Pack events for the year

Our Pack Committee met twice for planning purposes. Once in August and then Sept 1st.  We hammered out a lot of details, budget, finances, ISAs and got a lot done.  they were both very good meetings.  We also secured, I believe the meeting room at the local pizza hall for our meetings.  Most everyone has a project/event to do.  More will be dealt with once Join Night is done.

Our current list of Pack Events minus Committee, Pack, District & Roundtables:

Pack Hike Tryon Creek                        Sept 24
Webelos Woods                                     Sept 30-Oct 2
Great Pumpkin Event                           Oct 15
Cub Scout Stampede                             Oct 22 & 29
Veteran’s Day Project                           Nov 11
Winterhawks Hockey                           Nov 12
Scouting for Food                                  Dec 3
Holiday Caroling                                   Dec 17
Snow Lodge                                            Jan 28
Pinewood Derby                                    Feb 12
B&G/Pack Mtg                                       Feb 27
Goodwill/Good Turn                             Mar 5
AOL/XOver/Mtg                                    Mar 17
Pack Crossover                                        June 4th
Jr Rose Festival Parade                         June 6th

This does not take into account other District activities. Last year we had our first Cub-O-Ree in April.  Hopefully, that will happen again.  Plus there is a Camporee that the Webelos will go to.

Our philosophy as a Committee now is that we need to provide an event a month.  It keeps the Scouts and parents engaged within the Pack.  It also allows me to interact with them if I do not see them at Den Meetings and see how they are doing.

As for the Pack Meeting’s we are working on that.  September is Join Night and I will post about that seperately.  October is going to be the Bobcat induction & special 60th Anniversary event.  Nov & Dec not set.  However, January will be the return of our First Aid event.  Which is actually going to be a Emergency Preparedness Event.  Which, I am thinking that it will include Shelterbox. Using these ideas along with our planning, it should be a huge success.  I already have Doug Metz looking for a local contact in the Portland area.

Our other goal is to work on having more service/conservation projects.  Most of them are listed, but we are working on a Leave No Trace and a Earth Day event for April and working at a Foodbank in Dec/Nov.

The one nice thing is that I visited my District Exec and his boss, in which I they told me about opportunities for the 9/11, which would have worked if we would have known sooner.  However, one activity could have been handing out Pins/Flags at the Portland Airport.  The TSA actually called to see if the BSA Council could do it.  I explained to them that if there are those types of events that you need a Cub Scout Pack, to let me know.

So, it’s beginning. The 2011-2012 Scouting Year!

Oh, and it’s only 157 days to #100daysofscouting!

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Disc Golf

Today I get to meet with an old work friend when I worked at Nike. Yes, that same Nike.  He is a Disc Golf Guru and plays all over the Portland Metro area.  He also has a Son who is now in Boy Scouts.   Through Facebook he contacted and offered to help host a Disc Golf Clinic for the Pack for a Summertime Award Activity.  Well, of course I am going to say YES!

I have been wishy washy about trying to get together, but today is the day we sit down and hammer it all out over lunch.  I highly suspect that all the boys who attend will be able to get not only the Beltloop, but the Pin as well.  Which, if the soon to be Webelos I (& Webelos II) go, will it will help knock off a item for their Sportsman Pin.

If your Pack is NOT doing Summertime Pack Award events….you need to do it.  It keeps the boys engaged with Scouting, help recruiting, gets the boys and their families OUTSIDE, is very fun and on a lot of fun!  The other side benefit is that it’s required for the Cubmaster Knot.  Which to me, if your working towards your Leader Knots, it makes you do things like this.  Which in the end leads to MORE FUN!  It’s not why I am doing it. But it keeps me on track to providing FUN for the boys!

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