Please see our latest emails about switching from the Remind App to Slack. If you need the link to join please email us and we will get it to you. Here is a brief use guide:

Once you have the SLACK App loaded you should be able to click the link in the previous email and it will ask you to set up your information. Once you have it set, you will need to click on the SLACK symbol and the click on the word channels. You will need to join each channel you want to be a part of. Everyone needs to be part of #allscout but we also have Den Specific Channels & Event Channels.

Please also allow notifications of SLACK. If you do that it should work similar to texting. This is two way communication so you will be able to respond and ask questions! Please bear with all of us as we get used to this new system. SLACK will allow us to communicate any last minute changes or reminders to the group.

Thank you

Here is a recap of the meeting from 1/8/19:

PACK 83 BUSINESS UPDATES

January 2019

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Due to the length of our Pack Meetings and age range of our kids we have decided to no longer discuss business items at the Pack Meeting. We want to make sure we are giving enough time to our scouts for their advancement recognition, exciting events and WHOLE pack game time.

The Pack meetings are designed to be spent together as a Pack and while we are very active and have a lot going on we believe we have strong communication and can rely on:

Notes handed out at the Pack Meeting

Emails

Slack App Texting: CLICK HERE (Actually Check your email so we don’t get spammers trying to join)

If you ever have any questions about what you see in these notes or in an email you can always ask Jennifer Seeley (Committee Chair) directly or email her at nccubscoutpack83@gmail.com.

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Upcoming Important Dates:

1/8/19: January Pack Meeting, derby cars handed out

1/19: Holy Spirit Spaghetti Dinner, please wear Class A if you attend or volunteer.

To Volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f054caeaf2eaafb6-spaghetti

1/26: Pinewood Derby Build Clinic & Shed/Trailer Clean-Up

2/5: Blue & Gold Pack Meeting, dessert will be served, celebration of Scouting: starts @6:30pm

2/15: Pinewood Derby Movie & Set-Up Night @ 6pm

2/16: Pinewood Derby Event 7:30am-Noonish, concessions served

4/12-4/14: Yorktown Spring Camping Trip

Pinewood Derby Build Clinic & Shed Clean-Up: Our Bears are heading up the PWD Build Clinic. If it’s your first year or you need help with your car you are welcome to come for tips and pointers! We will have tools on site available for use.

We also need help cleaning up the trailer and moving items into our shed. This affects the whole Pack and we need volunteers to help us get organized. We will be doing this at the same time as the PWD build clinic so if you are set with your car, please help us clean the shed/trailer!

Blue & Gold: The Blue & Gold is meant to celebrate the “birthday” of scouting! We have a great night planned for you and your family! You are welcome to bring family & friends! This will be held during our February Pack Meeting.

Blue & Gold Dessert Contest: Once again we will have a dessert contest with prizes to give!

You can participate in one of the below categories:

Best Scout Theme

Most Patriotic

Best Tasting

Best Overall Design

Best Animal Design

Volunteer Help with Pack: We are searching for a new Committee Chair to take over officially 1/1/2020. That may seem far away but you would start working with the new Committee Chair now to help with all the big events so you will be ready to take over 100% next January. If you are interested please email Jennifer Seeley at seeleyfamilyof4@hotmail.com

Committee Chair Role & Responsibilities

Maintain a close relationship with the chartered organization representative and the chartered organization to cultivate harmonious relations and maintain communications.

Confer with the Cubmaster on policy matters relating to Cub Scouting and the chartered organization.

Supervise pack committee operation by

— Calling and presiding at pack leaders’ meetings.

— Assigning duties to committee members.

— Planning for pack charter review, roundup, and re-registration.

— Approving bills before payment by the pack treasurer.

Conduct the annual pack program planning conference and pack leaders’ meetings.

Ask the committee to assist with recommendations for Cubmaster, assistant Cubmasters, and den leaders, as needed.

• Recognize the need for more dens, and see that they are formed as needed.

