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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Webelos I,
Quick reminder that we will be meeting tonight as the pack has officially switched to Tuesday nights. We will be going over some of the final requirements for the boys to earn their Webelos badge. Please plan on attending. If you need a derby car, I believe that they are still available to purchase.
Over the weekend, Al and I made a schedule through May. We will review the schedule and discuss the requirements that will need to be completed at home.
The Occoneechee Council has set up a Webelos Day at Camp Durant on March 20th. I will be taking Ryan and have space for some additional scouts. I am also looking for 1 parent to attend. The cost is $12 and I will have sign up sheets tomorrow night.
Al and I are looking forward to an exciting and fun spring. See you tomorrow night.
Kelly
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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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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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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
University of Scouting
Please make payment to the
Occoneechee Council - BSA
Attn: Univ of Scouting 2009
P.O. Box 41229
Raleigh, NC 27629-1229
It will be simpler to pay in advance!
Another confirmation will be sent to you about 2 weeks prior to UOS as a reminder.
Look forward to seeing you there.
University of Scouting Staff - 2009.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Unit: P-393
Leader Position: Den Leader
District: Crosswinds
Council: Occoneechee
Classes Confirmed Time Confirmed
Opening Ceremony 7:45 - 8:30
C-126 Summertime Program 8:40 - 9:30
C-109 Effective Pinewood Derbies 9:40 - 10:30
C-110 Derbies, Rodeos & Regattas 10:40 - 11:30
C-132 Webelos Technology Group 11:40 - 12:30
Lunch & Fellowship / Free to Browse Displays 12:30 - 2:00
C-120 Model Rocketry (2 Periods) 2:10 - 4:00
C-120 Model Rocketry (2 Periods) 2:10 - 4:00
G-182 Taking Advantage of Social Networking (New) 4:10 - 5:00
Student Evaluation 5:00 - 5:10
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Crosswinds Scouters,
Thank you if you have already signed up for Univ of Scouting this year. Nov 7 at Wake Tech will be an excellent day if you are going to attend.
For those of you that are still undecided if you want to attend this year: We have over 370 registered already to attend from our Council. We have over 121 courses. And many classes are already filled.
You still have time to register to get in the courses that you want. But DON’T wait any longer! If you wait even a few days, the classes you want to take may already be full.
Be sure to put a second choice down for every time period. As courses are very full and once it reaches the classroom limit, I cant put any more people in the room!
Although, I wish I could push more people into rooms (like the Japanese Subways!) But the NC Fire Codes wont allow it.
So, Register Today, there are plenty of courses that will help you be a better scout leader (and Parent!)
Classes that are still available include how to handle challenging youth behavior, Developing Troop Leadership, Merit Badge Counseling, Trail to Eagle (period 5-6), Cub Scout Ceremonies, Effective Pinewood Derbies, Knots for Cubs (period 4), Pack Programming and Advancements, Summertime Program, Webelos to Scout Transition, Making the most of your unit commissioner, the ABC’s of leave no trace and Cycling/Mountain Biking and many many more.
There is plenty to choose from, you just have to go online and register and pick the classes you want.
Here are the links:
Course Catalog and Information:
http://www.doubleknot.com/openrosters/DocDownload.asp?id=62698
Online Registration Form
http://www.doubleknot.com/form/formjump.asp?bidx=0&surveyID=14118&OrgKey=382
Payments mailed to: Occoneechee Council, University of Scouting, PO Box 41229, Raleigh, NC 27629
Don’t Wait….this may be your last chance until November 2010!
Sign up today,
YISF,
Gary Thorn
Vice Chancellor - Student/Instructor Affairs
UOS-2009 Committee
Crosswinds District Committee
Asst District Commissioner for Roundtables- Crosswinds
ASM - Troop 212
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
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Tags: 2009, camping, cub scouts, derby, durant, field trip, occoneechee, pack, Pictures and Video, sleepover
Monday, October 26th, 2009
All,
Those of us who went camping, you are all now veterans of a true camping experience (wet camping). Hope you had a good time. The boys had a lot of fun on the “trail” despite the rain and it was fun firing the bottle rocket into the air (thanks Neil).
Anyway, before I head out of town again, I wanted to get a quick message out to remind those who have not turned in their popcorn money to get in touch with Leopolda to schedule a time to go to her house to get your money turned in. I think the boys have done well in selling this year.
