Spring Camping – Del Valle
Pack 1776 Families,
Come join us for some spring camping at beautiful Del Valle Regional Park!!
Del Valle Regional Park, part of the East Bay Regional Park District, is located in a valley framed by oak-covered hills. The centerpiece of the park is a five-mile long lake, with all kinds of water-oriented recreation, surrounded by 4,316 acres of beautiful land for hiking, fishing, horseback riding, and nature study. Del Valle is also the eastern gateway to the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, 28 miles of scenic back country trail. The campground has ample bathrooms and showers and the average high temperature in April is 71° and the average low is 46°.
More info:
Park website: http://www.ebparks.org/parks/del_valle
Park map: http://www.ebparks.org/Assets/_Nav_Categories/Parks/Maps/Del+Valle+map.pdf
The cost is minimal and reduced from past trips - $10 per person for each night staying (i.e. 1 Adult, 1 scout staying two nights = $40) which covers the site, food, and all activities, belt loops and patches. If you decide to stay less than the two nights, please let us know which night you are staying.
We also encourage all families to bring their own reusable dining sets for meal times to reduce our trash and our Pack footprint.
Payment MUST be received BY April 1 to secure your spots! This is to allow for proper planning and selection of helpers. No excuses please. A standard policy of No Refunds applies. We are limited to 50 campers for this trip so get your payment in early to reserve your spot.
Please send (or drop off) checks payable to PACK 1776.
Please feel free to contact me with questions via email.
Scott Spears
Camping Chair
Penguin+Pajamas Sleepover
Date/Time: 6pm June 15th (Saturday) - 8am June 16th (Sunday)
Location: California Academy of Sciences
Cost: $79 per person (Subsidy to scout to be determined)
RSVP: Reply to evite by March 15th
Payment: Checks payable to Pack 1776 by March 29th
More info: California Academy of Sciences website
Required Form: Waiver of Liability for EACH adult and EACH child participant
Get ready for the wildest sleepover ever! The “Penguins+Pajamas” trip at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is happening on Saturday, June 15th!
The cost is $79 per person. Cub scouts will be partially subsidized. Immediate family members and siblings are invited. Please indicate how many cub scouts as we need to know the count in order to determine our subsidy.
Please respond by March 15th. Once the subsidy is calculated, payment will be due by March 29th. Refunds are available only until 1 month (May 14th) prior to the event. After that, the costs are not refundable. An increase in participant count after March 29th is subject to availability and payment is due at the time of request.
Please make checks payable to “Pack 1776”.
Sleepover includes:
- An overnight stay in African Hall, Steinhart Aquarium, Islands of Evolution, or the Lower Swamp
- Access to the Rainforests of the World exhibit
- Science themed programming
- Two Planetarium Showings
- Late night Story Time
- Late night snack and continental breakfast
- Overnight parking in the Music Concourse parking garage
- Next day general admission included
- Complimentary Sharpshooter Photo Per Group ($20 value) additional photos at $5 each, Photo Pick-Up 6:30-9:30 PM in Front Lobby
Important Information
- Admission to the Sleepover begins at 6:00 pm, and the event ends at 8:00 am the following day.
- Sleeping areas — African Hall, Aquarium, Lower Swamp and Islands of Evolution exhibit — are available on a first come, first served basis. Areas may not be reserved.
- Dinner and drinks are available for purchase. The Academy Café is open from 6-9pm.
- Parking is included; bring your ticket with you to check-in for validation. There is no overnight street parking as per Golden Gate Park regulations.
- The Academy Lab Junior Store is open from 6:30 - 9:30 pm in the evening and 7:00 - 8:00 am in the morning.
- What to Bring [PDF]
Eligibility Requirements
- Penguins+Pajamas is a program for children between the ages of 5 and 17, who must be accompanied by an adult chaperone who is 25 years of age, or older. There must be one adult chaperone for every group of up to 5 children, and adults cannot attend unless there is a child in their party.
- The Academy requires a signed Waiver of Liability form for EACH adult and EACH child attending the Sleepover. For children, the Waiver must be signed by the child’s parent or guardian. The Waiver of Liability must identify the adult who will be responsible for the child during the Sleepover. Only original Waivers will be accepted; no faxes or copies. No one will be admitted without a completed Waiver.
For more information, go to:
https://www.calacademy.org/events/sleepovers/index.php
Committee Chair
Yuji Yamada
Bingo Night
Date: 3/15/2013 (Friday)
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: MPR
Attire: Class A
RSVP: Reply to both evite AND Coyote Creek by 3/9
It's that time of year and the cubs of Pack 1776 are invited to help out by actually calling out the letters and numbers during the game.
Don't miss out on this great night for the entire family! Your Bingo Night ticket includes pizza, drinks, cookies, one bingo pad and one raffle ticket.
If your cub is volunteering, you must buy a ticket for them to participate in this fun event. Due to a maximum capacity of 280 in the MPR, this event will sell out quickly.
Please RSVP by Saturday March 9th so that we can get a headcount of who will be able to help at this event.
Thank You.
Bingo night tickets are on sale at https://www.srvusdcommunity.org/coyotecreek/
Pack 1776
Blue And Gold Celebration – TOMORROW!
Hi Pack 1776 Scouts and Families!
Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is our big event, the Annual Blue and Gold dinner and farewell to our eleven hard working Webelos II scouts as they move on from 1776 Cub Scouts to Boys Scouts in the fantastic troops they have chosen, namely Troops 60,805 and 888.
This will also be a chance to see you all before Den Leaders Ammy and Ada and I say goodbye to the most wonderful group of families and friends we have had the honor to work with.
Pack 1776 is truly a unique, special group of boys and families, and I know will miss you all, leaving with a big hole in my heart for you, but a traveling down a new road with a huge suitcase full of priceless memories.
But wait! This is a happy time, and we are going to party like it's 1999 (or 1776!)
Here's a quick re-cap of the schedule:
5:30 Open doors, settle in
6:00 Opening Flag ceremony (Webelos II)
6:05 Greeting, commence dinner (no skit, short on time, maybe guitar), slide show while dining.
6:50 FOS
7:00 Arrow of Light Bridging ceremony, super achiever awards, bridge.
7:50 Leader Recognition
7:55 Closing Flag Ceremony (Webelos 1 - Steve,Lisa)
8:00 Python Ron Reptile Kingdom
8:30 Clean up, out by 9:00.
Yup, great dinner from A G Ferrari Foods, great entertainment with Python Ron, and great friends!
Now don't forget to wear your snappy Class A uniforms.
See you tomorrow in the MPR,
Your most loyal friend in scouting,
Cubmaster John
Blue & Gold FOS Reminder- Feb 15th
Dear Cub Scout Parent,
This is a brief reminder that in support of the Friends of Scouting (FOS) program, we will be passing out a FOS brochure/pledge card explaining how your FOS dollars benefits the program. There are several ways to invest in Scouting:
- You may give with a check
- You may charge your Visa or MasterCard by including your card number and expiration date on the pledge card
- You may make a pledge in which case the council will send a pledge reminder in the month you indicate on the pledge card
If you intend to pay by check, please bring your checkbook to the Blue & Gold as we will be collecting the pledge cards the same evening. If you do not intend to participate, please put down zero as the pledge amount, as we need to collect all the cards that are handed out.
Here is an example of the pledge card you will be receiving.
On behalf of the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council and Pack 1776, we thank you for your support.
Yuji Yamada
Committee Chair
Friends of Scouting (FOS) Campaign – Feb 15th
Dear Cub Scout Parent,
We hope that you and your family will be able to join us at our Blue & Gold Banquet scheduled for February 15th at 5:30pm at the Coyote Creek MPR. We are very proud of all the boy’s achievements and extremely appreciative of all the parental involvement.
During the banquet, we will be making a brief presentation of the annual Friends of Scouting (FOS) campaign and then asking for your pledges to support our Pack’s FOS effort. The FOS program helps underwrite the cost of Scouting for our district, the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council. We thought it might be beneficial to send out this letter in advance for your information.
Each year, our Scout parents are asked to support some of the hidden costs of Scouting. The Mt. Diablo Silverado Council, which serves almost 17,000 youths, provides numerous benefits to all of our boys and adult volunteers. A few of these benefits include subsidized Cub Day Camp and Cub Family Camps, maintaining facilities such as Camp Herms and Wolfeboro, as well as youth and leadership training.
FOS provides these benefits to our Scouts throughout the bay area. The district’s goal is to raise $120,000 for this year. In the past, parents have contributed gifts ranging from $10 to $1,000. The Scouting organization annually spends about $200 per boy while the registration fee is only $15. The Council hopes that each family will give enough to offset the spending cost for each boy, but if your family cannot contribute to this extent, please know that any amount is welcome. Participation by every family, at any level, is the goal.
If you believe that the Scouting program has had a positive impact on your family, I urge you to join me in this effort to keep the Scout program the dynamic experience for the youth in our area.
Yuji Yamada
Committee Chair
BSA Updated Statement on Membership Policy
From BSA:
For 103 years, the Boy Scouts of America has been a part of the fabric of this nation, providing its youth program of character development and values-based leadership training. In the past two weeks, Scouting has received an outpouring of feedback from the American public. It reinforces how deeply people care about Scouting and how passionate they are about the organization.
After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy.
To that end, the National Executive Board directed its committees to further engage representatives of Scouting’s membership and listen to their perspectives and concerns. This will assist the officers’ work on a resolution on membership standards. The approximately 1,400 voting members of the National Council will take action on the resolution at the National Annual Meeting in May 2013.
Blue & Gold Banquet
Hello all,
The Blue & Gold Banquet is just around the corner and we are getting ready to have some fun. We will be celebrating the 103rd birthday of Scouting and having a big send-off for our super-achieving Webelos IIs who will continue their Scouting journey in Boy Scouts troops.
Besides dinner catered by A.G. Ferrari Foods (Mmm yum yum!) there will be entertainment by Python Ron's Reptile Kingdom. Admission is free, again, FREE!!!, to Scouts in good standing and their immediate family. But you MUST reply to this evite!
RSVP by February 11th. Indicate in your reply the number of vegetarian meals you prefer. Otherwise, we assume you would eat anything. 😉
Thank you and see you all at the big party!
Pack 1776 Committee
Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?
Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?, the National Geographic Channel reality show will start airing at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central) on Monday, March 4. The six-episode series continues every Monday night until the season finale on April 8. Find out more at the new website for the show: toughscout.com.
