1. Scouting for Food. Please distribute bags for food donations the week of Oct. 31. Donations will be collected on Saturday morning, Nov. 5 at the Pack cleanup.
2. Pack Cleanup at the Sudbury United Methodist Church (SUMC). Please be there at 8:30 AM sharp, and we will help with the ourdoor cleanup at the SUMC until 10:30 or so.
3. Pack Meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The usual time and place (6:45 PM at the SUMC). The theme will be “First Aid” led by pack parent Dr. Benjamin Schneider.

Finally, I’d like to ask all scouts and dens to think about what you can do for your community during service month.

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Here is a general list of supplies that each family will be responsible for providing:

Water bottle
Bug repellant
Tent
Sleeping bag
Pillows
Toiletries (Include Purell or other hand sanitizer)
Sleeping pads
Warm Clothes
Flashlight
Personal Toilet paper
Pajamas
Raincoat
Cub Scout Uniform
Personal Snacks

Here is the Family Camping Schedule. Dinner and breakfast will be served.

Saturday:

2:00 -4:00PM Arrival at Nobscot Scout reservation – Ellisland camping area.
2:00 -4:00 Den activities – den leader’s discretion
4:00 – 5:00 Scavenger Hunt
5:00 – 6:15 Dinner (Provided)
6:15 – 6:45 Clean up
6:45 – 7:30 Campfire/Pack Meeting/Welcome of Tigers
7:30 Departure for those that are not staying overnight
7:30-9 Hike or Storytelling at the Campfire or in your tents
9:00 pm Lights out
Sunday:

8:00 am Light Breakfast (provided)
9:00 Break Camp
10:00 am Leave Camp
Directions to Camp Nobscot:

Camp Nobscot is on Nobscot Road on the Sudbury/Framingham line. On Google map. Park and follow signs to Ellisland.

We will try to organize the camping areas by den so that your group can stay together.

Remember: A scout is always prepared!

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Fishing in the adjacent pond is the next morning, Saturday, June 18. We will plan on having our camp cleaned up and vacated by noon on Saturday.

More details will follow, but please mark these dates down in your calendars.

Loring Elementary School
March 12, 2011
5:00pm–7:00pm

The purpose of the blue and gold banquet is to celebrate our pack’s anniversary and bid farewell to those Webelos who will transition to Boy Scouts. Come enjoy dinner and desert and be entertained by the best scouts in the industry!!

Congratulations! We collected over 60 bags of food this year. All of which goes to the Sudbury Food Pantry.

Sudbury Cub Scout Packs 60, 61, 62, and 80 will collect food donations from friends, neighbors and family members November 6th -13th

Bags distributed on November 6th at the Sudbury United Methodist Church from 10:00-11:30 (During our fall cleanup) and We will collect them Saturday November 13th:

• 9:30 am – 12:00 pm at Our Lady of Fatima Church
• 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm at Sudbury United Methodist Church

Donations will go to the Sudbury Food Pantry to support our local residents in need during these holiday seasons.

What to donate:
Non-perishable foods such as Instant Potatoes; Cake Mixes; Cranberry sauce; Spaghetti, Grape Jelly; Robust soups like Progresso, Healthy choice, or Campbell’s Chunky; Canned/Bagged tuna and chicken, peanut butter. Paper towels, Tissues, toilet paper and plastic sandwich bags

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!

Thanks to Price Chopper Supermarket, for providing the pre-printed bags for food collection.

• Water bottle
• Bug repellant
• A Tent (It is recommended that you have a good rain fly)
• Sleeping bag
• Pillows
• Toiletries (Include Purell or other hand sanitizer)
• Sleeping pads
• Warm Clothes
• Flashlight
• Personal Toilet paper
• Pajamas
• Raincoat
• Cub Scout Uniform
• Personal Snacks

Here is the Family Camping Schedule. Dinner and breakfast will be served. Please carpool as the parking lot is not very large:

Sat.

• 3:00 -4:00PM Arrival Arrival at Camp Resolute – “The Plains” – see directions below
• 4:00 – 5:00 Den activities/Scavenger Hunt
• 5:00 – 6:15 Dinner (Provided)
• 6:15 – 6:45 Clean up
• 6:45 – 7:30 Campfire/Pack Meeting/Welcome of Tigers
• 7:30 Departure for those that are not staying overnight
• 7:30-9 Hike or Storytelling at the Campfire or in your tents
• 9:00 pm Lights out

Sun

• 8:00 am Light Breakfast (provided)
• 9:00 Break Camp
• 10:00 am Leave Camp Resolute

Directions to Camp Resolute:

Camp Resolute is on Rte 85 in Bolton, Mass about ¼ mile before you get to Rte 117 on the left. Location on Google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=camp+resolute,+bolton,+ma&ie=UTF8&ll=42.42286,-71.58552&spn=0.038649,0.069609&z=14&om=1

Once you have parked your car, proceed to the gate. Walk straight up the dirt road, past the waterfront area on you left and the amphitheater on your right until you reach the dining hall. At the dining hall, the road forks; stay to the left. The pond will be on your left and the volleyball court will be on your right. About 100 yards from the dining hall you will come to a large open field on the left. This is “The Plains” where we will be camping. We will try to organize the camping areas by den so that your group can stay together.

