Upcoming Events & T-Shirts

Pack Meeting -- Annual Toy Drive

Thursday, December 17th

7pm

Please consider donating a new, unwrapped toy to benefit children
served by the Waterʼs Edge Ministry in Buckeye Lake.

There is a special need for toys &games for older children, including teens.

There is typically an over abundance of “Hot Wheels” and stuffed toys.
The toys are made available to the children through the Gift of Love Free Store.

Children come to the store to select a Christmas gift to give their siblings. Your
generosity can help brighten the Christmas season for these children.

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Granville Pack 3 Ice Skating Party

Where: Newark Ice Arena, 936 Sharon Valley Rd.
Date: Sunday, January 3
Time: 5:00 – 6:50pm
Cost: Skate Rental $2.00. Scouts skate rental provided by Pack 3.

If you have your own skates, you skate for free!

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Granville Cub Scouts Super Pack 3 T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale

Last day to order and pay: December 17, 2009 (December Pack Meeting)
Shirts will be delivered at the Pack Meeting on January 21, 2010.

T-shirts (short sleeve and long sleeve) are preshrunk, 100% heavyweight cotton, crew neck.
Sweatshirts are mid-weight, 50/50 cotton/polyester with 1x1 ribbed crew-neck collar and cuffs.

Size Chart
6 – 8 Youth Small
10 – 12 Youth Medium
14 – 16 Youth Large
34 – 36 Adult Small
38 – 40 Adult Medium
42 – 44 Adult Large
46 – 48 Adult Extra Large
50 – 52 Adult 2X Large
54 – 56 Adult 3X Large
58 – 60 Adult 4X Large (l/s and sweatshirt not available)
62 – 64 Adult 5X Large (l/s and sweatshirt not available)

Prices

Short Sleeve T-Shirt $8

Long Sleeve T-Shirt $11

Sweatshirt $13

All orders with payment are due no later than December 17, 2009.
Turn in at the December Pack Meeting or mail/deliver orders to Ken Fisher.
Make all checks payable to “Granville Pack 3”.

Pack 3 Pizza and Pool Party

Sat. Nov. 21, 7:00 to 9:30pm
Licking County YMCA – Newark
Church St. (between 11th and 21st Sts)

Tigers and Wolves – Pool 7:00 to 8:00pm
Bears and Webelos – Pool 8:30 to 9:30pm

Both groups in gym for their other half of the evening

Pizza at 8:00pm
Tigers and Wolves - bring brownies or cookies
Bears and Webelos – bring chips
Every child must have a signed YMCA waiver from a parent

(Click on waiver above for the link!)
Waivers will be available Saturday night

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Apple Butter Days

Pack 3 Scouts were well represented at this year's Apple Butter Days!

You can check out Newark Advocate's Website for some great pictures

(click on Newark Advocate above to get the link!)

Rocket Day Cancelled

Due to high winds and rain Rocket Day is being CANCELLED. A reschedule date is to be determined.

Rocket Day & Apple Butter Days

Don't forget ROCKET DAY is Saturday, October 24th from 3pm to 6pm

at Infirmary Mound Park - Arena Area.

Everyone should have received their rockets at this month's pack meeting.

If you didn't receive yours contact your den leader.

Apple Butter Days is November 7th at Camp Falling Rock!

This is a great family event! Cub Scouts will have the opportunity to throw tomahawks, brand wood, make rope, and participate in other fun activities.

For more information check out the Simon Kenton Council Link ...

http://www.doubleknot.com/registration/calendardetail.asp?ActivityKey=636898

Yorktown 2010 Flyer!

Click to enlarge --

We still have spots open -- if you would like to join us on this fun and memorable family event please contact Ed Hock to register. Ed can be reached at granpack3@gmail.com or 587-7132.

If you want to check out previous Cub Scout adventures aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown follow the Yorktown link on the right side of this blog. There are lots of pictures! And don't forget to check out the U.S.S. Yorktown's website, it is full of information -- http://www.patriotspoint.org/.

