Scroll down for Ice Skating info & Pinewood info '08

Need the Program Helps for your Den Meeting in January or February? If you missed the pages in Scouting Magazine or don't have the print version from Cornell's, you can download .pdf's from:

http://www.scouting.org/cubscouts/resources/34304/index.jsp

For Pinewood Derby hints, fish around at this site:

http://www.usscouts.org

for pages like this:

http://www.usscouts.org/netresources/derby.asp

Granville Cub Scouts Pack 3
2008 Pinewood Derby

Official Schedule of Events
Granville Intermediate School
Multi-Purpose Room

Time Trials/Check your Axles and Weights Day
Friday Evening January 25, 2008

Volunteers needed to help set up 3-5 PM, Open Scales and Track 5:30 – 8PM

Weblos I & II and Girl Scouts 5:30 – 7:00
Tigers, Wolves & Bears 7:00 – 8:30

Main Event
Saturday January 26, 2008

8:30 – 9:30 Registration Girl Scouts
9:30 – 10:30 Racing Girl Scouts
10:00 – 11:00 Registration Web. II
11:00 – 12:00 Racing Web. II
11:00 – 12:00 Registration Web. I & Bears
12:00 – 1:00 Racing Web. I & Bears
12:00 – 1:00 Registration Wolves & Tigers
1:00 – 2:00 Racing Wolves & Tigers
1:30 – 2:00 Registration Open Class & BSA Troop 65
2:00 – 2:30 Racing Pack Championship & Troop 65
2:30 – 3:00 Racing Open Class

Trophies to be Awarded!
Each age group: 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th, Best of Show, Most Original Design and Turtle Award (slowest car to cross the finish line). Also: Overall Pack Champion, Pack Runner-up & Pack Second Runner-up. And finally Open Class Champion, Runner-up and Second Runner-up.

Food, snacks and drinks sale: Food will be available courtesy of Boy Scout Troop 65.

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Granville Cub Scouts Pack 3
2008 Pinewood Derby
Official Rules

All cars must pass inspection to qualify for the race.
Late registrations will not be accepted.

• Cars must be made during the current year with new kits.
• The width of the car shall not exceed 2-¾ inches (including wheels and axles).
• The length of the car shall not exceed 7 inches.
• The weight of the car shall not exceed 5 ounces.
• Wheel spacing between the front and rear axle shall be between 3-½ and 4-½ inches
• Derby cars must maintain a 1-¾ inch width where the axles are located and must clear the track guide strips.
• Wheels and Axles: Use only Pinewood Derby wheels and axles that come with your kit. You can polish the axles. You may lightly sand the wheels to remove the molding seam on the tread. No other wheel changes are allowed. You may not use bearings, washers, bushings or hubcaps.
• The use of liquid lubricants and oils are strictly prohibited.
• Only dry graphite or the white dry lubricants are permitted.
• The car shall not ride on any kind or type of springs.
• The car must be freewheeling, no starting devices (or high powered explosive devices, rocket motors or jet engines)

Inspection: Each car must pass inspection by the Official Inspection Committee before it may compete. The Inspectors will disqualify any car not meeting these rules. Any adult or scout may appeal the findings of the Inspectors to the Race Committee Chairperson, whose decision is final.

Race Day

Good sportsmanship is expected by all.
The Pinewood Derby is open to all Cub Scouts of Pack 3.
Open Class is open to anyone who registers a car that passes the inspection.

Please talk with your child about winning and loosing. It can be very hard for some when they don’t win. Cheer for your den and encourage sportsmanship.

Adults set the example.

This is a parent/child project, work together, have fun & good luck!

Granville Pack 3 Ice Skating Party

Where: Newark Ice Arena, 936 Sharon Valley Rd.
Date: Sunday, January 6
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Cost: Skate Rental $2.00. Scouts skate rental provided by Pack 3. If you have your own skates, you skate for free!

Granville Pack 3 will have exclusive access to the ice rink during this event.

[ya gotta click on the image to see the details on the card...]
Greetings from Cubmaster Al -- we hope some version of this will appear in the Sentinel this week!

Granville Cub Scout Pack 3 reached out and touched the lives of our servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan by sending holiday care packages and homemade greeting cards. Boy Scout Troop 65 added to the holiday gifts by contributing loads of snacks, drink mixes and food items that are hard to find in these far away places.

The Scouts and their families sent nearly 200 pounds of items in 11 boxes to four separate units. The boys made personalized cards and collected items at a Pack meeting in October. The packages were mailed just before Thanksgiving and many were delivered to the troops in only one week. Recipients included three Ohio-based Army and Air Force units in Iraq and a base in Afghanistan with Navy, Army, Air Force and Seabee servicemen and women.

