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2015 Pinewood Derby Announced

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Greetings Pack Families,

Derby car kits and rules for our 2015 Pinewood Derby were handed out at the pack meeting yesterday.  If you did not receive yours, please contact Paul Hinz as soon as possible.  Our pinewood derby will be held on Sunday, January 25th, and looks to be another fun day for everyone.

Remember that all adults and siblings are also encouraged to participate, and the entire family is welcomed to cheer on their favorite racer.   This is one fun event for everyone. 

For those Scouts and families new to the event, we will have a short information session to help you get started next month.  Details will be sent out separately.  A few things to pay especially close attention to on the rules (click on the image below for your copy):

  1. The wheels and axles must be obtained from the B.S.A. pinewood derby kit.  All 4 wheels must roll on the ground, and there are specific rules on how the wheels can be sanded.
  2. Weight and dimension limits are strictly enforced. 5.0 oz is the absolute maximum weight.  You will want to get as close to this as possible.
  3. A “stand” is purely optional, but if you create one, it must be within the specified dimensions if it is to be used.

There are plenty of ideas for designs in our photo albums, as well as on-line.  The best design, of course, is the one your Scout comes up with on his own.

There are openings this year on the official derby pit crew.  We need help with setup, decorating, race operations, food service, and check-in.  All of these roles do not take much time, and are highly sought after for the prestige they bring to any professional resume. Please contact Warren Biederstadt to sign up.   

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Disney on Ice Scouting Event

Attention all Scouting Families: 

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Pack 811 has been invited to attend a special Disney on Ice show at the Honda Center on Saturday, December 20th @ 11:00 a.m.  Tickets are limited and must be ordered immediately.  The special price for this event is $17 per person for a seat in the 200-plaza level (50% off).   Your entire family is invited to accompany us.  Please sign up TODAY in order to reserve your tickets:

>> SIGN UP HERE <<

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An Opportunity to Help Others Through the ACT Food Drive

Dear Pack 811 Families:

Our Pack’s most important service project is coming up in the next few weeks. Our Cub Scouts will be assisting the ACT Office with their annual food drive. This is a great event to show our scouts that their service can make a big impact to those who are less fortunate. We heard from the ACT office that they have had a difficult time this year securing enough donations to meet the needs of the community they serve, so they are really depending on our Scouts!

Sunday, October 19, while the scouts are having fun during the pack meeting, we will ask parents to help staple fliers to grocery bags. Please bring a stapler with you. The more parents stapling, the faster we will get the job done.

Saturday, October 25, and Sunday, October 26, our scouts will distribute grocery bags after all the masses. We need a minimum of 5 scouts for each Mass to cover all the Church exits. You do not have to attend the particular Mass you signed up for. All you need to do is show up before the Mass ends and spend 15 minutes or so distributing grocery bags. Scouts must wear their class A uniform.

Saturday, November 1, and Sunday, November 2, our scouts will assist with the collection of filled bags from the parishioners before each Mass. We will have tables at the plaza where parishioners can drop off their food donations. The scouts will bring the food they have collected to the ACT office. We need the help of at least 5 scouts and their families for each shift.  Scouts may bring their wagons if they have them to help them transport the bags. Class A uniforms are to be worn again.

Please click on the link below to sign up for your shifts. If you can spare the time, please sign up for as many shifts as you can make.

>> Sign-up Here<<


Let us show our parish and our community what Pack 811 is all about!  You are also encouraged to distribute the flyers in your neighborhood, and offer to collect food from your neighbors!

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REDBRICK PIZZA Fundraiser – SEPT 17 – New Date!

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The Redbrick Pizza fundraiser is back on!  After a bit of water damage that shut the restaurant down for a few weeks, Redbrick is opening back up this weekend.

The new date?  SEPTEMBER 17.  This is an ALL-DAY fundraiser, not limited to a particular window of time.  The best part about the Redbrick fundraiser?  They donate a portion of ALL sales… not just those that present a flyer.  In fact, you don’t even have to bring it!  So, post this on your Facebook pages and tell all of your friends to go to Redbrick Pizza on September 17.

