Hi Everyone ! Welcome to Cub Scouting with Pack 301 and Boy Scout Troop 301

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

WELCOME TO JANUARY! WE ALL HOPE ALL OF OUR SCOUTING FAMILIES HAD A RELAXING AND REWRDING HOLIDAY SEASON. GENIUS KIT NIGHT AND PET SHOW AND TELL......OUR BLUE AND GOLD BANQUET AND OUR EVER POPULAR PINEWOOD DERBY RACES IN MARCH....WILL KEEP OUR CALENDAR FULL. DECEMBER AND NOVEMBER WENT BY QUICKLY AS WE CONGRATULATED OUR NEW BOBCATS INTO THE PACK. OUR RAINGUTTER REGATTA WAS FUN AS WE SAW THE BOYS COMPETE WITH THEIR SAILBOATS AFLOAT. SANTA CAME AND GAVE OUT GIFTS TO ALL THE SCOUTS AND SIBLINGS AND WE HAD A FUN FIRST FEW MONTHS. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER FLEW BY AS WE BLASTED OFF TO A NEW YEAR AND HALLOWEEN WAS A FUN SPOOKY EVENT. THE BOYS ROCKETS WENT HIGH IN THE AIR AND WE ENJOYED AN INDOOR PICNIC. WE CONTINUE WITH WEEKLY DEN MEETINGS. THANK YOU TO ERIC, FRAN, TERRY, JEN AND ALL THE LEADERS WHO HELP TO MAKE THE SCOUTING PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL. ALSO WE CONGRATULATE ALL THE SCOUTS THAT CAMPED OUT AT THE BENSALEM FALL FESTIVAL...FOR MANY THEIR FIRST TIME CAMPING. THREE CHEERS!

OCTOBER SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWEEN PARTY WAS A FUN NIGHT FOR ALL

FRIDAY, OCT 21 .OUR ANNUAL HAUNTED HAYRIDE AT SLEEPY HOLLOW HAYRIDES WAS CLEAR, COLD AND SCARY....JUST THE WAY THE SCOUTS LIKED IT !

THE CALENDAR IS FILLING UP...BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE ROOM FOR A FEW MORE GREAT ACTIVITIES...SO E-MAIL US AND TELL US WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS SCOUTING SEASON. IT'S YOUR SONS PROGRAM...LET'S ADD YOUR IDEAS TO THE LIST AND MAKE IT THE GREATEST SCOUTING YEAR PACK 301 HAS EVER SEEN !!!!!!!!!

IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR EVENTS AND IDEAS FOR THIS YEARS CUB SCOUTING PROGRAM, PLEASE E-MAIL US BY CLICKING HERE... AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO. WE HAVE MANY EVENTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL THE BOYS AND FAMILIES OF PACK 301...AND ONLY BY PARTICIPATING, WILL YOU FULLY ENJOY WHAT IS BEING OFFERED...SO STAY INVOLVED IN YOUR SONS CUB SCOUTING YEARS. IF YOU MISS SIGN-UP NIGHT ...YOU CAN JOIN CUB SCOUT PACK 301 ON ANY TUESDAY, AT 7 P.M. CLICK HERE AND SEND US ANY QUESTIONS, IDEAS, OR SUGGESTIONS ! ARE YOU IN 6TH GRADE OR HIGHER? LIKE ADVENTURE? CAMPING, BIKING, HIKING? NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO JOIN BOY SCOUT TROOP 301 !!! CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS...OR TO ASK QUESTIONS.

