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!