Native Sons & Daughters of Jacksonville

Ray Potts Summer Bowling #2
2014-06-22 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Bowlero, 10333 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32257, United States
Beat the heat and get out of the house for Ray Potts Summer Bowling. Bring your family, bring your neighbor, and bring your neighbor’s kids. This is great way to introduce new families to the program. Signup through Circlebridge at home or at the door to play Scotch Doubles. Earn a patch if you bowl four times, and earn 10 coup points each day. Trophies for top three games for 8 and under and 9 and over.
Event Cost: $9 / child online; $12 / child at the door
Event Date/Time: 5:00pm Sundays, June 15 through July 27
Event Location: Bowl American Mandarin
Event Address: 10333 San Jose Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32257
Event Registration: https://www.circlebridge.com/timucuan/login.php

Ray Potts Summer Bowling #1
2014-06-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Bowlero, 10333 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32257, United States

Order of the White Buffalo
2014-05-30 - 2014-05-31 | Ichetucknee Springs State Park, 12087 US-27, Fort White, FL, 32038, United States
Big How, The OWB celebration is at the Ichetucknee this year on Saturday, May 31st. (same location as last year) If you are a member of a qualifying tribe, the federation will pay for a large vinyl tube for the adults and medium tube for your child. If your child is weight is close to 100 lbs. or more, we will compensate for a large tube. The federation will also provide dinner Saturday night for your family. Qualifying tribes can be determined by our website under OWB Status column.
A tribe needs at least 550 coup points (450 first year tribe) + 2 service projects + recruitment event to be OWB qualified. Many tribes only lack a service project which will be fulfilled by Alex’s Lemonade Stand or recruitment event. Deadline for reporting is May 28th. If website is incorrect, please let me know. If you lack another service project or recruitment event, you have over a month to do. Note: A recruitment event is organized and put on by a tribe(s). This is not participating in federation recruitment event or training. Email Recruitment Chief for more details or ideas.
You are responsible for:
– Making reservations if you are camping ( http://www.ichetuckneecanoeandcabins.net ) tent, RV and cabin options are available. There is a 2 night minimum reservation.
– Paying for entry into state park (see link below)
You will have to pick-up your tubes at Ichetucknee Family Canoe & Cabins on Saturday after 6am. (where most people are camping) Just tell one of the three attendants what tubes/raft you want. They will write you a ticket which you will take to the cashier. Tell cashier you are with Native Sons and Daughters and they will check off your name on the list and mark ticket paid. If you get anything other than large or medium vinyl tube, you will have to pay difference. We are getting group price of $3 for large and $2 for medium tubes. You will then take slip to attendant who will help strap down tubes.
It is highly recommended to be in line at the north entrance shortly after 7am. The North entrance opens at 8am and only allows 750 tubers down per day. Note: You will drop off your tubes and kids at the North entrance and then drive to the south entrance. The kids can hang out at the Blue Hole Spring while waiting until the tram returns you to the North entrance.
Last year, we left lunch in the cars and ate at the south entrance parking lot. After lunch, we continued on the river to the take-out point. See map athttp://www.floridastateparks.org/ichetuckneesprings/doc/additionalinformation/IchetuckneeMap.pdf
Dinner is scheduled for 7pm at the campground pavilion followed by awards at 8 and movie at 8:30pm. I plan on showing movie for Friday night (site #46). I have the movie “Tinker Bell – The Pirate Fairy”. If anyone has a movie that the kids would like, for Saturday night please bring.
I hope everyone has a good time.
Event Cost: Free tubes and Sat Dinner for OWB Qualified tribes
Event Date/Time: May 31st, 2014 with optional camping May 30th / May 31st
Event Location: Ichetucknee Springs State Park & Ichetucknee Family Canoe & Cabins
Event Address: 8587 S.W. Elim Church Road Fort White, Florida 32038
Event Registration: https://www.circlebridge.com/timucuan/login.php

Kite Fly
2014-05-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Huguenot Memorial Park, 10980 Heckscher Driv, Jacksonville, FL, 32226, United States
Big How Timucuan Federation! Our Annual Kite Fly is fast approaching. We have a new location for this year’s event — Huguenot State Park located off Heckscher Drive. This location has some nice amenities. For those who have not been there before you can drive your car onto the beach. Depending on the time you arrive, you should be able to drive right up to where you will be “setting up” for the day. In addition, you are allowed to BBQ on the beach as well. So bring your grill, tables, canopy, etc.
There will be a Kite Kit Building Station set up. All of the items needed to build a kite will be provided. So try your hand at building and coloring a kite or Bring Your Own Kite (BYOK). Sign up on the Federation Website! This is a FREE, Family Event, so bring everyone! Feel free to call the folks at the park for additional information on camping (YOU CAN CAMP THE NIGHT BEFORE OUR KITE FLY) 10980 Heckscher Dr.; (904) 251-3335.
Event Cost: This is a free federation event. (Only cost is for State Park Entry. $3.00 per car)
Event Date/Time: May 18, 2014 9 AM
Event Location: Huguenot State Park
Event Address: 10980 Heckscher Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32226
Event Registration: https://www.circlebridge.com/timucuan/login.php

