Pack 3 den leaders and families --
Our Fall Recruitment season is rolling and we need your help to pick up speed! Next Thursday, Sept. 4, at 7:00 pm we will have a New Scout Information Night in the Multipurpose Room of Granville Elementary. All parents/family members of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders who are interested in joining Pack 3 as Tigers, Wolves, or Bears can come and learn a bit more about the Scouting program, ask questions, and fill out registration forms.
We will send flyers home on Tuesday through the elementary school, and Mr. Rogers will notify parents through the school e-mail newsletter, but we will not be able to speak directly to the kids after lunch as we have in years past, so a little extra activity from current Cub Scout families will really help. Please make sure to forward this info to friends and neighbors who have boys in the family who might enjoy Cub Scouts, or just walk down your street and let them know -- it's still nice out evenings!
We would love it if as many boys as possible who are already in Cub Scouting would wear their uniform shirts or Pack t-shirts to school on Thursday, to help remind everyone that in the evening we will be in the MPR to sign up new Cubs and explain the program to parents.
Pack meetings continue to be at the multipurpose room of GES on third Thursdays at 7:00 pm, with our first school year meeting on Sept. 18, and remind folks that Pack meetings are for everyone, while Den meetings are the smaller, age level group you'll meet with in between. Cubmaster Al Dantzer (587-1702) is organizing a Pack outing to the Denison Bioreserve for a little early autumn hiking on the Sunday before, 2:00 pm Sept. 14.
Help us get the word out about Cub Scouting, and Granville's Super Pack 3! We had a marvelous Hog Roast last week, gave the Licking County Food Pantry Network half a ton of much needed canned goods and donations, and are preparing for another great year of community service, rank advancement, and growing up smarter and wiser . . . which includes all us adults! We learn so much from the kids, which is why signing up adult volunteers is a great opportunity this time of year, too.
If you or anyone you know has any questions, please feel free to call me or Al, or check the pack blog linked below. (And if you want to buy a Cub Scout shirt, Cornell's on the north side of Newark's Courthouse Square has a good selection, and sells the patches for the council, the big red "3", and books for older ranks through Webelos and the Scout Handbook for the Web IIs.)
Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill
587-4245
http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com
Friday, August 29, 2008
Remembering Tim Haley
Pack 3 family --
Please forward this message to your den families, and we will have a message coming out this afternoon for you to forward as well about our Fall Recruitment drive next Thursday.
Tim Haley and his wife Renee were often at Pack events with their sons (two in Cubs, Brandon and Tristan, and the younger boy Devon); they came out to Cub Day Camp last June and Tim had been part of the last two years' whitewater trips down to West Virgina.
Tim died on Tuesday after falling ill on a training exercise for his SWAT team with the Columbus Police. More of that story can be found here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26440428/
His police department colleagues in Columbus and from all over Ohio are working on arrangements for the funeral service, with the following details from Schoedinger Funeral Home:
Remembering
Timothy A. Haley
Visitation
September 2, 2008 2-4pm and 6-8pm
Visitation Location
Schoedinger - East - Chapel
Service
Date Time
September 3, 2008 11:00am
Service Location
Vineyard Church of Columbus
6000 Cooper Road Westerville, Ohio
* * *
We will send a "Cub Scout blue & gold" wreath to the funeral services on behalf of Tim's Scouting family, and are working to stay in touch with what family needs for support and service -- which are largely well in hand right now, but we will continue to work on this kind of support as the school and Scouting year continues.
Here’s a link to Lifeline of Ohio, which is an independent, non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and coordinate the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation in 38 Ohio counties, including Licking and Franklin. Since Tim was an organ donor, his fellow den parents believe that Renee (Tim's wife) would appreciate a monetary donation in his honor to this organization.
http://www.lifelineofohio.org/contact/makedonation.aspx
If you'd like to send your donations to the Pack, the Pack will pass a combined donation to Lifeline of Ohio.
Other updates about the family fund and support already in the works can be found at:
http://www.odmp.org/officer/19533-police-officer-timothy-a.-haley
http://www.columbuspolice.org/default.htm
Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill
http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com
Please forward this message to your den families, and we will have a message coming out this afternoon for you to forward as well about our Fall Recruitment drive next Thursday.
Tim Haley and his wife Renee were often at Pack events with their sons (two in Cubs, Brandon and Tristan, and the younger boy Devon); they came out to Cub Day Camp last June and Tim had been part of the last two years' whitewater trips down to West Virgina.
