Earth Flag Raising APRIL 1: Wear Uniforms to School

Hi Everybody,

Please pass this on to all the Cub parents.

Tomorrow, Thursday April 1st, we'll have a Earth Flag raising at Park School at 3PM. Cubs and parents should meet in front of Park School at 2:45PM. Webelos will do the raising as the flag pole is tricky to use. I'll assist to the best of my flag raising abilities.

Ro Rigney will invite the Park School community and the Mayor of Mill Valley.

It's good to be an Earthling. Lets show our appreciation with a good turnout tomorrow!

Best, Dave

March 28, 1pm: clean up bus stops in Mill Valley for service project

Hi Everyone,

Please ask your parents to mark this on their calendars.

Bring your rags, simple green, gloves and buckets to the bus stops and let's shine em up, pick up trash.

Here is where each den should go:

Tam Junction/ Rosemont
Tigers & Bears

Miller Avenue close to Chevron
Hiti Wolves and Webelos

The Depot (on Sunnyside - facing Baskin Robbins)
Ryder Wolves and Kirley Wolves

You should spend approximately one hour there.  More than that, the kids get restless.

Thanks!

P.S. this is a service project segment.

Sunday March 28th, 2pm: Achievement Afternoon

Hi everyone,

We are scheduled for an Achievement afternoon on March 28th. The place is Boyle Park(at the picnic tables) time is 2pm. We will set up stations to finish all the achievements and to practice the color guard for the April meeting. After that the kids can run like crazy around the park, there will be snacks, and if it rains the back-up place is the Shapiro’s house.  

Bill Ryder

Kerry hits the road

FYI, today is my last day with Yahoo email availability for two weeks due to some heavy travel.

So, there are three items that we need to make sure are covered while I am gone:

1. Earth Day. I am going to contact Park School and let them know that we don't have anyone that can do this.  If you have a parent that steps up, send me an email ASAP.  
2. April 6 meeting. Wolves are in charge.
3. Order all segments by March 29 via Tish to make sure you are covered for this early meeting.

thx.k

April Pack Meeting change

Hi Everyone,

Scout Hall on April 7 is not an option due to conflicts.  I didn't foresee this, my apologies to everyone.

I have a confirmed place and date for this meeting and it will not change.

Day: Tuesday

Date: April 6

Place: Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse (same place as the arrow of Light)

Time: 7pm-8pm

Scouts leading activities: Wolves

April Pack meeting is April 7

Hi Everyone,

Please make sure your parents are aware that our Pack meeting is April 7. This has been on the calendar, but could have easily been missed.

The reason it is April 7 vs. 14th is because Easter break is the week of the 14th.

This meeting is at Scout Hall.

NOTE: you need to get your segment, awards..orders to Tish a week earlier.

Thanks! -Kerry

2004 Mt. Tam Astronomy Programs

Tam Enthusiasts: Below is a listing of our programs for the 2004 season. Look forward to seeing you on the mountain! A few change this year:

1. Our astronomy programs will be on the Saturdays near the First Quarter Moons (not new moons).
2. The Madrone Picnic Area (next to the Mt Theater) is reserved 1 1/2 hours before each program for informal gathering. Bring your picnic supper and meet the speakers before the talk.
3. We have added 2 storytelling evenings—suitable for young and old alike, no telescope viewing with these programs.

2004 MT TAM ASTRONOMY CALENDAR

March 27 - 7:00pm
Dr. John Westfall, Association of Planetary and Lunar Observers
"A Rare Day in June: The Coming Transit of Venus"
On June 8th the first transit of Venus in 122 years will take place; learn where and how to view this rare phenomenon.

April 24 - 8:30pm
Dr. Greg Madijski, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
"Astronomy from Space"
New vistas from observations from above the Earth's atmosphere afford us a better understanding of the cosmos.

May 22 - 8:30pm
Dr. Gordon Squires, Spitzer Science Center/Cal Tech
"Spitzer-First Results from the Last of the Great Observatories"
The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in August 2003, it is giving us a new look at our universe in the infrared.

