Pack Meeting & Fundraiser

Just a reminder of our pack meeting tonight at 6:30 pm at Halverson.  Please have your scout wear his Class A uniform.  Remember to bring along, your fundraiser money, an old paint shirt & a grocery bag.  We have a guest speaker tonight & will have some Halloween fun!!

Leave No Trace-Hammer Field

Thanks to all the families who helped us clean up after the homecoming football game. We found a couple treats and learned that we will always throw our trash away when we attend sporting events!!

Calendar

I have added our calendar at the bottom of the blog.

Candy Bar Fundraiser

Thanks to all the scouts who are working so hard fundraising!!  We have had wonderful sales so far! 

A couple tips to remember:

• Always wear your uniform & a smile
• Always sell with an adult to people you know
• Remember to say thank you

We still have candy bars if you are sold out, please give us a call and we can arrange delivery!

First Pack Meeting for this school year!

Welcome to Pack 7 Cub Scouts!  Our first pack meeting for 2011-2012 will be Tuesday September 27th at 6:30 pm.  We meet in the Halverson Elementary school cafeteria.  If you are new to our group, this will be the meeting where you decide as a den what day & time works best for your meetings with your leader.  All our returning scouts, we are excited for another fun filled year and some new scouting friends joining our group too!  We have some awesome activities planned for this year!  Starting out with a geocaching event that was missed this summer yet this fall.  :)  Also we are working on a Albert Lea wide Cub Scout event.  This will be a chance to meet all of our scouts in our community.  Please wear your class A uniform if you have it to our first meeting and bring your book along.  As always if you have any questions please call Mike.  See you Tuesday night!!

Updated Camp Photos

I have added some additional photos from summer camp events!  Thanks to the leaders who submitted photos. 

Day Camp & Fun with Son Photos

Graduation!

What a wonderful evening!  Scouts graduating,  guest speaker, and fishing fun.  Even though the fish didn't want to bite!! Thank you to our leaders too for their commitment to scouting!

Bowling Party Fun!!

Bowling Party Reminder

Please join us to celebrate all our hard work this year!  A bowling party at Holiday Lanes from 4:00-6:00 pm on Saturday May 21st.  Snacks will be provided by the pack.    The cost for scouts is $5 and parents/siblings are $7.  Please wear your class B or camp tshirt for a group picture.  Hope to see all of you there :)

Live Line Demo

Thank you to Freeborn Mower Electric Co-op for the Live Line Demo.  We learned alot and enjoyed your presentation :)

Eagle site difficulty

The site seems to have some difficulty, so here is another link :) http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Watch It - An Eagle Birth :)

I have discovered that there is a live web cam watching an Eagle who has laid 3 eggs. They are estimated to hatch on 4/1.  If you have a few minutes, you should watch with your scout.
http://www.raptorresource.org/   click on bird cams, and the live stream should begin. 

What a wonderful thing technology is!

Compassion

Do you have it?  Do you know what it is?  At the March pack meeting we did a few exercises that helped us learn about some disabilities that people have and we talked about having compassion for others.  We also had some fun learning about compassion!  In this exercise the scouts were blindfolded and had to remove their left shoe and toss it in the middle, then try to find it .  One scout thought he could find his shoe by smelling all of them :)

Thank you for Helping!!

A big thank you to everyone who helped with Scouting for Food.  Doesn't matter if you collected food, stuffed bags in the shopper, donated, or helped organize the event!  We collected more food than we did in 2010!  The total pounds of food collected in Albert Lea was 5489!  Great Job!!

Scouting for Food Plans

Scouting for Food is Saturday March 26th.  We will meet at 1st Presbyterian Church at 9:00 for a short meeting.  We will get our maps and go out as a group and collect food.  We have the option of joining the boy scouts from Troop 7 for a pizza party afterward.  The cost is approx $5 per person and is optional. 