Yours in Scouting,

Cubmaster John
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It’s Popcorn Season!

Hi Scouting Families !


I hope everyone had a fun Summer and you had a chance to join in some of our activities. As many of you know, the ending of the summer season brings the start of Cub Scout Popcorn season!  We sell Trail’s End Popcorn and RightResponse First Aid kits to raise money for our pack’s activities. You should have received the popcorn order forms in the mail by now and we will be passing out first aid kit order forms at our next meeting. There are a number of great prizes from OCBSA this year and I hope you get out there and start selling right away.

panelAs cool as those OCBSA rewards are, you know that we, at Pack 811, do it better. We have some BIG prizes for the top two sellers and some awesome prizes for those who sell a large amount of popcorn and first aid kits. We’ll give you the details about them at our first Pack Meeting on September 7th.

As a special incentive, we will raffle off a HD Google Android Tablet PC and some other cool prizes for any scout who brings in just $100 in orders on their order sheet, or orders $100 in Show-N-Deliver product by our September Pack Meeting.  

We sell popcorn and kits in THREE WAYS. The first is by Take-Order. Using the order forms, you simply “take orders” from friends and family and deliver their popcorn and kits on November 16. The second method is Show and Sell. We will be selling popcorn and kits at grocery stores on September 20 and 21, and at banks on September 26 and 27.  Each scout is limited to one shift (unless open shifts remain three days prior to the event). Please click HERE to sign up for the shifts. Any scout who participates in any of the shifts will be in a drawing for some cool prizes at the October Pack Meeting. 

The last, and easiest, method is Show and Deliver. You order your own bags of popcorn and kits which you can sell directly to customers door to door beginning September 21nd.  There is no need to return a second time to deliver the popcorn, and there is no money due until after you sell the popcorn.   Please click HERE to place your order no later than September 1 to be sure to get the inventory you would like. Additional orders can be placed after September 1, but they will be limited to on hand inventory. Please choose the amount carefully because you are responsible for all the popcorn and kits you order. Here’s a hint: the top sellers in the pack for the past 5 years have ALWAYS ordered Show and Deliver product! 

As on the past, the money earned through popcorn and first aid sales is essential to fund all of our events and awards. We need EVERY family to, as the Law of the Pack says, “help the pack GO”!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us. We will have extra order sheets if you need them. Good luck and happy selling.

Yours in Scouting,

John Koos and Jo Rivera
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Pack 811 Families Enjoy a Weekend Camping Adventure!

Pack 811’s Annual Summer Family Camp took place August 1st– 3rd in the beautiful mountains near Cedar Glen, CA. The excitement began on Friday evening with a sunset hike to the camp observatory. Scouts and their families gathered some interesting theories about black holes, while pondering the magnitude of solar systems! Amidst the clear night skies, outdoor telescopes enabled everyone to enjoy impressive views of the Moon and Saturn!

Although Saturday brought gray skies and intermittent showers, campers happily kept busy all day by testing their skills on the Indoor Rock Wall, designing personalized flags, learning about horsemanship and equine care and canoeing or fishing on Firebird Lake. A couple of our extra-lucky Scouts reeled in some impressive Trout! A relentless Saturday evening rainstorm provided us with the opportunity to further test our creativity by bringing our Pack Family Campfire Program indoors. With the efforts of a very talented and imaginative Pack Leadership Committee, the Camp Dining Hall was magically transformed into a warm and cozy fireside assembly. Cubmaster Koos served as our hilarious Master of Ceremonies while each family presented an entertaining skit. The Camp Kitchen Crew graciously baked up some gourmet s’mores for a late-night snack.

Our Pack Family was blessed with good road conditions and clearing skies for the drive home on Sunday, with many great memories of an adventurous weekend! Pictures of the event have started to come in and are available in the Pack Albums.

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Pack 811 Rocks the Portola Day Camp

2014_Daycamp_001_400Nearly 40 Pack 811 Scouts and dozens of pack parent volunteers concluded an awesome week at Firestone Scout Reservation today.   In addition to accomplishing a large number of steps towards their rank, the boys had fun making things, exploring nature, and shooting arrows, BBs, and water rockets.  All of our dens earned high praise from the camp staff, and demonstrated great Scout spirit the entire week.  While all of our den campsites were fantastic, our Wolf and Bear Dens were singled out as having the best campsites in the entire camp.

