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Friday, December 11th, 2009
All,
Here are the final details for the Parade.
Decorating in the Lowe’s parking lot at 10 a.m. (the Lowe’s off Maynard and NC 54). We should be done with decorating by around 11:30 to give folks time to get some lunch before meeting at Martin Architectural Company (511 E. Chatham St.) at 1 p.m. They ask that all riders be there by 1 p.m., but note that the parade won’t start until 2 p.m. and we will probably move out around 2:30. No personal cars are allowed in the Martin Architectural lot, so I’ve been suggesting that folks park in the back parking lot of Cary Elementary (where the parade will end ) or at the Baptist Church right there near the end of the route and walk over (about a mile) to Martin Architectural. Trust me, after having done this a few times, once you get done with the parade you want to have a short walk to your car. They also suggest carpooling where someone parks at the end and then carries others over to the start. That can work too. I will have my truck, but likely all four of my kids with me.
We are in slot 78 of 114 for the parade.
A little smaller than in year’s past, so the Parade should go a little faster than in the past. They’ve have over 200 entrants in the past.
It looks like the weather is going to cooperate with the forecast temperature a few degrees warmer than earlier in the week and the rain is supposed to hold off until Saturday evening or Sunday. It is still going to be chilly at 45-50 degrees, so dress appropriately. We don’t necessarily have to have our uniforms showing, but if you do – great and have layers underneath. If you have a Santa hat or festive items that you can wear, all the better. We will have our Pack sign on the trailer, so they will know who we are without our uniforms.
I look forward to seeing you out there and I talked to several folks, but if you could respond to this email to let me know that you are coming so we can begin to get a headcount and know who we are looking for. I think there will be plenty of room for everyone to ride on the “float”.
Randy
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
All,
Here are the details for this Saturday.
Tim is going to bring the trailer to the Lowe’s parking lot at 10 a.m. (This is the Lowe’s at Maynard and NC54 near downtown Cary). We will decorate the trailer and many of the boys will be able to ride in the “float”. Following the decorating, we will be free to grab lunch separately or together. Then we have to have our float over at Martin Architectural: 511 East Chatham Street. We need to have our float in line at 1 p.m. and all of the boys who are riding or walking need to be at our location in the line no later than 1:15. This location is near the start of the parade route which goes into downtown Cary and turns and goes by the Cary Elementary (which is where you will need to pick up your boys). As many of the parents who can join us are welcome, but know that many will be walking.
Also note that they are saying the high for Saturday right now is going to be 39 degrees and there is even talk of a chance of a cold rain or snow (which will make it feel like Christmas). This will be the coldest we’ve ever had during a parade, so make sure your scouts are bundled up warmly. Especially if they are riding in the trailer. We won’t be going fast enough to get wind chill, but it sure sounds like it is going to be cold. Keep a watch on the local weather and plan accordingly.
A few notes for parade day:
- East Cedar, East Chatham, and South Academy Streets will close at 1:00 p.m. through the end of the parade.
- At the end of the parade pick up all Walkers, Riders, etc. at Cary Elementary.
- No Parking along the parade route.
- Parking is limited in the area, so carpooling is encouraged.
- If your group has a vehicle and walkers, the vehicle will line up on East Cedar Street, and the walkers must line up in Urban Park. They will be brought together at the beginning of the parade. (Note that I plan to keep all of ours together, but they may make our walkers go to Urban Park. If this is the case, I’m going to ask that the Boy Scouts volunteer to be our “walkers” in Urban Park and they can then pick up with us all on the route)
- As your group reaches the end of the parade, please move onto the sidewalks behind the other parade watchers and stay out of the street. It is a safety hazard if people are in the street while the parade is running.
It should be a lot of fun. Not sure if anyone wants to volunteer to have hot chocolate or cider for the boys once they get done, but it might not be a bad idea given the current weather schedule. I’ll follow up with our exact location in the line so people know the spot to look for.
Thanks, and I’ll see many of you on Thursday night at our meeting.
Randy
P.S. Don’t forget to bring $5 for your derby car kit. I will have them there at the meeting.
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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.
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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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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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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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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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
The Durham Bulls 4th Annual Scout Sleepover was a big hit.
Over 750 Scouts and parents came to the game
- The food was hot
- The night was cool
- The Home Team Won!
- The fireworks were awesome
- The post-game entertainment was top-notch
The light rain was barely noticeable as Ray Sadler put in work with a clutch 2 RBI single to give the Bulls a 4-1 win over the Toledo Mud Hens. Pictures and Video will be posted soon.
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Friday, June 5
Scouts should arrive at 6:00 for Pre-game parade
game time 7:05
Where do the scouts store their camping gear during the game?
Gear should be stored in the parent’s vehicle during the game. Groups
should meet after the game between sections 112 and 114 and between sections 111 and 113.
FULL ITINERARY
PARADE-Uniformed scouts participating in the pre-game parade will gather in the main concourse near the grounds crew area.
SLEEPOVER-Once the field is cleared and prepared, scouts will be allowed to bring their tents and any snacks they may have brought onto the field for the night.
BREAKFAST- Wake up call will be at 7:00 a.m. Camping gear needs to be removed from the field by 8:00 a.m. before proceeding to breakfast. All scouts should be ready to leave the DBAP no later than 8:30 a.m.
SLEEPOVER RULES
DO:
- Treat the field with care
- Stay in the outfield at all times
- Use battery powered devices for lighting
- Bring snacks for sleepover portion only. No food or drinks will be allowed in the ball park during game time.
DO NOT:
- Use plastic or tarps between tent and grass. Please only put plastic or tarps on the inside of tent.
- Use rain guard. Please do not spray rain guard on tents. It washes off and kills the grass.
- STAKE DOWN TENTS; no stakes allowed.
- Go on infield grass at anytime
- Use heating devices
- Bring wheeled wagons, coolers, etc.
- Spray bug spray on the field. Please go to main concourse to apply bug spray.
- Bring anything flammable
- Bring pets of any kind
- Bring ALCOHOL.
- SMOKE, DBAP is smoke free.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Durham Bulls Scout Night 2009 Information PDF
The Durham Bulls would like to thank you for your interest in the fourth annual Bulls Scout Sleepover. Inside the handbook is some valuable information regarding our Scout Sleepover. Although you may be a veteran, we ask you to take some time to review the material in the handbook. We also ask that you share this information with other people in your group who will be attending the sleepover. This will assure an enjoyable night out at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
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