The Salvation Army in Albert Lea estimates 15-20 families visit their food shelf every day and they give out 1,500 pounds of food a day.  They ask that you do not donate any outdated items.  Some suggested items were ramen noodles, peanut butter, jelly, canned soup, canned fruits, mac & cheese, tuna, cereal.  I noticed that our shopper did not include a bag.  If you did not receive one, please place your items in any plastic bag on your front step by 8:30 am on Saturday.  Thanks for your help!  Let's stock up those food shelves :)

Scouting for Food

Scouting for food will be held on Saturday March 26th.  We will gather as a group and then split up in groups and collect food for the food shelves in Albert Lea.  Please make an effort to attend.  More information will be given out at the pack meeting on March 22nd!  See you there :)

Norseland Fun

There were 35 people who enjoyed the fun of winter camp at Norseland!  Lots of good food, friends, sledding, skits and crafts!  Don't forget if you attended to mark your scouts books for any achievements he completed!

Congratulations to our new Boy Scouts

Today we said farewell to Braden, Alex, Colin, Levi, Noah & Brayden!  They all received their Arrow of Light on February 22nd, 2011.  Best wishes to them in their future scouting years!!  There were 3 super achievers in the group who earned all 20 pins!  Congrats Braden, Colin & Brayden on being super achievers!

Blue & Gold Banquet

What a wonderful evening!  Food, Fun, and lots of awards!  Thanks for all the wonderful cakes & decorations!  Our meeting was festive in the theme of "All Star Cub Scouts" 

Service Project Reminder

We would like to give back to our community.  This year we have decided to sponsor a couple classrooms in our school district.  We would like to stock up their school supplies for the middle of the year.  We ask that you donate an item or two from this list: 

Headphones, dry erase markers, Ticonderga #2 Pencils, Spiral Notebooks, Antibacterial Wipes, Kleenex, Crayola markers, crayons, or colored pencils. 

Please bring your items to the next pack or den meeting.  Or if you call us, we will pick them up!!  All items donations due by March 1, 2011. Thanks for your support!

Scouting for Food

We have received the dates for Scouting for Food in our area.  I am not sure at this time if we will be putting bags on doors this year or not.  But here are the two dates, just so you are aware it is coming up, more information will be available at the February pack meeting! :)
March 19th - bags on doors
March 26th - food pick up

Pack 7 Winners :)

Speed Bracket

1st Place ~ Joshua Everett

2nd Place ~ Brayden Boettcher

3rd Place ~ Gavin Lawrence

Consolation Bracket

1st Place ~ Blake Estes

2nd Place ~ Zane Sadauskis

3rd Place ~ Noah Habanna

Design Winners

Fastest Looking ~ Cameron Davis

Best Design ~ Alex Darby

Design Honorable Mention ~Braden Heavner 

Pinewood Derby

A note on the pinewood derby!

We would like to say that we were all winners at the Pinewood Derby.  Parents have more respect and pride for their son whether he is a humble winner or a graceful loser. The boys gained a better knowledge of competition; how to win, how to lose, and how to behappy for his friend who took home the trophy he himself wanted so badly. The leaders feel proud knowing each of their boys had done their best. Building the car helped bring son and parents together and cheering for our den members helped bring the den closer together. Yes, there are only winners in Pack 7. Thank you all for helping to make the pack go and the Cub Scouts grow.  Congratulations to all us winners!!

Pinewood Derby Countdown!

Are you ready? The pinewood derby will be held on Tuesday January 25th starting at 6:30 pm SHARP! Weight in will be from 6:00-6:30. There will also be a couple awards for design or paint job. I will post when the categories have been decided. If you have not picked up your pinewood derby car, please contact us! Good Luck to all our racers!

Salvation Army Bell Ringers

A big thank you to all scouting families who rang bells for the Salvation Army. Thank you for sharing and helping those in need!

December Pack Meeting

In December our pack meeting was a chance for us to give back to our community. We choose to sing Christmas carols to the residents at Knutson Place Apartments and St. John's Lutheran Home. The scouts and their siblings sang "until their toes hurt" as one scout told me! When they were finished singing they shared a treat of candy cane reindeer to all the residents. After singing so well, we celebrated the holiday with a party at Pizza Ranch! Yummy!

Halloween Party

In October we had a Halloween party for our Pack meeting. Our entertainment was MegaForce Sound. Randy play lots of fun music for all of our scouts and families to dance to! There was lots of good food as well as great games organized by each den! Good Work Pack 7!

The RadZoo

This fall the scouts from Pack 7 were able to visit the RADZoo in Owatonna. It was a fun day for all. The highlight was seeing the snake & crocodile eat the chickens!