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
Friday, August 29, 2008
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.
Friday, July 04, 2008
#1 Float - Open Class! (Saturday update)
http://newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=BF&Dato=20080704&Kategori=GRANVILLE&Lopenr=807040805&Ref=PH
Congrats to Cubmaster Al, and the good work of Ken and Chris, along with more than 30 Cubs who came out with their parents and did Pack 3 proud -- great work, guys!
In the article that ran Saturday (and will likely repeat in the Sentinel this Thursday) -- http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080705/NEWS01/807050303&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL --
"Two other first-place float honors were awarded. Granville Cub Scout Pack 3 won first place in the open division with Scouts sitting around a campfire with a lookout tower made of tree limbs.
The top winner in the commercial float class was Granville Studio of Visual Arts, which had its initials, "gsva," on each side, each designed to represent various classic artists and their styles."
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Everybody loves a parade!
[Below is text Cubmaster Al sent around to den leaders, with attached maps -- remember we can't drive around Rt. 16 and enter from the west this year, so getting over to Wildwood Park needs to be done earlier, with the likelihood of some extra traffic back-ups, so don't cut it too close to 10 am! YiS, Jeff]
Everybody loves a parade! Especially when there are Cub Scouts in it.
The July 4th Parade will be on Friday July 4 beginning around 10:30 am.
MEETING AREA:
Cub Pack 3 will meet in front of the restrooms at Wildwood Park on Broadway. We will start gathering there around 8:30 am, and no one will be let into the staging area after 10 am. Judging for the floats will begin at 9am.
We are planning to have a float that will have 8 - 10 Scouts on it. We will also have the Color Guard with two Scouts carrying the flags and two Scouts carrying our banner.
Cub Scouts will be passing out US flags along the parade route. We received funding from American Legion Post 398 for the flags. (American Legion Post 398 was Pack 3's original founding organization in 1940!). We will probably have some candy to pass out as well so we don't hand out all of the flags at once.
FLOAT :
Most of our float set up and decoration will be done at the staging area, so please get there early to help decorate it. We will probably need some Scouts on the float for judging some time after 9am. The float will have a couple of tents, a mock camp fire with Scouts roasting marshmellows, a couple of Scouts with fishing poles and other misc. outdoors scouting items. If you have a small tent that we can use, please call me at 587-1702 immediately.
WHAT TO WEAR:
Scouts please wear your best uniforms!!!! The more in uniform the better, but if no uniform, then at least the Pack t-shirt. And if no uniform or t-shirt - then at least the Scout wearing something presentable. {Any darker blue mostly solid color t-shirt will work - Jeff}
Families, siblings, friends, etc. are welcome to walk with us and parents are encouraged to help keep an eye on our guys and help keep them from getting strung out too far.
Watch the weather, if it looks like rain bring a light weight poncho or umbrella.
WAGONS:
We also need wagons for adults to pull for the flags, coolers, water, and other items. We will be decorating them on site as well - We will have some decorating supplies, but if you can, please bring some as well.
END OF PARADE:
When the parade is over we will be picking up trash along the last part of the parade route from Granger & College to Broadway & Pearl. We will have trash bags and gloves. Please plan for this if at all possible. It will be easy since we will be staged near the end of the parade.
Please call me if you have any questions or if you wish to help in any way (including shuttling folks back to Wildwood from the GES Parking lot.)
Everybody loves a parade! Especially when there are Cub Scouts in it.
The July 4th Parade will be on Friday July 4 beginning around 10:30 am.
MEETING AREA:
Cub Pack 3 will meet in front of the restrooms at Wildwood Park on Broadway. We will start gathering there around 8:30 am, and no one will be let into the staging area after 10 am. Judging for the floats will begin at 9am.
We are planning to have a float that will have 8 - 10 Scouts on it. We will also have the Color Guard with two Scouts carrying the flags and two Scouts carrying our banner.
Cub Scouts will be passing out US flags along the parade route. We received funding from American Legion Post 398 for the flags. (American Legion Post 398 was Pack 3's original founding organization in 1940!). We will probably have some candy to pass out as well so we don't hand out all of the flags at once.
FLOAT :
Most of our float set up and decoration will be done at the staging area, so please get there early to help decorate it. We will probably need some Scouts on the float for judging some time after 9am. The float will have a couple of tents, a mock camp fire with Scouts roasting marshmellows, a couple of Scouts with fishing poles and other misc. outdoors scouting items. If you have a small tent that we can use, please call me at 587-1702 immediately.
WHAT TO WEAR:
Scouts please wear your best uniforms!!!! The more in uniform the better, but if no uniform, then at least the Pack t-shirt. And if no uniform or t-shirt - then at least the Scout wearing something presentable. {Any darker blue mostly solid color t-shirt will work - Jeff}
Families, siblings, friends, etc. are welcome to walk with us and parents are encouraged to help keep an eye on our guys and help keep them from getting strung out too far.
Watch the weather, if it looks like rain bring a light weight poncho or umbrella.
WAGONS:
We also need wagons for adults to pull for the flags, coolers, water, and other items. We will be decorating them on site as well - We will have some decorating supplies, but if you can, please bring some as well.
END OF PARADE:
When the parade is over we will be picking up trash along the last part of the parade route from Granger & College to Broadway & Pearl. We will have trash bags and gloves. Please plan for this if at all possible. It will be easy since we will be staged near the end of the parade.
Please call me if you have any questions or if you wish to help in any way (including shuttling folks back to Wildwood from the GES Parking lot.)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Cub Scout Day Camp Is History
Lots more pictures at the Newark Advocate website, from staff and reader submitted (look under Youth Sports), such as http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckGalleryPhoto&plckPhotoID=48e23b9b-ec84-4d6b-9615-57ca009768ae&plckGalleryID=e3734f49-002d-40cb-a0f0-c3e06f211393
Pack 3 had about two dozen of the record attendance out at Camp Falling Rock, almost 425 Cubs and 48 siblings, plus 120+ registered adults (which Pack 3 provided at least five of on any given day) and many more shuttle drivers and part-time walkers.
Next June we may be looking at split sessions, with Webelos having their own time slot and Tiger/Wolf/Bear Cubs in their own. We surely know that the setting and facilities we used this summer can't handle any more than they did!
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