Hello Cub Scout Families,
We are all excited to start a new Cub Scout year!
Calendar Dates: We have a lot coming up so here are the dates for your calendars.
Our first Den Meetings will be on Tuesday, August 25th 7:00 pm. We will continue meeting at Mt Tabor UMC but in light of the construction project, we will be meeting in a new part of the church. Please enter the church through the same scout entrance that you used last year and you will be directed from there.
In the new meeting location, will we have a separate sign up room for our sign up table as well as an additional parent room. We are hoping this will ease our long lines of the past. Next week on the sign up table, we will have a trip to the Transportation Museum on 9/19/15, Wake Forest Football Game & sleepover on 10/30/15, Community Clean Sweep 10/3/15 and Parent Son Camporee 10/9/15.
Our Open House Game Night is Tuesday, September 1st at 7:00 pm. Due to the construction, we had to find an alternate location to have the Open House. We are very grateful to Hope Presbyterian Church for coming to our rescue! They are located around the corner from Mt Tabor UMC at 2050 Peace Haven Road. We will have our open house on their campus.
New Curriculum Changes: As you may remember, we mentioned last spring that the National BSA has a new cub scout curriculum going into this place for this fall. There are some changes for our boys. The three changes we will begin showing the boys on Tuesday are:
- The Boy Scout handsign replaces the Cub Scout handsign
- The Boy Scout Oath replaces the Cub Scout Promise.
- The Boy Scout Law replace the Cub Scout Law.
This information is all in your son’s handbook for their current rank. It may help him to make the transition if you go over these changes before the meeting on Tuesday.
Medical & Outdoor Forms: Its a new scout year and we all know what means. Its time to complete new scout paperwork. Medical forms are only good for one calendar year so most of our scouts and parents need a new medical form. For Cub Scouts, we only need parts A & B filled out of the BSA medical form. If you are turning in a printed PDF medical form each year, please adjust your child’s age and check and update the other information on the form so it contains current phone numbers, addresses and insurance information. Here is the link for the Medical Form. The number one question I am asked everyone year when parents are completing the medical forms is – who do I put down as Unit Leader on the medical form? It is the Cubmaster, Brad Wood.
Last spring, we learned that we need to keep an outdoor parental permission form on file for each scout. If you son went to Resident Camp this summer then I have an outdoor form for your scout. If he didn’t go to that summer camp, then you can assume I need this form filled out. Here is the link for the Outdoor Parental Permission form.
During the Den Meetings on 9/15/15, we are planning a Parents’ Social and Paperwork Party in the Fellowship Hall at Mt Tabor UMC. Please come by and visit with other families as well as turn in your paperwork. I will have access to the church copier to copy insurance cards and other important documentation to make this process more convenient. We will have a separate table for new scouts as they will have additional paperwork to fill out. If you want to turn in your paperwork earlier than 9/15, we are happy to take it but please come by the parents’ social and meet the new parents.
We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday, August 25th at 7:00 pm.
Shannon