New Cub Scout Info Night! Thur., Sept. 10

There will be a Cub Scout Information and Recruitment meeting on Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at Granville Elementary School. Anyone who has a son, in grades 1-5, interested in becoming a Cub Scout should attend this meeting. If you have any questions please contact Ed Hock at granpack3@gmail.com or 587-7132. We look forward to seeing new Cub Scout recruits on the 10th!

Cub Scouts, Stand Up & Be Counted!

CUB SCOUTS -- JOIN IN
Granville's Annual 4th of July
“Mile Long Parade”


(Last year's award winning Pack float!)

MEET: Wildwood Park Entrance
WHEN: 9:30 AM (Broadway will be closed for parade preparations)

Parade Starts at 10:45 AM and the Scouts will be Handing Out Candy and Flags

Contact Brandy Brooks or Ed Hock for any questions
mdbrooks@windstream.net or triciahock@windstream.net

Pack 3 on Memorial Day

Click this link and then make sure to go to the next picture as well!

Somewhat delayed, but still -- kudos!

Final den totals for the popcorn sale this year, better late than never!

Third Place - Tiger Den 2 - $1835.00

Second Place - Bear Den 5 - $1842.00

First Place - Wolf Den 4 - $1920.00

These are totals for popcorn sales and do not include greens.

[Thank you, Mr. DeMent, and awesome job by these three dens! YiS, Jeff]

Cubmobile Winners!

The winners from the Pack 3 Cubmobile races on the 18th:

Tigers:
1st Mason Clark
2nd Bryson Hauenstein
3rd Jimmy Fisher

Wolves:
1st Sammy Benjegerdes
2nd Zack Taylor
3rd Andrew Greenwald

Bears:
1st Nathaniel Carlson
2nd Rick Duffus
3rd Nate Dement

Webelos:
1st Kenny Fisher
2nd Rowan Moore
3rd Jonny Lukins

Cubmobile - Saturday, Apr. 18

Pack 3 Cubmobile Derby
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Location
College Street between Plum and Mulberry Streets

Racing Times
Tigers 9:00 – 10:00
Wolves 10:00 – 11:00
Bears 11:00 – 12:00
Webelos 12:00 – 1:00

Please be there at least 30 minutes before your race starts to register.

BRING HELMETS!
WEAR LONG PANTS!
Drivers are required to wear long pants and a helmet (motorcycle, bicycle, rollerblade, etc).

General Information
All Den Leaders have your cars at the race site by 8:30am.
Each scout will race at least 2 races.
Double Elimination Format.
The cars will be randomly chosen for each scout to race.
Awards will be given to the top 3 drivers in each flight.
We need volunteers to help run the races.

If you have questions, please contact Jerry Lukins, 587-0090.

Don't Miss the Trees For the Forest!

Scouts,

The Kiwanis Club of Granville is planting 1000 trees and packaging seedlings to give out on Earth Day at Granville Schools. All scouts- boys, girls and adults- are welcome to come and help in this service project. Twenty years from now these trees will provide the maple syrup for the annual Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast.

Location: Just off Spring Valley Drive at our staging area alongside the Salt Run Field
Date &Time: Saturday, April 18th starting at 9am we will work until we are done. Probably early afternoon
What to Bring: Work clothes and gloves

The Kiwanis Club of Granville is the chartering organization for both Boy Scout Troop 65 and Cub Scout Pack 3. Please come and help even if you can only stay for a little while.

Here is a link to the google maps location of the event: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=44+spring+valley+drive+granville+oh&sll=40.053718,-82.534811&sspn=0.008754,0.019226&g=spring+valley+drive+granville+oh&ie=UTF8&ll=40.052503,-82.535541&spn=0.008754,0.019226&z=16

Keith
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Keith Duffus
Sales Director
Midwest Data Center
113 Merywen Circle
Granville, OH 43023
www.midwestdatacenter.com
740-334-2383

Training, Online!

http://www.scouting.org/CubScouts/Leaders/Training.aspx

The Centennial Video We Didn't Get To See Tonight

Folks, this is worth seven minutes of your time (but we'll try to show it in April at the Pack meeting in the GES multi-purpose room) --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0yTYog2Mcw

If you clicked the link below for B&G set-up photos, the album is now up to the full 60 shots from the program and awards and crossover ceremony.

