Keller, TX
Don’t forget that there will be a Boy Scout Sleepover at the Fort Worth Cats stadium on Friday, July 17. Tickets are just $15 per person. Game time is 7:05 and the gates open at 6pm. Flyers can be found by accessing the link below. The deadline to register is Monday. If you attend, please let your den leader know so that your son has his name entered to win one of the two iPod shuffles we are giving away in September.
If you haven’t RSVP’d for the visit to the UTA Planetarium — please do so immediately to cubmaster@pack317.org
You will need to pay at the event. $5 per person. Scouts, families and friends are welcome!
Directions are located HERE and a map of the UTA grounds and where to find the planetarium is accessible by clicking the following link. utamap-planetarium An e-vite has been sent to everyone.
Remember for every event you attend, you are entered in a drawing for one of two iPod shuffles to be awarded in September.
See you there!
Typically the last day of Day Camp, the Webelos are invited to come back for a campout Friday night to work on items for their Webelos badge. However, with the weather threat, it was canceled this year. They have rescheduled it to include not just the Webelos now but the WHOLE FAMILY! Yeah, you heard me, LOCAL Mustang District camping!
Friday July 10th – Saturday July 11th. Brian Thompson (the event coordinator) will arrive just after 3:00 PM on Friday. There will be a campfire and they need your help. Bring SKITS AND RUN ON’s! That what makes it fun!
There will also be a Texas State Flag retirement as well, and may have a special guest or 2 for the fire.
Campfire will begin around 7:30 PM (daylight depending)
Where will this be taking place? At Camp Burnett, 3301 N. White Chapel Blvd., Southlake, TX 76092
This is North of Rt 114 On Whites Chapel Blvd BEFORE you get to the soccer/Baseball complex on the right side of road.
If you come before dinner, bring dinner with you. We probably all don’t need stoves, etc as most of us have them, but you will need them. Same for breakfast the next morning.
Bring some snacks (enough to share) for around the campfire. If you sing and or play guitar (acoustic only) bring that as well.
All skit material MUST BE CLEARED BY ME before it can be presented. (SCOUT RULES) so please respond via email or call me with skit/run on material. Remember to keep it scout friendly.
Camp will break by 11:00 AM Saturday morning (no events planned for Saturday so you are free to leave earlier.)
I also want to thank First United Methodist Church Keller for offering to host the first Campout. I figured with the additional people, this location might fit better. That was only reason for change.
Please RSVP to Thompson.Brian@Verizon.net or call 817-337-1688 if you plan on attending so I can keep a count of how many will be attending. Remember scouting rules:
A Parent or Guardian is ONLY adult who can sleep in tent with a child.
Tigers MUST have a Parent accompany them the ENTIRE time.
We encourage Families.
We encourage parent participation. Please don’t use this as a drop off event.
They are asking for Field Uniforms for the campfire so that the flag can be retired respectfully.
Brian’s cell is 469-955-2696 if you need him after 3:00 PM on Friday the 10th.
From now on out, we will be utilizing a website called E-vite for our events and reminders. As it stands, the cubmaster / event planner e-mails information to the den leaders who then passes it along to the den membership in the hopes they will reply with their RSVP. Utilizing e-vite will circumvent the continual follow-up and let the RSVP be an immediate notice to the event coordinator. I feel this will be a more direct route and method of relaying our Pack’s events and for our membership to reply if they will be attending.
Please make sure that your den leader has your preferred e-mail address (for one or both parents). Also, be sure you have E-vite set so that it doesn’t go to your junk folders. A test e-mail will be sent out once we have established a master list of contacts. Please everyone read and reply YES to that event for us to know that you did receive the E-vite. Your den leaders should still be reminding you at your den’s events about upcoming outings, but just in case… be sure to check your spam folder until we get the kinks worked out!
In the event the outing requires a registration form, a link on the e-vite to this website will be present so that you can click, download and print the registration form (after you reply, of course!).
I don’t like tasking your den leaders to continually follow up and get RSVP’s from den members that don’t RSVP. I don’t think I need to tell anyone how important RSVPs are for planning meals, entertainment, etc. Hopefully this will make it easier to do just that. Hopefully this will make the event coordinator’s position a lot easier for someone to step into and take over from me! :)
If you have any questions about e-vite, please let me know! Stay cool!
There will be a meeting of leaders and parents of Pack 317 on Tuesday, July 7 at 7pm at the Hidden Lakes Clubhouse. Please plan on attending.
If another parent would like to come and bring your children for a swim in the community pool while the meeting takes place, that’s a great excuse for the whole family to get out!
So remember — Tuesday, July 7 at 7pm — Hidden Lakes Clubhouse. BE THERE!
… all summer long here in our own back yard!
Bass Pro Shops in Grapevine and Garland are offering free family activities every Saturday and Sunday now through July 5 from noon to 6pm.
Some of the fun activities include:
I hope you all make plans to join us for our first July event on your Scout’s trek to earning the National Summertime Award pin!