June 26 - 8:30pm 
Dr. Jeff Moore, NASA-Ames Research Center
"Forthcoming Exploration of the Pluto System"
The distant planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Objects will the last members of our Solar System to be visited by space craft.

July 24 - 8:30pm
Dr. Saul Permutter, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
"Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe"
Astronomers use exploding stars to investigate one of the biggest scientific mysteries of our day.

August 21 - 8:00pm
Dr. Philip Plait, Sonoma State University
"Bad Astronomy: Facing Down the 'Face' on Mars"
The recent spate of nonsense circulating the web involving the Red Planet will be debunked with science, simple logic and a dose of humor.

September 18 - 7:30pm
Dr. Pascal Lee, Mars Institute/NASA-Ames
"Humans on Mars"
Research in the Antarctic is being used for feasibility studies preparing the way for humans to explore the planet Mars.

October 16 - 7:30pm
Dr. Emma Bakes, SETI Institute/NASA-Ames
"Exploring the Meaning of Life"
There is evidence for the universal formation of life throughout the cosmos.

2004 MT TAM STORYTELLING

July 10 - 7:30pm
Doreen Devorah - "Andrew P. Hill and the beginning of our State Park System"
David Ponkey - "The Labours of Hercules: A Story Written in the Stars"

October 23 - 5:00pm
Mary Ellen Hill - "We are the Stars That Sing: The Story of the Universe"

Note from Ro Rigney

Here is a note from Ro Rigney. We are up to do this.  Is there anyone that can help on April 1 at Park School?

Kerry,

The Earth Day Assembly Committee/Green Team parents, whom I am representing, would like the cubs to raise the Earth Flag on the flag pole in the front of Park School. We want to fly it during the entire month of April ("Earth Month"). It would be lowered at the end of the month on Fri, April 30.

Last year, Susan Sweet organized and worked with the boys. It might be best if you contact her about it. The best time to fly the flag would be right after school at 3pm on, if possible, Thu, April 1st. Because our flagpole is tricky, Susan used the older cubs. We would announce the ceremony and invite the entire school and parent community. I'd like to invite the mayor of Mill Valley this year.

Thank you,

Ro Rigney

Cub Scout Leader Specific Training

Cub Scout Leader Specific Training is scheduled for Saturday, March 20th, from 10AM to 2:30PM at the LDS Church, 220 North San Pedro Road.

Here is the registration form.

Scout-O-Rama, May 22nd 2004

BE PART OF A GREAT ADVENTURE !

Scout-O-Rama looks great. Our location (Hamilton Air Force Base Amphitheater) is outstanding and the weather is forecast to be excellent. We already have some great events like:

• Pinewood Derby
• Camo Painting
• Raingutter Regatta
• Welcoming TiPi
• Camp Display
• Rocket Derby
• Leather Printing
• Tiger Ceremony
• Arrow of Light Ceremony
• and lots of crafts and activities

What should you do now?

• Let C.J. or Bud know what you are doing for Scout-O-Rama and how much room you need.
• Send in your list of Webelos for the Arrow of Light Ceremony.
• Send in your list of Tiger Cubs for the Tiger Cub Graduation.
• Encourage your Scouts to sell lots of candy! This year is an easy sell.

$2.50 admission, $2.00 candy, $3.00 Roundtable coupon all for $2.00. Anyone not buying is losing money!

A special thank you for the Pinewood Derby

A lot of people did a lot of things, and I can't remember them all.  So, if they aren't listed below, please let them know how much we appreciate their help.

I few people really came thru in the kitchen.

• Cheryl Schmidt
• Israel Rosales
• Andy Shapiro
• Will Cannell
• Jeff
• Caroline Craig
• Bob Bowyer
• Kim Kirley
• And the salad makers Tish Rosales & Audrey Shapiro

Help needed on Candy sales to fund our May Swim party

Hi Everyone,

This is one last plea to move the final candy boxes.

I have 13 boxes of candy at my house.   Bill Ryder stepped up and said he will take 1 box.

That leaves 12 boxes to sell.

If we sell these at $1 (it will fund our Swim party for the May meeting at Scott Valley).