Remember: A scout is always prepared!

(rain date is October 11th 6:45-8:00)

For more than 50 years, the Pinewood Derby often has been the highlight of Cub Scout’s formative years in scouting.  Just ask Sudbury resident and former

Eagle Scout Curtis Heisey, who’s done the event with his son Austin for the last five years.  “When Austin first started Cub Scouts as a Tiger in the first grade, he required a lot of mentoring and guidance.  Now, four years later, he pretty much goes off and does the whole thing himself.  In fact, he likes making the cars so much that he usually builds a second one out of the scraps.”

The tradition is a simple one: Cub Scouts, with the help of a parent or adult partner, build their own cars from kits containing a block of pine wood, plastic wheels and metal axles.  And the rules haven’t changed much at all over the years: the cars must all be 5 oz. or less and have the proper clearance to run on the track.  The rest is left to the creativity and workmanship of the individual Scouts. They typically spend long hours carving, sanding, weighting, painting, polishing and perfecting their cars, and they see the fruits of their labors as simple pine blocks are gradually transformed into sleek and stylish pinewood racers.

The Pinewood Derby event was founded in 1953 by Cubmaster Donald Murphy of Manhattan Beach, CA, and it was an instant success.  Murphy’s idea for the Pinewood Derby formed out of a desire to devise a wholesome, constructive activity that would foster a close father-son relationship while promoting craftsmanship and good sportsmanship through competition.  Murphy was inspired to create the event by the well-known Soap Box Derby.  A local Chevy dealer sponsored the Soap Box Derby, but the minimum age to enter was 12 – too old for a Cub Scout. Necessity being the mother of invention, Murphy conceived of the Pinewood Derby as a new event for the younger boys, including his 10-year old son.

The high-profile event has taken some interesting twists on the national stage.  In the late 1990s, Car and Driver magazine decided to have their four staff engineers build a Pinewood Derby car and race it against cars built by Penske Cars Ltd. of IndyCar fame, Darrell Waltrip’s Winston Cup team, and Elliott Forbes-Robinson’s 600 Racing. To keep them honest, they used Pinewood Derby rules, were monitored by Scoutmasters, and raced against four Cub Scouts from Atlanta.  The result: the car cost $2318 including engineering labor, and it lost to the Cub Scouts!

On a thrilling, action-packed Saturday morning in late January, 43 boys from the Loring Pack 60 Cub Scouts competed at their annual Pinewood Derby. Some of these cars may have smoked the pros as well, while others competed for “Best Workmanship” and “Most Creative Design” trophies.  And all of the scouts took home some super-cool racing licenses, along with memories to last a lifetime.

Cars were raced down a sloping, 32-foot, 4-lane wooden track powered only by gravity, with a total of 105 races run over nearly three hours.  The fastest car clocked a blazing heat of 2.5258 seconds (the equivalent of 8.6 MPH), with many photo finishes and run-offs won by several thousandths of a second!  Thank goodness for the electronic finish line – we’ve come a long way since the original 1953 race, which used a battery-run finish line made from doorbells and light bulbs to identify the winner.

The event showcased sleek racers crafted with skillful workmanship and fancy Spiderman paint jobs; a tank, police car, rocket ship, Mario cart, and Star Wars land seeder; and cars that boasted the ingenuity of their scout builders.  But it was a car driven by Snoopy that the judges deemed to be the most creative of all, and a dune buggy that the judges thought exhibited the best workmanship.

Congratulations to the 2010 Pack 60 Cub Scout Pinewood Derby champions:

Curtis Heisey summed it up best, “For me, it is a special time to spend with my son.   I raced Pinewood Derby cars in Cub Scouts when I was a kid over thirty-five years ago, and I really treasure the time that my father spent with me building the car together. This was the first project in which I was old enough for him to teach me how to use woodworking tools, though many, many projects would later follow.  Even though I never won anything, I had great fun making the car with my Dad, and I still have the cars that I made.  As an adult reflecting back, the prize for me now is not the result of the race, but rather the process and cherished moments with my father.” A great recipe for lifelong memories, indeed!

Typical Camp-ins involve

• hands-on science activities
• science demonstrations
• a late night show
• a morning activity
• an Omni show
• time to explore the Museum with chaperones

Those who want some tips, tricks and fun, checkout this derby site:

http://www.maximum-velocity.com/nlindex.htm