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Delivery of Food and Gift Cards to the Carying Place

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Pack 393,

We will be delivering the food and gift cards to the Carying Place families on Thursday, December 17th at 6:00pm.

Greenwood Forest Baptist Church Fellowship Hall
110 SE Maynard Rd
Cary, NC 27511

Several people mentioned that they would still like to participate. If your family has collected food or money and have not delivered it to my home, please respond to this email. I will be purchasing the gift cards very soon.

Thank you to all the scouts who addressed envelopes, stapled, delivered or gathered bags! We have tons of food and very generous gift cards for each family.

Kelly

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Pack Meeting Wrap Up 12-4-09

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Hey everyone,

I thought our first Pack meeting in a while went really well. I’m looking forward to having boys help with the flag ceremonies and learning about that. I also want to say a big thanks to Kelly for organizing our food and funds service event this weekend. The boys did great making up the bags and who won’t want to give some food or money to the boy scouts to help these families? It will be fun to see the success and I hope many can go to actually give the food and money to the families.

Just a couple of reminders:

1) We have our only meeting in December next Thursday. We will be bringing our food and money back to Kelly next week and I’m sure she will send out a reminder email later to let you know.

2) The following Saturday, December 12, is the Cary Jaycees Christmas Parade. We will be decorating a trailer in the Lowes parking lot (the one off Maynard and NC 54) at 10 a.m. and then we’ll all grab some lunch (or you can bring a bag lunch) and then we’ll meet at the rendezvous point around 12:30-1:00 to spread Christmas cheer from our float/trailer. If anyone has any decorations that they would be willing to donate, please let me know. One year we had an inflatable polar bear coming out of a cardboard chimney, which was pretty impressive. This is always a lot of fun and I’ll send out a final email with all the logistics once I get the information from the Jaycees.

Parade Route Map

3) Lastly, next Thursday we will be selling the pinewood derby car kits for the boys (Yes, race time is just around the corner). With this being our last meeting of the year, I wanted to go ahead and get the car kits out. They cost $4 or $5 per kit, so come prepared to pick yours up. I know that Brian, our Pinewood Derby race engineer, is working on scheduling at least one car building day in early January, but don’t wait until then to get your kits.

Thanks everyone for chipping in and helping with things tonight.

Yours in Scouting,
Randy

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Big News About the December 10 BSA 100th Anniversary Audiocast Rally!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

By now, we hope you have heard about BSA’s December 10 100th Anniversary audiocast kick-off rally! These are exciting times! And, this will be our chance to get everyone pumped up and energized for the celebration. If you have already responded, thank you!

If you haven’t had a chance to register … want another reason to tune-in on Dec. 10th? During the audiocast the BSA will give away:
• Two tickets to Gala Twenty-Ten, a very special and elegant 100th Anniversary event in Washington, D.C. on February 9, 2010. One night’s hotel stay is included.
• A signed, limited and special edition print of Joseph Csatari’s 100th Anniversary painting.
• A specially packaged, limited edition U.S. Mint commemorative coin honoring BSA’s 100 years.

All once-in-a-lifetime prizes. But, to be eligible you must be signed-up and switched-on during the audiocast rally! You don’t have to go any further than your own computer. All you have to do is register and then listen-in at: http://audiocast.scouting.org.

We don’t want anyone to miss out, and we hope this will be the largest virtual gathering in BSA history. Help us spread the word! Pass this along to friends, family, and other Scouting enthusiasts who should be part of our historic 100th Anniversary celebration. If you have a previously scheduled Scout meeting at the audio-cast time on December 10th - consider making the rally part of the meeting agenda. Join in as a group … but, make sure individuals register for the prizes!

“See” you on December 10th!

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Holiday Service Project 2009

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Pack 393,

Our pack has a wonderful opportunity to help serve our community. In light of the recent economic changes for many people, we have decided to team up with The Carying Place to provide some desperately needed assistance this holiday season. The Carying Place provides transitional housing for seven homeless, working families for 16 weeks.

So here’s what we are going to do….

We have planned a food/cash donation drive. In the past we have canvassed the Breckenridge neighborhood. This year we will distribute the bags individually within our own neighborhoods. Our goal is to collect $350 which will provide each family with a $25 grocery card and a $25 gas card in addition to the food. Last year we were also able to include a $50.00 Target gift card!

I would like each pack family to consider donating as well. This would be an excellent time to talk to your boys about compassion and to teach them that we all need to help others.

Ideas to consider:
1. Have your scout donate some of their own money. (there’s no better way to teach kids to serve then by giving their own money)
2. Make a list of chores that they could do to earn money to help these kids.
3. Have them talk to friends/family/neighbors about our project and ask for a donation.
4. Search through your pantry and pick out food that they like to eat and have them donate it instead.
5. Set a goal of how much you would like to raise
6. Be an example: donate and participate in the project!

