Saturday, Nov. 17 - Presidential Fitness at 9, Food Drive at 9:30

Dear Wolf Parents,

Great job to all of the Wolf Cubs who participated in the first round of Presidential Fitness trials on Wednesday!

Presidential Fitness Info!

• boys can keep doing the trials until the Blue & Gold dinner I believe, which is February plenty of time to improve those scores
• I'm pretty sure we were miss-measuring the pushups all of our boys are already "Presidential" in that category and while I think they could handily beat our Commander-in-Chief (with one hand!), I think we probably need to emphasize form a bit more
• I've attached the spreadsheet here with their current scores also posted it here
• Presidential Fitness Guidelines are here. (I'm sorry if that's an old version if I get a new one I'll update you)
• everyone gets a patch for participating... the National and Presidential levels are nice goals to strive for

Calendar stuff!

• We will meet at 9AM on Saturday, November 17 at Tam High Track the boys will be able to run the mile (or half-mile) trial for Presidential Fitness
• Immediately afterwards, at 9:30AM on Saturday, November 17, we'll go to Sycamore Park to gather for our Food Drive pick-up Pete Gilmore already sent out information about this, which I'll repeat, below:

9:30 amWe will meet again at Sycamore Park to set out and collect the food.
Please make sure you cover the entire same area where you distributed the door hangers.
Perhaps each den leader can delegate a driver in their group to follow behind the Scouts as they collect. Maybe a wagon to pull along for each group would be a good idea too.
When done collecting, immediately bring the food to the Scout Hall located on East Blithedale. The Boy Scouts will transfer it to the Food Bank from there.

Again, a parent or guardian must accompany each scout. Please be courteous to anyone you may meet along the way. Please wear your scout uniforms and feel free to enlist the support of your friends and families.

Hope to see you Saturday! No need to RSVP!

Best,

Dave

Wolf Update

Hey everybody,

If you're on Will Cannell's mailing list, you probably saw the attached message. Otherwise no worries, and at the risk of some redundancy, I'll continue to forward them. (Will's email is willcannell at yahoo dot com, in case you want to ask him to add your email to his list.)

A few updates:

GREAT participation at the Planet, where the Cubs nailed their Woodworking Achievement (pun intended this time, too) by making surfboards, rockets, and, yes, knives (the kind King Tutankhamun was buried with, we were told, so it's okay): Ed Gilmore, Sawyer Shine, Connor Cardinal, Derek Jennings, Ben Daley, Max Johnson, Jordan Baldwin, John Luster, and Jonny LaDuke.

REALLY GOOD (considering the late announcement) but not quite at the level of GREAT participation at the Scouting for Food drop-off event on Saturday: Ed Gilmore, Miles Rubens, Franklin Colburn, and Jonny LaDuke.

Future events:

See you on Wednesday at Scout Hall, 7PM - we'll kick off Presidential Fitness! Update the Wolf achievement spreadsheet at  http://www.mvpack34.org/files/wolf_den_07-08.xls so that I can honor your Cub appropriately.

And see you again on Saturday, November 17th at 9:30AM at Sycamore Park, where we'll rally to pick up the food. Jacqueline Colburn has volunteered to shadow us with her SUV so we can load food into it as we collect it. I can do the same. We should be good.

Best,

Dave

Pack Meeting Wed. Night, Scouting For Food Pickup Saturday

Hey Pack 34,

It was great to see so many scouts turn out for the food drive. We effectively blaneted Sycamore and I'm looking forward to food pickup next Saturday. If you did not make it on Saturday please take the time to to come on Saturday. Remember scouts are still eligible for a scouting for food patch if they particpate on one or both of parts of scouting for food.

This is a great cause especially at the time of year when less fortunate families need help the most.

Pack Meeting, Wed. Nov. 14, 7 PM at Scout Hall. Bring well-fed scouts in uniform and sneakers. We're going to be doing some running.

If you have not paid your dues yet please bring a check for $80 made out to Pack 34. If you are a new scout family and you have not filled out a registration form yet track me down so we can get you registered.

Scouting for Food Part 2, Nov. 17, Meet at Sycamore Park at 9:30 am. Rain or shine. The next pack meeting is Wed. Dec. 12 at 7 pm and we're doing a hike on Dec. 15 at 9 am. details to follow.

Yours in Scouting,

Will

November 10, 9:30 AM, Sycamore Park - Food Drive Kickoff Meeting

Greetings Pack 34 members,

Saturday November 10th,
Come team up with your fellow Pack 34 scouts to help with the annual "Scouting for Food" program.

Those helping with this great cause will also receive a "Scouting for Food" patch.

All Pack 34 members planning to attend will meet at Sycamore Park at 9:30 a.m. for further instructions (maps) and to pick up their "door hangers". The door hangers are food request cards to be hung on front door knobs of each house.

We will venture out in 4- groups (Tigers, Wolfs, Bears and Webelo's). We will cover the Sycamore Park neighborhood (easy and flat!) with our door hangers. Each of the 4- den leaders will take charge of their route.

A parent or guardian must accompany each scout. Please complete your entire route and be courteous to anyone you may meet along the way.

Please wear your scout uniforms and feel free to enlist the support of your friends and families.

If we all make the effort we can be done in 1 to 2- hours.

Saturday November 17th,
We will meet again, go back along our routes and collect the food. Meeting place and further logistics for collection will follow soon.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best Regards,
Pete Gilmore (Edward's Dad)