In Afghanistan the Cub Scout cards were posted as soldiers and sailors helped themselves to the goodies and the outreach of love and support from Granville. Photos, thank-you emails and greeting cards were sent back to the Scouts to complete the connection of holiday cheer. Seabee Engineer Tim in Afghanistan sent a photo of two Afghan children enjoying some of the treats from Granville. His greeting card states: “Pack 3, Thanks for thinking of us!”

Airman Brady in Iraq sent a map showing that the packages ended up near the town of Balad. His card states: “Keep up the great work Cub Scouts! We are very proud of you and your families!”

Collected items included: candy, gum, snacks, canned and boxed food items, toiletries, wipes, tissues, stationary, art and office supplies, DVDs, CDs, games, foam footballs, batteries and flashlights.

(And the kids below are in Afghanistan, who have received some of the treats we sent to the troops, which they in turn gave to kids like these two --)

Pack 3 Reaches Out and Touches Afghanistan

From Cubmaster Al's inbox --

Subject: Pack 3 Stuff
To: adantzer_a-t_msn_dot_c-o-m

Al,

Thanks to you and all the boys of pack 3 for the goodies. I spread out the stuff in the two boxes down in our coffee shop area and stood by. Both boxes of stuff were pretty much gone after an hour, with many comments from our Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines to thank your boys for their hard work and their kind hearts.

I'll get some small souvenirs to send, but you probably will not get until after the holidays. You can show these to the boys in a January pack meeting (afghan money, some soviet medals, etc etc etc).

Today was our 1/2 day off day (each week) so many folks in photo in PT gear relaxing some.

Once again, thanks Pack 3!!

Tim

[ed. note -- PT gear is "physical training" or, to us civilians, gym shorts & t-shirts]




Here you see our Air Force and Marine components interfacing successfully over Cub Scout logistical support!

When about an hour had passed, here's what's left of the pack stuff . . .

The closing thank you to the Cub Scouts of Pack 3 and someone named "Big Al" was a little puzzling, but "Big Al" may refer to his M-16A1, safety off and clicked to full auto -- This is not official BSA equipment, we should note!

[Editor's Note -- I've been properly corrected, and duly chastized for not looking closely: that's an M4A1, a combat arms modification of the M16A2. My only excuse is that the M16A1 is the only one I've carried about, so it's what I thought I saw! And it isn't official BSA gear, either. YiS, jbg]

Click to enlarge! And "Ho Ho Ho!!!"

Y'all --

As noted at Monday's leaders' meeting: Go to:
http://www.lcfymca.org

and click on the button on the left at the bottom marked "Guest Waiver."

Fill out ahead o' time and skip the line, and required in hand if you're bringing a child that's not your own. And yes, you will need one for each child, Cub or sibling or friend.

Reminder on Pool-Pizza info:

Pack 3 Pizza & Pool Party
Sat. Dec. 8, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
(note change of date)

Licking County YMCA – Newark
Church St. (between 11th and 21st Sts.)

Tigers & Wolves – Pool 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Bears & Webelos – Pool 8:30 to 9:30 pm
Both groups in the gyms for
their other half-evening

Pizza at 8:00 pm

Tigers and Wolves – bring brownies/dessert
Bears – bring a bag of potato chips
Webelos – bring snacks (other than potato chips)

Every child must have a signed YMCA waiver from an adult;
Check with Den leaders for forms
Or wait in line that night!

Questions – Jeff Gill 587-4245

Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill

A Reminder, and a Reminder

Cub Scout Pack 3 -- You've done a great job with the Popcorn/Greens sale, and remember, money turn in is Monday 3 December for your den leaders at the Pack Leader Mtg., so get your stuff to them. "Granville Pack 3" is the right entry for "Pay To the Order Of," and turn in as much as you can in one check written thusly (no cash or coins, please).

As we head for the Christmas season and our own Pack meeting Dec. 13 (a week early this month, with the Toy Drive info posted here shortly), we did a great job with the stuff for the troops overseas. A friend who was recently embedded with British troops in Basra wrote this: "American soldiers get care packages from people they do not even know, and those packages are morale boosters. American soldiers get cards from kindergartens from sea to sea, and the soldiers paste the cards all over the walls of their headquarters and hospitals. I don’t know what it is about those homemade cards, with their squiggly letters, stick figures and smiley-faced suns, but whenever I am in hospitals in Iraq, those cards from the kids greatly lift my spirits. I’ve seen the British get cards and packages like this, but nothing like the quantity, variety and frequency of what American soldiers get."

So it was a pleasure to hear from Cubmaster Al's friend with an engineering battalion in Afghanistan where part of our giving ended up. How did our boxes make their way to soldiers and Marines out in dusty and marshy hinterlands? Look below --

They fly 'em in . . .

. . .truck 'em to bases, and then . . .