Blue & Gold Banquet 2009

Facebook loads my photos about five times as fast as Blogger/Picasa, so to see B&G pics, click on this -- http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62789&id=811054678&l=30de5

I'll load a few later, i promise!

Food Drive pictures -- 8,152 lbs.!

You can click here to see all i've got to add (they load large files much faster at Facebook than Blogspot, and i think this link should work for non-Facebookers, let me know if not).

Over 4 tons!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=61913&id=811054678&ref=mf

Food Drive Success!

Pack 3, i hope to have an update on Monday, March 9, with the total weight of canned goods we brought in for the Food Pantry Network -- stay tuned!

But we have some great photos thanks to the Lukins:

Press Release for next week's Sentinel (Mar. 5)

This Saturday morning, March 7, Cub Scout Pack 3 will be roaming throughout the Granville area looking for the brown paper grocery bags with yellow flyers on front porches, doorsteps, or by garages, set out by you with canned goods for the Licking County Food Pantry Network.

Last Saturday, we covered as much of the area as we safely could; some of you may have been missed, and if so, we're sorry! The truck where the various Cub Scout dens will take the collected items will be down by Raccoon Creek at the Granville Market from 9 am to 1 pm on Saturday, and feel free to drop your bag off if you wish. Others may have purchased the bags loaded by Cub Scouts this past week at Granville Market, and left them there, and those will be put aboard the truck as well.

This is obviously a critical time for food pantries all across the country, and certainly in Licking County. If you would like to know more about this food drive, Pack 3, or the Licking County Food Pantry Network, please click to http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com, and the Cub Scouts thank you for your help in caring for those who are hungry. We are proud to serve along with you!

Direct link to LCFPN site --
http://www.foodpantrynetwork.net

Link to Feb. 27 story on Operation Feed for LCFPN this year --
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090226/UPDATES01/90226035/1051/COMMUNITIES01

Dens at Work to Serve!

Backstage at the community theater of Granville that is more generally known as Ross Market --

Food Drive distribution of bags this Saturday, Feb. 27; pick up next Sat., Mar. 7! These are the bags people will buy at Granville Market and leave there for us to pick up next week.

Scouting In Service To Our Community

Here's what's going out to 3000+ doors this Saturday morning, Feb. 28:


Help Granville Cub Scout Pack 3 Stock the Licking County Food Pantry

2009 FOOD DRIVE
If you can help please place non-perishable food items in this bag and leave it on your doorstep on Sat. March 8th by 9 AM

For more info on where this aid is going, see: http://www.foodpantrynetwork.net

God & Country Awards

UPDATE - Our God & Country team served over 175 large slices of handmade pizza to worshipers between the two Ash Wednesday services at Centenary; they greeted, served, and cleaned up along with their culinary endeavors, with a little lesson about being church and working together learned as we made the first three big 'zas for ourselves.

An awesome evening!



[This is blogmaster's privilege, but it not only includes 6 of our own Pack 3 Cubs, but also two Troop 65 young men and a number of our local Girl Scouts; copied from Centenary UMC's newsletter, and if anyone has news of our Cubs earning their religious award anywhere else, let me know and i'll post that!]

God and Country Awards

"God and Country" awards are an independent program for youth in Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Campfire, and 4-H groups. They are designed so they can fulfill requirements for understanding and acting on their religious beliefs through their home congregation, and earn the award which is then worn as part of their uniform or recognitions in the program where they are active.