Tim died on Tuesday after falling ill on a training exercise for his SWAT team with the Columbus Police. More of that story can be found here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26440428/
His police department colleagues in Columbus and from all over Ohio are working on arrangements for the funeral service, with the following details from Schoedinger Funeral Home:
Remembering
Timothy A. Haley
Visitation
September 2, 2008 2-4pm and 6-8pm
Visitation Location
Schoedinger - East - Chapel
Service
Date Time
September 3, 2008 11:00am
Service Location
Vineyard Church of Columbus
6000 Cooper Road Westerville, Ohio
* * *
We will send a "Cub Scout blue & gold" wreath to the funeral services on behalf of Tim's Scouting family, and are working to stay in touch with what family needs for support and service -- which are largely well in hand right now, but we will continue to work on this kind of support as the school and Scouting year continues.
Here’s a link to Lifeline of Ohio, which is an independent, non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and coordinate the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation in 38 Ohio counties, including Licking and Franklin. Since Tim was an organ donor, his fellow den parents believe that Renee (Tim's wife) would appreciate a monetary donation in his honor to this organization.
http://www.lifelineofohio.org/contact/makedonation.aspx
If you'd like to send your donations to the Pack, the Pack will pass a combined donation to Lifeline of Ohio.
Other updates about the family fund and support already in the works can be found at:
http://www.odmp.org/officer/19533-police-officer-timothy-a.-haley
http://www.columbuspolice.org/default.htm
Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill
http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Welcome Parents of New Cub Scouts!
You'll find an assortment of links to the right to learn more about Scouting -- Cub Scouts for 1st through 5th grade, Boy Scouts from March of 5th grade on through high school to age 18, and Venturing for young men and women age 14 to 21.
We are Cub Scout Pack 3, with over 20 dens from all age levels: Tiger/1, Wolf/2, Bear/3, and Webelos/4&5. To see a bit of what we do through an average year, scroll down and use the archive links to look back over our activities and events in recent years. And you'll see the flyer text below coming home with your son or posted around town -- pass it along!
* * *
Granville Super Pack 3
New Cub Scout Information Night
for Parents and Family
Thursday, Sept. 4
Granville Elementary School
7:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room
If your son is interested in joining Cub Scouts,
the Pack 3 leadership is offering an
Information & Registration Night
to answer all your questions!
Dues & national registration are $40 for the year
($12 for a year's worth of Boy's Life magazine)
That covers all costs for all activities for your son.
1st graders are Tiger Cubs, 2nd Wolf Cubs, 3rd Bear Cubs
4th & 5th are Webelos Scouts
Pack info is at http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com
If you can't attend, call Cubmaster Al Dantzer, 587-1702
or Chairman Jeff Gill, 587-4245
* * *
We are Cub Scout Pack 3, with over 20 dens from all age levels: Tiger/1, Wolf/2, Bear/3, and Webelos/4&5. To see a bit of what we do through an average year, scroll down and use the archive links to look back over our activities and events in recent years. And you'll see the flyer text below coming home with your son or posted around town -- pass it along!
* * *
Granville Super Pack 3
New Cub Scout Information Night
for Parents and Family
Thursday, Sept. 4
Granville Elementary School
7:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room
If your son is interested in joining Cub Scouts,
the Pack 3 leadership is offering an
Information & Registration Night
to answer all your questions!
Dues & national registration are $40 for the year
($12 for a year's worth of Boy's Life magazine)
That covers all costs for all activities for your son.
1st graders are Tiger Cubs, 2nd Wolf Cubs, 3rd Bear Cubs
4th & 5th are Webelos Scouts
Pack info is at http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com
If you can't attend, call Cubmaster Al Dantzer, 587-1702
or Chairman Jeff Gill, 587-4245
* * *
Monday, August 25, 2008
Pack 3 Hog Roast
Your support of the Licking County Food Pantry Network at the Hog Roast resulted in eight large boxes worth of canned goods and pasta, plus $30 of donations, all of which looks something like this:
If you have pictures that don't add up to more than 20MG per send, send 'em to me at knapsack77_@_gmail_dot_com.
If you have pictures that don't add up to more than 20MG per send, send 'em to me at knapsack77_@_gmail_dot_com.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
In this week's Granville Sentinel (8-21-08)
Notes From My Knapsack 8-21-08
Jeff Gill
Get a Peace of Scouting
This Saturday, Granville’s own Super Pack 3, our Cub Scouting organization, will have their start of the school year picnic out at Infirmary Mound Park.
