Pack 121 Anchorage Alaska

Pack 123 meets during the school year usually on the third Thursday of the month at 6:45 at St John United Methodist Church 1801 O'Malley Rd.

Dens meet at various times and locations.

PACK 123 Introduction Night
Where: St John United Methodist Church
When: Thursday September 2 at 7pm

Cub Car Derby!
Thursday May 13 at 6:30
at Service High sledding hill. This is a potluck party. The Pack will bring hot dogs, buns and something to drink.

PACK MEETINGS 2010

January:

This is NOT a pack meeting but may be fun for your Cub Scout:
Pinewood Derby Clinic at Lowes Mid-Town (Tudor Road)
Saturday, Jan. 30th, 11 am - 1 pm

February:

February 11: Practice Pinewood Derby at St. John's 6:30 - 8:00 Test run your cars, bring light tools to fine tune them. If parents want to get Down and Derby, you can race cars YOU make at this event.

February 14 Scout Sunday and Pancake Breakfast St. John will be honoring Scout Sunday on February 14th. We're invited to the 11am service so that the church can get to know us. The Boy Scout troop sponsored by St. John (Troop 210) will be holding a pancake breakfast that morning and it would be great to have the cubs there.

February 25 (Pinewood Derby races!)

Race Master Dana Lowther sends two on their way.

Two fast cars race to the finish.

Here's the lineup of cars for the voting for the Fastest Looking,
The Most Creative and the best Cub Scout Theme.

March:

March 18 Regular Pack Meeting Blue & Gold

April:

April 15: Regular Pack meeting

April 22: Webelo II's will crossover to Boy Scouts.

Dylan, Ry, Sid, Jared, Chase and Matthew crossed over from Webelos to Boy Scouts.

The boys also earned the Arrow of Light.
We celebrated that by sending their arrows flaming far across the tundra!

Here Sid lets sale an inferno with the assistance of Den Leader Clint Lentfer.

May:

Cub Cars down the Service High sledding hill.
Our usual 3d Thursday meeting lands on the last day of school so we reschduled it to May 13.

May 22, 23, 24 2010 Celebrate 100 Years of Scouting in America in Seward Alaska

Some Helpful Links

GENERAL INFO : A great place to find clear, concise and official Cub Scout info is here: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Leaders.aspx

This page has a simple plan for the first few meetings. http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/510-232.pdf

Also, http://www.boyscouttrail.com/cub-scouts/tiger-scouts.asp

FORMS YOU'LL NEED:
Here's the official site with all the forms you'll need.

Tour Permit - Fill this out and fax it in when your den meets other than St. John's

KEEPING TRACK OF THINGS

COMPLETE HISTORY ON 2 PAGES! This lets you keep a summary of all your Cub Scout's achievements, electives, badges etc from Wolf through Webelo II. Very nice!

Below are links to .pdf files you can print out to keep track of what you've done. You can also use these to figure out what parent will do what topic.

TIGERS
DEN Tracking list (for the Den Leader to keep track)
INDIVIDUAL Scout's Tracking List
Here's a page that gives a clear and short presentation of what Tigers need to do to fill their "totem" with beads.

WOLF
DEN Tracking list (for the Den Leader to keep track)
INDIVIDUAL Scout's Tracking List

BEAR
DEN Tracking list (for the Den Leader to keep track)
INDIVIDUAL Scout's Tracking List

WEBELOS
DEN Tracking list (for the Den Leader to keep track)
INDIVIDUAL Scout's Tracking List

This lists above come form spreadsheets posted at http://madsenco.com/scouting.shtml . The Excel sheets are set up with links so tracking is largely automatic.

JOINING PACK 123?

Complete the New Youth Application and the New Adult Application. (O, si quieres, en Espanol: Solicidad para Jovenes y el Solicidad Pra Adultos.)

Here are the answers to some question you may have when you fill out the form:

On the Youth form:

How much do we pay? $15

If we're already getting Boy's Life, do we leave that blank? Leave it blank if you want to stop getting Boy's Life.

The Council is #? 610

I don't have his membership certificate or #. What to do? We have that number. Don't worry about it.

On the Adult form:

What's the Expiration Date?12/31/2010

I'm supposed to have a membership certificate? In theory you're supposed to have your membership card. Each year once the pack's membership paperwork is processed we will print the membership cards and distribute them to the units.

What's the Position Code #? For every position in the BSA there is a 2 letter code. If you look on the 2nd page of the Adult Application on the right center of the page you'll see a Unit Position Code Legend. Here are some relevant codes: Den Leader DL, Assistant Den Leader DA, Tiger Den Leader TL, Webelos Den Leader WA. (Someone should add CA for Assistant Cubmaster because the current CM Cubmaster will be moving on soon!)

Registration fee: $15

Who are the Unit Committee Chair, Charter Organization Head and Scout Executive? The Committee Chair is Sandi Lowther. The Charter Org Rep is Art Carpenter The Scout Executive is Dave Counts.

Celebrate 100 Years of Scouting in America

May 22, 23, 24 2010
Seward Alaska

Learn what it was to be a Cub Scout or Boy Scout 100 years ago.
Learn what was happening in America and Alaska 100 years ago.
See why Seward was a focal point in our history ... the Alaska Railroad, the Iditarod Trail, World War II. Visit the Sea Life Center. Ride the boats trough the Kenai Fjords National Park waters.

Get up close and personal to the Exit Glacier. Hike the Resurrection Bay coastline at low tide to the World War II bunkers at Cains Head. Hike the famous Mt. Marathon.

Reserve your spot by January 31, 2010. Estimated cost $45. (Some events may have addditional fees.)

For more info www.scoutingalaska.org

Making a tool box.