Dear Pack 934 Family,

Welcome back! I hope you are all well and for those of you who had spring break this week, I hope you had a great time off. We will have our den meetings this Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC. I have the den meeting rooms listed below unless you have heard something different from your den leader.

• Tigers – Room 301
• Wolves – Fellowship Hall
• Bears-  Room 306
• Webelos I – Boy Scout Room (Room 120)

I hope you are all well. The pies have been thrown and the whipped cream flew!  Thank you to all who came and helped with the night’s activities at our Pack Meeting this past Tuesday. This coming Tuesday, March 29th, we will not meet because it is spring break in the WSFCS system. We will resume our den meetings on Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC. I have the den meeting rooms listed below unless you have heard something different from your den leader.

• Tigers – Room 301
• Wolves – Fellowship Hall
• Bears-  Room 306
• Webelos I – Boy Scout Room (Room 120)

You should be receiving a flier from our BSA council, Old Hickory, in the mail that will include information on 2016 Summer Cub Scout Day Camp, 2016 Resident Camp and fall 2016 Parent/Son Camporee. Click one of the links to view the Old Hickory Camp Flier page one, two and three.  You can sign up for any of the day camps. However, currently the registration plan for day camp is not yet published from the council. I will be volunteering at the Winston-Salem Day Camp at New Philadelphia Moravian church on 7/11-15.

We have been talking about Resident Camp for awhile in our pack. You can sign up for Resident Camp on our sign up table now but the pack subsidizes the cost based on our excellent popcorn sales so you will notice that the price is less at our sign up. Please note that the council requires us to turn in our sign up registration information by mid-April, so hurry to the sign up table.

To clear up any confusion regarding the Parent/Son Camporee information in the flier, the council will hold the same camporee program for two weekends. Each pack picks which one they want to attend and they handle their own sign ups and paperwork. This mailer is the first time we have gotten the dates for Parent/son too, so we are looking at the dates against our planned calendar for October to decide which date is best and will announce sign ups as soon as we have had some discussion with the pack leadership. If this is still confusing, please contact me and I will answer your questions.

Take care-

Shannon

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Dear All,

Happy Tuesday! Don’t forget that tonight the Pack Meeting is not at Mt Tabor UMC but at Highland Presbyterian Activities Center – use the street address 2380 Cloverdale Ave and head across the street.

Tonight is also the deadline to recharter. If you are not able to make the meeting, please contact me. We have to know what your plans are for the next scout year. The council requires that we let them know a status for each family.

Don’t forget we are having the second round of our pie throw ($5.00 a pie) tonight and we are raffling off prizes for the boys a quarter a ticket. The Pie Throw funds our scouts on aid in the pack.

See you tonight!

Take care-

Shannon

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Dear All,

I hope you are well. I wanted to remind you that we have our pack meeting this coming Tuesday, 3/22/16, at 7:00 PM. We will not be at Mt Tabor UMC, instead we will be at Highland Presbyterian Activity Center. Please use the address 2380 Cloverdale Ave and head across the street.

Brace yourselves or maybe just the leaders need to brace themselves, we will be having  Pie Throw Round Two at the Pack Meeting this coming Tuesday! All the boys that weren’t able to get their pies thrown at the Blue & Gold banquet can get another chance at it. If your scout earned free pie tickets from popcorn sales, the tickets will be with me at the pie buying table. For those of us, that don’t have free pie tickets, each pie is $5.00. The proceeds are used to fund our scouts on financial aid in the pack. As always, we will need lighting. If you have a work light on a stand and extensions cords, please bring them. I will be very grateful.

Calling all cub scouts – wolf rank and up (2nd grade to 5th grade)! Saturday, April 9th 9 AM – 12PM at Korner’s Folly will be a fun morning full of historic games. $6.00/person – Click here to see the flier.

When you come to the sign up table on Tuesday night, think one word – Recharter!!! If you have not rechartered, the pack meeting on March 22nd is the deadline! We will not meet on March 29th because it is Spring Break for the WSFCS system so our deadline for Rechartering is March 22nd. We are also signing up for the Pack Hike (4/23), Spring Family Camping Trip Weekend (5/20), Resident Camp (6/15-18) and (Yorktown Weekend (11/4).

Dear All,

Our brothers in the Wolf Den will not meet at Jefferson Middle School as originally planned, they will meet at Leinbach park located at 3511 Sally Kirk Rd, Winston Salem, across Robinhood road from Mt Tabor UMC.

They are to bring their water rockets.

I will post this to the website in case there are any last minute questions.

