Details)

You are welcome to be there to interview Scouts leaving for the event.

The National Scout Jamboree is held near Washington DC at Fort AP Hill in Caroline County, Virginia – near Fredericksburg.

The website for the national event is : http://www.bsajamboree.org/

Prior to the event, our scouts will tour these historical attractions.

Philadelphia: July 22 and 23
Constitution Center, Independence Mall, Liberty Bell
Leave for Washington DC and tour Air and Space Museum

Washington DC:
July 24:  Capitol Hill, Library of Congress, White House picture stop, Boy Scout Memorial, FDR Memorial, Intl Spy Museum, Washington Monument, WW II Memorial
July 25:  Arlington Natl Cemetery, Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Fords Theatre, Natural History Museum, Museum of American History
July 26: Head off to Jamboree

Scouts will be at the jamboree for 10 days.  Activities at this site include:

Action centers which offer:
Air-Rifle Shooting
Action Alley
Archery
Bikathlon
Buckskin Games
Camp Thunder
Climbing Towers
Confidence Course
Conservation
Fishing
Motocross
Mountain Boarding
Outback Centers
Pioneering
Rappelling Tower
Trapshooting

A merit badge midway where scouts can work on any of boy scouting’s merit badges.

Fun and fellowship are highlights as scouts enjoy the company of over 30,000 of their fellow scouts.

Patch trading is always a favorite.  Here’s a local rundown summary of a jamboree experience. http://lfcjambo.org/?page_id=123

The highlight of the Jamboree will the Centennial Arena Show.  The event will be called “A Shining Light Across America”
Here’s a link with more details: http://lfcjambo.org/?p=533

This event will be simulcast across the USA and allow any scout join in and watch the celebration live on Ustream.

The boy scout troops are contingent (short term) troops made up of boys attending the event.  The boys also participate with their permanent home troop.  The Last Frontier Council contingent consists of boys from the following hometowns:

Choctaw
Duncan
Edmond
Elgin
Jones
Kingfisher
Lawton
Midwest City
Moore
Nichols hills
Ninnekah
Norman
Oklahoma City
Piedmont
Shawnee
Warr Acres
Yukon

I am glad you have an interest in covering this exciting event.  July 31 will be a highlighted event that will attract national attention.  If you see feeds from the leaders you wish to report or use images from the website as they arrive, you are welcome to the

Contact me by cell phone (405-590-5373) for details if you have any questions and need quick access.

Thanks for your help,

Doug Cook
LFCJambo.org / Jamboree committee
Promotion volunteer, Last Frontier Council, Boy Scouts of America

Office (405) 260-2020  Home: (405) 282-8600
Cell: (405) 590-5373

Last Frontier Council 2010 Jamboree blog: LFCJambo.org