Alex's Lemonade Stand
2014-05-10 14:00 - 18:00 | FL
Native Sons and Daughters is once again teaming up with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to raise money for pediatric cancer research. Alex’s Lemonade Stand will be held Saturday, May 10 at Publix locations across the city. We will pass out cans of lemonade donated by Pepsi and hope that those receiving their lemonade will be moved to donate to ALSF. Publix locations will be chosen by your tribe’s chief based on coup points. The Native Sons and Daughters program needs its members to lend a hand on Saturday May 10 to make this event successful. This year our donation to ALSF is in honor of a local two year old who beat childhood leukemia this year. Let’s work together to make this year’s event the best ever! Tribes will be notified this month regarding which Publix store will host their lemonade stand. Your tribe will be in charge of running the event at that store, including picking up necessary event materials, cleaning up after the lemonade stand, and returning all monies collected to event leader immediately following the end of the fundraiser.
Alexandra “Alex” Scott was born to Liz and Jay Scott in Manchester, Connecticut on January 18, 1996, the second of four children. Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer.
On her first birthday, the doctors informed Alex’s parents that if she beat her cancer it was doubtful that she would ever walk again. Just two weeks later, Alex slightly moved her leg at her parents’ request to kick. This was the first indication of who she would turn out to be – a determined, courageous, confident and inspiring child with big dreams and big accomplishments.
By her second birthday, Alex was crawling and able to stand up with leg braces. She worked hard to gain strength and to learn how to walk. She appeared to be beating the odds, until the shattering discovery within the next year that her tumors had started growing again. In the year 2000, the day after her fourth birthday, Alex received a stem cell transplant and informed her mother, “when I get out of the hospital I want to have a lemonade stand.” She said she wanted to give the money to doctors to allow them to “help other kids, like they helped me.” True to her word, she held her first lemonade stand later that year with the help of her older brother and raised an amazing $2,000 for “her hospital.”
While bravely battling her own cancer, Alex and her family continued to hold yearly lemonade stands in her front yard to benefit childhood cancer research. News spread of the remarkable sick child dedicated to helping other sick children. People from all over the world, moved by her story, held their own lemonade stands and donated the proceeds to Alex and her cause.
In August of 2004, Alex passed away at the age of 8, knowing that, with the help of others, she had raised more than $1 million to help find a cure for the disease that took her life. Alex’s family – including brothers Patrick, Eddie, and Joey – and supporters around the world are committed to continuing her inspiring legacy through Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Event Date/Time: May 10, 2014 2 – 6 PM
Event Location: At your neighborhood Publix

2014 Sunshine State Pow Wow
2014-03-13 - 2014-03-16 | Markham Park, 16001 W State Rd 84, Sunrise, FL, 33326, United States
Join us at the 2014 Adventure Guides and Princesses Sunshine State campout for an action packed weekend. The “Gathering in the Glades” will take place from March 13-16 2014 at Markham Park in Sunrise, Florida! More details at SunshineStatePowWow.com!

“The Apple Project” & Native Sons and Daughter Fund Raiser – Car Wash
2013-09-29 11:00 - 16:00 | FL
Native Sons & Daughters is hosting a fundraiser for the “Apple Project,” which is a program trying to provide dental work to those who need it but are unable to afford it. A group of dentists volunteer their time to help, but, they operate out of a very small building . The Apple Project hopes to raise money to build a new complex that can handle more people needing expensive dental treatments.
Our Federation will host a car wash at Walgreens on SR 13 and Race Track Rd. Sept 29 from 11am-4pm. Please come and help support this great cause. WTLV is a sponsor for this program and we hope to have their television station cover our fundraising effort . An added bonus is that the Weaver Foundation will match whatever money we raise! The more people, the better we look on TV!
Read the Full Story @ First Coast News

Suwannee Canoe Trip
2013-08-17 - 2013-08-18 | Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, FL, 32060, United States
Its time to get the paddles wet, and cool off in the river before back to school. We will meet up at 9:30 at the Suwannee Canoe Outpost at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. We will be picked up at 2:00 at the Gibson Park boat ramp and shuttled back to the Outpost.
Costs for the trip is $30 per person for renting a canoe. The third person is $13. Costs are $13 per person with their own boat.
The fed will supply the charcoal; you bring your chosen slab of meat to grill. The fed will also bring a stove and a pail to heat water in for breakfast. We will be staying in a river camp. No tents required. Registration is limited to the first 40 for screened platforms. After that you have to bring a tent.
Registration closes on August 11.

2013 Sunshine State Pow Wow
2013-03-14 - 2013-03-17 | Westgate River Ranch, 3200 River Ranch Blvd, River Ranch, FL, 33867, United States
Event & Registration Info and Video
Location: West Gate River Ranch
Address: 3200 River Ranch Boulevard, River Ranch, FL 33867
Date: March 14 – 17, 2013
Video and Registration
Cost:
$21/night – Westgate Fee per ten, per night
$11/weekend – Federation Fee per person
Fire Wood:
$35/100 Pieces of Seasoned Wood (Vendor will deliver wood to your campsite)
RV and Motel Registrants:
If you are bringing an RV you will need to contact Westgate directly at 863-692-1321, ext.0 to book your site reservation. RV sites are $40 per night, this includes electric and water.
If you are staying in the motel, please contact Westgate directly at 877-502-7058. Identify yourself as part of the 2013 Sunshine State Pow Wow and use code 24-341 to receive the group discount.
Federation Activities:
Broken Arrow Ceremony, Jimmy Sawgrass, Chief Rowley – Snake Education with a twist, Trinkets in the Hay, Bounce House, War Games, Crafts* (*additional costs may apply)
Westgate Activities:
Rodeo*, Swimming Pool, Petting Farm, Horseback Riding*, Pony Rides*, Swamp Buggy & Airboat Rides*, Putt-Putt Golf*, Golf Cart Rentals – 1st come, 1st served (*additional costs may apply)
