The 2006 Unit Husband and Wife Team Award was presented to Charles and Donna Kinnear of Troop 8 and Crew 800.Ĭertificates were presented to Dennis and Mary Drexler, Troop 11 Charles and Donna Morgan, Troop 101 Jeff and Brenda Endicott, Troop 19 Don and Cheryl Bell, Troop 33 Daren and Christi Prescott, Troop 27 Brent (Varsity 15) and Jennifer (Cub 15) Mortensen Gary and Linda Meehan, Team 29 and Kirk and Stephanie Shelby, Troop 3. The 2006 Unit Scout of the Year Award was presented to Richard Endsley of Troop 19.Ĭertificates were presented to Keith Haigh, Troop 4 Gary Whitmer, Troop 11 Luis Escamilla, Troop 14 Michael Roque, Troop 16 Travis Kottwitz, Troop 19 Robert Stewart, Troop 33 Elva Brooks, Troop 27 Stephen Holmes, Varsity Team 27 Jeff Hamilton, Venture Crew 27 John Dinnauer, Troop 9 Cynthia Gamache, Troop 8 Scott Williamson, Team 331 Steve Tyrrell, Troop 8 Bryant Hull, Troop 15 Brent Mortensen, Varsity 15 Lib Cook, Troop 29 Scott Rippey, Varsity Team and Venture Crew 29 and Rich Price, Troop 3. Troop 101 is chartered to Grace Lutheran Church in Banning. The annual memorial Geno Mendez Award was presented by Mendez’s colleague Pete Zavala from American Legion Post 650 in Redlands to Troop 101 for amassing the most community service hours in the district. district executives Jeff Peterson, David Kline and Darren Kwong Eagle Scout coordinators Jeff Brice and Hershel Wilson training chairman Mary Lou Case camping chairman Eugene Chavez membership chairmen Gina Birnbaum and Jeff Arnold Friends of Scouting commissioner Shawn Price merit badge coordinator Steve Tyrell High Adventure representative Michael Case awards and recognition chairman Jeff Brice civic and activities chairman Don Buchanan Scout Roundtable commissioner Randy Bennett Scout Roundtable staff Carol Bishoff, Joni Hall and Becky Goodson Cub Roundtable commissioners Beckie Mann and Monica Zollinger Cub Roundtable staff Diana Glenn Order of the Arrow adviser David DeSoucy Varsity chairman and huddle commissioner Troy Holmes and Varsity chairman and huddle commissioner Jack Moser. The dinner was dedicated to Secrist, who attended the first adult leadership Wood Badge training ever offered in Burlington County Council in New Jersey and earned the maximum number of beads available given representing Boy Scout founder Lord Baden Powell’s gesture of distributing beads from a necklace he had taken from Zulu Chief Dinizulu during the Ashanti campaign in 1888.Ĭertificates of appreciation were awarded to 2006 District Chairman Jim Nolin and his district commissioner, Ed Betty Jr. in scouting” a few months before his death in August 2006. The evening got off to an emotional start, after the invocation offered by Katherine Pyne, with a standing ovation and presentation to Janet Secrist, widow of Jim Secrist, a scouter for almost 65 yeras who led Troop 216 of Redlands and had earned a “Ph.D. The dinner honored the Grayback District’s adult volunteers who provide scouting programs for almost 2,000 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in the district, which encompasses the area from Cabazon to Loma Linda, including parts of San Bernardino and all of East Highlands, Redlands, Yucaipa, Calimesa, Forest Falls, Angelus Oaks, Cherry Valley, Beaumont and Banning. Master of ceremonies Anthony Kamuela Kalanui strummed his electric guitar and regaled the crowd of 350 with selections including “I’m a Believer” and “You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog.” Those attending included Redlands Mayor Jon Harrison and his wife, Lynette. 27 at the Latter-day Saints Stake Center in Redlands. There were a few poodle skirts and several leather jackets and Hawaiian shirts mixed in with the scout uniforms at the annual Boy Scouts of America Grayback District recognition dinner themed “Our Volunteers Rock,” celebrated Jan.