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.

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!

We have scheduled two Pack Family Campouts, so save these dates:
June 21-23, 2024 at Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite sign up here https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=218
September 20-22, 2024 at Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite – sign up here http://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=222

Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite is about 35 minutes from South Fayette. It is a primitive camping site with vault toilets and water nearby. There is plenty of room for families to set up tents and for the Scouts to play in the group tenting area. The weekend activities will include a one mile hike, fishing, swimming and kayaking for both of these trips to Raccoon State Park.

For all trips your family can join us for one night or both. If you are unable to camp overnight, please feel free to join us on Saturday for morning activities, a hike, time spent at the lake in the afternoon and cooking our own dinner over the campfire or in a Dutch oven. Don’t let a lack of tenting equipment keep you out of the fun… many of us have plenty of equipment to share.

Our typical schedule looks something like this:
Friday after 4PM– arrive at camp, set up tents, families cook their dinners, kids play and parents hang out by the campfire. Lights out by 10PM for the kiddos.

Saturday morning– families cook their breakfasts, kids play
Saturday 10AM to 12PM – activities and hike
Saturday 12PM to 1PM – families prepare lunch
Saturday 1PM to 4PM – activities at the lake
Saturday 4PM to 7PM – dinner – tinfoil meals or dutch oven (Pack provides)
Saturday 7PM to 9:30PM – Scouts play and hang out by the fire
Saturday 10PM – Lights out for the kiddos

Sunday morning– families cook their breakfasts, kids play
We have the campsites until 3PM on Sunday. Families can choose to enjoy the amenities at the State Parks, including fishing, swimming and boating. Families choose when they would like to pack down their tents and head home.

All families will bring their own food and prepare their own meals, with the exception of the dinner on Saturday. We will have tin foil pockets for dinner that evening which adult leaders will assist the Scouts in preparing in a sanitary manner. There will be a $5/person or $20/family charge for this dinner meal. Exact payment expected at the campsite.

Pre-registration is required even if you are just joining us for the day.
Signup sheets for all trips can be accessed here: http://pack843.org/sign-ups/
The sign up sheets for all trips will close five days prior to each event.

Come join your friends in Pack 843 as we race against other cub scout packs in the area!  The race is on Saturday May 11 from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the Settlers’ Cabin Wave Pool parking lot (https://maps.app.goo.gl/g3HZGMdXSLruB3VL6). Races include a downhill/gravity race, a slalom, a circular track with scouts pushing each other, and a distance push!  We have 2 Cubmobiles and will bring as many scouts as want to attend, but we do need a team to be able to participate!  All riders need to wear shoes and a helmet, so bring your bike helmet! Ask a leader for more information. Sign up on the pack website at http://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=213

For our pack meeting this month, we’ll be meeting at the Hendersonville Pavilion at Hendersonville Park On April 27th at 1:30 PM. Please see the location here:

https://goo.gl/maps/X7ca3GhaPi15VUtC9

The pack meeting will start at 1:30, but we’ll gather early to gather everyone’s food they collected for Scouting for Food. The pack meeting will have our usual announcements, advancements that the scouts have earned, then we’ll talk about bicycle safety, and then go for a ride on the nearby Montour Trail! Please make sure to bring water for the ride and if you want it afterward. After we all get back from our ride, the pack will provide an ice cream treat for everyone, so please sign up to let us know how much to get! Hope to see you there!

Please sign up here

Check out the flyer for the Scouting for Food collection here

July 4 UPDATE:

We are quickly approaching the deadline for sign ups for the Pirate baseball game color guard experience on August 7. I have only received 16 ticket requests. We must sell at least 50 tickets to maintain the price of $29 a ticket. Please sign up immediately if your Scout and family are interested in attending this memorable experience.

On Wednesday, August 7th, Pack 843 will be serving as the Color Guard for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Our Pack will be going onto the field at PNC Park and presenting the flag for the National Anthem.  Afterwards, we will have seats to watch the Pirates battle the Padres.

The cost of the tickets is $29 each and include $10 towards the concession stand.
You must sign up in advance and pay by a check made out to Pack 843, or Zelle to Pack 843. Please give all payments to Deb Whitewood, Jon Spink, or Treasurer, Matt Bizzack. Payments must be received prior to July 24th.
You can drop payments off at the den meetings or at Deb’s home, 173 Greenwood Drive, Bridgeville, PA 15017.

Signup here prior to July 24, 2024. https://pack843.org/sign-ups/

All scouts and leaders MUST be in Class A uniform to go onto the field.  The game begins at 6:40PM, but we will need to assemble around 5:00 at the cul-de-sac on Mazeroski Way to get prepared.  As in prior years, we need to purchase 50 tickets in order to get the $29 per ticket price, so bring the siblings and Grandparents to the game! In the past we have had 70 scouts and family members attend this event. It is always a memorable night for everyone!

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please contact Deb Whitewood at whitewoodD@msn.com

Join our Pack July 11-14 at Laurel Highlands Council’s Camp Independence, for the ultimate Cub Scouting camping experience. Scouts, their leaders, and parents/guardians stay overnight 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! And the Webelos get the option of staying an extra day through the day Sunday for more fun!

Camp is $275 for Scouts to spend three days and $365 for four days (extra day for Webelos) 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

Congratulations again to our scouts! We celebrated scouts that earned their Arrow of Light and other advancements this past Sunday at the Blue and Gold/Crossover ceremony. And we wish good luck to those that crossed over to their selected Scouts BSA troop. Thank you to all that planned and attended this wonderful event to celebrate our scouts’ achievements!

This past weekend, we held our pack’s Pinewood Derby race day. Undeterred by the weather, it was a huge success! Congratulations to the scouts that participated!

Each den level raced among themselves, with awards given to the best decorated cars and then the winners competed to determine the overall champion from our Pack. The final Pack 843 standings are:

1. Eliana W. – Tiger
2. Owen R. – Wolf
3. Owen G – Bear

And, an overall “Best in Show” award was voted on by the leaders and presented to Kali L. for her amazing dragon car!

The top finishers can now compete at the Frontier District race, against winners from other Cub Scout packs in our area, on Saturday, March 2. Good luck and thank you for representing our Pack!