Centenary is very proud of fifteen youth who have worked in the weeks leading up to Lent to earn their Scouting religious awards; they met weekly and completed their work by serving and cleaning up the Ash Wednesday dinner between services. They are listed by group as the religious awards program is designed for certain grade levels, and they may earn each level's insignia as they grow up, some achieving all four, concluding with God and Life for 9-12 graders.

God and Me (grades 1-3)

Austin Anderson
Rick Duffus
Rose Duffus
Annika Lee
Aaron Lehner
Lauren Schwab
Owen Schwab

God and Family (grades 4-5)

Sydney Foe
Chris Gill
Thomas Hill
Forrest Lee
Samantha Lehner

God and Church (grades 6-8)

Will Emery
Leanna Lehner
Adam Miller

Many thanks to Jeff Gill, Diane Lee, and Donna Hill for their leadership and mentorship in this journey, and to all the parents who read through Luke's gospel at home with their youth, and helped out in many small & significant ways. The insignia will be presented in worship at 9:20 and 11 on Scouting Sunday for our church, March 15, and all Girl & Boy Scouts are invited to wear their uniform to worship that day to help honor these youth.

Blue & Gold Flyer

GRANVILLE CUB SCOUT PACK 3
2009 Blue & Gold Dinner
Saturday, March 14, 2009
5 to 7 PM at the Granville Intermediate School


All you can eat spaghetti dinner!
Includes salad, bread, beverages, and dessert.

Fees:

Cub Scouts – free
Adults (age 11 & up) - $7
Siblings (ages 5 to 10) - $3
Siblings (ages 4 and under) - free

**** Payment due March 2, 2009 ****
A head count is needed by this date so that we can accurately order the proper amount of food and the number of tables to be rented.

Note: After March 2nd, or at the door, the cost is $10 per adult and $5 per sibling.
Please complete this form and return it with your payment to your Den Leader
before the March 2, 2009 Leader’s meeting.

Make checks payable to: Granville Cub Pack 3
Family Name:
Cub Scout Name(s):
Additional number attending: adults siblings
Payment ($7 per adult & $3 per sibling ages 5 to 10):

Paper Airplane Fly-In

This is what ensues when 100 Cubs and a bunch of siblings (plus a few parents) make paper airplanes and fly them at a Pack meeting . . . the pack meeting which is "officially" Cubmaster Al's and my last ones "in charge." Asst. Cubmaster Ed will take over after Blue & Gold next month! So Al got to do his favorite airplane mass flight and i got to lead both "German Orchestra" and "Up In the Air, Junior Birdman."

You are fortunate indeed that no one took pictures during "German Orchestra"! Thanks to Jerry & Nicole Lukins for taking pictures and passing them along to me. Click individual pics for larger versions.

[Also posted in higher res with "tags" at my personal Facebook page - jbg]

Annual Cub Scout Pack Three Food Drive

From the 2007 Food Drive Pick-up day

[this is our official "press release," and we will be handing out bags and flyers to the dens at this Thursday's pack meeting, with the intention that most dens will distribute stapled flyer/bags to homes in their assigned area on the morning of Sat., Feb. 28.]

Saturday March 7th is the date of the Annual Granville Cub Scout Pack 3 Food Drive.
Area Cub Scouts will be passing out grocery bags donated by the Ross’ Granville Market to area homes the week prior. Residents are asked to fill the bags with nonperishable food items and set the bags on their front porch at 9:00 a.m. on the 7th. Scouts will canvass the neighborhoods and bring the bags to the Granville Ross’ Market parking lot between 10 a.m. and 1p.m. Licking County Food Pantry will have their truck at Granville Ross’ Market for the collected bags. Residents may drop off their bags themselves if they wish.

The Granville Market will also feature pre-packed bags containing $5 worth of nonperishable food items, which will be packed by scouts themselves. Bags that are purchased at the market may be brought home for collection or left at the market and will be picked up on the 7th.

This is an important year for the Food Drive. Chuck Moore of the Licking County Food Pantry stated, “The pantry is serving 24% more meals than last year. Every month the pantry serves 2500 households.” The Granville Area Cub Scouts look forward to this opportunity to help others.

