Our first Pack Meeting of the year will be this Friday, September 19th, 7:00 PM at the Zion Lutheran Church (on Washington Pike, near the “new” Giant Eagle).
This will be an outdoor meeting, so bring a jacket, and a lawn chair if you want to be comfortable.
We will have a popcorn tasting, give advancements and awards, and play a few games. It will be a fun time for the boys, and a great kick-off to the new year. See you there!
The next den meeting will be this Wednesday, September 17th at the Elementary School.
If you want to register but haven’t yet, please try to arrive at 6:30. That will give us a little time to answer questions and take care of the registration. The cost is $35 (cash or check).
If you are recently registered as a NEW scout, try to arrive at 6:45. That will give us a chance to divide into dens and get things started about 7:00.
Returning scouts, be sure to stop by the front desk. Popcorn forms will be there for those who haven’t received them yet, and there may be a sign-up sheet or two.
Do you have a boy who is interested in the adventures that Scouting can provide? On Wednesday, Sept. 10th Pack 843 will have a New Scout Sign-Up Night, in the South Fayette Elementary School gymnasium, from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Potential scouts and their parents can get the answers to all their questions, find our more about our program, and register their boys for the new scouting year.
Some basic information about Cub Scouts:
Learn more about what our Pack does by visiting the “About Pack 843” page.
Reminder — the first den meeting of the year will be this Wednesday, September 3rd at the South Fayette Elementary school. Starting time is determined by your den.
Forms will be available at the front desk for Popcorn Sales. This is your opportunity to earn money to pay for your Cub Scout dues, and to pay for activities for the rest of the year! This year there are number of special incentives, too:
Remember that ALL sales — including show-n-sell hours — count towards your personal totals. Sign up for show-n-sell times at the den meeting, or on the new Sign-ups! page.
Hello Scouts! The 2014-2015 Scouting year is about to begin! The new calendar is loaded on the website, and the whole thing can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Here are a few important dates to get started:
We are also ready to kick off the Popcorn Season! This is a chance for scouts to raise money for dues, scouting events, uniforms and equipment. The easiest way to do this is through Popcorn Show-n-Sells, and the first Show-n-Sell dates of the year will be August 30 and 31st. Please go to the new Sign-up! page of the website to register for the time slot(s) that your scout would like to work. Don’t let this opportunity pass!
More information about the popcorn sales (and the great stuff you can win) will be coming SOON!
For anyone interested, Pack 843 will be camping at Heritage Reservation the weekend of 9/19/14-9/21/14 for the District’s Fishing Derby weekend at Heritage Reservation. We check in late Friday afternoon and check out early Sunday morning.
The cost is $45 per camper. All meals are included. Saturday will feature fishing and field sports, i.e. archery, bb guns. Kayaks and canoes will be available for an additional $10. We will be staying in tents again. For those of you who have attended resident camp, it is a shorter scaled back version. Take a look at the following website for more information:
http://www.heritagereservation.org/fishing
Mark has have attended this event (some years it is called Mountainfest) each year they have held it for the past 6 years. The attendance varies from year to year. In some years the attendance is very light and other years they have been packed in like sardines. In some years, we have had interior campsites (not close to parking) and last year everyone had to park off site and take shuttles. Each year, however, everyone who attended had a very good time.
Mark will be making the reservation for our pack on August 31, 2014. If you are interested in coming, hewill need your payment by then.
Please call (412-860-6931) or email (mark@gubinskylaw.com) with any questions.
The last summer pack event will be on Saturday August 9th, starting at 10:00 AM, at the Entrance Pavilion of Fairview Park. This will be an introduction to Geocaching — scouts along with their parent(s) will be partnered with an experienced local cacher, who will guide them in the skills needed to find the caches.
Bring your own sunscreen and bug repellent, and a water bottle will be helpful. We will provide drinks and bring a grill — if you want to bring food (for yourself or to share), we will hang around afterwards and have a little picnic.
If you’d like to get a head start, you can visit our Event Cache on Geocaching.com: http://coord.info/GC57ZDX . You can follow the instructions on the website to register a team name FOR FREE. Then explore the site for more information about Geocaching.
If you have a smart phone, and really want to get a jump on things, you may want to load a GPS waypoint program, like “Free GPS” for the iPhone, or “Polaris Navigation GPS” for Android.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Game
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Vs. LA Galaxy II
Highmark Stadium
7:00 p.m.
The Pack has been afforded the opportunity to purchase tickets for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer game on Saturday, August 2, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. The regular cost of the Tier 1 level tickets is $20. We can purchase the tickets at the discounted rate of $15. If you are interested in attending the game with the pack, please email Mark Gubinsky at mark@gubinskylaw.com on or before July 21, 2014 and let him know how many tickets you would like to purchase.
This summer Pack 843 will be working along with the local geocaching community to help introduce our scouts to the fun of Geocaching.
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. And it’s happening right now, all around you. There are 2,435,261 active geocaches and over 6 million geocachers worldwide.
The event will be on Saturday August 9th, starting at 10:00 AM, at the Entrance Pavilion of Fairview Park. Several temporary caches will be set up, and scouts along with their parent(s) will be partnered with an experienced local cacher, who will guide them in the skills needed to find the caches.
We will be providing some swag (treasure!) for the scouts, which they can then swap for swag inside the hidden caches.
Bring your own sunscreen and bug repellent. We will provide drinks and bring a grill — if you want to bring food (for yourself or to share), we will hang around afterwards and have a little picnic.
If you’d like to get a head start, you can visit our Event Cache on Geocaching.com: http://coord.info/GC57ZDX . You can follow the instructions on the website to register a team name FOR FREE. Then explore the site for more information about Geocaching.