Cub Scouting is a year-round family program designed for boys in the 1st through 5th grades, or 7 to 10 years of age. The program emphasizes shared leadership, learning about the community, family understanding, character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.
Young boys grow up fast. Give your son a valuable gift by encouraging him to join Cub Scouting today. The time you invest in him today will make a difference in the person he becomes tomorrow.
The Winter Campout is at Beaver Meadow, 1610 Welch Rd. North Java, NY 14113 Friday, January 27 – Sunday, January 29
CAMPING EQUIPMENT
CLOTHES BAG
TOILET KIT
EXTRAS (optional)
BRING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND BE READY FOR SOME GREAT OUT DOOR FUN.
NO ELECTRONICS
NO VIDEO GAMES
All information regarding the overnight at the Buffalo Naval Park should be in your hands by now. If you’re looking for a copy, you can download it here.
A few notes from Mr. Clint:
This Wednesday the Pack is meeting at the Sheridan Park Fire Hall, 744 Sheridan Drive starting at 6pm. Wear your Class B Uniforms (Gold T-shirts). Parking will be tricky, so plan on using nearby side-streets (Desmond, Mapleview, Elmview or even Sheridan Park).
Features
Saturday October 8th – 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
$10.00 per person
Fee includes: Legacy 11 t-shirts and patches, activities, and lunch.
We’ll meet at Beaver Island in the Main Parking Lot (Lot 1) at 8:30 for coffee, juice and Timbits. Cub scouts and parents will sign in at shelter 1B at 9 AM
Lunch will be provided by Legacy 11 – hot dogs are on the menu
Families will need to bring shovels and hard rakes
Cubs should wear old clothes and have proper footwear, rain gear, work gloves and water bottles to have with them while working. Water will be available there.
Groups will be 6 to 8 cubs and their parents. We will be planting trees and shrubs. The holes for the trees will be pre-dug and trees will be next to holes.
Adults will help put the trees in the holes. Cubs will back fill the hole and prepare the trees -wrap, stake, water, and mulch.
During the instructions for the tree preparation the boys will learn about trees. For example, why the species of trees are selected, what is the purpose of the wrap, why would the trees need to be staked, etc. Check your Cub Scout Handbook to see if any badge requirements will be fulfilled.
Each family needs to fill out a NYS Parks volunteer service agreement. They’ll be available at our meetings and also at the event.
The Park people will have other planting activities as a “plan b” in case there would be more time available after the tree planting program.
Siblings are welcome, but won’t get a t-shirt and will not have lunch provided. Each child must be entered on the NYS Parks volunteer service agreement.
This is a work day! We’ll take rest breaks as needed, but we won’t have time to play in the park. Families are welcome to stay after the event and play or picnic.
We’ll be touring the Lockport Cave on Saturday, July 9th. Meet at the cave at 10am for a 70-minute guided tour through America’s past. You will explore the historic Erie Canal Locks 67-71, constructed in 1838. You will also view ruins from an earlier industrial age, walk safely through a water tunnel that was blasted out of solid rock in the 1850s, viewing stalactites, flow stone, various geological formations and artifacts left behind by the men who built the tunnel in the early days of the Erie Canal. If you are lucky you may even find a fossil or two.
Cost is $5.50 per person; Scouts are paid for by the Pack.
2 Pine Street(716) 438-0174
lockportcave.com
Take the 290 → 990 → the end. Make a left on Millersport, after 3 miles left on Transit. After 6 miles on Transit you’ll be in Lockport. Cross over the canal & then right on Main St. This will take you over the canal again, then make the 2nd left onto Pine St.
After the cave, we’ll be driving to Royalton Ravine County Park in Gasport, NY (a 15-minute drive from the cave). After finishing lunch (bring a bag lunch!), we’ll hike back into the woods, then enter the ravine for our creek hike.
If you’re just coming for the creek hike, we’ll be leaving our cars & heading out onto the trails between 12:30 and 1:00pm.
You will find a wooden suspension footbridge, a waterfall and historic homestead ruins as you travel along the trails as well as many varieties of flora and fauna.
This is a creek hike – you will get wet. There are restrooms there, if you’d like to change before we head out. Swimming trunks may not be a bad idea – they dry quickly. You must have something on your feet: old sneakers, sandals (no flip-flops), crocs, water shoes.
Mr. Clint and Mr. Eric are going this weekend to finalize our path & make sure it’s safe for the Scouts. Any change of plans will be announced when we return.
RSVP to Mr. Clint at mochahaley@aol.com by Tuesday, July 5th. Pay when you get there.