Aug. 23 at 3:00 pm the lawn chairs and shady canopies will unfurl around the bounce houses and food tents back behind the horse show arena, and a few hundred Cubs and Scouts and little brothers and sisters (plus parents) will say hello to a new school year of Cub Scouting (and a hog will end his year, with our sincere appreciation shown in bbq sauce).
First graders are Tiger Cubs, and from those newest Scouts to the Webelos ready to make the jump in March to Boy Scouts in Fifth grade, we have over 150 young men in Super Pack 3.
The normal pack meeting, the gathering of the whole shebang, is at 7 pm on third Thursdays right through May, but the heart of Scouting is the small group: dens in Cub Scouts, patrols in Boy Scouts. Each grade has a “rank,” Tigers in First, Woves in Second, Bears in Third, and Webelos in Fourth and Fifth. And each rank has three to five dens (Pack 3 had 21 dens last year), which is where the real Scouting program happens, learning about the outdoors, themselves, and what it means to be a citizen and a leader among your peers.
The Scouting Movement goes back to 1907, 1910 in the US, and really to May of 1900, when the entire British Empire went crazy over good news in a very bad year. The Boer War had gone badly for England in South Africa, and a small outpost had been cut off and assumed overrun. It turned out that Mafeking was holding out against overwhelming odds, and on May 18, 1900, a relief column made it to the city and commanding officer Robert Baden-Powell.
Baden-Powell, or B-P as he was known by both friends and respected enemies, returned to a hero’s welcome, and the startling news that his book written for soldiers, “Aids To Scouting,” was selling like hotcakes among young boys (and girls) back home, with “B-P Clubs” starting in various towns (think Michael Phelps and swim clubs).
B-P was actually disturbed by this – he had not written the book for children, and knew that romanticism of warfare was not what young people needed. On the other hand, he saw so many city kids new to the military come into the wilderness helpless, starving where food was handy and dying of thirst where water was available. If kids thought heat came from furnaces and food from grocery stores, what would you expect?
So he turned down a cushy spot in the military bureaucracy, retired a General, and spent two years doing research and writing (in Windmill Cottage next to Wimbledon, which I’m told you can still visit). Then he told his publisher, eager to hit the shelves while his fame was still remembered, that he wouldn’t sell his scheme until he tried it himself.
B-P called his new plan “Peace Scouts,” and used the “patrol method” to deliver character formation and leadership development through outdoor education, with a focus on learning by doing, not adults standing up talking unless it was storytelling. And he did one thing that some still think controversial – he kept uniforms as a central feature of his program.
Uniforms weren’t about militarism, but about uniformity. Because the test run of his new book, “Scouting For Boys,” was to bring 22 young men to an island off the English coast, 11 from the city, and 11 from the small towns and countryside, 11 from some level of privilege and 11 from humbler backgrounds. The Scout uniform was meant, and still means that all the boys are on a level playing field, with only their individual achievements marked with “merit badges” and “activity awards” which they earned by competing against . . . themselves.
August 1, 1907, these 22 boys and three adults spent two weeks testing out “Scouting For Boys,” and the program they began there now serves 38 million young men and women all over the world, in over 200 countries (basically, every country but Cuba and China).
The program gave birth to not only Boy Scouts but Girl Guides, called Girl Scouts in this country, and in 1930 the junior level, Cub Scouting was formally organized. The nation with the largest total number of Scouts in all phases? Nope, not the USA, which “only” has 7.5 million registered – that would be Indonesia, with over 8 million young men and women in Scouting.
But you can just come out to Infirmary Mound Park Saturday afternoon! Or e-mail me at knapsack77@gmail.com.
[contents of pdf to den leaders follow -- ]
3rd Annual Pig Roast Granville Cub Scouts Super Pack 3 Saturday, August 23rd
(1st Saturday after school starts)
3 pm to 7 pm
(dinner starts around 3:30)
Infirmary Mound Park
(Follow the signs to the Horse Arena)
Free for each Cub and Boy Scout and his family!
For EACH Scout and EACH family member attending,
PLEASE BRING one canned-food item, all of which the
Pack will donate to the Licking County Food Pantry.
You may also want to bring lawn chairs, a picnic blanket,
portable table, portable gazebo/canopy, etc.
The Pack will provide food and drinks, tableware, live music,
inflatable bounce houses, and a few other fun things.
The menu includes roasted pork, hot dogs, salad, baked
beans, chips, dessert, lemonade, bottled water, & soda pop.
Jeff Gill
Get a Peace of Scouting
This Saturday, Granville’s own Super Pack 3, our Cub Scouting organization, will have their start of the school year picnic out at Infirmary Mound Park.
