Hello Everyone,
Some quick reminders:
Pack meeting tonight – 7-8pm @ WES
Fort Mifflin RSVP’s are due tonight. Please let me know if you are interested and bring payment to the meeting.
The final popcorn pick is also tonight from 7-8:15pm (415 South Waterloo Rd).
Keith
Hello Everyone,
Ed (Popcorn Kernel) would like to thank everyone for their help and support with the popcorn sale this year! We again sold close to $20,000 in popcorn and raised over $7,000 for the pack to fund our activities for the year. In addition, we raised a significant amount of money to help support other local scouts
Popcorn Pick-up:
The Toates’, have kindly let the scouts use their garage to warehouse the popcorn. Now we need to distribute the popcorn and get it out of their garage. We have arranged the following two dates to pick-up your popcorn orders.
The popcorn can be picked up at: 415 South Waterloo Rd.
The pick-up dates are:
1) Sunday, November, 13th from 1:00- 4:00pm. *** Preferred date****
2) Tuesday, November 15th from 7-8:15pm (This will be during our regular Tuesday meeting).
If you haven’t paid, please bring cash and checks to settle up. Also, your original forms will be returned to you. Prizes have been ordered and will be distributed as soon as they arrive.
In addition please remember to let me know about your interest in the Fort Mifflin trip on the 19th as well as the Franklin Institute overnight in Feb.
Keith
Hello Everyone,
What a difference a week makes. One weekend we have 4-5 inches of snow and the next we are outside playing soccer/baseball in shorts and t-shirt. I hope that everyone’s lives have returned to normal from all the power outages in the area.
I have attached a modified schedule for the rest of the year. We moved some items around a bit in order to make some different events work out. The schedule is pretty solid through February. We will lock in March -> May in the coming months.
For this month we have:
Sun 11/13 – Popcorn Pick-up (details to follow)
Tues 11/15 – Pack Meeting @ WES
Sat 11/19 – Fort Mifflin @ 10am
Tues 11/29 – Den Meeting @ WES
On Saturday Nov 19th we will be visiting Fort Mifflin. Fort Mifflin is located near the airport and easy to get to. We have arranged for a special program for the pack which will start at 10am and continue until 4pm (or as long as you choose to stay). When we arrive we will be met by our own personal Uniformed Interpretive Guide. We will get to march into the Fort to participate in the Fort Mifflin flag raising ceremony. We will then be given a tour of the entire Fort and then a uniform and weapons demonstration (including a cannon demonstration). We also expect some additional activities including a scavenger hunt. I would encourage you to bring a bag lunch and have a picnic if the weather is nice. More information can be found at http://fortmifflin.us. As always, all family members are invited. The scouts will be covered by the pack, other family members are $10 per person. Please RSVP no later than the 15th so I can coordinate with the staff at the fort (the sooner the better).
Thinking ahead, we have booked our trip to the Franklin Institute for the night of Feb 10th. Reservations are required for this event and the pack has to pay up front whether we use all of our reserved spots or not. As of this time we have reserved 100 spots. These will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. I can likely get more if needed but the longer we wait to try the harder it will be. This will be a great trip so I expect it to fill up. More details will come soon but if you are interested in reserving a spot let me know.
Let me know about Fort Mifflin and look for an e-mail soon in regards to popcorn pickup.
Keith
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Message from our Cubmaster; Hawk Mountain this weekend!
Posted by Charlie Herrin in Announcements, News
Hello Everyone,
Our next two meetings are Den Meetings at Wayne Elementary. They are on Oct 11th and Oct 25th from 7-8pm.
In between we have our trip(s) to Hawk Mountain (http://www.hawkmountain.org/). Hawk Mountain is located in Kempton, PA which is about 80 mins from Wayne.
Founded in 1934, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the world’s first refuge for birds of prey and an international center for raptor conservation. The 2,600-acre mountaintop preserve offers incredible scenic overlooks, eight miles of trail, a Visitor Center, native plant garden, and more. If you look at the website you can see the birds that are spotted each day during the fall migration which is taking place right now. Along with many different hawks you will see mention of bald eagles, osprey, golden eagles, falcons, etc…
We are targeting our visit to coincide with a 2pm showing of their fascinating Raptor’s Up Close! Program which offers the chance to see a live hawk, falcon or owl, and to learn what puts these winged predators at the top of nature’s food chain. We then intend a short walk to the South Lookout and a longer ¾ mile hike to the North Lookout where the majority of the sightings and watching takes place. Although we will not formally do so as a group there are many other great hikes that you can do during our visit.
We are arranging two trips to try and help everyone work around sports and other commitments. We will have a Saturday trip for which you should plan on leaving the Wayne area at about 12noon so you can be there and ready for the 2pm program and then repeat that on Sunday. As usual, admission for the scouts will be covered by the pack – siblings (6-12) will be $3 and adults $7 (I’m still working on a group rate so this might change.
I would suggest brining a small backpack with water and binoculars if you have them. If not, they do rent binoculars in the visitor center for a nominal fee.
Please let me know by Sunday night which trip you would like to attend along with how many people will be participating.
If you have any questions please let me know.
Keith