The week could not have happened for our boys without the numerous volunteers who stepped up to make it a memorable time for out boys.  A big thank you to our Den Leaders, parents, and youth volunteers who gave of their precious time this week.  A special thanks goes to Jo Rivera who managed the entire registration process and made sure every detail was taken care of for us.

Parents and leaders are asked to share their photographic memories with the rest of our pack families via our ShutterFly site at cubpack811.shutterfly.com.  Those interested can also use FTP to upload pictures to our server (contact the webmaster for credentials).  Pictures may be added to our Albums, as well our Blue and Gold videos.

Great job Pack 811 !

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Help Serve with the Bread of Angels!

Happy Mid-Summer everyone!  In just a few weeks, we have our first big service project of the scouting year–assisting with the Bread of Angels Ministry in serving meals to the needy.

Due to the high interest of this event, we are splitting it between two Saturdays with two shifts (8 scouts, 3 parents) each in August.  The first will be Saturday August 16 and the second will be August 23.

Those of you who participated in this event last year, you might recall the overwhelming emotions and joy in the faces of those we served.  For those of you have not yet had the opportunity to assist, you will find this both a memorable and rewarding experience.  This is a wonderful opportunity for the Pack to give back to our community, support the Church’s mission and present a wonderful life lesson (or two!) to our young boys.  This even qualifies for some scout activities (for example, Tigers e11, Wolf 11d, Bear 1b or 3f, Webelos 8e)

We will need two shifts of helpers for the event.  First shift will be from 7am to 9:30am and the second shift will be from 9:30-12:00pm.  All the meals are prepared by the Bread of Angels staff in the Church Hall at St. Angela Merici.  The scouts will be taking orders and serving lunch only to the guests.  Order taking will be easy; the guests will have a paper menu and they will select their choices by marking boxes and handing the paper/menu back to the scouts who will present them to the kitchen. The boys can serve and interact with the guests during the day.  We can also use the help of 3 parents to help in the kitchen during their son’s shift.  (The boys will not be able to help in the kitchen due to their young age).

There are also many needy children at the event and our boys will help in passing out games to the kids.

The uniform for this event will be the Class B T-shirts; keep the Class A shirts at home to keep them clean!  Parents, you might want to bring a kitchen apron if you have one.

Signing up for the event is easy! Just click > HERE <and complete your information. If you have any questions, please contact Cubmaster John Koos at johnkoos@gmail.com or 714-614-8404.  We look to forward to seeing you all there!

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Religious Emblems

Duty to God is not only part of the Cub Scout Promise, but a big part of our effort in Pack 811.  All Cub Scouts are able to earn one of two Religious Emblems, The Light of Christ and the Parvuli Dei.  Scouts who complete any of these two programs are also entitled to wear the BSA Religious knot.

                                                            

The Cub Scout emblems are to be worked on with the family. It is not a den activity. The emblem should take 2-3 months to complete.  The Cub Scout needs to complete the work book associated the emblem they are trying to achieve.

The Light of Christ (for Tigers and Wolves) and Parvuli Dei (for Bears and Weblos) workbooks must be completed and reviewed for a submission to be deemed complete.  I will schedule sessions to review and validate that all the requirements of the workbook are complete.

Den Leaders will provide a count of how many workbooks they will need for their den.  Please provide to Joseph Stambersky by July 15 so the workbooks can be ordered and distributed.

The deadline to complete the Religious Emblem booklets this year is September 30, 2014.  After they are completed, they will be reviewed and candidate names will be submitted to the Diocese.   The emblem is typically awarded at a Orange County Council ceremony (scheduled for Jan 24, 2015).

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The Raingutter Regatta is Coming!! Saturday, July 12th, 2014

raingutter_regatta-trimaran2Everyone in the family is welcome to this fun event.  For those new to the regatta, this is a fun outing where the Scouts propel their home made boats along a “rain gutter” using nothing but air-power.   We will have a separate race for all siblings that want to join in on the fun as well (additional kits are available at the scout shop).  All Scouts should wear their Class B pack t-shirt.

