Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:28 PM

Pack 48 scouts and parents,

 

Hope everybody has warmed up from the Pack Meeting that we held at Myers!!  We had four scouts and three adult leaders brave the night – thanks to our Camping Coordinators Brenda and Ron Powers, we had lots of snacks and breakfast in the morning.  Ron even expertly prepared an Apple Cobbler in a Dutch Oven over coals for all of us!! 

 

Our Webelos, Bear, and Wolf dens have had their first den meetings, and the Tigers meet for the first time next week.  Our next Pack Meeting will be Tuesday, October 20th at 6:30 PM at All Saints Church (we are going to start 15 minutes earlier than we did last year in order to make sure that we are done by 7:30 or so ).

 

We will send out a one-page flyer on the Howe’s Cave trip scheduled for Sat Nov 14th via email by the end of the weekend.  Any interested scouts/families will need to sign up and pay at the October pack meeting.  The pack committee met earlier tonight and discussed the following as ideas for Winter or Spring outings (we try to keep the “outing” in Scouting):  Overnight camping on the USS Little Rock (http://www.buffalonavalpark.org/index.html) ; Strong Museum in Rochester; Corning Glass Museum and Soaring Museum in Big Flats; Camp Barton overnight; June Bike Trip.  Please give us feedback as to which you would like to do as we probably will not be able to schedule all of them.

 

We have just under three weeks left in our annual Popcorn Sale!!  I have attached a flyer with additional details.  You should all have order forms and prize forms – if you do not or you need more, please contact your den leader or me.  For those who are new to the popcorn sale this year, our commission is 30% of gross sales and half of that is put into a Scout Account that can be used to support his scouting activities or as reimbursement for outdoor/sporting equipment that he might like to buy.  So, for every $100 that each scout sells (about an hour of door to door in my experience), he will have $15 in his scout account.  If he sells $300 (we need to average about $300 per scout to support the pack and pay for the awards, etc. that your scout will earn), that means $45 in his Scout Account.  As for the prizes, he can select either one prize at the highest sales level that he has achieved or more than one prize at lower levels as long as the category totals don’t add up to more than his total sales.  We will be collecting popcorn forms starting on October 27th so that we can get the order submitted – please also make sure that you clearly indicate the prize or prizes that he has earned and selected on the form.  You can collect money either at the time of sale or when the popcorn is delivered around Thanksgiving.  There are bonus prizes for high-selling scouts – Jesse Richardson from our Pack earned both a bike and a Playstation 2 last year for his popcorn sales of over $3,000!!

 

Have a good weekend – please contact your den leaders or me with any questions.

 

Tom

 

 

 

Tom Overton

Cubmaster, Pack 48

www.lansingpack48.org

607.533.7898 (home)

607.227.5280 (cell)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:13 PM

Hi all,

 

Welcome back to the Fall 2009 edition of Pack 48 Cub Scouting!!  Our scouts are back settled in school and many are playing either soccer or football.  Some of our scouts and their families participated in an EXCELLENT Rocket Launch and Picnic planned by the McDonalds and held several weeks ago. 

 

The Pack Committee has met and planned our Fall pack activities.  Den leaders will be in touch with their dens soon to start den meetings, which will take place at the Lansing United Methodist Church for Tigers, Wolves, and Bears and the Lansing Community Center for the Webelos.  We will have a table at the Buckley Elementary School Open Houses tomorrow night and next Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 PM – please let me know if any of your scouts would like to join us at the table (in uniform) to help bring new scouts into Pack 48.

 

We would like to make sure that the following events are on your calendars:

 

1)       Our first Pack Meeting will be a cookout/optional overnight campout at Myers Park on Saturday, September 26th.  We will meet at Pavilion D at 3:00 PM for games led by Brad Buchanan and have dinner starting at 5:00 PM.  We will have a short Pack Meeting starting at 6 PM.  Those who would like to camp overnight can set up tents before dinner as well.  We will cook hot dogs and provide beverages and dinnerware -- we request $5 per family to defray these costs.  Please also bring a dish to pass.  RSVP to me or Katrina (kmoverton@earthlink.net) with how many will be attending from your family so that we can plan accordingly.  Please also feel free to invite potential new scouts/families for Pack 48 and include them in your RSVP.

2)      Cub Adventure Weekend is scheduled for October 3rd and 4th at Camp Barton.  The theme this year is “Jungle Safari, So Good” and activities will include Archery, Nature, Handicraft, Scoutcraft, and a Saturday night campfire.  Those interested in camping overnight can bring tents/sleeping bags.  This is a particularly good way for our younger scouts to become familiar with the great things that Camp Barton has to offer.  I have attached the registration form that should be sent directly to Baden Powell Council ($20 per person if received by council 7 days or more prior to that weekend).  All attendees also must fill out and bring the Class I Medical Form (top half of the first page of the attached medical form) with them.  Registration starts at 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 3rd.

3)      Our Fall trip will be a day trip/optional overnight to Howe Caverns http://www.howecaverns.com/ located near Cobleskill NY (~ 2:15 drive from Lansing) on Saturday, November 14th.  Mike Coles (Troop 48 committee chair) has graciously offered overnight campers the use of his cabin that is located about 15 minutes from Howe Caverns.  Interested scouts and families also can visit the nearby Bleinheim-Gilboa Power Plant.  More information on the power plant and the visitor center can be found at http://www.nypa.gov/facilities/blengil.htm and http://www.nypa.gov/vc/blengil.htm.   We will have more information on this trip at the September 26th Pack Meeting.

4)      I also will have Popcorn Forms for the Annual Fall Popcorn Sale at the Pack Meeting (let me know if you would like them before then).  Although we likely will do other fundraisers during the year, this sale provides nearly all of the financial support needed to operate our pack.  Depending upon our sales, we keep about 30% of the gross sales and split that between pack operations and Scout Accounts (thus a scout gets 15% of his gross sales to use for camping or reimbursement of outdoor/scout related items).  We really need to strive to average about $300 in sales per scout.  In my experience, this means about 3 hours of door to door sales so it is not a big commitment.  Jesse Richardson from our Pack was the top selling Cub Scout in the District last year with over $3,000 in sales.  We will be collecting forms on or about October 27th so that we can get orders/prize selections summarized and submitted.

 

Our excellent den leaders for this year are:

 

Tigers (1st grade) – Dustin and Tammi Richards

Wolves (2nd grade) – Stacey Hern

Bears (3rd grade) – Sue and Doug Caveney

Webelos I and II (4th and 5th grades) – Brad Buchanan, Mark Wheeler, Ron Powers, and Katrina Overton

 

Please contact me, Katrina, or your den leaders with any questions.  We are looking forward to another great year of Cub Scouting in Pack 48!!

 

Tom

 

 

Tom Overton

Cubmaster, Pack 48

www.lansingpack48.org

607.533.7898 (home)

607.227.5280 (cell)