SIgn Up Was A
Smashing Success
NOW COME TO PARENTS NIGHT
More than two dozen NEW scouts joined Pack 302 on Thursday, August 23rd during sign-up night. With all this new energy, the year is sure to be a success.
Representatives from the Central Florida Council gave us an overview of scouting programs in our district and answered questions from boys and their parents.
The boys also got their first taste of scouting fun by building model cars from kits supplied by the Pack. All you new Akelas (adults): Scouting is for the whole family, and we need YOUR help to make sure your boy gets the very best, We're meeting on THURSDAY AUGUST 30 at 7 PM in the Library at the Kenworthy School to talk about what you want for your boy and how we can all make it happen. |
Who Should Sign Up?
If you and your boy participated in Pack 302 last year, you don't need to sign up again -- you're signed up for life. Cub Scouts offers an age-appropriate program for boys in first through fifth grades.
First Grade: Tiger Cubs
Second Grade: Wolf Scouts
Third Grade: Bears
Fourth & Fifth Grade: Webelos |
How Much Does Scouting Cost?
Boys and their parents join Scouting together. Each pays a nominal initiation fee to the Boy Scouts of America -- less than what you pay to sign up for Little League. Once enrolled, you're a member for life. There's never another initiation fee. Dues, which support the activities of the individual dens and of Pack 302, are ten dollars per month for your boy. The dues -- 100% of which are used for den and Pack activities -- pay for your boy's achievement awards, for food at Pack functions, campground rentals and craft supplies. The Pack also receives funding through participation in sanctioned fund-raising acitivites, including the annual popcorn sale.
Who Can I Call?
If you need more information or help, you can call: * Blair Parrish, Cubmaster, 407-677-4518 email: Pack302@hotmail.com There's also good information at:
http://www.cfcbsa.org/
and at
http://www.scouting.org/index.html |
What Do Cubs Do?
Cubs provides a variety of things your boy won't get in Saturday morning sports. Cubs participate in community service, like the Scouting for Food program and assisting in their churches and schools. Last year, we went on two campouts -- the boys had a great time. Our end-of-the-year weekend at Moss Park was a big hit: 18 boys, plus parents and a few siblings. We went on a nature hike, observing deer tracks, gopher turtle dens and other animal signs. We had a fossil dig on the beach at Lake Mary Jane, swimming, a Saturday night cook-out and, of course, bonfires Friday and Saturday night. For 2001-2002, we're planning three campouts. We'll also have the Pinewood Derby, where the boys build cars from small blocks of pine wood. Our new track is awesome and the boys always enjoy the racing, the trophys, the father/son cake bake competition and the food. Den meetings focus on acitivities and outings: crafts or projects designed to teach the Scouts a life lesson and help them work through the exerciese to achieve their next rank. Or the meeting could be a hike, orienteering, nature studies or a lesson in knot-tying. At pack meetings, all of the boys get together to learn what each den has been doing, to perform skits for each other, to recognize Scouts who have advanced in rank or performed meritorious community service and to prepare for campouts or gatherings like the Pinewood Derby and the Blue and Gold Banquet.
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