Join our Pack July 11-13 at Laurel Highlands Council’s Camp Independence, for the ultimate Cub Scouting camping experience. Scouts, their leaders, and parents/guardians stay overnight two nights for three days at the camp, part of the council’s Heritage Reservation, nestled in the Laurel Highlands wilderness. The camp has many activities for the scouts to enjoy, like BB guns, archery, slingshots, climbing, hiking, swimming, fishing, boating, campfires, and more! For more information, see the council webpage for this event at: https://scoutingevent.com/527-2025CampIndependence

Camp is $275 for Scouts to spend three days and $120 for adults. Spots are still available! Please contact Jon Spink with any questions or if you’re interested at jon.spink@gmail.com

**Update!!**

Camp is expensive, we understand! The costs, as outlined earlier, are $275 for youth and $120 for adults when registered and paid by April 1. In order to help, our pack is offering a $50 campership for those scouts attending summer camp for the first time. This means, if this is your first time going to summer camp, you’ll pay $225. We are also offering $30 off for siblings attending. If you have two kids going to camp, each will have $30 of their fee covered by the pack (and our council is offering the exact same discount for siblings.) Please let me know who is interested and we’ll figure out your total. Payment can be made to the pack with a check or by Zelle.

The camp has launched a new webpage for the camp facilities:

Summer Camp

Please contact me, Jon Spink at jon.spink@gmail.com if you’re interested in attending the camp session. I’ll make sure you are registered with the pack’s slot – no need to register yourself!

On Sunday, December 8, Pack 843 will gather at the Oakdale Community Center for our next Pack meeting. All families are invited to come celebrate the many holidays taking place at this time of year! We’ll meet from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, but please consider coming early to help create crafts for the pack to sell at the holiday mart at the school on Dec. 13 – 14. We’ll be there at 2:00 PM to create and build. All families are asked to bring a dish(or dishes) to share, preferably from your family’s cultures/heritage. We will have some of the usual basic items (pizza, chips, fruit, cookies) and fun activities for our scouts to keep the time festive. The Oakdale Community Center has plenty of space for you to plug in your crock pots to keep the food warm until we eat – room to plug in Crock Pots, and a microwave to reheat anything if needed. Please sign up to let us know you’re attending and what you’re bringing. Please indicate the number of people attending in the “Item Quantity” field and the item you are bringing in that field.

Sign-ups!

On Sunday October 27, we’ll gather for our next Pack meeting at the Fairview Park Rotary Pavilion from 1-3 PM for a Tent or Treat and some Halloween fun! The scouts and their families can come in costume if they wish and decorate tents with the rest of their den. The pack will supply treats for the trick-or-treaters. Hope to see you there! Please sign up to let us know you’re coming to have some fall fun!

Sign-ups!

On Sunday, September 22^rd we will hold our first Pack meeting of the year. We will gather from 3-5PM at the Lafayette Pavilion in Fairview Park. We will have an ice cream social, and the Scouts will be able to try out the Cub Mobiles, play Gaga Ball, and so much more! Scouts should wear their uniforms if they have them. Parents and siblings are invited to attend the Ice Cream social. Please sign up here so we can have enough ice cream: https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=223

*Den Meetings at South Fayette Elementary School Cafeteria/Intermediate School Cafeteria or Library, First and Third Wednesday of each month

August 2024

Aug. 28 – Sign up night 6:30 @SF Elementary School Cafeteria

September 2024

Sept. 4 – First Den Meetings

Sept. 6 – Pirates Color Guard

Sept. 18 – Den Meeting

Sept. 22 – Pack Meeting – Ice Cream Party 3:00PM Fairview Park

Sept. 28 – Cub Out – Camp Independence

October 2024

Oct. 2 – Den Meeting

Oct. 16 – Den Meeting

Oct. 27 – Pack Meeting – Tent or Treat – 1:00-3:00 PM Fairview Park Rotary Pavilion

November 2024

Nov. 6 – Den Meeting

Nov. 20 – Den Meeting

Nov. 15 – Friday Night Skit Night – 6:30 MS Auditorium

December 2024

Dec. 4 – Den Meeting

Dec. 8 – Pack Meeting – Holidays Party – 3:00-5:00 pm Oakdale Community Center

Dec. 18 – Den Meeting

January 2025

Jan. 8 – Den Meeting

Jan. 15 – Pinewood Derby build night – Oakdale Community Center

Jan. 22 – Den Meeting

Jan. 25 – Pack Meeting – Pinewood Derby – Crossroads Church

February 2025

Feb. 5 – Den Meeting

Feb. 19 – Den Meeting

Feb. 23 – Pack Meeting – Crossover – TBD

March 2025

Mar. 5 – Den Meeting

Mar. 19 – Den Meeting

Mar. TBD – Pack Meeting – Blue and Gold Celebration

April 2025

Apr. 2 – Den Meeting

Apr. 16 – Den Meeting

Apr. 27 – Pack Meeting – Bike Rally on the Montour Trail

May 2025

May 7 – Den Meeting

May 18 – Pack Meeting – Picnic – 3:00-5:00 Fairview Park Rotary Pavilion

Join Pack 843 at Cross Creek Lake on Sunday, July 21st from 9am – 2pm for Lake and park fun!