Everyone,

Well, the time is here, and so is the popcorn! The greens will arrive Thursday or before.

Brian Pitcher is currently scheduling a group of kids to arrive at Unipac 4:00 Friday 16th to breakdown the orders into dens and kids. This should avoid any mix ups and speed up the main pick-up Monday. Any volunteers Friday and Monday are more than welcome. Volunteers please arrive Monday by 6:00

Pick-up time is 7:00 Monday, Nov. 19, each level will have their own loading dock.

Please consider Friday, Nov. 16 as the alternate pick-up for people that can't make it Monday.

Please forward this message to all den members and confirm that they receive the notice.

I still have many order forms, which will be returned with orders.

Directions to Unipac: Route 37 South to Route 40, turn right (West), 3/4 mile West on the South side of Route 40 is Unipac. The physical address is 2109 National Road SW. Any questions you may reach me via my cell 74zerodash4zero4dash422zero.

Thanks,

Chris DeMent

Popcorn Power!

Ooh Rah Pack 3 -- Last year 91 (of about 146) scouts from the pack sold either popcorn or wreaths (or both), while this year 103 (out of 156) sold at least something. The difference between the percent of sales to the pack between popcorn and greens means it'll take a bit to come up with even a preliminary number, but the round/gross sales dollars are actually up from last year, $30,000 to $29,500, so we'll do OK in general.

But it all doesn't mean anything until we actually deliver the product, collect the money, and get it back to the pack, so keep up the good work!

Pack 3 Fundraiser Update

Thanks to Chris DeMent's hard work, and your Cub's sales, the tally [updated above -- these numbers are old news!!!] now stands at Corn - $12452.00, Greens $6922.00.

Our pack portion is about 30% on popcorn (and another 30% benefits the council's operations like Camp Falling Rock), and we do greens with Troop 65 on our own, with about 40% for the pack treasury.

If you didn't get your original forms back Monday night before you left, you can come to Centenary Methodist (NE corner of Broadway and Main) at 7 pm and pick 'em up from Chris, where Troop 65 is having their meeting.

Good work all!

POPCORN/GREENERY FORMS DUE MONDAY (NOT MONEY!!!)
OCT. 29 @ 7:00 PM

That's the adjusted Pack Leadership meeting (moved from the first Monday, which woulda been Nov. 5, but isn't), which will go over some pack bidness as well as collecting your den's forms (NOT MONEY!!!).

If you are planning to pick some Cub Scout Leader training, noted below, contact Jeff Gill for a pick-up/drop-off plan (587-4245, or knapsack@windstream.net), which we're happy to do to facilitate the training opportunity.

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Cub Scout Leader Training
from the Licking District Training Team

Become a trained leader for your den and pack!

Monday, October 29th: New Leader Essentials & Youth Protection

Tuesday, October 30th: Leader Specific Training (for experienced, trained leaders in new positions, such as Den Leaders, Cubmaster, and Committee Chair)

Registration begins at 6pm; Training will begin promptly at 6:30pm

The cost for both nights (which includes a book) is $15; Oct. 30th is only $3.

The training is at Kirkersville United Methodist Church @ 180 E Main St. Parking is along the street or in the gravel parking lot to the rear of the building.

For additional information, please contact Andrew King. (614)404.8116 or andrewking@columbus.rr.com

Revised Pack Schedule

Below is the text of the most-recent Pack calendar from Cubmaster Al --

2007-2008 Schedule of Events (revised)

DATE TIME ACTIVITY (Coordinator names)

10/28 Fundraiser orders due to Den Leaders
10/29 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library Fundraiser order forms due

11/3 Apple Butter Day at Camp Falling Rock
11/5 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library changed to 11/29
11/15 7 Pack Meeting (Bears: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
11/17 *** YMCA PIZZA SWIM PARTY---Changed to 12/8
?11/19 6-8 Pick up fundraiser popcorn and greens at GMS Bus Garage

12/3 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library, fundraiser money due
12/8 7-9:30 YMCA PIZZA SWIM PARTY*** (Gill)
12/13 7 Pack Meeting (Wolves: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
Toy Drive (need coordinators), distribute Pinewood Derby cars
1/6 5–7 ICE SKATING PARTY (Lukins)
1/7 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
1/17 7 Pack Meeting (Tigers: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
1/21 OSU STADIUM TOUR - tentative (Spichiger)
1/25 5–8 Pinewood Derby setup and open track – GIS (Dantzer)
1/26 9-4 2008 PINEWOOD DERBY - GIS (Dantzer)

2/1 tbd OSU HOCKEY: OSU vs Bowling Green (need coordinators)
2/4 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
2/15-17 USS YORKTOWN – CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA (Gill)
2/21 7 Pack Meeting (Web II: Open, Skit, Teaser, Close), distribute food drive