Pre-Race Judging in the following categories starts at 9:45 am:

  • Best maritime theme
  • Most colorful
  • Best scout theme
  • Most patriotic theme
  • Most creative design
  • Best Name

The race will be held at the SAM Lunch Shelter.   Snacks and drinks will be provided. If you have not started creating your sailing craft yet, don’t worry, as a Scout can assemble it in just a few minutes and decorate it any way he wishes. Scouts will be provided a kit at no charge. If you have not received your kit yet, please register HERE and contact Joseph Stambersky as soon as possible!  Please review the Official Rules below prior to building your crafts.

PACK 811 RAINGUTTER REGATTA OFFICIAL RULES

1. Official Kit Required
Note that the boat design has changed this year.  The boat must be newly built for this event. The boat should be substantially built by the Scout. Parental supervision in the construction of the boat is encouraged. The boat should be assembled from the B.S.A. Raingutter Regatta Trimaran Kit parts only. Additional decals, paint, and glue are permitted. (Additional Kits and decals are available at the Scout Shop.)

2. Length, Width and Weight
Outriggers/Hull: The Outriggers must be no longer than 7″ or shorter than 6 1⁄2″. The finished boat must be 3-1/4″ wide, which is the dimension of the molded hull. The outriggers must be solid and not split into multiple parts and must be evenly placed. The outriggers should be cut on the leading edge as shown in the enclosed instructions. One may not be placed ahead of the other.

Mast: The mast may not be higher than 7” from the deck, nor shorter than 6” from the deck. The boat requires no keel or rudder and none may be added. The mast MUST BE perpendicular (90 degrees) to the hull, angling the mast in any direction is not allowed. The mast hole is molded into the top of the plastic hull and is the only placement allowed for the mast. No deviations will be allowed and no modifications to the hole are allowed.

Sail: Must use the sail provided in the kit. It may be trimmed, but cannot be enlarged or added to, but may be decorated. The sail should be attached securely to the mast or craft.

No other form of propulsion besides the sail and the straw provided is allowed.
Decorations may not be placed in such a manner as to change the boat dimensions as listed above. It is HIGHLY recommended that they be painted or at the very least seal the outriggers to prevent them from retaining water.

Inspection and Registration:
Each boat must pass a technical inspection and be registered before it may compete.

3. Miscellaneous
The boat must be a supplied B.S.A. Raingutter Regatta Trimaran Kit. The sail must be the one supplied with the B.S.A. Raingutter Regatta Trimaran Kit.  Racers cannot touch the craft or water during the race. All competitors and their families are expected to act in a sportsmanlike manner consistent with the standards of the Cub Scout Motto. The Derby Chairperson has the right to disqualify those cars from the official scout race that do not meet these specifications. Any disputes, challenges, or controversies shall be resolved by a majority vote of the event executive committee consisting of the Derby Chairperson, Cubmaster and Pack Committee Chair. Please contact Joseph Stambersky for any questions.

Hope to see everyone there!

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Volunteer to Cheer and Earn a Free Disney Pass

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Once again our pack was invited to help cheer on the runners during the Disney 1/2 marathon that will be held on Sunday, August 31st.  This is a volunteer service that we would be providing. Scouts who volunteer for the event must enthusiastically cheer for the runners for 3+ hours.  All scouts who cheer the entire race will be awarded a free Disneyland pass to be used at a later date!   Siblings and family members are also welcome to attend, but they are not eligible for a ticket. Here are more details from Disney:

  • Volunteers must be at least 6 years of age.
  • Must register by July 25.
  • Each Scout youth’s identification number or birth date must be provided for the online registration.
  • Only Scouts registered in our pack may sign up with us.
  • Full Scout class A uniform must be worn.
  • The time commitment is from approximately 05:30 am through 09:30 am. The final confirmation letter will give the updated arrival/check-in time.
  • Groups who arrive late or who choose to leave the event early may not be eligible to receive Theme Park tickets.
  • Scouts from all over Southern California will cheer for the runners in the Disneyland® Half Marathon.
  • Squirt guns or squirt bottles are not allowed.
  • Each participant should bring water and snacks.
  • Noise makers are encouraged.

