All,

We will have a leaders meeting on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at the Church Building. I’m sending this out to all of the new parents as we welcome your participation and input.

At this meeting, we will be planning out the upcoming events through our recharter period in March, so it is likely to go a little longer than usual (probably to around 8:30).

On the schedule for this time period.

1) Plans for a November Pack Meeting

2) Cary Christmas Parade in December

3) Popcorn sales and party

4) Pinewood Derby in January

5) Blue and Gold Banquet and Webelos II bridging to boy scouts in February

6) Spring camping event

We will be looking for some parents to participate in committees with these events as the help is vital to our Pack having great events.

Thanks and I look forward to seeing many of you on Tuesday.

Randy

Address:

6100 Antioch Road
Haymarket, VA 20169

Saturday, September 25

1. 8:00 am (or so)    Breakfast
2. 8:45 am Leave as a group for the nearest metro station into DC
3. 10:15 am Check in at the White House – those not cleared for the tour will head on to the Smithsonian
4. 11:00am    White House Tour
5. Noon Both groups meet up at the McDonalds at the Smithsonian Air and Space for lunch (paid for by family)
6. 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Tour Air and Space Museum
7. 4:30 p.m. Metro out of the city to return to Camp Snyder. Dinner will be at Camp Snyder and we will be joining in with their Parent/Son overnighter that includes the evening catered meal and a campfire

COSTS FOR THE EVENT

White House Tour and Smithsonian: Free

Both events are free as they are public facilities. The Smithsonian does take donations and there is a gift shop, so you may not get out completely free. 

Camping – Free for Scouts and family who have sold Popcorn – you’ve paid your dues. For new families who would like to go – you can’t get into the White House at this point, but you can attend the campout. The cost is $20 per person to pay for the reduced costs per person of attending the Parent/Son overnighter and pay for the dinner on Saturday and breakfast Sunday.

Additional costs: Family dinner out on Friday night and lunch on Saturday at the Smithsonian. Also, a daily Metro pass will cost $12.50 for the day. So, each person should plan on additional costs of about $30 per person for meals and passes, plus any souvenirs you may want to pick up.

Parents,
If you are interested in learning more about scouting or you would like to help in a leadership role, please look at the following training dates. If you have any questions, please see me.

Some training can be done online and all leaders and Tiger Cub parents must have youth protection online training every two years. I will go into more detail about this in the near future.

October 23: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training in Cary:
https://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.aspx?orgkey=1305&id=83108

November 6: University of Scouting at Wake Tech:
https://www.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.asp?ActivityKey=835757
Online Registration on Council Calendar:
https://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/Calendar.asp?OrgKey=382

November 11: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training (Joint Sessions): Neuse River District: Must attend on 11th and 18th: flyer in progress

November 18: Cub Scout Leader Specific Training (Split Sessions): Neuse River District: Must attend on 11th and 18th: flyer in progress

January 8: Outdoor Leadership Skills for Webelos Leaders (OLS-WL): Crosswinds District: flyer in progress

Bobbi

On the Agenda:

1) Round-up. I’m getting calls and emails since the Scouts were able to get info in the schools. We have 2 tigers who came out to the open house meet and greet at the building on Sept. 28th, one new bear and I just got an email from a potential new Webelos I. I expect that we are going to grow by a few more given the interest, so we need to make sure we are prepared. I expect we’ll have several new boys there on September 14.
2) September DC Campout – we need to make sure we have all the details, schedules and food ironed out for the campout and items divvied up to make sure this goes well.
3) Popcorn. Melissa, we need to get an update as I know you will need to schedule a meeting with the boys and I’m not sure if you’ll need to do that on the 14th or just want to wait until the 28th when we get back from the campout as the campout weekend is the start of the sales.

If there is something else, please let me know and we’ll add it to the agenda.

Randy

Cubbies -

We are all set for bike tune up and safety session at “Cycling Spoken Here” in Cary on Maynard - address below - at 9am. Saturday Aug 28th.

Then bike ride at North Cary Park at 10am.

The guys from the cycling shop are coming in early especially for us - normal opening is 10am - so please make an effort to be on time.

Bears wil lwant ot bring their books with them - to get biking activities signed off.

Cycling Spoken Here
1377 Northwest Maynard Road
Cary, NC 27519
(919) 461-0066

North Cary Park =
1100 Norwell Blvd
Cary NC

Just off Cary parkway. Lots of parking, Easy bike ride.

Best regards -

Neil Donovan

Leaders,
Here are the next training dates (see below). If you are a uniformed leader, a committee member or another registered adult (or you would like to be), please mark your calendar and plan to attend one of the following training event.

Part of our annual application for Quality Unit status inquires about what percentage of our registered adults are trained for their positions with the pack. Let’s just say we need to put more focus on getting everyone properly qualified, especially folks who sit on Pack Committee and folks who wear the BSA uniform. Training may not be your first choice activity for a Saturday this fall, but it assures a safe, quality program for our scouts and the BSA expects it, so why not make this year the year to get it done?

All adults need Youth Protection (online). New rules from BSA National states that this must be renewed every two years.

BALOO training is August 21. There must be at least one adult BALOO trained per pack for the pack to go camping. And that trained adult must be on the camping trip. At this point, we only have two BALOO trained adults. If you can attend this training, please do so. This is the only opportunity this year.

Sept 28th is MEGA training. This will provide any training for any position (except BALOO) available in the pack - including any volunteer or committee position. Please please sign up.

Oct 23 and Nov 11 & 18 will also provide extensive training.

Our pack will reimburse you for the cost of the training. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Thank you.
Bobbi

Hey all,

Here’s the upcoming training we have in the Northern Service Area. Please let me know if you have any questions. We will also have a two Saturday IOLS course, the dates are in the process of being determined.

August 21st: BALOO (Raleigh, NC):
https://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.aspx?orgkey=1305&id=81076
September 18th: MEGA Training (Raleigh, NC): Cub Leader, SM/ASM, Troop Committee, Venturing, Varsity, COR, Den Chief: Flyer will be out by Roundtable
October 23rd: Cub Scout Leader Specific & SM/ASM Leader Specific (Cary, NC): Flyer coming
November 11th & 18th: Cub Scout Leader Specific (Raleigh, NC): Flyer coming
November 18th: Troop Committee Challenge (Raleigh, NC): Flyer coming
December 4th: SM/ASM Leader Specific (Raleigh, NC): Flyer coming

Will Highsmith
Crosswinds District Training Chair

All,

We will have a brief 1 hour leaders meeting on Thursday at the building.

The agenda will include:

1. Summer meeting schedule and plans
2. June Pack meeting – needing to reschedule off of Tuesday, June 24 due to Swim Team schedules causing several to miss the Tuesday meetings in June
3. Late summer bike ride organization
4. Early planning for Fall DC Campout in late September
5. Need for an Assistant Cubmaster to step in for the coming year (don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere, but I want to start identifying someone to take over and train with me hopefully for the coming year).

I look forward to seeing you all there from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

Randy

FYI as per Randy’s Email on Monday