Here is our September and October Calendar
September
2 - First Day of School (We are ok with Hussey to continue to have our den meetings there all year- boys should be receiving fliers from Hussey and Farrington soon)
7- Labor Day- No School
9- Leaders' Roundtable in Waterville
13- Popcorn Show and Sell at the Augusta Civic Center
14- Cub Scout Sign Up at Hussey School Gym at 6 PM. (Den leaders, please be prepared to run an activity station for the boys while Chuck talks to Parents)
15- Go See It (Pack go see it. Paul J is working on visiting the Fire department)
22- 1st Regular Den Meeting (Boys will be working on Model Rockets)
24- Dens need to give Chuck their list of awards the boys earned at camp
26- Popcorn Push Day and Rocket Launch
29- 1st Pack meeting (Legion if it is available- otherwise Hussey) Awards presented to boys
October
3- Cub Scout Trailblazer Day at Camp Bomazeen
6- Regular Den meeting
13- Regular Den meeting
14- Leaders Roundtable in Waterville
16-18- Webelos II take part in Boy Scout Fall Camporee as guests of Troop 603
20- Regular Den Meeting
27- Halloween Pack meeting (Boys and siblings come in Costume, we ask everyone to bring a bag of candy so we can make treat bags for the kids. Dens run a halloween station) Popcorn orders due.
Popcorn
Popcorn is our big sale. We try to sell enough product during the sale so we don't have to do any other sale throughout the year!
There are several ways we are selling popcorn this year:
Internet Sales- This is a great way to reach out to family members far away. They order the product that they want online and plug in your son's code and your boy gets the credit for the sale. Nice and easy. My son Theo's number is 2531183 so if I could figure it out, you can too! Here are the steps to set it up:
-Go to http://www.trails-end.com/
-Click on the "Scout" icon at the bottom of the page. This will bring you to a page with a cute pic of a Cub Scout at the top of the screen. Text is Sell popcorn. Earn Cool Prizes. Fund your program.
-Click on the "Track my online sales" link in the middle of the page. This will bring you to a form to fill out so your son can begin selling popcorn online. Be sure to put down Pack where it asks the type of unit and 603 for the number. It has a parental approval area so you will have to go back to your website and approve that it is ok for him to set up the account.
-After you have completed that, it has an email generator to send out emails to those people you would like to receive an invite to buy popcorn. Your son's code should appear right on the email they receive.
These sales get added on at the end of the total popcorn sale but how successful can your boy be with online sales? Ask Webelos Scout Morgan Young in our pack who paid for camp this summer by selling popcorn online!
Show and Sell- We will be having a one day effort to sell popcorn outside the Augusta Civic Center on September 13th. We will have the product for this event on hand. All Scouts are asked to participate. I will send out a separate email after all of the details are ironed out.
Take Order Sale- Boys should have received the information in the mail. They can begin going out door to door and taking orders. Be sure to take the money at the time the order is placed! They can take orders right up to the October pack meeting. All orders and money are due at that meeting.
Popcorn Push Day- We are trying to have Sept 26th be the day that all of the boys go out in pairs in neighborhoods selling for a few hours. Then afterwards we will have our rocket launch at the legion. The boys should travel with a scout buddy and a parent.
More popcorn information: http://www.pinetreebsa.org/resources/forms/popcorn/salesguide2009.pdf
Leaders: Here is Some Program Helps for September
http://kismif.org/category/themes/cub-scout-pockets/
http://usscouts.org/bbugle/bb0908.pdf
CHIP Program at Sign Up Night
Thanks to Den Leader Chris Bailey for securing folks from the Maine Freemasons to come in to our Cub Scout sign up night on Monday, September 14 at 6 PM. The CHIP (Child Identification Program) is designed to combat child abduction and assist in finding a lost child. Scouting takes child safety seriously and this year that begins right at sign up. This is a voluntary program but we are glad to have CHIP representatives joining us at sign up night. Returning Scouts are not required to come to sign up night but parents can bring them and other siblings to take part in this program.
CUB SCOUT TRAILBLAZERS
October 3 at Camp Bomazeen
This is a family event for cub scouts, parents and siblings. More details as we get closer but this is likely to be a super day of camp-style activities right in Belgrade and a super event for our dens to get out of their meetings and into the woods in October.
Shoe Boxes
The Bear Den is looking for shoe boxes for a project so please keep them when you are buying new school shoes! Thanks
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