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

Upcoming excitement: Pack Meeting and Holiday Celebration -- Thur., Dec. 14th at 7:00 pm GES Multipurpose Room
All Cubs get their Pinewood Derby car kit at the meeting, with Pinewood events Fri./Sat. Jan. 26-27 at Granville Intermediate on Burg St.
(Check with your den leader about the toy drive that night for Water's Edge Outreach Ministry in Buckeye Lake!)

Mon., Dec. 18 -- Pack 3 at CoCoKey Waterpark, Cherry Valley Road, starting after 10:00 am
($15 for adults and guests, Cubs are free, food provided 5:30 to 7:30 pm)

Sun., Jan. 7 at 5:00 pm -- Pack Ice Skating at Newark Ice Rink, Sharon Valley Road
($2 for adults and guests, Cubs are free)

Thur., Jan. 18 -- Pack Meeting at GES Multipurpose Room, 7:00 pm

LOOKING AHEAD: Blue & Gold Banquet, Sat., Mar. 17 -- Save that evening!