Holiday Party 12/4

Cub Scout Pack 351

Holiday Party

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Where:            Methodist Church CAMP (top of Elm St.)

Time:              3:00-5:00pm

What:              Awards, Games & Activities, Potluck

Potluck Items by Den:

Tigers - Dessert or Drinks
Wolves - Main or Side Dish
Bears - Main or Side Dish

Webelos - Dessert or Drinks

Activity Details:

--"Gingerbread" Houses - Please have boys bring small milk cartons from school.
--Games –Gift “Un-Wrapping” Relay race, Marshmallow Toss & Candy Cane Fishing & "Snow" Shoveling
--Red Cross Holiday Mail For Heroes - We'll have a table set up to make/sign holiday cards for service members, veterans, and their families.

Questions?: Becky Johnson 760-249-6874 rdukes412@hotmail.com or

Christi McKain 760-249-5860 pack351ww@verizon.net

Vasquez Rocks Hike - All Dens Welcome 10/26

We will be hiking around the famous Vasquez Rocks (used in many many Movie/TV productions) in Aqua Dulce. This hike will earn the boys their Vasquez Rock Geologic Hike patch as well as fulfill some requirements for the Jungle Book Award - Kaa Segment. It also can count towards regular achievements and electives such as Buddy System Requirements, Hike with your Den/Pack, and practicing Leave No Trace guidelines.

Wednesday, October 26th (minimum day)
Meet at Vasquez Rocks @ 2:30pm

Directions:

Take 138 West through Littlerock and Pearblossom. Make the slight left onto Pearblossom Hwy. This will turn into Sierra Hwy. Take this to the 14 freeway. Enter the 14S and continue about 11 miles and exit on Escondido Canyon Rd. You’ll make a left off the ramp and a right onto Escondido Canyon Rd. The entrance is at 10700 Escondido Canyon Rd. It’s on the left and there should be a sign for Vasquez Rocks. Once you get into the park, make a left onto the main dirt road and follow it to the large open parking area.

Parking:
We're going to meet at the larger parking lot in the center of the park because parking areas at the entrance are pretty small. We'll then hike along the history trail back toward the entrance and catch the geology trail on our way back up the PCT to our starting point. Parking is free and doesn't require any kind of pass. There are chemical toilets in the parking area.

Uniform/What to Bring:Please wear your Class B Scout Shirt (green t-shirt) or Uniform Shirt, snacks, water, a jacket, paper & pencil. The hike should only be about 1.5 miles so there will be plenty of time to play on the rocks and explore. The hike should last at least 2 hours.

Award Requirements:The boys need to learn about the geologic information of Vasquez Rocks and the San Andreas Fault. Please make sure you study the handouts at the park or research information before you visit. The kids are supposed to take notes and pictures along the way as well so that each den can make a den report to submit with the award application.

Questions:
Becky Johnson, rdukes412@hotmail.com

Jamboree on the Air

Jamboree on the Air JOTA

San Bernardino County Fairgrounds

October 15 - 16, 2011 Noon to Noon

You can visit this event at any time with your family (we recommend Saturday as the best day)
Events

· Get on the Air - make radio contacts with scouts around the world
· Amateur radio satellite communication
· CW (Morse Code) challenge
· T-Hunt (radio direction finding)
· Radio & electronics displays
· GPS & geocaching challenge
· Work on your Radio and Electronics Merit Badges

Walk-in Visitors
· Walk-ins - $5 (no patch) or $10 with patch
· Tigers, Cubs, & Brownies must be accompanied by their parent.


What is JOTA?
When Scouts want to meet young people from another country, they usually think of attending a World Jamboree. But few people realize that each year more than 400,000 Scouts and Guides “get together” over the airwaves for the annual Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA). Modern technology offers Scouts the exciting opportunity to make friends in other countries without leaving home.
JOTA is an annual event in which Boy and Girl Scouts and Guides from all over the world speak to each other by means of Amateur (ham) Radio. Scouting experiences are exchanged and ideas are shared via radio waves. Since 1958 when the first Jamboree-on-the-Air was held, millions of Scouts have met each other through this event. Many contacts made during JOTA have resulted in pen pals and links between Scout troops that have lasted many years.
With no restrictions on age or on the number of participants, and at little or no expense, JOTA allows Scouts to contact each other by ham radio. The radio stations are operated by licensed amateur radio operators. Many Scouts and leaders hold licenses and have their own stations, but the majority participate in JOTA through stations operated by local radio clubs and individual radio amateurs.

For more information
David Deards (760) 947-2402 RadioGramp@me.com

Scout Stampede & Rodeo

Pack 351 Cub Scouts, Just a Reminder for this weekend...

