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The ACT Food Drive is Coming!

Dear Pack 811 Families:

Our Pack’s biggest 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.

Sunday, October 16
, while our 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 (we will provide the staples).  The more parents stapling, the faster we will get the job done.  Last year, we had so many helping hands that we finished stapling fliers before the scouts got done with their gathering game.

Saturday, October 22, and Sunday, October 23
, our scouts will distribute grocery bags after all the Eucharists. We need a minimum of 6 scouts for each Eucharist to cover all the Church exits. You do not have to attend the particular Eucharist you signed up for.  All you need to do is show up before the Eucharist ends and spend 15 minutes or so distributing grocery bags.  Scouts must wear their class A uniform.
Saturday, October 29, and Sunday, October 30, our scouts will assist with the collection of grocery-filled bags from parishioners before each Eucharist.  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 Parish Hall for immediate sorting.  We need the help of at least 10 scouts (6 to cover each Church entrance and 4 to cover the tables) and their families for each shift.   Sorting of the food is a huge task and the more help we have, the easier the job will be.  If you have a wagon, please bring it with you. The boys enjoy loading them to carry the food.  Scouts must wear their class A uniform.

Please click on the link below to sign up for your shifts.  If you can spare the time, please sign up for more than one shift for each weekend.  It is greatly appreciated.

Sign-Up Sheet

The ACT Office really counts on the help of our cub scouts during their Annual Food Drive.  Let us show them that Pack 811 is not only about fun but also about serving the community.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at nailacurrie@msn.com.

Yours in scouting,
Naila and Matt Currie

ACT Food Drive Help Needed!

Dear Pack 811 Families:

Our Pack’s biggest 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.

Sunday, October 17, 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 (we will provide the staples). The more parents stapling, the faster we will get the job done.

Saturday, October 30, and Sunday, October 31, our scouts will distribute grocery bags after all the Masses. We need a minimum of 6 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 6, and Sunday, November 7, 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 Parish Hall for immediate sorting. We need the help of at least 6 scouts and their families for each shift.   At 12:15 on Sunday, we need as many people as we can get to finish the sorting and move the boxes to the storage.  Sorting of the food is a huge task and the more help we have, the easier the job will be. If you have a wagon, please bring it with you. The boys enjoy loading them to carry the food. Scouts must wear their class A uniform.

Please click on the link below to sign up for your shifts. If you can spare the time, please sign up for more than one shift for each weekend. It would be greatly appreciated.

>> Sign-up Here<<


The ACT Office really counts on the help of our Cub Scouts during their Annual Food Drive. Let us show them what Pack 811 is all about!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at nailacurrie@msn.com.

Yours in Scouting,

Matt and Naila Currie

Bread of Angels

Our next Pack 811 event will be supporting the Bread of Angels held on Saturday, August 7th. Last year when we sold the Scout-O-Rama coupon books we committed the profits from the sales to the Bread of Angels (formerly known as Hospitality Saturday) to help feed those in need. 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.

Parents and siblings 14 and older will be needed to help in the kitchen and in the hall to help serve the guests. The scouts and siblings under 14 are needed to help take orders (for lunch only; breakfast is self-served) and serve food to the guests. (The boys will not be able to help in the kitchen due to their young age.) 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.

There are two shifts available to serve. The Breakfast Shift is from 7:30 to 10:30 (breakfast is served from 08:30am-10:00am) and the Lunch Shift is from 10:00 to 1:00 (lunch is served from 10:30am-12:30pm). We need more staff to help with lunch than we do breakfast. The uniform for this event will be the Pack T-shirts; keep the Class A (fancy blue 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 on the link below. If you have any questions, please contact Cubmaster Dean Gialamas.

> Sign Up Here <

Avenue of the Flags at Memory Garden

Memory Garden Memorial Park and Mortuary in Brea will be holding their annual Flag Ceremony this Memorial Day weekend.  This very special event pays tribute to the brave men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy the freedom we have today.


Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Cub Scouts from around the area have been asked to help place small flags and crosses on the graves of our veterans buried at Memory Garden on Saturday, May 29 starting at 6:30 a.m.  

On Monday, May 31 at 6:30 am, they will be setting up the “Avenue of the Flags” where they raise full size funeral flags representing veterans who passed away and have been buried there over the past 53 years.  At 3 pm, these full size flags will be taken down and folded.

We have been offered the opportunity to participate in this event.  If anyone would like to help, please feel free to go to Memory Garden on either Saturday or Monday at 6:30 am to set up, or on Monday at 3 pm to take down flags.  Please meet in front of the Memory Garden Office.  Full class A Uniforms would be appropriate.  Each boy and sibling must be accompanied by an adult. 

Special thanks to Mrs. Carrasco for giving us this information.


Memory Garden Memorial Park and Mortuary
455 W. Central Avenue
Brea, CA 92821