Also, we have a regular scheduled leaders meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
I am requesting that every member family have at least one person in attendance as well as we are going to be planning through the end of the year and will begin the planning for the Pinewood Derby, the Blue and Gold and camping in the spring. We have had several committee members move up with the graduating Webelos to the Boy Scouts and we need to fill in those positions. So please come prepared to volunteer on a committee or with a den. We have some great den leaders, but we also need to identify some backups for them. In addition, I need to find someone to back me up as the Assistant Cubmaster. These are all important roles and we need everyone’s participation to make things run smoothly.
I look forward to seeing folks on Nov. 5. Have a great Halloween if we don’t speak before then.
Randy
Cubmaster Pack 393pine
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Tags: blue and gold, boy scouts, camping, committee, cub scouts, cubmaster, derby, durant, halloween, leaders, occoneechee, pack, Pictures and Video, pinewood, popcorn, rain, rocket, sleepover, Trail's End, webelos
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Hey Parents and kids,
Wow, hard to believe that tomorrow night many of us will be under the stars and enjoying smores.
Pack 393 is staying in Poplar A (you will see it on the map attached).
Bathrooms and Showers:
All campsites have flush toilets and showers available. My advice having been at Durant for Summer camp in Red Oak is to reserve one bathroom and one shower for adults only. This will help to keep the toilets and showers clean for adults and teach some responsibility to the Webelos.
Remember a scout is clean. (Borrowing the 10th point of the scout law)
Logistically for Friday night:
Maps are available online at www.campdurant.com. The camp address, for those with GPS or want to Google Map it is
4637 Old Carthage Rd.
Carthage, NC 28327.
Those who are camping Friday night should plan to head down to the camp and once you arrive I am sure there will be someone to direct you to Poplar A. It takes about 1 and a half hours to get there from most points in the Triangle, so plan accordingly. It gets dark shortly after 7 these days.
Vivek will be in charge for those on Friday night and will hand them off to Juan for Saturday night.
Parking:
Council office has approved us to park all vehicles on the side of the roads at Durant. Only utilize one side of the road and pull off the road as much as possible.
One important note, We can NOT have ANY Vehicles in any campsites. They must be on the road. Only Trailers can be parked in campsites. Be very careful when backing up trailers as there are lots of places to get “Stuck” in some campsites (i.e. Large Holes, ditches, etc.)
So, each person (scout, adult and sibling) should have a bag lunch packed and brought to carry in the chuck wagons along with the materials that are needed. I need to ask all the Wolves to bring their books as we need at least two (I’ve got one from last year) to carry in the wagons. The rest of the materials I will bring with me on Saturday morning. Also, we need a parent or two to plan to come back to our campsite to start the charcoal fires for the hobo pack meals Saturday night as we only have an hour and 15 minutes slated to put this together. It would probably be good for a couple of parents to head back during the award ceremony to being having things prepared as an assembly line for the meal prep.
They also note that a couple of the events are “messy” and “wet” and the boys should each pack an extra pair of clothes in a plastic bag to change into in case they do get messy. Also note that there is a good chance of rain on Saturday, so prepare with ponchos and rain gear as the event won’t be canceled for bad weather.
All, this will be a grand adventure. I look forward to seeing the boys (and the rest) have a bunch of fun and make memories for us all.
See you out there on Saturday,
Randy
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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.
Randy
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Don’t forget to look through the email that Andrea sent out and begin making plans for your son’s to participate in the Show and Sells for Popcorn. I’m excited this year that we have a number of Morrisville locations (the new WalMart and Sam’s Club) that should help us sell popcorn and work to our advantage in recruiting new scouts in the Morrisville area. I know that things are busy, but please support our Pack and Leopolda as she helps us be successful.
- Saturday, September. 26th - Harris Teeter/Harrison Pointe
- Sunday, September 27th - Harris Teeter/Davis Drive
- Sunday, October 4th - Lowe’s Home Improvement (corner of Maynard/Chapel Hill Road)
- Saturday, October 10th - Walmart/Morrisville
- Sunday, October 11th - Sam’s Club/Morrisville (has been scheduled for 10 am - 4pm)
- Saturday, October 17th - Walmart/Morrisville (more scouts needed)
- Sunday, October 18th - Triangle Church (for church members only)
Please note that she is going to need a few volunteers to help with keeping track of Pack totals and will need a couple of people to help the District when the popcorn arrives to aid in unloading and distribution. They have asked for at least two volunteers from each Den and I believe that they need some people this week to do this and they will definitely need help when the final orders come in in November. I will ask that if you haven’t volunteered for an activity to please volunteer to help your den leaders with this to allow them to focus on the boy’s programs and please talk with Leopolda on Thursday to let her know who from our Pack can help with the District unloading and distribution.
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