2011

SHERIFF’S RODEO SCOUT SHOW

& STAMPEDE

California Inland Empire Council, BSA

GLEN HELEN REGIONAL PARK in Devore, CA

SEPTEMBER 23-25, 2011

Cost: $12/person at the Door Saturday

Flag Ceremony Starts at 8:45am Saturday

ACTIVITIES:

The following BSA activities will take place Saturday the 24th from 9:30 am – 3pm:

 Rock Wall Climbing

 Canoeing

 Scout Skills

 Fishing

 Archery

 Merit Badge Midway

 BB Gun Shooting

 Push Cart Race Competition

 Order of the Arrow Village

 Dutch Oven Competition

 Water Park

 Pinewood Derby Contest

 Human Foosball

 Chip Chuckers

 Red Ropes

 Goofy Golf

 Animal Tracks/Map & Compass

THE RODEO:

 All Scouts and Scouters are invited to attend the rodeo qualifications free of charge on

Saturday morning from 9am – noon.

 No one will be permitted in the viewing area without a wristband. For all other shows,

tickets are available for purchase through the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

SWIMMING / WATER PARK:

 Wristbands will be issued at check‐in to the first 250 participants per session. Sessions are

first come‐first served.

 Each session will last 1½ hrs.

 The session times are 9:00, 10:30, 12:00, 1:30, 3:00.

FISHING:

 A state fishing license will be required for anyone 16 years of age or older.

 All those fishing must purchase a county fishing permit on site for $7.

SATURDAY THE 24TH PINEWOOD DERBY CONTEST:

All entries must meet BSA guidelines. Track will be available for unofficial Pinewood Derby racing. ADULTS MAY

PARTICIPATE IN OPEN CLASS FIELD. Entries take place 9am‐ 11am and 1pm‐ 3pm at the Glen Helendade Regional

Park. Bring your friends and join us to see who’ll be the winner! Voting will take place at Saturday night

campfire in the categories listed below.

 Best Design Resembling Food

 Best Design Resembling Animals

 Best Use of Color

 Funniest Model

 Most Original Design

 Best Open Class

DISPLAYS / DEMOSTRATIONS:

 Astronomy

 Sensory Safari‐ 15 minutes presentation every hour on the hour (18 Wheeler bed filled with animal

mounts, skins, horns, antlers, scar & tracks)

 Desert Tortoise Conservation Group

VENDORS:

 Scout Shop

 Carl’s Ice

 Carl’s Jr (Breakfast, lunch & dinner – combo meals available for $5‐7)

 Leather Branding

 CampingMaxx

 Sportsman’s Alliance

Den Meetings are starting!

The bottle rocket event was great! And we have at least 13 new boys in our pack, so welcome! All our dens are starting their meetings this month. Come join us!

Tigers: 1st & 3rd Thursdays 6:30-7:30 @ Methodist Church, classroom (1st mtg 9/15)
Wolves: 2nd & 4th Thursdays 6-7:30 @ Hillside Church, children's ministry building (1st mtg 9/8 @3:30, Country Club)
Bears: 1st & 3rd Thursdays 6:30-7:30 @ Methodist Church, dining hall (1st mtg 9/1)
Webelos: 1st & 3rd Fridays 6-7 @ Methodist Church, classroom (1st mtg 9/16)

Bottle Rocket Kick Off Event

Mark your calendars for Sunday August 28th, 3:00-5:00pm--Bottle Rocket/Cub Scout Kick-off Event at the Methodist Camp (top of Elm Street).

New Scouts can register (invite your friends who may want to join--there's a Recruiting Patch!), we will be Swimming (weather permitting), and launching 2-liter Bottle Rockets!

To construct a 2-liter bottle rocket, just decorate an empty 2-liter soda bottle, remembering to leave the top open (where the cap goes). If you want a nose-cone on your bottle, you need to attach it to the bottom of the bottle.

The Pack will provide Lemonade to drink, you can also bring Potluck Snacks, if you like, and we are in need of Drinking Cups if you have some to donate.

This is always a favorite event with the boys--Hope to see you all there!

High Desert District Pinewood Derby Race 2011

Saturday August 20th, sign-in 9:30-10:00am, Races start at 10:00am. Entry fee is $5.00 (ok to pay at the race). You can use the car you raced at our last Pack Pinewood Derby, you don't have to build a new one. Last year it was held in the parking lot next to the Hardware Store. There will be 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Best in Show Trophies awarded.

Hope to see you there!