Our Weekly Meetings begin promptly at 7 P.M. until 8:30 P.M. every week, so please be on time! We invite all boys to join cub scouts, and especially WELCOME ALL OF OUR NEW scouts. Seven years ago, we lowered our registration fees to JUST $35 from the $50 dollar fees that was charged in the past. While our taxes, gas prices and everything around us are going up in cost...Pack 301 maintained these costs and we will be doing it again this year.... the registration fees again for the 2011-2012 Cub Scouting year (our 9th year in a row with no increase)....just $35 dollars per scout. WOW ! What a great deal. This fee includes your Boy Scouts of America registration fees ($15...up five dollars from last year)...your Pack 301 screened t-shirt ( if you are a new scout), pins and badges, pinewood derby car and your den book. While other groups keep asking for more in fees, we have gone in the opposite direction and lowered the fees, and as always, NO FUNDRAISERS EVER! Our pack leadership works with all families to make meetings and snacks an enjoyable weekly task, as well as affordable trips and outings. Our business community has been very gracious with us in the past and this year is stepping up to the plate and helping us once again, and for that we are very thankful, as it takes the burden of high fees off the parents, making the priority of our Cub Scouting Program...the Boys...not fundraising! We are in the eighth year of a program called "Pack 301 Ebay Days". This is a program that allows anyone to support our great pack of scouts while cleaning the house of unwanted treasures. Pack 301 puts the items online and splits the auction wins with the owner. A win-win idea for seller and scout! Take a look at the page by clicking the link and if you have anything to sell online, just bring it any week to the den meeting. Also, Pack 301 has an account set-up with the Funding Factory Company and ECycle Group that pays us cash for used computer printer ink cartridges, cell phones and laser inkjet printer cartridges. While the money that they pay isn't much...it all adds up. So if you have any of the above listed items, and are just going to be throwing them away.....bring them to any cub scout meeting and Pack 301 will send them in. Looking forward to seeing our returning Scouting families and meeting all the new ones.

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WHAT DID WE DO THIS PAST SPRING? ...

THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE WAS FUN AS WE RODE THAT PARADE ON A FLOAT AND MULTIPLY RIDING MOWERS. THAT WAS FUN...AND THE LEADERS OF PACK 301 HAVE DECIDED TO PUT EVEN MORE RIDING MOWERS IN FUTURE PARADES...AS LONG AS WE HAVE ENOUGH ASSISTANCE IN TRANSPORTING THEM ALL. COOL ! ....AND WE HAD OUR END OF YEAR PICNIC ON JUNE 7TH...

MARCH HAD US RACING THE PINEWOOD DERBY RACES . ALL THE BOYS DID A GREAT JOB.. WE ATTENDED SCOUT NIGHT AT THE PHILLIES GAME ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND THE SCOUTS WALKED THE ENTIRE FIELD AND EARNED A PATCH. THEN TROUT SEASON BEGAN AND WE WENT FISHING...CATCHING A FEW TROUTS...MAKING FOR A DELICIOUS DINNER. THE BEARS AND WEBELOS VISITED THE BENSALEM POLICE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH. APRIL 9TH WAS THE ANNUAL DISTRICT DERBY RACES AT THE NESHAMINY MALL. THE FEBRUARY PACK MEETING THEME WAS "WINTER OLYMPICS " WE ENJOYED THE MEETING AS THE BOYS COMPETED IN GAMES AND WE HAD OUR ANNUAL SCOUT/PARENT CAKE BAKING CONTEST.

JANUARY HAD THE SCOUTS BRINGING IN THEIR PETS FOR A SHOW AND TELL... AND WE MET SOME GREAT DOGS, CATS, AND SAW PICTURES OF MANY OTHERS. GREAT JOB BOYS !!!

DECEMBER HAD A FUN CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY PARTY WITH A POLLYANNA ANND A VISIT FROM SANTA. THE NOVEMBER PACK MEETING WAS FUN WITH THE SCOUTS BRINGING IN AND SHOWING EVERYONE THAT WHICH THEY COLLECT. BY PARTICIPATING,THE BOYS EARNED THEIR "COLLECTIONS" BELTLOOP AS WELL.

HALLOWEEN WAS FUN WITH THE HALLOWEEN PARTY AND THE HAUNTED HAYRIDE AT SLEEPY HOLLOW !!!

NOVEMBER 2...THE BENSALEM POLICE WELCOMED THE TIGERS TO THE POLICE STATION FOR A TOUR. WE PARTICIPATED IN THE 50TH ANNUAL HATBORO CHRISTMAS /HOLIDAY PARADE ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST

HAVEN'T JOINED YET? SEE YOU ON ANY TUESDAY OR CALL ANYTIME 215-752-1451

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Old news is still posted below, so that new scouting families can read about some of the fun of past year. Enjoy !!!