For more information please check our website at http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com.

Upcoming events . . .

Pack 3 dens and families: the annual community food drive is on the Saturdays of Feb. 28 & March 7, and the Blue & Gold Banquet is Sat., March 14th -- watch this blog for flyers and info.

Meanwhile, as the BSA 2010/Centennial observances are gearing up check this out:



Info at: http://www.scouting.org/Media/PressReleases/2008/20081020.aspx

General info about the Scouting Centennial at:

http://ww2.scouting.org/100years/100years/

The very definition of excitement!

Sentinel Article on the Pinewood Derby

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090128/COMMUNITIES02/901280319/1052/COMMUNITIES02

The Flag, a Vet of WWI, and a Classroom Project

(Frank Buckles at the White House last July, who turns 108 on Feb. 1)

This story is so cool to share with the boys in your dens, as they learn about the flag and how it came to be the object of respect and honor that it is today -- http://www.freep.com/article/20090129/NEWS05/901290360

I had heard the story of Bob Heft and his youthful redesign of the flag for 50 stars before, but not with the grade fix detail, let alone the wonderful act of service for our last World War One vet in the US.

Thank you Newark Advocate (and Michael Lehmkuhle)

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=BF&Dato=20090124&Kategori=GRANVILLE&Lopenr=901240803
An album of 31 more pictures!

Pinewood Derby Moments

Here's a sampling of photos from the Jan. 24, 2009 Cub Scout Pack 3 Pinewood Derby. If you go to the Facebook page for Jeff Gill (group tag Denison) you can find more, and with captions.

Race results will be posted here as soon as i get them! [UPDATE: Results should appear at the bottom of this post]


















Courtesy of Tom Esch, race marshal:

Here are the top four finishers in each of this year's Pinewood Derby Races.


Brownies and Daisies:
1 9.38 Bruck, Riley
2 9.435 Unkefer, Hannah
3 9.51 Sutliff, Corrine
4 9.692 Miller, Danielle


Juniors:
1 9.513 Bruck, Taylor
2 9.626 Zehnal, Claire
3 9.638 Crock, Emily
4 9.646 Saigh, Natalie

Tigers:
1 9.629 Fisher, Jimmy
2 9.635 Hauenstein, Bryson
3 9.654 Wagner, Connor
4 9.696 Kunar, Mitchell

Wolves:
1 9.318 Sutliff, Garrett
2 9.532 Maag, Bradley
3 9.551 Blacksten, David
4 9.654 Hock, Nathaniel

Bears:
1 9.534 Windley, Nicholas
2 9.638 Miller, Kevin
3 9.641 Crock, Paul
4 9.734 Miller, Nathan

Webelos I:
1 9.456 Unkefer, Nicholas
2 9.688 Budd, Max
3 9.716 Lukins, Jonny
4 9.776 Zangmeister, Ty

Webelos II:
1 9.428 Fulan, Nicholas
2 9.675 Kosling, Will
3 9.782 Dantzer, Henry
4 9.976 Thompson, Matthew

Pack Championship:
1 9.506 Sutliff, Garrett
2 9.533 Windley, Nicholas
3 9.556 Unkefer, Nicholas
4 9.7 Hauenstein, Bryson

BSA Troop 65:
1 9.292 Wagner, John Allen
2 9.684 Brown, Ethan
3 9.745 Madden, Austen
4 9.811 Ridenour, Ben

Open:
1 9.233 Sutliff, Christian
2 9.413 Ridenour, Ben
3 9.426 Smith, Elliott
4 9.499 Meikle, Lincoln

Pinewood Update from Cubmaster Al

Granville Super Pack 3

Don't wait until the last minute to make those cars!

Granville Lumber is a great resource for getting your initial rough cut down. They enjoy offering this free service to our Cubs and to the Girl Scouts. It really helps to have some good clean and precise initial cuts.