Take care-

Shannon

336-692-4519

Dear All,

Sorry for so many messages but I don’t want to confuse anyone. This just in – The Wolf Den is Meeting at Jefferson Middle School (3500 Sally Kirk Road, Winston Salem) at 7:00 PM tomorrow night. At least, I have the Webelos I and the Bears to keep me company at Mt Tabor UMC.

Have a great time tomorrow night, Wolves!

Take care-

Shannon

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Dear All,

I hope you are well. Three more things for the scout den meetings tomorrow night (7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC unless you have a Tiger Scout).

I wanted to let you know that we are planning to begin sign ups for the Spring Family Camping Trip planned for the May 20th Weekend at beautiful Stone Mountain. This is a very popular event for our pack! The entire family can come for the weekend for just $25.00, even the family dog (as long as he or she is well behaved). There is a family hike! And maybe you can talk Brad into reading or telling stories by the campfire amid the s’mores again this year.

Our Tiger den will be meeting offsite tomorrow night. They are visiting Firestation 18 at 1505 N. Peace Haven road 7:00 PM.

If you have been working with your scout to complete any loops or other awards at home, please let your den leader know tomorrow night during the den meetings or via email so we can purchase your scout’s awards.

Take care-

Shannon

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Hi All,

Last night was awesome! I think everyone had a good time either at the Arrow of Light ceremony, the Bridging ceremony and/or the Banquet! I know that I speak for myself and all the other outgoing leaders when I say Thank you for all the heartfelt, kind words and gifts. We loved serving the pack and the families.

We missed those of you that couldn’t be with us. I know this is not technically my job anymore and our leaders are actively looking for a replacement for me. I just wanted to be sure that we hold it all together until I can begin transitioning with the new pack secretary.

This week is a leaders’ meeting at 7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC in the Youth Commons. However, the Sciworks Sleepover is this coming Friday March, 11th for those signed up.  I will send out more information now that the Blue & Gold Night is behind me. Whew!

We began rechartering last week and we have some new sign ups that hit the sign up table as well. We are now signing up for the Pack Hike and the Mt Tabor UMC Trustees’ Workday.  If you don’t know what the heck rechartering is, you are not alone. I remember trying to figure that out when we were new too. Scouts is different that sports or other youth programs that you may be familiar with. Instead of membership running with the school year (August – June) it runs March to April. I know, weird, but these are timeframes that we must work with. When you joined scouts this fall, you paid a prorated fee. Now it is time to rejoin for next year, the fee for the entire year is $60.00. Please come to the sign up table to recharter at our next den meetings on March 15th.

The Trustees’ workday is this coming Saturday, March 12th from 9:00 am – 10:00 am at Mt Tabor UMC. Please meet in the cemetery accessed through the lower parking lot. This is a quick service project. It only lasts an hour. The boys will be spreading pine needles. We had some families sign up last Tuesday. Since this project is this coming Saturday, please just email or text me by Tuesday, March 8th, if you want to participate. Please bring gloves and have your scout wear his class B Cub Scout T-shirt. This  will satisfy some of the service requirements for your scout’s rank advancement.

The pack hike is on Saturday, April 23rd.  It is at Hanging Rock at 2:00 pm. We will have a brief program by the ranger. This year, the boys are going to be learning about the local Indians that inhabited Hanging Rock and learning to play some of the games the Indian children played before the pack goes on the hike. Then we will hike and return to have a cook out. The pack provides hot dogs and we ask the families to bring a side dish or a dessert. Siblings are welcome on the hike.

Upcoming events on the Calendar:

I hope everyone’s power has been restored! This coming week we have Cub Scout Den Meetings at 7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC in your den meeting rooms. We will end early (7:45) again to celebrate several bobcat awards as well as other awards to be shared on Tuesday.

This coming Friday, March 4th, is the Blue & Gold Banquet. You can still sign up, I am attaching the registration form. Please see me on Tuesday.  Don’t forget that the Pie Throw has been resecheduled for immediately following the Blue and Gold banquet. Our top three Pinewood Derby winners and coolest car winners will receive their awards at the banquet as well.

We are still chasing the Webelo II Den to get their group picture. Webelos II – Please be sure to wear your class A uniforms on Tuesday and hopefully we get one last shot at it!

We are still signing up for the Yorktown trip and Resident Summer Camp, If you signed up for Sciworks but didn’t complete a Sciworks Health form for your scout, please use the link and bring the completed form to me at the sign up table on Tuesday.

Upcoming events on the Calendar:

Take care-

Shannon

336-692-4519