New leader Training has been scheduled for April 4th 9am to 1pm at the Birch Street Fire Station. All den leaders and committee members are encouraged to attend. Please contact Bruce at 645-7665 you plan on attending.

Deadline is arriving. Need to have tour permits, registrations and fees all taken care of.

See event info

Wolf pack game

There will be a guided tour of the wildlife center.

This is always a very nice hike and very informative.

Ask lots of questions about the birds and the trees and the bushes and whatever else you can think of!

Agenda:

B&G

Pack hike

Pack picnic and sleepover

Treasurer report

cubmobile April 26
- see the calendar event

whoot! East Windsor Pack 89 has invited us to their 17th cub mobile derby.

It is open to tigers through Webelos I and looks like it's loads of fun!

Here are links to their web page and their event pages:

upcoming
Rules
notes

It will take place Sunday April 26, check your calendars.

Start setup at 5:30 and begins officially at 6:00.

Blue and Gold:

Needed ASAP:
- Pictures/Videos for slide show
- Baby and current scout picture
- Baby and current leader picturs too!

What:
- 48th Blue and Gold for Pack 221
When:
- Friday March 20
- 5:30PM setup 6:00 invocation
Where:
- VCMS Cafeteria

Food: Dens will bring enough of their assigned items for 50-70 people.

Webelos II - Pasta dishes (recall this is a lent Friday)
- with meat sauce
- with tomato sauce
- with white sauce

Webelos I - Rolls

Bears - Beverages (don't forget diet drinks! Juices in the mix
appropriate as well)

Wolves - Fruit (for 30, there will already be cake)

Tigers - Salad + dressings

Boston Science Museum sleep-over...check out the attached PDF files for more details!

Brochure
Survival Guide

Link to the Science Museum website for overnight programs.

(more accurate start/end times needed)

Ooops...sorry folks! It was at 7:30AM

Meet at Charlies, let someone else cook you breakfast :-)

Committee Meeting Minutes
11/1 @ 7:30 Charlie’s
See minutes .
Attendees: Bruce Lindstrom, Bill Rivet and Paula Cascario

Raingutter Regatta:
· Date 11/23
· Location: Dobsinville Firehouse on Birch St. in Vernon
· Event Time: 1-3pm

Snacks: healthy items to be brought by the dens
Cider, Water, Coffee, Cream, Sugar
Apples
Cake donuts (hopefully donated by a local business)
Pretzels
Each den will be assigned to bring items from the above list. Plan on 50 people. Paula shall organize and contact the other den leaders.

Draft letter: Sometimes business may be willing to help out non-profits. Rules set by the National Scout organization allow packs to ask for donations. Packs are not allow to publish or advertise. But during the event the pack can inform attendee who supplied an item. Of course a thank-you letter to the business is in order also!

Bruce will draft a letter to use to approach a business or businesses looking for a donation in this case donuts (not the sugary kind) that way we will not only be able to speak to them but can hand them this letter informing them of our pack’s need. This letter should contain who we are and what our event will be and possibly where it will take place.

Chairs: Firehouse does not have tons of chairs.
Todd Cascario to let Bill know how many chairs the firehouse has ______.
Additional chairs are needed to accommodate the 50 or so estimated guests
Volunteers are needed to pick up chairs Friday 11/21 at LSS before the end of the school day (2:30).
Bruce: offered to borrow a truck and handle the task of picking up the chairs on Fri 11/21 from LSS.
Help will be needed to take chairs to firehouse Sunday 11/23 and set them up for the Regatta.
Help will be needed to break down chairs at the end of the event and load them offsite.
Bill R. said if need be we can store them in his garage.
Chairs need to be returned to LSS on Monday 11/24

Pack Meeting:
· Next pack meeting on Tuesday 11/25
Main highlight:
· Bobcat ceremony for Tiger scouts
Bruce and Bill to contact Oliver (Tiger den leader) to make sure his scouts are ready and to figure out which ceremony method is best.
Bill suggested some form of face painting to make it fun for the kids and not so formal.

Skits:
· Each den should perform a skit
Uniform inspections:
· Discussed how we could award the scouts for their participation.
· Discussed awards for each scout. (Certificate or ribbon?)
· We agreed that it is not necessary to recognize each scout. Instead to award each den that has 100% participation. 100% participation means, scouts wearing the correct hat and neckerchief slide for his den, patches displayed in the correct location on the uniform.

Paula shall contact Diana Reid to ask if she would be willing to create a certificate for us.

