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.)

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!

Cub Scouts Showing Pride and Respect

Click on the picture to see a larger set of photos!

Pack 3 at Granville's 140th Memorial Day

Memorial Day, May 26, and Tiger Night, May 27

Pack 3 will march in the Granville Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 26!

Cubmaster Al will gather us at 10:15 am, on the brick street between Centenary UMC and First Presby; we walk down Broadway to Pearl, down to Maple Grove Cemetery, half-hour program and we're dismissed from there. Some folks (especially older grandparents) go on down to Maple Grove at 9:30 or after and set up their lawn chairs and wait for us there.

For those who know families with kindergarten boys that may want to consider Tiger Cubs next fall, our Tiger night is at Granville Elementary, in the Multi-Purpose Room at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 27. Come and get registered so you start getting all the mailings and info right with the start of the new school year!

Pack Meeting - Last of School Year, Thur. May 15

The Pack leadership decided to pass on Cubmobile this year, since we have so much going on over these next few months.

Pack meeting this Thursday includes our "Dirty Jobs" salute, where parents are invited to come with a quick demo of some job they have or had which has an odd outfit, messy element, or weird twist to it (aim for a 2 minute time frame, please!). Biohazard suits, insulating gloves, wild looking tools -- anything but a bucket of eyeballs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs

Memorial Day parade in Granville is Monday, May 26, lining up between Centenary UMC and First Presbyterian at 10:15 am to walk down to Maple Grove Cemetery for the program -- Cub Day Camp at Camp Falling Rock on June 10-13, 8:30 to 4 pm each day -- July 4th parade from Wildwood Park -- Kickoff Hog Roast at Infirmary Mound Park on Saturday afternoon, August 23rd!

Oh, and Mike Rowe is an Eagle Scout. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe

Weather, Or Not

This has not been a kind year for weather on our Pack 3 special event days -- due to the likelihood of rain, and the need for 150 bales of straw to keep the kids safe, which if we get 'em wet can't be returned so they're ours (giving us 150 useless bales at $3.95 each) . . .

The Cubmobile Race Day is canceled for Saturday, Apr. 19. We will try to reschedule for June 7, but that is entirely tentative based on street availability and straw bales, trailer transport, etc.

Stay tuned, and have a quiet Saturday!