Make plans to join us Thursday, July 2 at 2:30 p.m. at the UTA Planetarium where will we have not one but TWO private showings reserved just for Scout families and friends! The cost is $5 per person.
First we will be seeing “Astronaut” where they will see what it takes to become an Astronaut and the effect space has on the human body.
The second feature is called “The Stars At Night” and is a great show with a little bit of everything–planets, stars, and galaxies! This show takes you on a trip from Arlington to the edge of the universe and back!
RSVP with the number of attendees to Cubmaster@pack317.org
www.howstuffworks.com is a fun site I frequent. For instance, today I looked up R.S.V.P. Did you know that RSVP stands for a French phrase, “répondez, s’il vous plaît,” which means “please reply.” The person sending the invitation would like you to tell him or her whether you accept or decline the invitation. That is, will you be coming to the event or not? Etiquette rules followed in most Western cultures require that if you receive a formal, written invitation, you should reply promptly, perhaps that same day. For hosts who are planning a dinner party, a wedding or a reception, this is important from a practical point of view, because they need to know how many people to count on and how much food and drink to buy. More important, though, is the simple courtesy of responding to someone who was nice enough to invite you, even if it is to say that you regret that you will not be able to attend.
Therefor, I’m asking you each to do that right now. We have a cook out event this Friday from 4-10 pm at Bear Creek Parkway that I need EVERYONE to respond and let me know if you plan to attend. If so, how MANY will be coming with you (adults/children).
The flyer can be found here: 062609-cook-out All of the details on what you need to bring, when to come, where we will be… it’s all located on the flyer. Please take the time, now, to respond… please RSVP to cubmaster@pack317.org if you haven’t already. If you’re not sure if you have or not, please do it again!
There is still opportunities to register and attend one of the Cub Scout Resident Camp or Webelos Resident Camps.
The registration brochure is located here: Cub / Webelos Resident Camp 2009
Cub Scout Resident Camps are $95 per Scout ($50 for parents) and have swimming, canoeing, a climbing wall, bb guns, archery, water battles, crafts, rowboats, meals, campfires, camping skills, nature, advancement, trout fishing (Tahuaya only), games. They take place two more times this summer: June 28-July 1 at Tahuaya and July 5-8 at Sid Richardson
Webelos Resident Camps are $100 per Scout ($50 for parents) and include Aquanaut, Citizenship, Forester, Ready Man, Outdoorsman and more (just fyi… these are all Webelos Activity Badges for the new Webelos parents). These two remaining camps take place July 1-4 at Tahuaya and July 8-11 at Sid Richardson.
This will be done on an individual basis, not organized as a Pack. If you do attend, please let your den leader know so that s/he can communicate you accomplishments while your there towards rank advancement for entry into the database system.
One of the benefits of attending a camp like this (especially if you didn’t attend Day Camp) is that it gives your Scout the opportunity to earn the Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award. The requirements for this award change with each rank of Scouting. You can find the requirements for your Scout’s current rank by clicking HERE
I want to give out a public thank you to the many people that helped out with the graduation camp-out.
Paul DeVaul and Raj Shah for playing quartermaster and doing the shopping and shuffling around of supplies! Those pickles were AWESOME!
Matt Bender for making sure we had plenty of firewood for our campfire!
Kary Bennett for preparing all the veggies for the sandwiches and burgers (she sliced all those onions, tomatoes and washed and prepped all the lettuce!)
Tami Healy for helping out and having a plan with the meal prep and flow.
Paul DeVaul for being our fireman and making sure that it was properly extinguished to keep everyone safe.
ALL the moms that helped with the food prep for lunch, dinner AND breakfast!
Raj Shah for being my right hand throughout the entire event! I couldn’t have done this without you!
Our grill masters for some great burgers/dogs!
Craig DeArman for single-handedly making the pancake breakfast for the masses. You, sir, ROCK!
Paul DeVaul — for lending us your groovy new coffee pot to use to make sure the grown ups were taken care of the next morning.
Jim Christgau and everyone that helped with the transporting and erecting of the bridge.
Leigh Winzeler for the beautiful opening to our camp fire program reminding us how fortunate we are to have had men and women willing to serve our country so we are free today.
To our volunteers that participated in the Scout’s Own Service on Sunday.
To everyone that policed the area after I left so that I could go home to enjoy my anniversary!
Thank you, too, to the gentlemen that transported the Pack’s supplies back to our storage facility from the camp site on Sunday. And.. thank you to those who engaged the boys in games and knew them by name. Everyone always feels so much more important when people remember their name. So thank you from THEM for giving them that.
I know there are people that I have forgotten to specifically mention… but know that I do appreciate the help, attention and dedication of each and every one of you. Every little bit everyone does, makes my job so much easier (and makes me able to enjoy some of the event too!) This almost seems like I’m writing one of those acceptance speeches for the award shows but this is much more important… I need to make sure you all know and understand that I do appreciate your time and efforts!
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