• Work with the chartered organization representative to provide adequate and safe facilities for pack meetings.

• Cooperate with the Cubmaster on council-approved money-earning projects so the pack can earn money for materials and equipment.

• If the Cubmaster is unable to serve, assume active direction of the pack until a successor is recruited and registered.

• Appoint a committee member or other registered adult to be responsible for Youth Protection training.

• Develop and maintain strong pack-troop relationships, and work closely with the unit commissioner and other pack and troop leaders in bringing about a smooth transition of Webelos Scouts into the troop.

• Support the policies of the BSA.

• Make recommendations regarding pack leadership to the chartered organization for final approval of pack leadership.

• Recruit the Cubmaster and one or more assistant Cub masters, with the chartered organization approval.

• Coordinate the pack’s program and the chartered organization’s program through the chartered organization representative.

• Help with pack charter renewal.

• Help stimulate the interest of adult family members through proper programming.

Hello!

This weekend is our Fall Pack Camp-Out! Here are a few important details to keep in mind!

1. We don’t normally do a RSVP but we know Hurricane Matthew may have changed a few plans. If you plan on attending please complete this form: https://goo.gl/forms/XuSeO9tLGPD95g3R2

If you don’t think you can attend but last minute plans change, you are always welcome to attend. This just give us the ability to plan a bit in advance!

2. The Camp-Out will be at NEW COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (not Holy Spirit). It begins at 2pm on 10/20 and ends at 8:30am on 10/21. Address: 14514 Lucia Riverbend Hwy, Mt. Holly NC

3. Scouts are asked to wear a Class B if they have it, but to bring their Class A with them so they can wear it for the Campfire Program.

4. If you haven’t camped or camped with us please use this list as a reference of items you can bring. At the bottom of the list are tips from other parents!

5. We are providing Water Coolers and BBQ for the camp-out. Please CLICK HERE to bring some additional items we will need for dinner and dessert! THANK YOU as our list is almost full but there are a few items left!

6. Please don’t forget your re-fillable water bottle! We will have plenty of water but no plastic water bottles!

We always have so much fun at the camp-out and it is a great way for our families to get to know each other! This also prepares you for the Spring Camp-out!

We can’t wait to see you on Saturday!

Please visit our Popcorn 2018 page for all the information regarding the popcorn sales!

2018 School Recruitment Flyer

Good Morning,

I wanted to provide a quick recap of the meeting last night for everyone. I hope this helps those who missed it and our new recruits who will be joining us soon. This will be more of a bullet point list than a full synopsis.

2018-2019 Meeting Times
Lions: TBD
Tigers: Tuesday’s at 7pm
Wolves: Thursday’s at 7pm
Bears: Thursdays at 6:30pm
Weblos: Thursday 6:30pm
AOL: Tuesday’s at 7pm

As always these meetings are 2nd and 4th weeks of the month. Pack meetings are 1st Tuesday of every month.

Den Responsibilities
Just like last year, Dens will have individual responsibilities to plan and execute certain events. The responsibilities are as follow:
Lions: Nothing as you’re new and have a lot to learn already.
Tigers: Fall and Spring, Scouting for food. Fall scouting for food is November 10 for distribution and 17th for pickup. Spring TBD. Maps are on the google drive.
Wolves: Fall Camp out to include place, games, activities to earn badges, and food.
Bears: Pine Wood Derby build clinic in January and event in February.
Weblos: Blue and Gold in February and Crossing Over in May.
AOL: Spring Camping Trip

Class B Shirt
There is a T-Shirt design contest starting TODAY that runs for 2 weeks. Get your design’s into the cub master email address if you have a submission for a pack class B shirt. 1 submission per family and we are trying to get it out by the fall camp out.

