District Committees have four functions: Unit Service, Program, Membership, and Finance. To function in all of these areas, we have many volunteers who care specifically about each of these areas. No matter what your experience or skills, we can use help in a variety of areas and subcommittees. Contact the Council Service Center if you have an interest in volunteering at the District level.
Tanana Valley District Committee Officers:
The Tanana Valley District Committee meets monthly on the 4th Thursday of the month.
District Chair: Hank Bartos
District Vice-Chair:VACANT
District Commissioner: Mike Galloway
District Roundtable Chair: Nathan Platt
District Membership Chair: Ethan Kahl
District Finance Chair: Elad Levy
District Training Chair:VACANT
District Camping and Outdoor Activity Chair:VACANT
District Awards and Advancement Chair: Kenny Grant
District Activities and Service Chair: Kehaulani Widell
Bush District Committee Officers:
The Bush District Committee meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
District Commissioner: VACANT
District Chair: Don Frazier
District Program/Activities Chair: Dean Jazzo
District Vice Chairman: VACANT
District Roundtable and Advancement Chair: Brad Kilburn
4) Registrants should receive a copy of their registration form via email. If you have any questions if your registration went through, please contact Stacy or Phil at the scout
office.
5) Pack and Troop leaders will be responsible for ensuring two-deep leadership and current YPT prior to the event. They will be contacted by council office if we need to create cohorts or have lack of leaders attending. Our goal is to group scouts by rank to get the most out of their Lost Lake camp experience!
Every year the District organizes two Camp-0-Rees, fall and spring. Generally the cost is $15 to $20 per scout and leader. At every Camp-0-Ree there is a competition of varying types to determine the “honor patrol.” There is a travelling trophey that is passed to the winning patrol at the end of each Camp-0-Ree. The other long time favorite is the “Golden Skillet.” This is another travelling trophey; the awardee is the winner of the cooking competition that ussually occurs on Saturday afternoon.
Is your cub ready to have three fun-filled adventures as they run, explore, and create? We will have crafts, STEM, BBs, archery, and more outdoor adventures planned! New program updates are included for scouts!
Cost: $125 Early Registration / $150 after March 25th. Late pick-up is $15/day.
Location: Birch Hill Recreation Area
Who can attend? Scouts that will be 5 years of age / entering Kindergarten in the fall (Lion) through 11 years of age and entering 5th grade (Arrow of Light).
Campership Applications are available at Scout office. Adults who volunteer as station leaders or Wolf, Bear, or Webelos den leader for all three days receive $25 off per scout! Discounts will be taken off at the MSC office.
This year our theme will celebrate great achievements along with the 250 th year for the United States! This year’s we will celebrate historic milestones through our nation’s history. Everyone’s campaign will begin during the Revolutionary War time frame. As your “Time Traveling team or Unit” secures donations then your team will unlock year specific details and milestones for your measure. Milestone information that may or may not be depicted on this year’s special “FUND THE ADVENTURE” patch bordered in Red White and Blue!
Units are already scheduling FOS presentations beginning in February. If you want to schedule a meeting let us know at round table or contact CJ or Tasmine to schedule a presentation.
Our goal this year is to raise $66,500. Last year, we raised 91% ($54,712) of our $60,000 goal. With the planned increase in our Board size and the great momentum we have going into this year, we shall start off our campaign with a “shot heard around the world”! You can make your 2026 FOS pledge at any time, including today 🙂. Come join us as we travel through time in celebration of our country’s birthday.
Each of our four teams are being asked to raise $16,625 this year.
On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued.
When the brief clash ended, eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded. The British continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered armed resistance from a group of patriots at the town’s North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged, leaving two colonists and three redcoats dead. Afterward, the British retreated back to Boston, skirmishing with colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun.
With the Shot Heard Around the World, I know of at least one team that has bolted out of the gate and is sitting next to Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, as the Declaration of Independence is being signed.