3/1 Distribute bags for Food Drive
3/3 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
3/8 tbd FOOD DRIVE (need coordinators)
3/15 5 BLUE & GOLD BANQUET @ GIS (Emery, Mykulyn & Spichiger)

4/7 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
4/17 7 Pack Meeting (Bears: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
4/19 tba CUBMOBILE RACE (Lukins)
4/25-27 Family Whitewater Rafting Trip (Spichiger)

5/5 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
5/15 7 Pack Meeting (Wolves: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
5/26 10:15am MEMORIAL DAY PARADE (Dantzer)
5/27 7 New Scout (Kindergarten) Parents Meeting (Dantzer)

OTHER EVENTS:
June 10-13, 2008 Cub Day Camp at Camp Falling Rock (Dantzer)
June ?? CLIPPERS GAME (need coordinators)
July 4th PARADE (Dantzer)

Cubmaster: Al Dantzer 587-1702
Assistant Cubmaster: Jeff Gill 587-4245
Committee Chairman: Jim Spichiger 964-0179

Pizza & Pool Party at Newark YMCA - Dec. 8

Pack 3 Pizza & Pool Party
Sat. Dec. 8, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
(note change of date)

Licking County YMCA – Newark
Church St. (between 11th and 21st Sts.)

Tigers & Wolves – Pool 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Bears & Webelos – Pool 8:30 to 9:30 pm
Both groups in the gyms for
their other half-evening

Pizza at 8:00 pm

Tigers and Wolves – bring brownies/dessert
Bears – bring a bag of potato chips
Webelos – bring snacks (other than potato chips)

Every child must have a signed YMCA waiver from an adult;
Check with Den leaders for forms
Or wait in line that night!

Questions – Jeff Gill 587-4245

October Skies - With 5 at a Time!

from Rocket Day, Oct. 13 (click on photo for larger view)

Apple Butter Days - Nov. 3

Apple Butter Days 2007

The 2007 Apple Butter Festival will be Saturday, November 3 at Camp Falling Rock. The event is open to the public, but there is a focus on Cub Scout families (great for boys who just joined Scouting). Cub Scout-age siblings may participate, provided they pay the event registration fee and their parent is present during the day. Parents or Leaders must be present at all times.

Camp Falling Rock is located at 12637 Houdeshell Rd. From Newark, Ohio, go approximately 11 miles north on St.Rt.79 until you reach Township Road 210(Rocky Fork Road). At the intersection of St.Rt.79 and Township Road 210 there is a white barn and a sign for Camp Falling Rock. Turn left on to Township Road 210, follow this to Houdeshell Road. Turn left and proceed on it to the camp entrance on your right.
Activities are open 9:00 a.m.– 5:00p.m. All participants will receive a wristband for access to activities. Lunch will be available in the camp dining hall for an additional cost. Some activities will also have a small additional cost or items for sale.

Please remember to dress appropriately. Most activities are outside. Pre-Registration is strongly encouraged. Save time, money, and hassle. A roster of participants and payment is required at the time of reservation. A packet will be available at a “Will Call” line at check in for each Contact Person to handle their own group check-in. Patches and wristbands will be pre-counted. No refunds, but substitutions are okay. Webelos and their parent(s) may camp, provided they camp with a Boy Scout troop that is in attendance.
For more information on camping, please contact Mike Dalton at(740)927-9833 or
pataskala21bsa@earthlink.net.

Apple Butter Festival Participation Fees are:
$2.00 per person (including adults) with Pre-Registration
(Pre-Registration Must be Received at the council Service Center in Columbus No Later than October 26, 2007. No registrations will be accepted after October 27 at the Service Center) You may also pre-register online before October 27 at www.skcbsa.org.

$3.00 per person (including adults) registration at the event. 3 & under are Free! Please see flyer for more information.

Pack 3’s Family Expedition to Historic Charleston, SC

http://www.patriotspoint.org

Begins Friday evening, 6 pm, February 15, ends Sunday morning, February 17

$75 per person on board, two nights lodging (bring sleeping bag and towels, etc.)

includes meals on Saturday and Sunday breakfast, and

a trip to Fort Sumter, the first shots of the Civil War.

Children must be 6 or older to sleep on board; women are welcome!

Deadline to reserve spaces on board – December 15



Name ________________________________________________


Address ______________________________________________


Phone number _________________________________________


E-mail ________________________________________________

Other family members, with ages of children

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

[turn these in to Jeff Gill, please!]

Pizza & Pool Party at Newark YMCA - postponed

New date: Sat., Dec. 8 (they couldn't get lifeguards for the night of the Michigan game)

Still Tigers/Wolves in pool 7 to 8; 8 pm Pizza fest; 8:30 to 9:30, Bear/Webelos in pool --

each group in gym when not in pool!