May 2009...WE HAD OUR LAST MEETING AT BELMONT ELEMENTARY BEFORE SUMMER BREAK. THE PICNIC WAS FUN ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND THE LAST TWO WEEKS WERE BUSY WITH OUR ANNUAL BLUE AND GOLD BANQUET, WHICH HAD LOU FROM THE AARK FOUNDATION INTRODUCING US ALL TO A RED TAILED HAWK, BARN OWL AND POSSUM, AND OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE 2009 BENSALEM MEMORIAL DAY PARADE. LOTS OF FUN AND SMILES FROM EVERYONE !

THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS THAT MAKE THE WEEKLY MEETINGS, AND TAKE THE TIME TO SPEND TIME WITH YOUR SONS, WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE THEIR DENS AND THE CUB SCOUTING PROGRAM AT BELMONT ELEMENTARY THE FUN THAT IT IS. DEN LEADERS AND ASSISTANT DEN LEADERS...YOU'RE THE BEST AND OUR PROGRAM WOULD NOT SUCCEED WITH OUT YOUR LEADERSHIP..SO THREE CHEERS !!!

May,2008-------WOW ! Where has the year gone? We are almost done with weekly meetings here at Belmont for summer break ! We just completed our Blue and Gold banquet, with NBC10 Meteorologist Michelle Grossman joining us as guest speaker, all of our 5th grade Webelos have moved up to Boy Scouts and after an ice cream party open house, not much time left before summer recess, We will continue scouting in the summer with a Trenton Thunder ballgame and Sleepover in the outfield on June 20th...we will participate in the 4th of July parade again and August will be our summer pool party picnic. For now...we have a Memorial Day Parade to get ready for. Thank You again to John Sweeney and Rob's Automotive for providing us with a 22ft flatbed truck to use as a parade float. Keep up the good work scouting families !!! The kids are the ones that benefit from our efforts ! **************************Happy New Year and wishes of health and wealth in the coming year. It is now January and we have a lot do do in the coming weeks and months. Our Christmas /Holiday party was a lot of fun and we thank the Trevose Fire Company for escorting Santa Clause to our pack meeting. We also thank Santa for finding time in his busy schedule to visit with our scouts. We were thanked for the stockings that were donated to the less fortunate on December 19th. I appreciate all your efforts in helping others during the holiday season as well as all year long with our Aid for Friends dinner program. We will be planning some trips as well as having our 2nd annual Pack 301 Pet show and tell at this months pack meeting. This was a fun night last year and it is always interesting in learning about the pets that our scouts care for! Great work boys !The Hatboro 47th Annual Christmas Holiday parade was a lot of fun, although a bit damp. Oh Well....We are Cub Scouts...doing our best ! Thank You to Rob's Automotive for use of the truck for our float. Halloween was fun with the annual Spooktacular at the school and the haunted hayride at Sleepy Hollow Hayrides. We are signing up new faces and the Pack continues to grow. We started the year with a Raingutter Ragetta. We will be adding a Cub Scout "BIlly Cart Race" to the calendar in January...maybe a sled event as well....if the weather cooperates.This past scouting year...we saw a Philies game, MonsterJam, King Tut at the Franklin Institute...went Trout fishing....Bowling...we were busy ! The Christmas / Hannukah Holiday is upon us and everyone will be exchanging gifts and helping others with our stocking drive that benefits the clients at Wood Services in Langhorne. We have begun a new year with lots of ideas, projects, activities, and adventures that the boys will enjoy.

New for 2003-2004 was a monthly newsletter that is printed up for every pack meeting. Over the years...it has gotten bigger and better...now printed monthly in full color ! It will continue to be printed this year as well. It includes important dates, messages and scouting updates showing the accomplishments submitted by each den. Be sure to pick up a copy of the monthly newsletter at the scout meetings or check it out online anytime. If you would like a notice sent to you monthly when it is available online, just let me know and I will see that it is sent.

Scouting is a great program and one way to succeed is through teamwork! While the boys benefit, there is no better lesson for them to learn, then watching their Mom or Dad participating and showing them their way. All kids learn by example, so get involved, it will enhance your child's scouting experience. Helping out as a den leader or assistant is the way all of our boys will succeed. For this 2008-2009 scouting year...Let's all work together and make Cub Pack 301 a pack that all others continue to take notice of and want to imitate.

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