2012 Cub Scout Day Camp – Frontier Days!
Pack 1776,
Registration of 2012 Cub Scout Day Camp is now open. Early Bird sign up discounts is $165 before 4/20/2012 (that is $33/day!). Older siblings (junior helpers) can help. Younger siblings (tags) can attend. Details and registration information below.
Date: June 25 – 29th , 2012, Monday – Friday
Time: 9 am – 3:30 pm everyday, except Friday ends at 2 pm
Location: Little Hills Ranch in San Ramon, end of Bollinger Canyon Road (map)
Register early.
This camp has filled up every year!!
What: A week long camp filled with sports, archery, swimming, knot tying, engineering work, whittling, BB guns, crafts, skits, songs, and daily entertainment shows with about 400 other scouts from our district. Scouts will be able to earn various badges. More info here. Go here to see what our scouts achieved last year.
Cost: $165 per scouts before 4/20/2012
$180 before 5/25/2012
$195 starting 5/25/2012
$ 20 for TAGS
Who: Any scout from Tigers to Webelos II, using his Fall 2012 rank. If your scout will be an incoming Tiger (entering 1st grade) his adult needs to attend each day too. If your scout has graduated from 5th grade (entering 6th grade or above in Fall 2012 and at least 11 years old) he can volunteer as a Junior Helper for no charge. Jr. Helpers must attend one evening of training.
Volunteers: This camp is entirely organized and staffed by volunteers. Our pack must provide one adult volunteer for every six scouts attending. Adults attending all day for all the five days will receive a steep discount on the registration fee for one scout. Also, adults volunteering all week will be able to bring their potty-trained to pre-school age child to the TAG program for $20. Every adult that attends camp, even if for only half a day, needs to take the “Youth Protection Training”, needs to register as a volunteer, and fill out a medical form. Adult volunteers must attend one evening of training.
Registering for camp requires three steps:
- Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/events/cub-scout-events/cub-scout-day-camp/meridian-day-camp
- Print, fill out, and sign the medical form and shooting permission form. Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
- Turn in a copy of your registration and your filled out medical form and shooting permission form to CC Steve. Every person at camp must register and turn in the required forms with a copy of his registration receipt.
Thanks.
Stella the webmaster
Council Merger Info
Scouters and Scout families,
The Mt. Diablo Silverado Council is considering merging our Boy Scout council operations with the San Francisco Bay Area Council.
There is a new “Official Merger Discussion Website" concerning the merger. It contains answers to many of the most pressing questions regarding the merger. We invite you to click the following link to the new website and encourage you to save it as a favorite.
http://www.boyscoutmerger.org/
We invite you to forward this URL to anyone who would be interested in learning more about this merger discussion, so that they too can become informed.
Thank you,
John C. Fenoglio
Scout Executive/CEO
Mt. Diablo Silverado Council
March Hikes
Pack 1776,
Thanks to Camping Chair Bernard, we will be having not one, but two hikes this month. Scouts, friends and family are welcome to these hikes. Evites will be coming your way. Please reply so we get a headcount for patches. Hikes detail below.
Thanks,
Stella the webmaster
Hike # 1: Presidio Historic Trail
Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Presidio of San Francisco. Meet at the Visitors Center and Officer's Club (map)
Cost: Free
Attire: Class B
Award: Presidio Historic Trail patch for scouts
Detail: Trail map (bmp) & info (doc)
RSVP: Evite by Monday, March 12th
San Francisco Bay Area Council established the Presidio Historic Trail Program over four decades ago. It has a trail for Cub Scout Packs and Boy Scout Troops. The Cub Scout Trail is about 3.5-miles as it starts from the Visitor Center, down to Fort Point and then around to Battery Chamberlin. The Boys Scout Trail is between 6.4 to 8.1 miles depending upon whether the troop hikes all across the Golden Gate Bridge and back.
Hike # 2: Forest Conservation Day
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Time: 1:45 PM - 4:45PM
Location: Sanborn county park (map)
Cost: $6 park entrance fee
Attire: Class B
Award: Forest Conservation Days patch for participating scouts
Detail: Forest conservation day flyer (pdf)
RSVP: Evite by Monday, March 19th
We will be having a 2-3 hour interactive, hands-on hike with a forester through the redwood forest and the oak woodlands of Sanborn Park. Included will be tree identification, and instruction/activities on geology, soils, wildlife biology, native culture, fire fighting, forest products, demonstration of a vintage 1882 Steam Donkey, and more!
This is a great opportunity to fulfill requirements of the Webelos forester and geologist activity pins, Bear elective #15 (water & soil conservation), Wolf elective #18 (outdoor adventure), belt loops and pins for geology and wildlife conservation, etc. Cloth patches commemorating this event will be available for participating scouts.
Mt Diablo Silverado Council Friends of Scouting Campaign
Hi Pack 1776!
It's that time of the year again for the Friends of Scouting fundraising campaign. For those families that have joined the pack within the last year, this is the annual fundraising drive where the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council asks for our support. Whether your family as been a part of the pack for years, or you are new to the pack, please do consider contributing to this worthy cause.