More info and release form (signed by parent/guardian for each youth) posted soon.

Rocket Day!

Bear Cub Ty launches his rocket on Saturday, Oct. 13!

Granville Cub Pack 3 Rocket Day!

Saturday, October 13, 2007
8 to Noon

At Granville Intermediate School(rear)

Takeoff times: Weblos 1 & 2 8:00 AM
Bears 9:00 AM
Wolves 10:00 AM
Tigers 11:00 AM

Get kits from your den leaders. The kits need to be assembled. You may not want to wait until the night before.

Bring your rocket models and we’ll provide engine, launch pads, etc.
If you can’t make your scheduled time – come when you can…

Shoot’em off and try to find them….

We have enough engines for at least one liftoff per scout.

If you’d like to send more off - they are B6-4 engines that are available anywhere model rockets are sold.

Pack 3 has never used these, but just in case . . .

Boy Scouts badges being recalled

DALLAS (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday that a painted, plastic badge commonly worn by some of its youngest scouts is being voluntarily recalled after a test revealed high levels of lead in the paint.

As many as 1.6 million of the badges, which are made in China, may be affected by the recall.

“We’re doing everything we can,” Boy Scouts spokesman Gregg Shields said.

The plastic totem badge is given to Cub Scouts, who are usually between the ages of 7 and 8. The badge has a yellow and blue border, includes a picture of a bear and wolf and reads “Progress Toward Ranks.”

No illnesses have been reported, Shields said.

The unacceptable amounts of lead were discovered during a testing of Boy Scouts products, Shields said. He did not know the level of lead the test revealed.

The recall came the same day that the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced recalls of more than a half-million other Chinese-made products because they contain dangerous levels of lead.

The badges are supplied by Kahoot Products Inc., based in Roswell, Ga. The company is calling for a voluntary recall of the badge and asking parents to take them away from their children.

A phone message left with the company Thursday was not immediately returned.

Kahoot has supplied the badge to the Boy Scouts, based in Irving, Texas, for about eight years, Shields said. About 20,000 kits containing the badges have been sold each year since, he said.

The Boys Scouts are continuing to use Kahoot, which supplies 39 products to the organization. Shields said Kahoot has “acted responsibly in initiating this voluntary recall.”

Shields said the badge was the first of 94 Boy Scouts products tested to come back positive for lead. More products are being tested, he said.

Originally published October 5, 2007


AP Photo/Boy Scouts of America

This undated photo provided by the Boy Scouts of America shows a common badge awarded to Cub Scouts that is being recalled amid concerns of dangerous levels of lead. A Boy Scouts of America spokesman says a supply of plastic totem badges, usually given to Cub Scouts between the ages of 7 and 8, contained unacceptable amounts of lead during product testing. No illnesses have been reported.

On the Web
Boy Scouts:www.scouting.org

Info update for "Fire Prevention Week" activities --

The Granville Township Volunteer Fire Dept. on N. Prospect St. has decided to move the "Fire Prevention Week" display and demo to ***Saturday*** from 1 to 3 pm, on Sat., Oct. 13 (before you look, that's Kent State, away). Nothing will happen at the firehouse on Thursday, Oct. 11, so Tigers can't do requirement 2, all three sections, on that night, but they can go from Rocket Day at Granville Intermediate to Req. 2 a,b, & c on N. Prospect Street, with perhaps a quick stop at Whit's.

They also have all arrangements set to bring a ladder rig, and some firefighters in full kit, to the Pack meeting the next Thursday, Oct. 18, and we will of course sing "Old Lady Leary" in honor of the Great Chicago Fire, both frontwards and sideways!

(Thanks to the Geneva NY fire dept. for the photo...)

From the Pack Picnic . . .looking down the Midway!

And at the end of the Midway, the Main Stage featuring one of our Webelos, playing alongside his dad and a colleague (aka La-Z-Boy and Dr. Richard) --

What photo display would be complete without a scene of the valiant and decisive Pack leadership team, trying to figure out if anyone here might want to eat a hot dog (the answer, it turns out, was "yes.") --

(Click on pictures for larger views)

Cub Scouts on Top of the World! (or at least Lancaster)

Sunday, Sept. 16 -- Cubmaster Al's Outing to Standing Stone!

Scroll down for more info on this simple picnic and hike option for Cub Scouts and their families at 2:00 pm down Rt. 37 to Lancaster. Click on the picture for a larger view; it's a nice picture, but i didn't take it.

Tiger Cub Organizational Night

Thursday, Sept. 6, at 7:00 pm, all new 1st grade Cub Scouts and their parents are invited to come and work on getting organized into "dens." Each grade level of Cub Scouting has a mascot and set of requirements to earn that level's badge; for the Tiger Cubs, the pack purchases the books (2nd grade Wolves and 3rd grade Bears get their own, available at Cornell's on the north side of Newark's Courthouse Square).