If your Scout is interested in earning a ticket to Disneyland, and is able to cheer on runners for about 3 hours early in the morning, please CLICK HERE to register.

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Family Camp 2014

Family Camp TitleWhat is Family Camp? Family Camp is an opportunity for all Cub Scouts and their families to enjoy an outdoor camping experience together in a non‐challenging, low‐stress environment. For many young scouts & their families, this may be the first time they have ever slept outdoors or set up a tent. Family Camp is an easy and safe way to learn about outdoor adventure. Most of all, this is an opportunity for our entire pack family to better get to know each other and have some fun! Activities include horseback riding and equine care, hiking, astronomy, fishing and canoeing in a private lake, swimming pool, our wildly popular campfire program, and more!

Dates: Begins on Friday, August 1, 2014, (check‐in after 4pm). Ends on Sunday, August 3, 2014, 12:00 noon check‐out.

Location:  Forest Lawn Scout Reservation/Camp Pollock in beautiful Cedar Glen, CA (near Lake Arrowhead). This property features a camping area reserved exclusively for Pack 811, hot showers, flush toilets, and freshly prepared meals served in the onsite dining hall!

Meals:  All meals will be provided by the camp, except for the Friday evening meal. Each family is asked to bring their own picnic dinner for Friday evening or eat on the way to the camp.  Campers are also welcome to bring their own between meal snacks if desired.

Cost: $62.00 per person for the weekend (including meals), if paid by the June 21st bike rodeo. ($70 per person after the 21st, IF there is still space available.)

What to bring: The basics include tent, sleeping bags, folding chairs, Class A scout uniform, Class B Scout uniform, swimsuit & towel, other casual clothes as needed, and toiletries. A more complete checklist will be provided at a later date.

Who is eligible to attend: All scout members of Pack 811 may attend. Each scout must have at least one parent or legal guardian with them in camp. Scouts must all sleep in tents with their parent or guardian – no sleepovers with their buddies. Immediate family members of the scouts may also attend, but not extended family members and other friends.

How to sign up: Sign up on-line HERE.  Payments can be given to Mike or Jo Rivera at camp fire, or mailed to the Rivera Residence.  Payment is required to confirm reservation.  Checks should be made out to Cub Pack 811.

Questions? Please contact Mike or Jo Rivera.

 

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Join Us at the Bicycle Rodeo!

Our next summer Pack event is the Bicycle Rodeo, coming up soon on Saturday, June 21 at 10:00 am in the St. Angela School parking lot.  This fun event is open to scouts and their families, so siblings are welcome to participate as well.   Be sure to bring your bike and your helmet! The Bicycle skills events will take place from 10:00 to 12:30, immediately followed by a potluck lunch. Events will include:

  • Drag Race
  • Slalom Race
  • Figure 8
  • Snail Race
  • Balance Beam
  • Newspaper Throw
  • Bicycle Maintenance

Training wheels are welcomed, and you will be given a chance to learn how to ride without them if you wish. Scooters are also welcomed for those without a bike.  Please RSVP as soon as possible and sign up to bring something to share for the potluck lunch.  Please contact John Spielman if any questions. Class B T-shirts are to be worn (Class B shirts will be available at the event for new scouts).

>> RSVP and Sign-up Here! <<

 

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In Honor of our Military Heroes

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Hi Scouts,
 
In honor of our military heroes, our pack will be participating in Loma Vista Park’s Annual Memorial Day Program.  We will be laying small flags and crosses on the graves of our brave service men and women who are buried there.  This a wonderful event for both scouts and parents as we say “thank you” to those who served our country so well.
 
We will meet Mr. Koos and Mr. De Los Rios at Loma Vista at 7:45 a.m. this Saturday, May 24, 2014, dressed in our Class A uniforms.  
Loma Vista Memorial Park
701 E. Bastanchury Road
Fullerton, CA 92835
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