Aug. 23 at 3:00 pm the lawn chairs and shady canopies will unfurl around the bounce houses and food tents back behind the horse show arena, and a few hundred Cubs and Scouts and little brothers and sisters (plus parents) will say hello to a new school year of Cub Scouting (and a hog will end his year, with our sincere appreciation shown in bbq sauce).
First graders are Tiger Cubs, and from those newest Scouts to the Webelos ready to make the jump in March to Boy Scouts in Fifth grade, we have over 150 young men in Super Pack 3.
The normal pack meeting, the gathering of the whole shebang, is at 7 pm on third Thursdays right through May, but the heart of Scouting is the small group: dens in Cub Scouts, patrols in Boy Scouts. Each grade has a “rank,” Tigers in First, Woves in Second, Bears in Third, and Webelos in Fourth and Fifth. And each rank has three to five dens (Pack 3 had 21 dens last year), which is where the real Scouting program happens, learning about the outdoors, themselves, and what it means to be a citizen and a leader among your peers.
The Scouting Movement goes back to 1907, 1910 in the US, and really to May of 1900, when the entire British Empire went crazy over good news in a very bad year. The Boer War had gone badly for England in South Africa, and a small outpost had been cut off and assumed overrun. It turned out that Mafeking was holding out against overwhelming odds, and on May 18, 1900, a relief column made it to the city and commanding officer Robert Baden-Powell.
Baden-Powell, or B-P as he was known by both friends and respected enemies, returned to a hero’s welcome, and the startling news that his book written for soldiers, “Aids To Scouting,” was selling like hotcakes among young boys (and girls) back home, with “B-P Clubs” starting in various towns (think Michael Phelps and swim clubs).
B-P was actually disturbed by this – he had not written the book for children, and knew that romanticism of warfare was not what young people needed. On the other hand, he saw so many city kids new to the military come into the wilderness helpless, starving where food was handy and dying of thirst where water was available. If kids thought heat came from furnaces and food from grocery stores, what would you expect?
So he turned down a cushy spot in the military bureaucracy, retired a General, and spent two years doing research and writing (in Windmill Cottage next to Wimbledon, which I’m told you can still visit). Then he told his publisher, eager to hit the shelves while his fame was still remembered, that he wouldn’t sell his scheme until he tried it himself.
B-P called his new plan “Peace Scouts,” and used the “patrol method” to deliver character formation and leadership development through outdoor education, with a focus on learning by doing, not adults standing up talking unless it was storytelling. And he did one thing that some still think controversial – he kept uniforms as a central feature of his program.
Uniforms weren’t about militarism, but about uniformity. Because the test run of his new book, “Scouting For Boys,” was to bring 22 young men to an island off the English coast, 11 from the city, and 11 from the small towns and countryside, 11 from some level of privilege and 11 from humbler backgrounds. The Scout uniform was meant, and still means that all the boys are on a level playing field, with only their individual achievements marked with “merit badges” and “activity awards” which they earned by competing against . . . themselves.
August 1, 1907, these 22 boys and three adults spent two weeks testing out “Scouting For Boys,” and the program they began there now serves 38 million young men and women all over the world, in over 200 countries (basically, every country but Cuba and China).
The program gave birth to not only Boy Scouts but Girl Guides, called Girl Scouts in this country, and in 1930 the junior level, Cub Scouting was formally organized. The nation with the largest total number of Scouts in all phases? Nope, not the USA, which “only” has 7.5 million registered – that would be Indonesia, with over 8 million young men and women in Scouting.
But you can just come out to Infirmary Mound Park Saturday afternoon! Or e-mail me at knapsack77@gmail.com.
[contents of pdf to den leaders follow -- ]
3rd Annual Pig Roast Granville Cub Scouts Super Pack 3 Saturday, August 23rd
(1st Saturday after school starts)
3 pm to 7 pm
(dinner starts around 3:30)
Infirmary Mound Park
(Follow the signs to the Horse Arena)
Free for each Cub and Boy Scout and his family!
For EACH Scout and EACH family member attending,
PLEASE BRING one canned-food item, all of which the
Pack will donate to the Licking County Food Pantry.
You may also want to bring lawn chairs, a picnic blanket,
portable table, portable gazebo/canopy, etc.
The Pack will provide food and drinks, tableware, live music,
inflatable bounce houses, and a few other fun things.
The menu includes roasted pork, hot dogs, salad, baked
beans, chips, dessert, lemonade, bottled water, & soda pop.
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