If you know folks with 1st graders who haven't signed up yet, invite them to come too, as we organize what looks like five Tiger Cub dens of 7 to 9 boys and a parent. Please contact me if you can't make the meeting, and we'll assign you to a den as they get structured.

Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill
587-4245

Cub Scouting is on the march!

We had a great "Round-up," or sign-up night, on Aug. 30 at the Elementary School (GES), but remember that you can sign up at any point in the year -- we know that soccer and first communion classes and a number of things can make the fall a trying time.

There are over 40 new Tigers, and there will be an organizational meeting for the First Grade/Tiger Cub folks at the GES next Thursday, Sept. 6, at 7:00 pm. We have three dens pretty much organized with leaders, but we need at least three more adults who can give the classic "just one hour a week" to make the Tiger dens go.
For the upcoming schedule, we have Pack Committee (all the officers and den leaders) at GES in the library at 7:00 pm on Monday, Sept. 10. Cubmaster Al is putting together a "family hike and picnic" semi-official outing on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 2:00, meeting down Rt. 37 just into Lancaster at Rising Park, where you get to climb the ancient Standing Stone and enjoy an awesome view over the Fairfield County Fairgrounds and the city beyond, south into the Hocking Hills.

The first pack meeting of the school year is Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7:00 pm at -- yep, you guessed it! -- GES in the Multi-purpose Room (MPR), and that will introduce the program year. Lots of updates about the Webelos campout that next weekend in Muskingum County, the Popcorn & Greenery Sale, and the February trip to sleep aboard the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina! Rocket kits will also be distributed for the Sat., Oct. 13 Rocket Day at GIS on Burg St..

The family campout and canoe trip to Mohican State Park is also coming right up October 5-7, with the canoe trips on Saturday at 9 am or 2 pm.

AND WE AREN'T EVEN TO HALLOWE'EN!!! Is this going to be an awesome year, or what?

Call with any questions, 587-4245.

Pack 3 Picnic is . . . Rain or Shine!

As our chairman, Jim Spichiger, says: "If it's raining, bring a doggie bag, 'cause the turnout may drop, but we'll still have food to serve." 3:00 pm is the start time, no matter what!

Some have asked about what they're supposed to bring; the word went out through den leaders, but if you never got the word, or lost the e-mail in spam filters, the breakdown is --

Wolves – 12 ears husked, uncooked corn on the cob
Bears – non-perishable salad or vegetable/relish tray
Webelos 1 – desserts
Webelos 2 – snacks, chips, etc.
Boy Scouts – desserts and fresh fruit

[Post event follow-up: I hope to have some photos to post here soon; for those of you who worried, thanks, but we had a great event! True, we spent four hours setting up, had two and a half hours of fun, and tore down in twenty minutes (and what a twenty minutes, after the park ranger came through on his horse to clear the area), but the last load was packed and car door slammed . . . when the first drops fell. Then it poured!!!]

Especially for the Webelos Scouts (4th & 5th graders)

Webelos parents, for a preview of coming attractions, make sure to click the link on the right for Troop 65, and their photos from Camp Buckskin!

Super Pack 3 Picnic!

Saturday, August 25, Pack 3 will gather up in the highlands of Infirmary Mound Park at 3:00 pm for our Kick-off Pig Roast. Each den has notice of what to bring, and the pack committee will roast the pig. Cubmaster Al has an absolutely awesome lineup of musical performers through the afternoon, and yes, kids, the bounce-y stuff will be there!

Come join the first big event for the program year, and we'll count down to the first Pack Meeting at Granville Elementary on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7:00 pm. (Remember, the pack meeting is always the third Thursday, while each individual den has their own meeting schedule.)

New Scout "Round-up" and orientation is at Granville Elementary on Thursday, August 30, at 7:00 pm. New Scouts of all ages are invited to come and learn about Scouting and sign up, with registration forms on hand and the pack dues accepted all that night. Tiger Cub orientation is the next Thursday, Sept. 6, at (yep, you guessed it) 7:00 pm.

Pass the word -- Scouting is where you want to be, and Pack 3 is where it happens!

