Cub Scout Pack 564 - Lilburn, GA

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What’s happening at the October pack meeting

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Due to a scheduling conflict, we’ll be meeting in the Camp Creek Elementary School cafeteria instead of at Mountain Park United Methodist Church. The meeting time remains 7 p.m.

This meeting will be your last opportunity to sign up for fall family camping, so make sure to reserve a campsite for your family at the registration table at the pack of the meeting room! If you haven’t paid your fees for camping, please remember to bring a check payable to BSA Pack 564!

The pack is planning a variety of activities, including opportunities to earn belt loops and a  pack dinner and campfire. Volunteers are needed to run belt loop sessions. Please contact Cubmaster Lance Wallace if you’d like to help.

You’ll also be able to sign up to attend the Pack Night at the Gwinnett Gladiators on Jan. 10.

And den leaders will be choosing a neighborhood to distribute Harvest for the Hungry food collection bags on Nov. 1, with pickup one week later.

Finally, don’t forget to bring your popcorn forms and money! We’ll be tallying up sales since the last pack meeting and raffling off more prizes.

URGENT: Pack meeting location change

We’ve just learned that Mountain Park United Methodist Church’s Family Life Center won’t be available for Tuesday night’s pack meeting due to a scheduling conflict, so the meeting will be moving for this month to the cafeteria at Camp Creek Elementary School.

Please pass the word to other pack families to make sure everyone knows to go to the school, not the church!

Big thanks to CCES Principal Valerie Robinett, whose son Nate is in Den 6, for clearing this for the pack on such short notice!

Pack night at the Gwinnett Gladiators

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Sign-up for Pack 564 Night at the Gwinnett Gladiators opens at Tuesday night’s pack meeting.

The Gladiators will take on the South Carolina Stingrays at 7:05 p.m. on January 10. Scouts from Pack 564 will present the colors before the game. The entire family is welcome to attend.

Tickets are $16.50 each. Please reserve and pay for tickets at the October, November and December pack meetings, and pick them up game night at the will-call booth at Gwinnett Center.

If you have any questions, please ask Sports Coordinator George Hoffmaster

 

 

Harvest for the Hungry food drive nears

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It’s easy to get lulled into a sense that everything is okay. After all, your kids go to bed every night in a warm home, in clean clothes, with full bellies.

But in households not very far from your own, that’s not at always the case.

In fact, according to the non-profit advocacy group Feeding America, 112,000 Gwinnett County residents — half of them children — spend at least part of the year unsure where their next meal will come from. And winter is often a time of increased need.

What’s the good news here? That you and your scout can help, of course.

Pack 564’s primary annual service project, Harvest for the Hungry, is rapidly approaching.

At the October pack meeting, your den leader will choose a neighborhood for your scouts to canvass, and on Nov. 1, boys from our pack, Pack 549 out of Mountain Park Elementary School and Boy Scout Troop 549 will fan out to distribute bags all over Lilburn.

Our pack is responsible for all neighborhoods north of Five Forks Trickum Road.

The pack has been doing this since 2006, according to Bradley O. Anderson, our pack’s chartered organization representative.

This is an important service project, a core element of scouting, and an opportunity for you to talk with your son about the importance of service, charity and goodwill. And the boys have fun, too.

So please make every effort to turn out on the morning of Nov. 1 and again a week later to help your boys unleash their inner heroes and help our neighbors in need.

If you have any questions, please ask your den leader or Julie Alcorn, the pack coordinator for this event.

New Cub Scout program finalized

CubScout_4KAs you may know, the Cub Scout program is changing, effective next year. Scouts will undertake a new series of “adventures” on the road to each rank.

The new program is now finalized, with a few minor revisions.

You can find all of the new requirements, a brief description of what adventures are all about and more at the Program Updates page.

These changes are due to go into effect next fall.