So, the parent would buy each box at $24.   24 Bars per box.  Sell em at $1 each.

I would love to have each den commit to taking 3 boxes to sell to friends and families.

My original plan was to sell them this saturday at the grocery stores, but the girl scouts are going to be selling cookies and I hate to infringe on that.

So, if you can ask your familes to commit to taking some boxes, that would be great.

As a matter of fact.  If I can get committents of 10 boxes, we will have met our budget for the party and I will give the last two boxes to girl scouts to use as "gift with purchase" - how is that for working together.

The race is on, let's move em this week.

I will personally drop off all candy to the families home.

Thank you!

Arrow of Light Ceremony

Dear Leaders,

As you know our Arrow of Light Ceremony is Wed at 7PM with a new location...The Golf Course Club House. Please have all your boys wear their uniforms to school on Wed to honor the 5th graders that are graduating.

We will have each Den hand out awards, but the Arrow Of Light ceremony will be the activitiy. Our Den will perform the flag ceremony. I do respectively ask that you monitor your individual Den members, boys, parents and siblings to sit quitely for our final time with the Pack.

We intend to make the evening special and look forward to our graduation from Pack 34.

Suzan Sweet

SCOUT FIRST AID MEET

by Sam Sweet

Dateline: January 24, 2004

Right after the Rocket Launch, 7 of the Cobra Patrol piled into cars and headed to Northgate for the First Aid Meet.

When we got there, we sat around and talked for about 30 minutes before we had the flag ceremony. A few minutes later we got into action. Our Den made decisions what our roles should be and practiced them. After our practice we felt comfortable and waited our turn.

First we went to the station where an old man fell and was unconscious. We worked on him and each did our parts, but soon enough she said our patient was dead because we didn't check for any other wounds, and if he had another wound he could have died of too much bleeding. However, we still got 90%, which was pretty darn good for Webelos.

Next we moved to the station where we made a stretcher and carried a victim. Weren't we lucky that Travis was our victim because he is so light. That really helped us do a great on that station.

Next we moved to the hypothermia station. We brainstormed what we should do to help the patient in order to get a good score and make sure we didn't leave any steps out like before. As soon as the group in front of us was dons we got to work. We did fairly well, I think.

Next we moved to the "Lost Kid" station. We did extremely well, the best of al the Webelos and Boys Scouts that day because we asked all the right questions and then found him in the best time, 3 minutes and seconds.

The 5th station was the heat stroke and heat exhaustion one. It was interesting because we learned the difference between the two and what the symptoms were and how to take car of them.

The final station was a bus accident, which was the hardest station of all. Although we lost points because we didn't scout out the surrounding area first, we were one of the few groups who found and treated all the victims.

This was a major experience for me. It was also fun at the same time. I hope our younger Cub Scouts in Pack 34 will do this event when they are 2nd year Webelos.

Pack 34: End of year Campout June 4-6

Den Leaders,

Please notify your Dens that our end of year campout will be June 4-6 at beautiful Tamarancho in Fairfax.

Dave Lundgren is our perennial Quartermaster and camp scheduler, organizer...

Families may feel free to camp out Friday and Saturday nights or simply pick one of the two nights based on their preference.

I realize this is the weekend before school is out and there are always other activities such as swimming, baseball (although regular season will be over by this date), soccer... But, it is easy to do what I plan to do, go over after our games...

For those of us that went last year, we had a ball. We went fishing, went biking...

We may have other activities, but that info is yet to come.

Mark your calendars. See you there!

*Oh, and this is a pack funded activity.  Leave your wallets at home!  Bet you haven't heard that one in a while.

**We will need some help procuring food....so if you can help, let me know.

Kerry

Cubmaster

Pack 34

Den Leader needed to teach Tiger managers at Council on March 20

Bud Howlett from Council just called to see if any of our Den Leaders would be available to teach at the Cub Scout Leader Specifics training day.

It is March 20 from 10am-2:30 in San Rafael.

Not much to it, just follow a script...

*Note: this is opening day for Baseball.