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Granville Pack 3
2007-2008 Schedule of Events

DATE TIME ACTIVITY (Coordinator names)

8/13 7 Committee Meeting – Granville Elementary School (GES) Library
8/25 3-7 PIG ROAST – Family Picnic – Infirmary Mound Park!! (Spichiger)
8/30 7 New Scouts Parents Meeting (2nd – 5th grade) GES Multi-purpose room

9/6 7 Tiger (1st Grade) Parents Meeting – GES Multi-purpose room
9/10 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
9/16 2 Rising Park, Family Hike and Picnic (bring your own food) (Dantzer)
9/20 7 Pack Meeting (Webelos II: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
9/22-23 WEBELOS & Troop 65 Campout at Muskingum Valley Scout Reservation in Coshocton (Spichiger)
? Popcorn and Greens Sales Start

10/1 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
10/5-7 FAMILY CAMPOUT AND CANOE TRIP– Mohican State Park / Mohican Canoe Livery 10/6/07 canoe trips at 9 or 2 (Spichiger)
10/13 tbd ROCKET DAY - GIS Playground and field (Mykulyn)
10/18 7 Pack Meeting (Webelos I: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing) Collect care-package donations for overseas troops
10/20-21 WEBELOS WOODS – camp out at Camp Falling Rock (Spichiger)
? 10/28 Fundraiser orders due to Den Leaders
? 10/30 Fundraiser order forms due to Licking District (Centenary UMC)

11/5 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
11/15 7 Pack Meeting (Bears: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
11/17 7 YMCA PIZZA SWIM PARTY (Gill)
?11/19 6-8 Pick up fundraiser popcorn and greens at GMS Bus Garage

12/3 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library, fundraiser money due
12/8 OPEN EVENT - TO BE ANNOUNCED (need coordinators)
12/13 7 Pack Meeting (Wolves: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
Toy Drive (need coordinators), distribute Pinewood Derby cars

2008

1/6 5–7 ICE SKATING PARTY (Lukins)
1/7 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
1/17 7 Pack Meeting (Tigers: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
1/21 OSU STADIUM TOUR - tentative (Spichiger)
1/25 5–8 Pinewood Derby setup and open track – GIS (Dantzer)
1/26 9-4 2008 PINEWOOD DERBY - GIS (Dantzer)

2/1 tbd OSU HOCKEY: OSU vs Bowling Green (need coordinators)
2/4 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
2/15-17 USS YORKTOWN – CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA (Gill)
2/21 7 Pack Meeting (Web II: Open, Skit, Teaser, Close), distribute food drive

3/1 Distribute bags for Food Drive
3/3 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
3/8 tbd FOOD DRIVE (need coordinators)
3/15 5 BLUE & GOLD BANQUET @ GIS (Emery, Mykulyn & Spichiger)

4/7 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
4/17 7 Pack Meeting (Bears: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
4/19 tbd CUBMOBILE RACE (Lukins)
4/25-27 Family Whitewater Rafting Trip (Spichiger)

5/5 7 Committee Meeting – GES Library
5/15 7 Pack Meeting (Wolves: Opening, Skit, Teaser, Closing)
5/26 10:15am MEMORIAL DAY PARADE (Dantzer)
5/27 7 New Scout (Kindergarten) Parents Meeting (Dantzer)

OTHER EVENTS:
June 10-13, 2008 Cub Day Camp at Camp Falling Rock (Dantzer)
June ?? CLIPPERS GAME (need coordinators)
July 4th PARADE (Dantzer)

You Shovel Three-'n-half Tons, And Whadda Ya Get . . .

After the Cubs brought over 7,000 pounds of groceries to Opera House Park in Granville, they were still ready for anything --

-- and still smiling! We're very proud of our Super Pack 3 Cubs and the great work they did helping the needy of Licking County (scroll down for links to the Licking County Food Pantry Network). There was a huge picture in the last Sentinel, plus a story in the second section about our care packages to Iraq, and the letter we got back from Chaplain Macklin with the Marine Recon Battalion (no link for either, sorry!).

See everyone this Saturday at 5:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room of Granville Intermediate on Burg Street for the Blue & Gold (& Green!) Banquet. Bring your Pinewood cars by 4:45 pm for judging in the final race for "Best in Show"!

Pack 3 Food Drive!

Before we all chow down on Sat., Mar. 17, in our Blue & Gold (and Green) Banquet, Cub Scouts are gonna help the hungry in Licking County. In co-operation with the Licking County Food Pantry Network ( http://www.foodpantrynetwork.net ), each den has a set of bags and a map of the Granville area. Most groups will distribute their bags to homes on Sat., Mar. 3, and pick up on Sat., Mar. 10, for those who wish to participate by setting out a bag on their porch.

All the food will come back to the truck at Opera House Park on the Four Corners in downtown Granville, & end up at the FPN building on Steel Ave. in Newark (between 30th and 21st Sts.). This is a great service opportunity for the boys and all the family, and we're meeting a huge need. The Christmas push from all quarters has been handed out, and many shelves are getting bare, with winter nowhere near over. Make sure to participate however you can! (And their website has a PayPal method of donating if you want to do that...)

Two signs of spring: Blue & Gold banquets, and...

...pitchers and catchers report to Training Camps.