Ben leaned over to the team observing this great event, and stated the following:
Enjoy your trip through time and space – it can be a wibbly wobbly timey wimey sort of thing. This link will help explain the trip we all will be taking. It’s about 15 seconds:
CAUTION: You are time traveling this time. Do NOT go back in time, stay on the forward-facing time stream as if time is linear and gather money as you travel. If you go back, you may lose the money that you have collected. Do NOT meet yourself in the future, as that may cause a time paradox and we want you to be able to come back to our time line or worse, you may get stuck in the future and be of no use to us here in the now. There are fixed points in time as outlined below. Do NOT try to alter them.
As we kicked off, the Hot Tub Time Machine moved slightly, as they were enjoying their time in the tub. I hope this doesn’t become a problem, for they will get wrinkly and water-logged. The Hot Tub Time Machine landed outside of Concord.
The Quantum Accelerator stopped in 1782, June 20th to be exact, in order to witness Congress adopting the Bald Eagle as our national bird! Bald eagles are unique to North America, making them our eagle; they are strong and independent; they are survivors. They are majestic, bold, and faithful. They are a symbol of strength and determination. And in Scouting, I think we are all aware of what being an Eagle Scout means.
Upon hitting 88 mph, the Delorean’s Mr. Fusion Unit popped the team off the road, leaving fire tracks along the roadway. They jumped past the signing of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They landed in 1792, and witnessed President George Washington signing a law that established the United States Post Office Department on February 20th. This is not to be confused with the Post Office founded by Benjamin Frankin decades earlier for the American Confederation in 1775.
Seeing a TARDIS appearing on an American street in 1801 would be a weird site indeed. Using its Chameleon Circuit, it was able to disguise itself as a tree along the sidewalk. Team members saw Thomas Jefferson elected as the 3rd president of the United States in a vote of the House of Representatives after tying Aaron Burr, his Vice President, in the electoral college with 73 electors due to a flaw in the original vote for two system, which would be corrected in the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.
Time Travel Checkpoints:
$0 1775 “Shot Heard Around the World” is our kickoff
$140 Somewhere outside of Concord — Hot Tub Time Machine
$1,000 1776 Declaration of Independence
$2,200 Bald Eagle Adopted — Quantum Accellerator
$2,500 1787 Constitution Signed
$3,000 Establishment of the United States Post Office Department — Delorean’s Mr. Fusion
$3,750 Thomas Jefferson elected president — TARDIS
$4,100 1803 Louisiana Purchase
$5,700 1865 End of the Civil War
$7,300 1876 Invention of the Telephone
$8,900 1903 Invention of the Airplane
$10,500 1910 Boy Scouts of America was formed
$12,100 1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state
$13,725 1969 The Moon Landing
$15,000 2004 Facebook started
$16,625 2026 250th Birthday of the United States
Moving along the Scout Law series brings us to the sixth coin in the series “Kind” in 2025.
A $250 donation will get this limited-edition coin. Featuring our very own Scouts in action is T65 featured from an actual picture of them competing in the Midnight Sun Council 2025 Klondike Derby!
Talk about a great collectable!
Do not wait to send in this year’s donation to secure your coin and fill your plaque (Plaques are also available if you have filled your previous plaque or if this is your first year donating)
For more information contact CJ Stewart via email at clinton.stewart@scouting.orgor call the Council office at (907) 452-1976.
Click here or scan the QR code below to donate directly online.
You can also just send a filled-out FOS Pledge card (see link below) to the Council office
“My Friends, No great endeavor is accomplished alone.”
The time is fast approaching us now for our annual Friends of Scouting presentations to each unit. We conduct this unit level campaign through presentations made preferably at a Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet, Boy Scout Court of Honor, and Venture parent’s night. Presentations are typically 5 to 7 minutes with time to collect pledge cards.