There is a lot to do:

Playgrounds

BMX Biking Course

Hiking

Fishing

We will have plenty of supplies for fishing to help teach scouts if needed!

Scouts do not need licenses or equipment, adults need a license if they want to fish, but do not need one if they just want to watch and help.

Feel free to invite friends and other families that may be interested in scouting as well in the coming fall!

Snacks and drinks will be provided. Pack a family lunch and picnic at the pavilion we have rented!

We will be at Pavillion 3. See link to map below.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kQUEss9tDzS9hS6M6

And for more information about the park itself:

https://www.visitwashingtoncountypa.com/listing/cross-creek-county-park/786

Please sign up at the pack website:https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=220

Join us for a night of professional soccer with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on July 6! The Riverhounds play at home, at Highmark Stadium at Station Square, against Monterey Bay FC at 7:00. I hope you’ll join us for a night of soccer excitement and special guest appearances by WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan! Tickets are $18.00 each and can be purchased through this link:

https://fevo-enterprise.com/event/PACK8430706

Please also sign up at https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=219, so I can know everyone from our pack that is coming and organize sitting and cheering together.

Pack 843 will march in the Bridgeville Memorial Day parade, along Washington Pike in Bridgeville on May 27, 2024. Marching in the parade is always a fun time and a highlight for our Pack to show off who we are and that we are a part of the community. If you will be in town during the Memorial Day weekend, please try to take time for your son or daughter to participate in this parade. The kids have fun showing off and tossing candy to the people watching along the parade route!

The pack will meet on Station Street in Bridgeville by the American Legion Post at 9:00AM-9:30AM. The parade starts at 10:00 AM and usually takes less than an hour.

The parade begins near Station Street and ends at the Cemetery past the GetGo.
It is suggested to park either at the cemetery or in the Aldi parking lot so you don’t have to walk all the way back to your vehicle after the parade.

Uniform shirts are required to be worn by the Scouts and adult leaders for the parade. The exception would be the Lions who are permitted to wear class B uniforms.

Please sign up in advance so that the coordinator knows how much candy to purchase for the Scouts to pass out to the crowd. Please sign up here by
May 25th: http://pack843.org/sign-ups/

Adult leaders are encouraged to participate so that we maintain two deep leadership at all times. Please let Jon Spink know if you have any questions at jon.spink@gmail.com

Join us for a picnic to wrap up the year and celebrate our scouts’ accomplishments! We’ll be having our May Pack Meeting at the Rotary Pavilion in Fairview Park (the big one up top by the soccer fields) on May 19 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM. We’ll have advancements for the scouts then we’ll be having a cook out, with hot dogs and hamburgers and we ask that you sign up to bring everything else we need to round out the meal. We have divided up what category of food to bring based on your child’s den. Please indicate that when you sign up.

Lions	Condiments/toppings or salads
Tigers	Hamburger/hot dog buns or chips
Wolves	Drinks or Salad
Bears	Sides
Webelos	Desserts

We’ll have some games to play too! Let’s get outside and have some fun, wrapping up a year of hard work!

The pack will have water jugs as well, so bring your water bottles! 

Please sign up here to indicate how many are joining us and mark what you’re bringing.

Pack 843 is heading to the ballpark!! We will join the Washington Wild Things for some summer fun with a baseball game and sleepover at the ballpark on Saturday, June 8th! Gates open at 6PM and game time is 7:05PM. After the game, stick around to play catch, watch a movie and camp out in the outfield. All scouts and leaders will receive a Wild Things Scout Patch for attending.

We have multiple different ticket options for the game:

1. Overnight tickets which are $18. These include the game ticket, post-game activities, movie, sleepover, breakfast, and a scout patch (the patch is for Scouts and Leaders only).
2. Additional Tickets for anyone who is neither a Scout nor a Leader but wants to attend the game. These tickets are $10 and are just the game ticket.
3. Ticket and Patch package. These are perfect for Scouts and Leaders that want to attend the game but can’t stay overnight. They are $10 and include the game ticket as well as the scout patch (Only Scouts and Leaders can get this ticket).

Advance registration and payment are required for this event prior to May 29th.
Please sign up here: http://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=214

Payment can be made via cash, check (made out to Pack 843), or Zelle it (724-350-2846, or search Cub Scout Pack 843)

You must provide your own tent, sleeping bags and overnight items. If you need to borrow a tent or sleeping bag, let us know and we will work something out!

If you have further questions regarding this event, please contact the event coordinator,
Matt Bizzack at matt.bizzack@gmail.com, or see attached flyer!