Pack, I hope everyone had Merry Christmas and has had a great start to the New Year. This is a reminder for the pack meeting TONIGHT. Please continue to bring your camp chair to the meeting. This helps with setup and tear down!
Also most of us have den meetings later this week too. This is one of those odd months.
Thank you Kenny Hastings
Out of the almost one thousand transactions we did for popcorn orders ONE slipped through the cracks somehow. If you purchased a chocolate caramel crunch from us but didn’t receive it please contact us. You were at Lowe’s and wrote your address on a piece of paper.
First off, I hope everyone had as much fun camping as I did. We learned a lot and had a ton of fun. I want to extend a huge thank you to all of the volunteers we had including (but not limited to): Cooks, Servers, Cleanup, Leaders, and Activity Station leaders. Please see our facebook page for more pictures from the event. I really enjoyed the shelter building, first aid, and paracord bracelet events too! We will have upcoming info on our spring campout by year end.
Coming up we have several important dates.
Den meetings are in full swing so I’m sure I will see you all soon.
Thanks.
Don’t forget tomorrow is our October Pack Meeting. It will be filled with info on Camping this weekend and activities. Popcorn sales are going great, but if you haven’t signed up for a selling shift you need to do that now. See everyone tomorrow at 7pm!
Next week we will have our 1st pack meeting of the new school year (September 3, 2019) at Holy Spirit Catholic Church at 6:30pm. This typically is a long meeting because of all the summer awards and bringing the new kids into the fold, so bear with us and realize that they’re not all this long. We are excited to see all the new faces and get to know everyone, as well as discuss our popcorn kickoff fundraiser which pays for the year scouting. We have a calendar page to help everyone see what’s coming as well.
See everyone there!
This event will be held at the McGuire Energy Explorium on Saturday, October 12th, 2019 from 9 – 11 A.M. For FREE, eight stations, each with different skills will be open for new scouts and their families. These stations include: BB-guns, archery, space derby, Scout Oath and Law, handshake and sign, an introduction to a scouting video and an interactive walk-through of the Energy Explorium and its exhibits; an adult (legal guardian or parent) is required to attend as this event is located on a federal facility. Every scout in attendance will receive a Trail to Bobcat patch and will have completed their Bobcat rank requirements. Registration is required and can be completed online at https://www.piedmontcouncilbsa.org/hrtrailtobobcat or by phone at our main office at 704-864-2694
This event will be held at West Lincoln Park on Saturday, September 21st, 2019 from 9 – 11 A.M. For only $5, youth will be able to build and launch their very own rocket into space and back down to Earth in Lincoln County. Every scout in attendance will receive a Rocket Academy patch, their own rocket kit, and one engine to blast off into space. Youth will be able to start building their rockets starting at 9 A.M.; final launch will be at 11 A.M. Once a youth has launched their rocket, they are free to leave the event or stay and enjoy the other activities available at West Lincoln Park. Registration is required and can be completed online at https://www.piedmontcouncilbsa.org/hlrocket or by phone at our main office at 704-864-2694
We look forward to seeing everyone and their rockets tomorrow night. Please come early for set up and check in as the rubber bands don’t twist themselves!
The Scouts kept sailing into summer with the Raingutter Regatta a few weeks ago! It’s always exciting seeing the creative boats and the younger Scouts learning how to get better at this fun event. Congrats to Colin Blinson, Noah Shipman, and Mason Pearce for their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes respectively, and to Brody Hastings for his Best in Show boat!
Our next Pack takes orbit with the Space Derby at Holy Spirit, Tuesday, August 6th starting at 7 PM. Please be there no later than 6:45 PM to check in your space craft. If your kid did not receive a kit at the last meet, please contact us so we can get one to them to build.
Ryan B.
Tonight is our Raingutter Regatta race. Please be there 15 minutes early so we can set up the heats and start racing at 7 PM.
Hope to see you there!
Good evening fellow Webelos Woods survivors,
I just wanted to recap the exciting trip we had this past weekend. This should give you some talking points about what your Scouts did if you were unable to attend. Also, many thanks to the parents that did attend and chipped in to make the weekend great.
This was some of the Scouts first taste of the next level of Scouting. While they may have not done all of the set up, cooking, planning etc. they did have a very important role in all of them. They were put in some situations of critical thinking outside of someone being there giving them the answer…how to stay warm at night, how to administer 1st aid with limited resources in the woods, team building and leadership, knife and axe safety, partner carries, fire building, and probably the parents/leaders favorite… nap, I mean map and compass.
A lot of this was even Scout led by older kids so it was interesting to watch how they interacted different with those a little closer to their age that may have been giving them similar instructions.
I have attached Saturday’s station layout, by Den, so you can see what each group did, in addition to hiking about 7 miles! 😐 We truly enjoyed the experience and hope your Scout did too. Please talk with them on what may have been their most and least favorite as I’d like to include their input on the Council’s review card.
I’d suggest keeping the Webelos Resident camp on your radar this summer (sometime around July) as it is similar but more geared towards a specific field (to be announced later). We’ll pass along more details as we have them, but it typically runs around $150 which is all inclusive (including meals) and is a Thurs-Sun event.
Thanks again for investing in your kid and giving them this Scouting experience.
Cubmaster Ryan
