Cub Scout Pack 95: March 2009

March 28th, 2009 ~ Agua Fria Ward Pinewood Derby!!

First off another change to our Pack! Charlie Young was called to be our Cubmaster! So the Pinewood Derby was his first official Pack Meeting!

We all gathered over at the Ruth St. Building in Prescott for weigh-ins and registration! We also had two new Cub Scouts join us for the first time! Ronnie Latini just turned 8 and joined the Wolves and Tyler Miller 9, joined the Bears! We are excited to have them in our Pack!

The kids all got a little antsy in that small room so Stuart joined them in a game of Duck, Duck, Goose! to pass the time!

Brother Young opened the Derby with a few facts about the start of the Pinewood Derby. The kids thought it was pretty cool that boys have been doing derbies since 1953!’

Soon enough all the cars were weighed-in and we were off too the races!

It so exciting for each of the boys when they get to put their cars up on the track!

And watching the cars zoom down the track captivates the whole audience!

Watching them cross the finish line and hearing the crowd cheer!!

All of the boys had a great time! They all got a special award that pertained to the design of their car awarded by Bishop Dalton!
The standings were as follows:

1st Place ~ Brick Ellis

2nd Place ~ Seth Young

3rd Place ~ Levi Wagner

We want to congratulate all the boys on a job well done! And thank you all for showing good sportsmanship! We also want to thank everyone who help out and made the night fun for all the boys!

See you next year!! :)

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So that catches us up with everything that has been going on in Cub Scouts the last 3 months! Sorry I have been slacking off on the blog!

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March 2009 ~ 3rd, 12th & 17th…

March was spent educating and preparing the boys for the Pinewood Derby!

March 3rd ~ we had a meeting for both the Cub Scouts and their parents. Stayce Peterson taught everyone a little about car design and what kinds of designs work well for aerodynamics. She stressed the importance of letting the boys do as much as possible when making the cars and that it is a learning experience for the boys and it is meant to be a father and son or family project.

The boys were then given paper to draw out their designs so they would be ready to start cutting them out and building them!

March 12th ~ Stuart Rhohrbough gave the boys pointers on building theirs cars. Showing them how to sand the axles and wheels, how to get a nice shiny finish on your car and what kinds of sand paper to use for each of the different parts.

Then the boys who needed the help and had no tools at home were able to cut out their cars with help from the leaders.

March 17th ~ Was Spring Break so the boys and the leaders got a week off!
Pinewood Derby is just around the corner though!

February 27th, 2009 ~ Blue & Gold Banquet!

Decorations! Desserts! Dinner! Throw in some popcorn, games, a program and lots of cub scouts and their families and what do you have?!

The annual Blue & Gold Banquet!!

The boys put on a short program about the Four Freedoms that Norman Rockwell painted. The boys did a great job reciting their parts!

Rockwell's inspiration for the series was the Four Freedoms speech given before Congress by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 16, 1941.

The relevant Four Freedoms portion of the speech is reproduced below.

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
excerpted from the Annual Message to the Congress,
January 6, 1941

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All of the boys received their ice skating belt loops!

And celebrated with a Golf Cheer! FORE!!

Seth Young earned his Bobcat Badge! Congrats Seth!

Levi Wagner received his Wolf Badge! Way to go Levi!

Brick Ellis received his Bear Badge! Great job Brick!

Noah Rohrbough received his Bear Badge! Awesome job Noah!

Nikolas Campbell received his Bobcat Badge too! Excellent work Nikolas!

So it was a big night for achievements! Great job boys for all the hard work!!

Now it’s time to get down to the games! Winner gets a jar of blue & gold M&M’s!!

Everyone played a giant game of Musical Chairs! Each time several chairs would be taken out so the game didn’t go on all night long!

Bishop Dalton got in on the fun of course!

We had a few squatters trying to make sure they got a seat!

And a few little ones needing some help!

We’re getting closer to the end!!

It finally came down to sisters! Brittney and Emily Wagner! And Emily takes it!

The last game of the night was a Balloon Sweep! Boys Vs. Girls! It was funny watching the different techniques! the girls used small sweeps like you would to clean the floor! The boys! They were all over the place! whacking it and it flying all over the place! It was very entertaining!