(of course plastic wood works great for nicks and boo boos).

Remember that although parents can help, it is better to let the scout do most of the work. The boys take great pride in this. If there are frustrated parents that are mechanical engineers (at heart), then make your own car and race in the Open Class rather than racing against the kids.

Making a car side by side with your son can be a fun and rewarding learning experience. Each year, by actually doing it, the boys become more comfortable with each piece of the car and with the assembly.

Have fun. Please keep it fair and honest.

No Liquid lubricants - they are against the rules and they give a car a dramatic unfair advantage. Only the dry graphite or moly powdered lubes please.

The Friday open track and open scales are an important part of the car setup - try to make that if at all possible.

And we welcome any adults who wish to help set up the track and the event - GIS Friday at 4pm

Have a great week and we will see you on race day!

Al

January Pack Meeting - Cancelled!

Our standard procedure is that no school means no pack meeting (among other things, the building is likely to be locked and cold). Granville schools are closed for Thursday, Jan. 15, so the monthly third Thursday pack meeting is cancelled. Friday isn't looking too good, either . . .

For Pinewood Derby info leading to weight testing Friday, Jan. 23 and racing on Saturday, Jan. 24, scroll on down for the flyer text, copied at earlier posts. We will continue to post hints and tips here over the next week and a half for Pinewood car crafting -- with sandpaper and model paints, it's never too late!

(Also, info on the Feb. 8 hockey game in Columbus for OSU can be found by scrolling down into the December pack meeting post.)

Meanwhile, here's some quick tips courtesy of Buckskin Council, Charleston WV:

Pinewood Derby Tips and Hints

FRICTION: One of the best ways to eliminate friction is graphite. A good dosage may not do wonders for the paint job, but it will for your axles (hopefully you didn't glue the axles too far in or that will impair the wheel). Most axles in the kits have burrs on them around the head. De-burr the axles with a small file.

WEIGHT: It boils down to this, the closer you get to 5 ounces without going over, the better off you will be. The placement of the weight on the car (front or back) is an item which has been argued for years. Weight toward the rear seems to work best, along as the front wheels track straight. Just remember – gravity is the only power these cars use.

AERODYNAMICS: There are just about as many arguments on this topic as there are Pinewood Derby racers. It has been tried, several times, to race a car, as is, straight out of the box with no cutting, shaping or painting of the wood. These cars seem to perform, on average, just as well as the low, sleek, aerodynamic models. The bottom line is: Let the boy design the car, and help him achieve his design! If the adult wants to tinker with the car, tinker with the wheels and axles. The car design has almost no bearing on the outcome of the race.

ALIGNMENT: Make sure that the car's wheels are placed as straight as possible. Place the car on the floor and roll it about 8 to 10 feet. The car should go in a straight line. Adjust with the axle placement to make double sure the car will roll straight.

WHEELS and AXLES: Make sure that the axles are glued securely to the wood. Also ensure that the wheel is not glued to the axle. The wheels are single most important part. Make sure the wheels are on straight and turn freely.

DESIGN / SHAPE: The finish line uses electronic infrared sensors to detect the car moving across the finish line. These sensors are directly centered in each lane of the track. The starting gate of the track uses a bolt in the center of the track. This is to ensure that the length of roll each car will have to the finish line sensors will be the same for each car no matter what the shape of each car is. Keep a high track clearance so that nothing has a chance to rub on the underside of the car. Remember that the cars straddle a wood lath as they roll down the track.

PAINT: Let your imagination run wild!! Whether you use 50 coats of hand rubbed lacquer, olive drab or no paint at all, all it will do is affect the looks of your car. It will not run any faster or slower whether it's red, blue, green, yellow, flames, no-flames, or pink polka-dots!! Let the boy paint the car. Drips of spray paint don't slow the car down.

ACCESSORIES: Glue those Lego and Pokemon characters in! Anything that falls off in the race stays off. This can lighten you car enough to slow it down.

For much, much more, see http://derbytalk.com