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BALOO Course Saturday Schedule

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The course will be held at Cary Presbyterian Church at 614 Griffis St. in Cary, NC. Registration begins at 8:30am and the course begins at 9am.

Please wear your uniform if you have one and bring a jacket or raincoat in case it rains. The forecast looks promising now, but it could change and part of the course is done outside. I’ve placed the schedule below so you can get an idea for what we are doing that day. I have materials for you so please get your registration in to the Council Office as soon as possible if you haven’t already.

Schedule:

8:30am to 9am: Pregathering Activity: Hart

9am to 9:15am: Opening Assembly: Will

9:15am to 9:40am: Aims and Purposes: Hart

9:40am to 10:25am: Planning: John

10:40am to 11:10am: Lunch Prep (Foil meals): Bryson

11:10am to 11:55am: Equipment: Tony

11:55am to 12:20pm: Lunch

12:20pm to 12:35pm: Campfire Planning: Lisa

12:35pm to 1:20pm: Campfire: Lisa

1:30pm to 2:15pm: Health and Safety: John

2:15pm to 3:00pm: Program: Kim and Suzie

3:20pm to 3:30pm: Round Robin Intro: Will

3:30pm to 4:45pm: Round Robins: 4 sessions: Stoves, Lanterns, and Fire Safety: Tony
Nature Hikes and Games: Lisa
First Aid and Sanitation: Lu
Cub Scout Cooking: Bryson

4:45pm to 5:00pm: Closing (Will)

Regards,

Will Highsmith
Crosswinds District Training Chair

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BALOO Course Reminder: This Saturday!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Hi all,

I wanted to send out a reminder that the District is doing a BALOO Course this Saturday, November 21st, from 9am to 5pm.

Location: Cary Presbyterian Church - 614 Griffis St.

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In order to take a Cub Scout Pack camping, you are required to have a leader present that has taken this course. Below is a link to the flyer for the course. If you have any leaders that haven’t registered and are planning on taking this, please let me know by Wednesday so we can include them in the participant count that we use to determine our food and material preparations. After notifying me that they plan to attend, please mail the registration to the Council with the $25 course fee. If you have any questions on this, please let me know.

http://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.asp?id=66862

Thanks,

Will Highsmith
District Training Chair

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Parent Leader Meeting - Upcoming Events

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Parents and leaders,

Thanks for attending the meeting tonight. I feel great about the volunteers that we had and encourage everyone to participate with the upcoming events as we have a lot of great events planned. As a reminder, here are the committees that we have and that need support:

Recruitment/Registration/Retention: Jeannie Repage (Chair)
Fundraising (popcorn): Leopolda Ramos (and everyone give her congrats for all of her efforts to coordinate this event for our Pack – it is a lot of work and she handled it well)
Blue and Gold: Thanks to Marilyn Adams for volunteering to chair this committee – she won’t be able to do it alone so consider volunteering to help support her for this once a year but important event. It is just around the corner on February 21.
Pinewood Derby: Brian Flack (Chair) and Rudy Rowell is the only other member. They can’t do this alone, so please help volunteering to help with this event coming up in January. We need to start planning to have some derby car building activities in December and early January so that every boy is ready to race.
Communications and Social Committee: Juan Ramos (Chair)
Camping Committee: (needing a chair), Vivek and I are the only BALOO trained members of the Pack who can take us camping, and Bobbi is going to send out details on the upcoming training that will offer this key training for us. We need a couple of others to get trained so we have plenty who can officially take us out into the woods.
Cubmaster: Randy Basinger
Assistant Cubmaster: Open slot. I would love to have someone to assist me in this role.

Pack Trainer: Bobbi Stanley

Treasurer: Bobbi Stanley

Tiger Den: Brian Flack, Leader

Wolf Den: Neil Donovan, Leader

Bear Den: Juan Ramos, Leader

Webelos I: Kelly Coman and Al Sullivan, Leaders

Webelos II: Titus Taylor and Ron Repage, Leaders

We need some assistants for the younger dens, so please consider helping these folks out in these roles.

As I mentioned, think about it through this month and let me know how you would like to help the Pack at our planned pack meeting in December.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Boy Scout Troop is moving their meeting night to Tuesdays starting in January and it was discussed that we need to move the Cub Scout meeting night to coincide with the Boy Scouts for many reasons. So the plan is that starting with our first meeting in January we will go to the second and fourth Tuesdays each month.

That means our first meeting in January will be on Tuesday, January 12th.

Please mark your calendars for this change and also let me know if this creates any hardship for you. We want all of the boys to be able to participate in Scouting and I want to work with you, so let me know.

UPCOMING EVENTS through the end of the year:
Den Meetings on Thursday, Nov. 12
No meeting on Thursday, Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving)

Pack Meeting on Thursday, December 3 (we are going to start having Pack meetings every other month on the first Tuesday of the month)

Den Meeting on Thursday, December 10 (this will be the final meeting of the year due to Christmas holidays)

Cary Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 12 (more details on this to come, but I’ve talked with the Boy Scout Troop and I believe our Troop and Pack will be walking in this together, we’re even talking about doing a float again, so keep watching your email for details, but save the date. This is always fun for the boys.)

Lastly, Kelly Coman is going to be providing details on a community service food drive that we did last year and will be doing again this year, so watch for her email and there will be further details at the December 3 Pack meeting.

In the Future: There are plans to go to the next Scout Night with the Carolina Hurricanes (this should fulfill one of the Tiger’s Go-See-Its). Watch for emails on the details as we need to buy tickets by December 30. The game itself is the Hurricanes against the Avs and it is Friday January 8.

There are a whole bunch of other fun events upcoming. Thanks for all who are already volunteering and I am excited about the future of Pack 393.

Yours in Scouting,

Randy

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Chuck Wagon Derby Prep Night 10-15-09

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Hey everyone,

I thought the boys did a great job putting together their “Chuck Wagons”. Leaders, I will follow up with details for what needs to go in the wagons. We still need to finish up the flags and attach them to the wagons and Brian Adams is going to bring our final wagon to the meeting next week where we will finish up the remaining tasks and have all the boys help build and decorate that one. These things look great. So good that I think we’ll plan on a Pack 393 Chuck Wagon parade with the combined dens next Thursday.

For all of those planning to go down to the camp on Friday to spend the night the first night, we will need to meet and make sure that we have all of the equipment that you will need for the trip. As a reminder, I can’t go on Friday night, but Vivek will be going and can coordinate the camping from a Baloo training standpoint. I don’t know if there is anyone else with a trailer hitch to pull the trailer out to the camp or if we just need to coordinate someone taking a couple of tables and the stove down. If not, we can plan meals around campfire cooking.

We’ll need to get a final head count as we had several new boys register tonight and several of whom want to attend the campout, so I’ll need to work with Bobbi and coordinate what needs to be done to register them. I think it should be fine, but will need to coordinate with her once she returns from her trip. The final head count will help me in buying the food for Saturday breakfast, Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast on Friday (would also welcome a volunteer to help me with this) and then we’ll need to work out getting it transported with the Pack group that goes down Friday night. So plan on staying a few extra minutes on Thursday night to make sure we have everything coordinated for what should be a fun Pack 393 adventure at the Cub Scout Chuck Wagon Derby.

Thanks to all the parents and leaders who jumped right in a helped the boys build their wagons tonight. I hope you had as much fun as I did.