February Committe Meeting

Welcome to the first post of our blog for Pack 38! We have so much information to keep track of, and so much of that is critical to all of you, so let's get started!

Our Blue and Gold dinner is on February 21st at 6:30pm in the MES gym, and our theme is the "Chinese New Year". This will be a potluck dinner so please bring a favorite dish with enough servings for 8-10 people. If you know that your son is due for some awards, please be sure to mention them to your Den Leader so that he/she can get that information to Dave no later than Monday, February 18th, since Dave will need time to actually get the awards in hand.

The Pinewood Derby is also coming up soon and we have some important details pertaining to that, too. On March 6th all cub scout's cars need to be at the fire department between 6:30 and 8pm for weigh-in and to allow our fire fighters to vote on their favorite cars. The cars will remain there until the Derby on Saturday at the MES gym. On Saturday morning, the doors will be opened at 9:30 am to allow for the weigh-in of all cars that will be racing in the open class and to allow everyone to vote on their favorite cars. The weigh-in and voting will close at 10:30am so that the races can start at 11am. Please don't be late! Any items that can be contributed towards our bake sale would be much appreciated, and a lunch of hotdogs, chips, and sodas will be available for a small cost. A few more volunteers are needed for assisting with the Derby so if you're able to help out please call Dave or your Den Leader to find out where you can be put to work!

Our District Scout Expo and Pinewood Derby are being held on March 15th (the times and location TBA) and we are planning on doing bottle rockets that day. If you can start collecting .5 ltr water bottles, cardboard tubes (from paper towels and toilet paper), cone caps, and colored markers for our rockets, that would be great! Four more adult leaders to help with the Expo are also greatly needed, so please let Dave or your Den Leader know if you are able to help with that.

On March 20th we will be having a Webelos Cross Over as well as talking about recycling, to fit our theme of "Litter to Glitter". The boys will have to oppotunity to do a craft for this Pack Meeting so it would help a great deal if you could please start setting aside some of your recycling for this activity. We are hoping for anything that they can use to make something else; the cardboard tubes from paper towels and toilet paper, pop-tart boxes, cereal boxes, juice containers, etc. Be creative! We would like to have enough to give each boy a paper bag of materials and then see what they come up with to build, given what's in the bag.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to post a comment or call Dave.