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!