Popcorn sales
Popcorn online sales are already started. Sign up for a Trails-End account and try to sell at least 1 item. For every 10 kids that sign up and sell 1 item the pack gets a $10 gift card which we will give back in a raffle to a scout. For every online sale you complete, you are entered into a raffle to win a trip to Disney World for you and your family. SignupGenius.com signups for Tractor Supply Slots and Lowe’s slots is going live soon. Stay tuned for a 2018 dedicated popcorn page with all that information on it. We covered a LOT of info about popcorn last night so if you missed it, reach out to this years Popcorn Kernel: Adam Coleman or his wife Meredith Coleman. I will recap a lot of that info on the popcorn page soon.

Water Bottles
The pack is moving away from disposable water bottles. If you commit to sell popcorn your scout gets a free bottle. If you want an extra one they are $5.00 each. All of our events in the future we will not provide bottled water. We will have larger coolers with water that the scouts may use to fill their bottles with.

Recruitment is coming up so speak to all your friends and encourage your scout to recruit at school with their friends. We hope to have another great year ahead of us!

This is your reminder we have our first Pack Meeting of 2018 Tuesday 9/4/18 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in the Gym. Please arrive at 6:45 so we can begin promptly at 7pm as we have a lot to cover.

Also get ready for the popcorn kickoff page to become live. You can find that HERE

Hello everyone. I have to say I dropped the ball on the pre-campout website blast. I apologize for that, but let me sum up some things that are going on in Pack 83. First, thanks to everyone who came out to the Crossing Over ceremony. It was a huge success and very important to the boys. We are all excited about what next year will hold.

Speaking of next year: We’re moving! Yes that’s right, and I’m sure you’ve all heard it by now. Holy Spirit Church on Highway 16 has opened their doors and welcomed us into their facilities. We are thrilled to have such a great meeting space, and we’re beyond excited that they really want us there to be our partner. They have high regard for the scouting programs and are happy we are coming to their church. What this means for us in the short term is once school lets out we will need some help moving our existing supplies and stock to their facilities. Be on the look out for an email asking for volunteers. We would love to have some trucks or trailers help. This means long term your meeting space and drive will change. I added a link to their address above if you need directions.

Hold up! Our next activity after our move will be model rockets! We will NOT be meeting at Holy Spirit to shoot our rockets off yet. We will be at Rescue park next to the charter school on June 6th at 6:30pm. There is a very important parent meeting before we shoot the rockets off so please arrive promptly by 6:30pm. We will be discussing the new pack location among other things. If you have not received your rocket kit yet please contact your den leader or any other leader on here to arrange to get one. You can reach us on the contact page or via leader pages. It’s best to start early on this one as it takes some time to build the rocket in stages between glue drying.

Moving on, I’d like to thank the parents and volunteers who helped make the spring camp out so successful. I’m not sure about you but I had an absolute blast at the camp. We tried having volunteers lead different rotations to give the kids a chance to pick things they’re interested in. Here is a list of some of the awesome rotations we had going at the camp:

• Mountain Biking
• Fire Building
• Basket Weaving
• Wallet Making
• Orienteering
• Hiking
• Canoeing
• Geocaching
• Cooking
• Fishing

I’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone who helped set each of those events up to make the trip so fun. From the feedback I received, I think everyone really enjoyed the facilities at Bob Hardin as well. There was plenty of space to play, swim, and just be scouts. Personally I enjoyed camping with the older boy scouts as well. It gave us an opportunity to see how the older boys prepare, act, and plan for their own camp outs. I’m not sure we’ve ever done that before. Again, thank you everyone who came and made this such an awesome trip. Please go check our Facebook page to see all of the pictures from the trip.

To close out this post, I’m updating the calendar as we speak for our next summer events ALL summer events require class B shirt! The next things we have scheduled are:

1. Rockets – June 6th – Rescue Park
2. Rain Gutter Regatta – July 10th – Holy Spirit Church
3. Space Derby – August 8th – Holy Spirit Church

If you have any questions about anything listed above, our recent meetings, BSA and our stance on co-ed integration for scouts, please reach out to the pack leaders. I hope to see you all again soon at the Rocket Launch Pad!