Pinewood Derby:
· Cars should be handed out at the next pack meeting on 11/25.
· Bruce to purchase cars at Council by 11/15.
· Paula needs to contact Bill G. to get the necessary funds to send to the Elks to secure our date.
· Date of event: Sat 1/24.

Holiday Party:
· Held mid December. Dates to be determined depending upon the availability at each facility.
· Rose Commons: Tigers will team up with Webelos I and Webelos II dens.
· Fox Hill: Wolf and bear scouts will team up.

Paula shall contact the facilities to secure dates and then get the info out to the dens.

Wolf Pack:
· Diana Reid is organizing this event that will take place Saturday 11/8 in Hartford
· She e-mailed the pack leaders w/ specific information as to how to sign up and contact her.

Boston Museum of Science Sleepover:
· Date 2/15-16 Sun-Mon
· This is school vacation week.
· Parents to be informed that it runs into Monday morning.
· Bill to contact parents via phone to find out if they are interested

Blue and Gold Banquet:
· Bill may need to change the existing date.
· He needs to make this date change if applicable by 12/1.

Next committee meeting should have an agenda typed up prior to the meeting to go out to the group so everyone knows what the key points are that will be discussed at the meeting.

Boston Science Museum: http://www.mos.org/
* Brochure
* Survival guide

Bobcat ceremony: 2 from Paula's den

Webelos II - Thomas earned Aquanaut belt loop and activity pin

Newsletters need to be handed out

Regatta rules and boats need to go out.

Things to bring:
Bobcat Ceremony stuff (bobcat patches, logs, candles etc) 2 from Paula's den
regatta boats with rules sheet
newsletter printouts
Boston flyers
bags for scouting for food, divided up by den, along with maps for the den to use (several copies each)
Guide to safe scouting - for Oliver, Dianna, Paula

Many thanks to Rein's Deli for supporting Lake Street School Pack 221!

We haven't done this event in all the time I've been involved with Pack 221.

I always thought these were a blast, so we're going to do one this year!

more details to come, this is the tentative date.

Mike L. would like to invite all the Webelos II scouts and parents to visit our troop meeting on Thursday, October 30 starting at 7:00 PM. They meet in the Gathering Hall at the First Congregational Church of Vernon. Please park in the big parking lot whose entry is on Route 30 and enter the building through the doors facing the parking lot. If you plan on coming please let BillR@CTPack221.org or Troop 86 know.

See the flyer!

Looks like it should be a fun event.

Hike at Valley Falls.

Gathering:

Opening with Tigers at least

Troop 2 hopefully can make it to introduce us to Troop 2

Webelos I - fitness activities

Webelos II - Outdoorsmen - what do the kids need. No activity pre-planned for this one.
Plan for what they want to do next. Provide paper and have them list their ideas. Collect them as a group to plan what we want to do.

W-II suggestions-

Sportsman -
Who will teach signals?________________________
What 2 individual games does each scout want to earn a belt loop for?
Waht 2 team sports does each scout want to earn? How will we do these? We need to have more members....invite another pack's Webelos to a friendly game? Other ideas?

Get together with W-I and review Athlete. Ask who wants to run 1/4 mile (we only ran 1/8 mile before)

separate?

Family Member :

Mission Statments

These are your missions for next Tuesday (October 7).  Please put this page somewhere to remind you to work on the missions over the next week. This message will _not_ self-destruct :-)

Mission 1

Practice your Athlete activites to support showing improvement in 4 weeks 3 times:
1________________________________________________________________
2________________________________________________________________
3________________________________________________________________
(record any notes you might have for at least 3 practices)

Mission 2

Webelos I - Read and understand the Fitness requirements and read the Fitness chapter. This will prepare you for the Fitness den activities.

Webelos II - Read and understand the Outdoorsmen requirement and read the Outdoorsmen chapter. This will prepare you for the Outdoormen den activities next week.

Mission 3

Webelos I - Read and understand the requirements for earning the Webelos badge.
Webelos II - Read and understand the requirements for earning compas points and Arrow of Light.

This will help you decide what activities you want to do as part of your Webelos program this year. Come to meeting with one activity you want to work on. This could be something you want to do on your own at home, with a parent or as part of some other actvitiy or it could be something you would like the den to do together. Possible den activities are field trips or more service projects or making something useful or interesting.

