Welcome to the new year! I am your new committee chair, Angela Bacsik. The
newsletter will now be coming from me instead of from Tabitha, who will now be
serving as our Camping Chair. I am the mother of a Wolf Scout, so I'm fairly new
to the Cub Scout program and welcome all the help and information I can get, so
please feel free to give me ideas and explain how it's been done before so I
avoid reinventing any wheels. If you're looking for information on Pack 454, you
can check out our website at:
http://www.afn.org/~pack454/new.htm
JANUARY PACK MEETING -- JAN 16 -- 7 pm -- Trinity UMC -- 4000 NW
53 Ave.
We will be having our January Pack meeting at 7 pm on Tuesday, Jan 16 at Trinity
United Methodist in Worship Center Side A. At this meeting our boys will be
receiving their advancement awards and many of our Second Year Webelos will be
earning their Arrow of Light, which is the highest award a Cub Scout can earn.
Also, if you are registered for the Fort Clinch campout, you must pay the
camping fees at this pack meeting. There is a very long waiting list for this
campout, and if you haven't paid by the Jan 16 pack meeting, we'll need to start
calling those folks on the waiting list. Den Leaders will need to sign their
dens up for one of the two service projects on Jan 27 (see below). Den Leaders
will also need to fill out their neighborhood requests for the Scouting for Food
service project we'll be doing in March (see below). We will also have an
important campfire safety presentation by one of our pack parents, Mark Smith,
who is a local Fire Marshall. There will be an opportunity to order reduced
price tickets to the upcoming Harlem Globetrotters event at the O'Connell
Center. We'll also have some fliers announcing a fundraiser for the Keira Grace
Foundation, which was founded by the parents of one of our scouts after their
family endured his and his sister's battles with leukemia. Please see their
website for more information on the foundation and the fundraiser at:
www.keiragracefoundation.com
DEADLINE FOR ORDERING AWARDS -- JAN 31 AT 5 PM
The deadline for ordering your den awards for the February meeting, which is
also the Blue & Gold Banquet, is earlier than usual. Get them to Gina Cox by Jan
31 at 5 pm so you'll have them on time. This time of year the Scout Shop can
have items on backorder, and we don't want any disappointed scouts.
BLUE & GOLD BANQUET -- FEB 10 -- 5:30 pm -- TRINITY UMC -- 4000
NW 53 AVE
Our February pack meeting will be our annual Blue & Gold Banquet, where we honor
our Webelos 2 Scouts as they complete their Cub Scout journey. Please note that
Feb. 10 is a Saturday, not a Tuesday.
PINEWOOD DERBY
The Pinewood Derby pit crew, lead by Chris Vought, has things well in hand for
our Pinewood Derby events. If you have time to volunteer to help with these
exciting events, contact Chris Vought at
CVBMW5@aol.com. The events are as follows:
Derby Car Workshop -- Saturday, January 6, at 9:30 am at Innovative Machine,
Inc.
Test and Tune -- Monday, January 15th from 10 am to 2:30 in the Trinity UMC
Youth Building
Weigh-In -- Friday, January 19, at Trinity UMC -- Tiger and Wolf Scouts at 6:00
pm / Bear and Webelos Scouts at 7:00 pm
Race Day -- Saturday, January 20 -- Check-in starts at 8 am, Race starts at 9 am
at Trinity UMC
JANUARY SERVICE PROJECTS -- JAN 27
Last year some of the younger cub scouts and their families found the Great Air
Potato Round-Up too strenuous, so we've decided to offer a choice of projects
this January. For those of you whose dens would still like to do the Air Potato
service project, have your den sign up at the pack meeting and I'll register
your den for the Great Air Potato Round-Up by den. It's a great service to the
community and helps preserve native plants by removing those invasive AP's. For
those dens that would rather focus their efforts on a service to the school most
of our boys attend, we've scheduled a clean-up of the USA garden and the natural
ecosystem area at Talbot on the same day starting at
8:30 am. If your den would prefer to participate in the Talbot clean-up, sign
your den up for this project at the pack meeting.
CAMP BUC TUOCS -- FEB 2 - 4 -- at Camp Shands in Melrose
Our Camping Chair (and former fearless leader) Tabitha Vought is finalizing
plans for our pack dinner on Saturday night, which will be Fried Chicken. While
the pack provides the meat for the pack dinner, each den will need to provide
side dishes to round out the meal. Dens have been assigned the following food
categories, so please have each family in attendance bring one dish (that feeds
8-10 people) of something from your assigned category:
Dens 1, 9, and 10 -- Salads (pasta, garden, and fruit)
Den 2 -- Rolls and Butter
Dens 3 and 4 -- Desserts
Dens 5 / 11 and 8 -- Veggies (green beans, corn, potatoes, etc.)
Dens 6 and 12 -- Sides (Mac & Cheese, Beans, Coleslaw)
Check in begins at 5 pm on Friday and check out is by 11 am on Sunday. This is
really a great opportunity to earn belt loops and it's also a lot of fun for
everyone.
FORT CLINCH CAMPOUT -- MARCH 2-4
You must pay the camping fees for this campout by the Jan. 16 pack meeting. The
cost is $10 per person ages 6 and over (younger siblings must still be
registered to attend). Please contact Tabitha Vought, our Camping Chair if you
have any questions or can't make it to the meeting but want to complete your
registration for this campout. We are also planning a pack meal for Saturday
night at the Fort Clinch campout, and like the one at Buc Tuocs, you'll be asked
to bring a side dish for Saturday night's dinner. Entrance fees for Fort Clinch
itself are $2 per person and are not included in the camping fees. You should
have some cash on hand to pay for this at the Fort's front gate, since everyone
won't be touring the Fort at the same time.
SCOUTING FOR FOOD -- MARCH 10
Dens will need to make requests for neighborhood assignments so that we can
coordinate the Scouting for Food collection effort. A neighborhood assignment
request sheet will also be available at the pack meeting.
POPCORN SALES PRIZES ARE IN AND MOST HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED
If you haven't received your prizes for popcorn sales, contact Jen Davis or
myself at the pack meeting. (I have the awards for den 5.)
CUB SCOUT DAY CAMP
Mark your calendar now for the fun packed Cub Scout Day Camp on June 4-8, 2007.
We will need many volunteers to help out with this event as well as Scouts to
have fun and learn cool things.
COMMITTEE MEETING -- JAN 28 at 5:30 pm -- Room E225 at Trinity
UMC
Our next Pack 454 Committee Planning Meeting, to which everyone is invited but
all leaders are expected to attend as often as possible, is Jan 28 at 5:30 pm in
Room E225 at Trinity UMC. This is where we plan our service projects, campouts,
and other events, so join us and share your ideas and talents!