If you are interested, let me know.

Thanks!

BALOO is Coming!

That stands for Basic Adult Leadership Outdoor Orientation. And it's a blast.

• WHEN: SATURDAY, March 27
• WHERE: CAMP TAMARANCHO
• TIME: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
• COST: $20 $15 if registered by March 21

Anyone interested in going should sign up. Contact Will Cannell to arrange a carpool.

Pinewood Derby: Duties per Den

Hi Everyone,

Please make sure you get to your parents "right away" this week! We have a lot of moving parts on this one.

Everyone should know the following:

• Race is being held at Scout Hall
• Car Checkin is Saturday, March 6: 4-6pm (no check ins on game day)
• Race is Sunday, March 7: 4-7pm
• Tigers race first, then Wolves, Bears, Webelos then open class

From our Committee meeting, we laid out responsibilities per Den. Please make sure you are covered on your duties (get all parents to help out, to make it easy for all). And if you have extra bandwidth, help out in other areas.

Please note that the food responsibility and trophy acquisition is wholly owned by Pack 34. All other items are jointly owned with Pack 1.

Below is the plan per the committee meeting:

Pre - March 6

• Webelos 4th Grade: Acquire trophies (Dave Lundgren has accomplished already)

March 6

• Webelos 5th Grade: Car check in (Mike Jefferies)
• Wolf (Hiti): Track set up
• Wolf (Ryder): Purchase of pizzas, chips and sodas for Sunday

March 7

• Wolf (Kim Kirley): Sell Food during Tiger races
• Tigers (Will Cannell): Sell Food during Wolf and Bear races
• Bears (Duncan): Clean up
• Wolf (Hiti) : Break Down track

Leader Duties

• Kerry: General CubMaster stuff, announcing car winners, kissing babies, stump speech...
• Greg: Keeping above operations in tact
• Israel: Helping on coordinating all of above with Greg

Achievement updates

Den Leaders,

Please let your families know that their son should be 75% done with their achievements by next weeks meeting.

For example: Wolves have 12 achievements, so they should have earned their 3rd bead by next week. If they haven't, they will have some catch up to do.

Baseball/Softball and Swimming are starting now, so demands on everyone's time will be very high over the next couple months.

I would recommend that each Den leader set up a Mega Den meeting to knock out several achievements in one blow...in March if possible (opening day for baseball & softball is March 20, not sure on swimming).  This would take alot of pressure off of everyone and give a chance to have a fun meeting.    Weekend early mornings 9 or 10am or late afternoons, 3 or 4pm may be best for turnout.

Bridging is just 2 months away, so crunch time has arrived!

FYI, Kerry

* Note: please do not give out the bead until the individual scout has achieved it.

Scout Leader recognition dinner: March 18

Den Leaders,

Suzan Sweet will be honored by the Marin Council at this dinner.  It would be great if our leaders could make it.

I hope to make it, I am scheduled to be out of town that week, but trying to change it.

Here is the form to fill out for dinner, ....   Let me know if you are attending.   You don't have to pay for it, the council will deduct from our account.

Thanks!

Kerry

Candy Sales for a Swim Party!

Hi Everyone,

We have 16 more boxes of candy left.   We would like to get it sold right away, and as an incentive....I am throwing in a swim party.

If we can sell these 16 boxes of candy in the month of March, we will have a Swim Party for our May bridging ceremony at Scott Valley Swimming and Tennis club.

Here is the scoop on the contest:

If you are a power seller, get to work.   We need you.

Otherwise, Saturday, March 13 I would like to have a sale in front of Safeway and Albertsons from 10am-11:30am.   

I will take the Safeway location, and a group of scouts.

I need someone else to take the Albertsons location, and a group of scouts.

We will blow out the candy and then have an awesome family pool party/bridging ceremony!

Please rally your dens to come and help sell the candy, we need to move these boxes to fund the party.

Thanks!

Hike patches available

Den Leaders,

We have some extra Hiking/camping patches if you organize your den for either.  Let me know, I think I have about 15 left.  First come, first served. 

Thanks,

Kerry