Thursday, December 3th at 7:00pm: Meet at Triangle Church for Pack meeting.

As a pack, we will assemble the bags for distribution. Please bring a stapler and an estimate of the number of bags your son will need. You may canvass just your personal street or branch out to other streets as well. I would like to see each scout distributes 25 bags.

Friday, December 4th: Distribute bags in neighborhoods
Sunday, December 6th 4:00 PM: Collect envelopes and bags.
Thursday, December 10th: Bring food and money to den meeting at Triangle Church.
Thursday, December 17th 6:00pm: Deliver gifts and food to The Carying Place.

So here’s what we need from you:

1. Talk to your boys about our project. Get them excited and have them participate!! They will experience the joy of knowing that they made a difference in someone’s life!!
2. Donate and participate yourself.
3. Ask for donations when you are out in the community. Many local stores and restaurants will generously donate gift cards.

Those who participated in the delivering of the gifts and food last year know the incredible experience the boys had. They were proud of what they achieved and realized that they made a tremendous impact on these families. I hope you will consider all that we have to be thankful for and help make this year even better than last!

Yours in Scouting,
Kelly Coman

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Webelo I Awards

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Webelos I,

I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday with a little turkey and football!

With the pack meeting rapidly approaching, I need to know what awards your son has earned. Please send me your list by Wednesday.

All the boys are still working on their Webelos badge. There are 2 requirements that must be met first, Fitness and Citizen. At the last den meeting we started working on fitness. If your son did not attend the meeting, they MUST complete this at home and present their work to either Al or myself before they can earn their badge. For those that participated, please bring your week of planned meals or a journal of all that you ate for the week to the December 10th den meeting to complete this requirement.

See you on Thursday at the pack meeting!

Kelly

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Pack Meeting Thursday

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Hey everyone,

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. I want to remind everyone that this Thursday we will have a Pack meeting. Vivek, if you could remember to bring the pins and loops and patches and parents, if you could let your Den leaders know what loops and such your son’s have earned. This meeting will be from 7-8 p.m. and we will have some details on our planned food drive that we will be working on during this time.

This activity will be followed by a flag ceremony, a game and any awards that the boys have won this fall. If you haven’t gotten through things just yet, don’t worry, there will be another opportunity for a Pack meeting in the not to distant future.

I look forward to seeing you and all the boys at the meeting on Thursday.

Yours in Scouting,

Randy

P.S. I haven’t heard the details on the Cary Christmas Parade yet, but expect to hear something soon. Once I get those details, I’ll get them out to you. What I do know is that it will be on Saturday, December 12 and we will be participating as both a Pack and Troop. Keep watching your email for more details.

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Popcorn Pickup details and Pack meeting plans

Friday, November 13th, 2009

All,

It is that time.

The Popcorn pickup is this weekend.

You can plan to pick up your popcorn on Saturday or Sunday from 12-4 p.m. in the Twin Lakes Subdivision at 340 New Milford Rd., Cary 27519. Twin Lakes is near Davis Drive and McCrimmon Corners Shopping plaza in Morrisville.


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If you can give Andrea Wright a call to set up a pick up time for your son’s popcorn. It is important that we pick up the orders and deliver them this week as we had promised our customers that their orders would be in this before Thanksgiving. Let’s not disappoint them. Great job on the sale everyone and lets support Leopolda and Andrea and make their jobs easy this weekend.

Also, just a reminder that we will be having a Pack meeting on December 3 at 7 p.m. at the Triangle Church building. There will be more details out about this soon, but we want to take this opportunity to recognize any of the achievements that the boys have earned/completed this summer and fall. Please let your den leader know what achievements and belt loops your son has completed soon and I ask that the Den leaders make sure that Vivek gets details about whatever awards you have for your boys no later than next Friday, November 20.

Talk to you all soon and remember that there will be no meeting in two weeks on November 26 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving.

Randy

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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:

  1. Recruitment/Registration/Retention: Jeannie Repage (Chair)
  2. 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)
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Communications and Social Committee: Juan Ramos (Chair)
  6. 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.
  7. Cubmaster: Randy Basinger
  8. Assistant Cubmaster: Open slot. I would love to have someone to assist me in this role.

  9. Pack Trainer: Bobbi Stanley
  10. Treasurer: Bobbi Stanley
  11. Tiger Den: Brian Flack, Leader
  12. Wolf Den: Neil Donovan, Leader
  13. Bear Den: Juan Ramos, Leader
  14. Webelos I: Kelly Coman and Al Sullivan, Leaders
  15. 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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