When I consider donating, I often have many questions. Allow me to share some information that I hope help answer some questions you may have.
What is the Mt. Diable Silverado Council and why should I provide support?
The MDSC is located in Pleasant Hill and serves over 14,500 scouts in Contra Costa, Solano, Napa, Lake, and northern Alameda counties. The activities and services provided by the Council are training, camp Herms and Wolfeboro, recruiting materials, administrative services, professional services, insurance, and most everything we need to run Pack 1776.
How do I donate?
Brochures (attached) and envelopes will be passed out by the Den leaders to the families in their dens at the Pack meeting Wednesday. Families are asked to fill out the section in the brochure, and then return the pledge card and donation in the envelope to their Den leader, or me, at the pack meeting. If you want more time to review, you can turn in to me up to Sunday March 18th. I'd like to get these turned in by March 23rd.
What are my options for donating?
Cash, check, or credit cards are accepted. Donating tomorrow may not be convenient for some, so pledges are another convenient option and can be spread out over time. Pledges for $25 can be taken and reminders mailed. Pledges can be annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly.
How much should I donate?
The Council estimates it costs approximately $200 annually to support each scout, and this is the amount Council hopes each family will contribute. Pack 1776 families have been very generous in the past…some families give more than the recommended amount, some give the recommended amount, some give less. At the end of the day, this is a personal decision, and all contributions are appreciated.
Is my donation tax deductable? Yes!!!
Attached is a brochure with more information. In addition, I will be showing a brief video at the Pack meeting to help provide information.
On a personal note, I sincerely believe in the Boy Scouts of America and support the Mt Diablo Silverado Council Friends of Scouting campaign with all my heart. As a boy growing up, I was both a Cub Scout and Boy Scout in the Mt Diablo Silverado Council, and I was fortunate enough to attend many of the events and camps supported by the Council. As a Boy Scout, I went to Camp Wolfeboro 4 consecutive years and had the time of my life. In scouting I established friendships with guys that are still great friends to this day. I could not have experienced all that I did if it weren’t for the generous folks that supported the Council then. Now it’s time for me to give back, and I hope you will join my family and support the Council’s Friends of Scouting campaign.
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Regards,
Steve Jackson
Committee Chairperson, Pack 1776
Spring Camping – SAVE THE DATES!
Date: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:00pm – Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:00pm
Location: New Brighton State Beach
SAVE THE DATES!! New Brighton Beach State Park is located about one mile from downtown Capitola, California. New Brighton’s half mile long beach is backed by bluffs that offer amazing ocean views and is forested with cypress and Monterey pine. Raccoons, deer and other animals inhabit this wooded upland as well as the park’s grassy coastal terrace where the campground and picnic area are situated. Migrating monarch butterflies winter in the park’s groves. The campground has ample bathrooms and showers and the average high temperature in May is 72° and the average low is 49°.
Details will follow in an Evite and will be posted here. Stay tuned.
SAVE THE DATES!!
Scott Spears
Camping Chair
Pack Meeting – Wed March 7 – Cake Decorating Contest!
Hi Pack 1776 Scouts and Families!
Just a friendly reminder that this coming Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 is our month Pack Meeting Extravagana!
The big event - Cake Decorating!
"Cubmaster John, have you lost your mind?!!!"
Yes, and if any of you find it, please let me know.
Seriously, we will have our very first Pack Cake Decorating Competition. Kind of like the Pinewood Derby, but you can eat the winners.
This is a Scout/Parent procedure. The scout, under the guidance of mom or dad, bakes and decorates his own cake, brings it to the meeting. ALL ingredients must be edible. No soldiers, beyblades, plastic straws, cement. Just food - Cake mix, sugar, food coloring, marshmellows, tofu, Slim Jim beef stick, etc.
A panel of judges will pick winners in the following categories:
Spirit of '76 - Three cheers for the red white and blue. Flags, patriotic theme, etc.
Tallest - Think, Mount Everest, but edible.
Longest - Think, The Bay Bridge, but crossable
Are You Going to Eat That? - Think, most likely to be eaten because it's beautiful and looks delicious LOOKING.
Take Your Cake and Eat It! - Think, "Get that thing away from me and out of the house!" Gross, ugly, creepy, gummy worms crawling out of it, dirt made from ground Oreos.
Out of this World - Space the final frontier. Planets, stars, comets, space ships, stellar. (Stella? She IS a star!)
Cultural - We have families from all over the world, work with the scout on a cake which comes from Italy, or the Philipines or India or Greece. You get the idea. Be proud of your roots, and share them with us.
We'll add a few more categories. Winners get a Cake Decorating Patch, and special prizes. Everyone gets to have fun.
Remember:
NO Store Bought
NO Non-edible components
NO "Dad did the whole thing himself, and I'm getting credit for it" (just like Pinewood Derby, it's the scout's project)
Siblings are welcome to bring cakes too, even as small as a cupcake, but they won't be in the competition.
After, if you want to share your cake, great. If you want to bring it home and put it mnext to your Soccer Trophy, great.
Sound like fun? Be prepared to be bombarded with more reminders.
Cubmaster John
