Long Beach Area Council (#032)
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters	Long Beach, California
Country	United States
Founded	1919
President/Chairman	Albert Guerra
Council Commissioner	Steven Richard
Scout Executive/CEO	Marc Bonner
Website longbeachbsa.org
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The Long Beach Area Council (LBAC), headquartered in Long Beach and founded in 1919, is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in Los Angeles County, California.^{[1] [2]}

Organization

• Iron Star District
• Neptune District
• New Frontier District

Camps

• Camp Tahquitz – Located in Angelus Oaks, California^[3] 34°09′58″N 116°53′49″W / 34.166°N 116.897°W / 34.166; -116.897 (Camp Tahquitz)
• Long Beach Sea Base

Honor camping societies

The Long Beach Area Council did not have an Order of the Arrow lodge for many years, but used only its camping honor society, the Tribe of Tahquitz.^[4] The Tribe of Tahquitz continues today, but on January 15, 2012^[5] the Long Beach Area Council formed an Order of the Arrow lodge. The new Order of the Arrow Lodge held its first Ordeal the weekend of May 18-20 where the new lodge name, Puvunga Lodge 32, and totem, the porpoise, were chosen.^[6] The Lodge was named Puvunga because it was an ancient village and burial site thought to have once been populated by the Tongva people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the region around Los Angeles, California.^[7]

See also

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• Scouting in California
• Tahquitz (spirit)

References