“Friends of Scouting” is a campaign to provide financial support to your local council. In our case, that is Midnight Sun Council. This support is in the form of a pledge or donation from a company, organization or individual to ensure the financial viability of a council. Each council, including Midnight Sun Council, must raise all of its own funds to support its operating budget. Councils receive excellent program support from our National office but no financial support is provided. Scouting continues to grow and thrive within our council for many reasons, not the least of which is funding. The Midnight Sun Council serves not only the Fairbanks North Star Borough but approximately 279,000 square miles (49%) of the State of Alaska. Each year the Friends of Scouting campaign is conducted annually among the parents of Scouts and volunteer leaders. Families are the ones who see firsthand the benefit of Scouting for their child. District and unit volunteers conduct the campaign in order to give all Scout families the opportunity to support the Scouting program. During the months of January through April, each Pack, Troop, Crew and Post should schedule a “Family” Friends of Scouting presentation. This presentation explains to parents how our Council is financed and educates them about our facilities, camps, resources and funding needs.
Since Scouting began in 1910, its variety of programs have helped children succeed and has provided a lifetime of memories to each child. The mission of the Midnight Sun Council Endowment Fund is to solicit and receive contributions and dispense funds to assist and support ongoing programs, development needs and operational expenses of the Midnight Sun Council, BSA. The long-range goals for the Endowment is to provide not only a reliable source of the distributable income, but to have the assets positioned and managed to provide for anticipated yearly increases in the needs of the Council.
Midnight Sun Council Heritage Society: The Heritage Society is the collective group of individuals who have contributed to the Midnight Sun Council’s Endowment Fund. The Fund provides a reliable source of funding to support Scouting programs now and into the future. Membership in the Heritage Society starts with a donation of $250 to the endowment fund. Additional giving levels within the society:
* Heritage Society Member: $250 minimum * Sourdough Member – A deferred gift commitment to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment
James E West Fellowship: $1,000 or more in cash or market securities to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment Fund. Additional giving levels with this fellowship:
* Grand Teton Member – $2,500 minimum * Pikes Peak Member – $5,000 minimum * Mt. Whitney Member – $10,000 minimum * Mt. McKinley Member – $15,000 minimum
1910 Society: $25,000 or more, outright or in a pledge payable within 5 years to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment. Additional giving levels within this fellowship:
* Ernest Thompson Seton Member – $25,000 minimum * Daniel Carter Beard Member – $100,000 minimum * Theodore Roosevelt Member – $500,000 minimum * Waite Phillips Member – $1,000,000 minimum
The Founders Circle: $100,000 or more in the form of a deferred gift commitment to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment. Additional giving levels with this fellowship:
* Bronze Member – $100,000 minimum * Silver Member – $250,000 minimum * Gold Member – $500,000 minimum * Platinum Member – $1,000,000 minimum
You and 4 friends team up and compete on July 25 th , 2026 at the Fairbanks Trap Club. You will shoot
round robin style and compete for first place against other teams. Various door prizes and raffles will be
conducted throughout the event. Make sure to get your tickets before they are sold out!
Event/Ammunition/Food sponsorships are available. The event committee is looking for more help! If interested
please contact CJ (info below) Shooting Team fee of $500 includes lunch, pigeons, and shells.
HAVE A LOOK AT OUR ANNUAL SPORTING CLAY TOURNAMENT ARCHIVE
12th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
11th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
10th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
9th Annual Sporting Clays
due to COVID-19 in the area. The Bison Hunt Raffle drawing was still conducted by VFW Post 10029, along with other drawings for the door prizes for the members of the registered teams.
We’d like to thank all of our sponsors for the event and donors of the prizes. We ask everyone to please visit our sponsors and give them your support: Doyon Utilities LLC, Alaska Railroad, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Big Ray’s, Rod’s Alaskan Guide Service, Pike’s Landing, Bennett Engineering, Arctic Fire & Safety, Iron & Wood, Alaska Ammo, Independent Rental, and Frontier Outfitters.
8th Annual Sporting Clay Tourney, 2019
A little rain didn’t dampen the spirits of this year’s Sporting Clay event held at the Fairbanks Trap Club.
Shall we say, it was a BLAST!?
The first place team went to those representing Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
Money raised will go to help our Council’s programs.
Thank you to our Sponsors:
GOLD SPONSORS:
PRIZE SPONSORS:
FOOD SPONSOR:
7th Annual Sporting Clay Tourney, 2018
The Sporting Clays event was a huge succes this year. A great time was had by all!! We would like to take a moment to thank our sponsors and volunteers for their hard work and dedication.