Table Mountain Camping & Bridging

The camping trip/bridging ceremony is May 13th-15th. We have a block of sites booked at Table Mountain campground. Most will tent camp in these sites. If you'd like to bring an RV or trailer, we're asking that you book your own spot nearby so we don't have any parking issues for everyone else. We're booked near the ampitheater so if you go online and check out the available reservations, try to camp close to there. If you are not going to camp, the actual bridging ceremony is tentatively scheduled for 3-4pm and the Arrow of Light ceremony (awesome Indian presentation for the graduating Webelos) is from 4-5pm. Please try to make it for most of the afternoon though because we'll be doing skills activities before bridging. And of course the campfire activites will be both nights. It will be a lot of fun, hope you can make it!

Wildfire Awareness Day, Saturday May 7th 10am-3pm

Come see us at the Cub Scout booth! We'll have lemonade & baked goodies. Stop by and learn about scouting.

Cake Auction Rescheduled

The Cake Auction has been rescheduled! The snow stopped us last time, but Spring is in the air and we are ready to Celebrate!

The new Date is:

Sunday, April 10th 2011

Time: 3:00-5:00pm

Where: Methodist CAMP (top of Elm St. in Wrightwood)

What to bring: Decorate a Wild, Beautiful or Crazy Cake and Auction it off to help the Friends of Scouting, the Shinedling Family, and our Pack 351.

It's a Great Fundraiser and Always a lot of Fun!!

We will have an Outdoor Flag Ceremony (Wolves, you need this for Requirements 2E-2F), as well as some other outdoor activities for the scouts, and the Cake Auction--See you at 3:00pm!

Cake Auction, CANCELLED

CANCELLED

Come join us for a Cake Auction!
Make a unique, fun, silly, or gorgeous cake and auction it off to family and friends. Or plan on bidding on your own cake because you (or your son) just can't stand to part with it! Proceeds will go to our pack, to "Friends of Scouting", and to the Shinedling family of Pinon Hills. This is always lots of fun so get started planning those cakes!

Sunday March 20th, 3pm
Methodist Camp (top of Elm)

Blue & Gold Dinner

Sunday, February 27, 2011

4:00-6:00pm

Sunrise Church

This is a "Celebration of Scouting" Dinner. All family invited--parents, grandparents, siblings. Awards Presentation, Skits, Slide Show, Flag Ceremony. Pack will provide the main dish (fried chicken) and cake. Dens can bring the following: Tigers/Wolves--main dish or side dish; Bears--salads-green, jell-o, anything special; Webelos--drinks, coffee, milk, juice, tea, cream, sugar. Parent request: please bring ingredient labels for any processed foods served so they can avoid peanuts.

Church Clean Up & Scout Sunday

February 12th is church clean-up and February 13th is Scout Sunday. Every year the boy scouts and cub scouts show appreciation to the Methodist Church for sponsoring us and providing facilities, etc. On Saturday we go clean up the grounds, paint, etc. The boy scouts generally work for 3-4 hrs and cubs come for 1-2 hrs of that time. On Sunday, the boy scouts do a pancake breakfast event at the church. Cub scouts, although not serving breakfast, are invited to greet and help out where needed. Scouts should be in full uniform. There will be a flag ceremony and a Tiger will ring the church bell. Pastor Dave will then host a service honoring the scouts and what they stand for. All of this begins at 9:30am (1/2 hour before services begin).

2/12 Methodist Church Clean up:

8am at the church- bring shovels, gloves, and rakes, and Scouts PLEASE WEAR ROUGH CLOTHES THAT CAN BE RUINED! 

2/13 Scout Sunday:

9:30 at the church in full uniform.

Pinewood Derby this Sunday!!!

Pinewood Derby

Wrightwood Cub Scouts

Pack 351

January 23, 2011

Sunday

Location: Sunrise Church, Hwy 2, Wrightwood

Set-up track starts at 2:00 pm

Check-in begins at 2:30 pm

Racing starts at 3:00 pm

Ends about 5:00-ish

Bear Den - Drinks

Webelos - Desserts

Wolves - Snacks

Tigers - Snacks

Sibling Races will also be held. Car Kits for siblings are $4.00.

Pinewood Derby Car Build Day

All dens are welcome to attend the Bear Den meeting this Saturday 1/8 at 3:30PM At the house of Steve Owen.

They are located at 1003 Quail Rd in Wrightwood.

The large Log Cabin.

We will be working on our pinewood derby cars, so bring your car boxes (if you didn't get one yet, you can pick it up there).

Brad & Steve have requested a head count, so if you plan to attend Saturday, please comment here or reply to theowens@mac.com.

Big THANKS to the Owens family for hosting this!!