Welcome back Pack 934 Families!
I hope everyone had a wonderful December with a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! With the start of the New Year, comes a lot of activities for our boys.
We will start with the Pack Lock-In this Friday night, January 5th. If you have not signed your Scout up for this event, you will want to message me asap. This is always a fun time for the Scouts! We arrive at 5:30. Each Scout should report to their usual den meeting room, where they will complete either a requirement or an elective (that is up to each den’s leader). We will begin serving our pizza snack by den at 7:30. The Scouts can play games in the Family Life Center once they have finished their snacks until movie time.
All Webelos have their annual camping trip January 12th – 14th. I will be sending an email directly to the Webelos parents regarding this trip. Your leader’s have already sent out information. In order to ensure everyone has this info, I will resend.
The Ski Trip to Sugar Mountain is Monday, January 22nd. We usually meet at the Ski Lodge . I will be checking into group rates for lodging in the area that weekend. If you are interested in staying in Sugar Mountain over the weekend, please let me know, and I will see if we can work out some great discounts.
Scout Sunday has been changed to Sunday, February 4th for us. We will attend the Higher Ground Worship Service together. Higher Ground is a casual worship service beginning at 9am Sunday mornings in the Asplaugh Worship Center. We are working on having the God and Family participants receive their awards during the service, so please try to attend, especially if your Scout completed God and Family. We hope to have a wonderful showing of Scouts to attend this service as a “thank you” to our sponsoring church.
We will be asking for donations from the church for scouting for food as well on Scout Sunday. We will half whatever donations are taken up at church with the troop. Bins will be located throughout the building for those non-perishable food donations.
Which, brings us to Scouting for food: Besides collecting at Mt. Tabor UMC, the end of January, we will be handing out bags to distribute in our neighborhoods. These can be distributed on Saturday, Feb. 3rd and then picked up on Saturday, February 10th. I need a couple volunteers to join me in the Mt. Tabor parking lot on Feb. 10th to help with weighing and donation collections from 12-2 pm.
Last for now, if your Scout plans on participating in the Pinewood Derby, but you did not get a car kit, please see me at the next meeting to receive a kit.
I have included the events for the remainder of the School Calendar, until our summer break, for those who may need to request time off of work for events. I’m positive there will be a couple more items added to the events soon. It’s really not as long as it looks. We’ll be taking summer break before you know it!
Sign Ups:
Webelos Camp – January 12-14th
Ski Trip – January 22nd
Scout Sunday – February 4th
Blue and Gold Banquet – March 2nd
Kaleideum Sleep-Over – March 16th
USS Yorktown Trip – November 2018 (MUST have advanced reservations for this event)
Upcoming:
January 2nd – NO SCOUTS
January 5th – Pack Lock-In 5:30
January 9th – Den Meeting
January 12-14 – Webelos Camp
January 16th – No Scouts (Leader’s Meeting)
January 22nd – Ski Trip
January 23rd – Den Meeting
January 30th – Pack Meeting
February 3rd – Scouting for Food (sack distribution)
February 4th – Scout Sunday and Scouting for Food Collections (9am Service)
February 6th – Den Meeting
February 10th – Scouting for Food (sack pick-up) deliver to Mt Tabor Parking lot
February 13 – No Scouts (Leader’s Meeting)
February 16th – Pinewood Derby Impound (Times to be announced – evening)
February 17th – Pinewood Derby (Times to be announced – morning – early afternoon)
February 20th – Den Meeting
February 27th – Pack Meeting
March 2nd – Blue and Gold Banquet, Webelos II Bridging, and Arrow of Light Ceremony
March 6th – Den Meeting
March 13th – No Scouts (Leader’s Meeting)
March 16th Kaleideum Sleep-over
March 20th – Den Meeting
March 24th – District PWD
March 27th – Pack Meeting
April 3rd – Closed for Spring Break
April 10th – No Scouts (Leader’s Meeting)
April 17th – Den Meeting
April 21st – Pack Hike at Hanging Rock
April 24th – Pack Meeting
May 1st – Bear Carnival / Invite a Friend
May 8th – No Scouts (Leader’s Meeting)
May 15th – Den Meeting
May18-20th – Spring Family Campout
May 22nd – Rank Advancement
June 5th – 2018/19 Planning Meeting
June 13-16th – Resident Camp
Week of July 9th – Cub Scout Day Camp (Volunteers Needed)
2018 promises to be a great year for all!
See you all Friday evening,
Hope
615-516-8922