"There are just two seasons; winter, and baseball."
- Bill Veeck

Blue & Gold (and Green?) Banquet -- Mar. 17

Pack 3 will hold our annual "Blue & Gold" banquet at Granville Intermediate School on Sat., March 17 -- leaving some of us calling it the "Blue & Gold & Green" banquet, in deference to Saint Patrick!

Cubs are free, and any and all other family members are $5 for a great spaghetti dinner cooked and served by our partners with Boy Scout Troop 65, which will receive some of our Webelos Scouts into Boy Scouting at the end of the program.

With some preliminaries at 4:45 pm, the program begins in earnest at 5:00 and will conclude at 7:00 pm, from the meal to the "crossover ceremony," with the Order of the Arrow dance team performing for us (and assisting with the crossover). The Kaniengahaga Dancers are an amazing cultural and athletic presentation, and the whole family will be fascinated by their work on stage.

Please let your den leader know by March 1 your head count; tickets will go up to $10 after that point. We expect over 300, so arrangements are important! Also get in your advancement information to Phelps Jones by March 10 for rank presentations that will get made at the Blue & Gold (and Green).

"Best Design" for Pinewood Derby cars is voted on by your "next rank up" fellow Cubs, so if you want to have your car in the running, have it to GIS by 4:45 when voting begins.

Snow, snow, go which way?

Despite the frustrations of a twice postponed leader meeting, we've still got a February Pack meeting this Thursday, on Feb. 8, at 7:00 pm, with a leader's meeting in the library of Granville Elementary starting promptly at 6:30!

Feb. 8 is the BSA "birthdate," with the federal charter for the Boy Scouts of America issued on February 8, 1910. That's less than three years after the first twenty-two boys and four leaders tested out Baden-Powell's new book, "Scouting for Boys," on Brownsea Island off the southern coast of England, in July of 1907.

Which means an exciting series of centennial events are going on in the next few years for Scouts around the world, starting in central Ohio with the Scouting's 100th Camporee in Ross County (see link to left). Stay tuned for more exciting and inspiring stories from the earliest days of the Scouting Movement!

2007 Pinewood Derby Results!!!

See all the Pinewood Derby results here: the pre-event story in the Granville Sentinel is linked below, and we'll post a link to the story in the upcoming issue, which is *full* of pictures! I got a peek today at the layout, and both the Cubs and Girl Scouts can be pleased and proud with the results of the day; almost 200 cars raced, with another 40 (tho' many were repeats, but not all) in the Open Class at day's end. [And i had the pleasure of racing again my first Pinewood car made in 1969, which my dad found and sent to us! jbg]

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Granville Cub Scouts Super Pack 3

2007 Pinewood Derby Results
January 27, 2007

Ranking Avg. Speed Name

1st Graders - Tigers:
1 218.6 Nicholas Windley
2 214.5 Luke Pappas
3 214.3 Connor Hilton
4 211.5 Jackson Clark

2nd Graders - Wolves:
1 215.7 Cole Hosack
2 213.2 Kenny Fisher
3 211.3 Alexander Chisolm
4 209.0 Zachary Plute

3rd Graders - Bears:
1 213.7 Corey Campbell
2 213.2 Nicholas Fulan
3 213.1 Matthew Thompson
4 210.8 Dustin Tolley

4th Graders - Weblos I:
1 213.9 Sam Hollingsworth
2 212.9 Jacob Sieber
3 212.8 Brian Mykulyn
4 211.6 Ben Ridenour

5th Graders - Weblos II:
1 210.9 Bryan Wolfe
2 210.8 Will Severson
2 210.8 Ethan Brown
4 208.4 Elliott Smith

Pack Championship:
1 217.7 Nicholas Windley
2 216.1 Jacob Sieber
3 214.9 Cole Hosack
4 214.3 Sam Hollingsworth

Open Class:
1 214.8 Bailey Clark
2 212.5 Jimmy Fisher
3 212.4 Kenny Fisher
4 212.3 Corey Campbell

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Girl Scout Resuts:

Junior race
1. Maggie Fisher
2. Cailyn Sutliff
3. Gabby Silone
4. Sarah Emery

Daisies/Brownies
1. Taylor Bruck
2. Riley Bruck
3. Rachel Windley
4. Ella Smith

Most Original Design - Jaime McClintock
Best of Show - Rachel Howe

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Pinewood Results Coming Soon!

Hoorah and hooray for Tom Esch:

http://www.granvillesentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/COMMUNITIES02/701250325/1052

Need the Program Helps for your Den Meeting in January or February? If you missed the pages in Scouting Magazine or don't have the print version from Cornell's, you can download .pdf's from:

http://www.scouting.org/cubscouts/resources/34304/index.jsp

For Pinewood Derby hints, fish around at this site:

http://www.usscouts.org

for pages like this:

http://www.usscouts.org/netresources/derby.asp