Announcements

1. Would you like to join your den as we visit Troop 2 for a camp-out? Please let your denleaders know!
2. Troop 2 to visit next den meeting
3. Campout this weekend, are you excited?
4. Do you want to carry flag for Oct 5 parade? (> 2 miles) - meet at 12:30 VCMS, Center road school alternate

Athlete Exercise Tracking Chart

 

Scout Name	Exercises
		Curl-ups	Pull-ups	Push-ups	Long Jump	1/4 Mile Run	Vertical Jump	50-yard Run	Bike Ride	1/4 Mile Swim
Thomas	Start	36	0	16	46	127	85	11
	End
Jacob	Start	42	0	1	35	205	87	14
	End
Matt	Start	21	1	18	44	137	82	10
	End
Mathieu	Start
	End
Teddy	Start	???	2	15	51	115	76	10
	End
Kevin	Start	13	1	19	62	113	82	10
	End
Nick	Start	14	0	6	35	212	71	13
	End
_________________________	Start
	End
_________________________	Start
	End
_________________________	Start
	End

* we should probably put together a meeting template to past here to start a new agenda consistently each time :-p topics to cover:

1. Bottle and Can drive
2. Newsletter
3. pack hike
4. Halloween party
5. raingutter regatta and/or space derby
6. Popcorn Kernel Report
7. New Scouts - Tiger den, forms to Council?
8. dues - request denleaders collect soon, certainly before next pack meeting
9. Boston signup - we should reserve as soon as we can! don't want to run out of slots for our chosen date

Click here for the newsletter.

There are already lots of sites for logos and what have you.

Here I list a few and store some I might want to use.

Steve's clipart links

free-clipart.net claims free cliparts apprently sponsored by various advertisers. Some advertiser images might not be appreciated by some parents, so take care. (singles ads for example)

AAA clipart

Post things potentially useful to producing newsletters here.

Placeholder..need to update with details as the come out.

Parade starts at 1:30

W II = make up a patrol/den name. (prep for boy scouts)

6:30 - 6:45 gather - read (parents have the youth protection part in front of Webelos book, kids can read the requirements and talk with parents about the character connections)

6:45 - 6:50 Opening Ceremony (pledge then cubscout promise

6:50 - 7:05 Round table on character connections, #2 "what it means to be be ...fit"

7:00 - 7:30 time activities, fill the 'start' entries on the forms

7:30 - 7:35 get commitment to practice and show improvement

7:35 - 7:45 Talk about badge requirements and explain fitness and citizen are required (outdoorsman/readyman for WII). Have WI commit to reading their fitness section by next week. Have WII commit to reading and preparint for Outdoorsmen.

7:45 - 7:55 Announcements: Troop 2 to visit next week, remind about campout, parade(carry flags if we are participating) Lego league

Supplies:
- * Troop 2 camp-out fliers
- tape measure
- GPS for distance (run with them first time)
- Athlete den meeting plan
- next meeting flier (include progress on Athlete items)

Den 2 planning (combined W I and W II)

This is our kick-off pack meeting!

This will include:

1. website front page - tell all calendars are there
2. Popcorn fundraiser kickoff
3. Boston: Spring sleep-over announcement $55
4. Introduce ourselves to our newest pack members
5. • Tiger den formed - intro, determine meeting time perhaps tuesday for first meeting
6. Parent's meeting
7. Webelos campout
8. Fall Camporee
9. Dues
10. Rockets & regatta

What other topics need to be covered

resources to bring:
Sept 2008 Newsletter
hoola-hoops
my den box (balloons etc?)?
flags and stands
prizes box
easel

Popcorn part:
Ross: intro
Ross: prizes
Ross: goal
Ross: Grand Prize
Bill: interrupt for cool hat :->
Bill: strut with new hat and muse about popcorn.
Bill: Microwave popcorn
Ross: regain control for role-playing
???: split room (ouch!) for pop---corn---pop---corn---pop-cornpopcorn cheeer
Close out popcorn part by making sure everyone has a copy of the forms they need.

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See this page for software to read and write any files found on this website.

Templates and craft ideas.

Straw rockets:
template with instructions
more paper efficient templates
even more efficient...no instructions

Here are some tools I use, all free to use most even to modify:

A very complete and very Microsoft-proprietary compatible office suite:
http://wwww.openoffice.org/

Create PDF files:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Firefox of course:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Cost is $8.

See the attached flyer.

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Committee meeting at Charlie's ... no agenda put together yet.

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Sorry...postponed 'till February.

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Even if you can only come for 20 minutes please do attend!

This is our kick-off pack meeting!

This will include:

* Popcorn fundraiser kickoff
* Spring sleep-over announcement
* Introduce ourselves to our newest pack members

Last day of school(was 22, then 30 now 6/26!)

Whoot! Congrats all scouts on your achievements this year.