Parents,

We will be meeting at Mt Tabor UMC at 8:30 am on November 23 to travel as a group to the Hiddenite Gem Mine.  You are more than welcome to travel solo, but please wait for the group to arrive.  The cost is $12.00 per person.  I will collect the money from everyone at the mine. All family members are invited.  If you plan to attend, but have not registered, please email me the number of people at pack934cubmaster@gmail.com .

• Bring a container or bucket with your child’s name for the gems they collect.
• Wear clothes/shoes or sandals you do not mind getting dirty.  You may want to bring a change of clothes with you.
• Bring an old towel to dry off after “Creeking.”
• Bring a picnic lunch.  There are several picnic areas.
• Plan to stay as long as you want.

All scouts will be entered for a geology belt loop.  For the Webelos, this trip will complete three of the five requirements for the Geologist Badge.

The link below offers more details.

http://www.hiddenitegems.com/index.html

Parents,

You will notice the calendar shows November 19th as a Den Meeting and the Pack Meeting is scheduled for November 26th.  PLEASE DISREGARD.  The 19th will be a Pack Meeting for all scouts, except for the Tiger Den.  You will be participating in a “Go See It.”  The Tigers will be given their awards at the December 3rd Meeting, which will be at Skateland USA in Clemmons.

Popcorn pick-up will be Thursday, November 14th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm.  Each Den will have a representative to help inventory your pick-up.  Popcorn money is due on Tuesday, November, 26th from 5:15 – 6:30 pm.  Speaking of popcorn money, please ensure your son’s initials and Den number is written on the memo line.  This will help us with bounced checks.

The opening ceremony on Saturday at 9am will be at the parade ground in front of the dining hall, not at the OA arena as I insinuated by calling it the opening campfire.

There will be limited pre-camp activities that you can participate in on Saturday morning. From what I’m reading, it doesn’t look there will be any activities on Friday evening. The Trading Post will be open Friday evening.

I have our campsite assignments. In order for the boys to near their friends, please respect the following assignments:

Webelos 1s & 2s: Piney Ridge C
Bears: Piney Ridge B
Wolves: Piney Ridge A
Tigers: Knoll

Anyone needing AC power for CPAP will also be at Knoll. Bring a 100′ extension cord.

If you have scouts of different ranks, it’s your choice which site you use.

If your assigned site is full when you arrive, you will have to set up at one of our other sites (Piney Ridge or Knoll).

I will be at Piney Ridge C ( or whichever is the one to the back right) for check-in during the following times:
Friday 6pm – 8pm
Saturday 8am – 10am, after lunch until 2pm.

You need to check in with me during those times. I will have your t-shirts, attendee wrist bands, etc. Don’t check in at Administration or the dining hall. They only do check-in for the Pack representatives.

I will need a printed, signed health form for all attendees (including parents!) and a copy of your insurance card. I will not be collecting the shooting sports permission slips at that time. This is the first year that they’ve required that for BB’s and archery so I need to find out how they are handling those forms.

If you need a packing list, we have one on our website. Hover over Pack Events and click on Parent Son Camporee for that list.

Remember that the opening campfire is at 9am Saturday morning.

Our Pack is going to start a Health Form notebook again. Since Health Forms are good for one year, this is a good time to collect the forms. Over the next few meetings, I will be collecting the forms.  The form is available here: Health Forms. Please consider turning in forms for the entire family.

Here’s how we will handle the forms and who will be able to see them:

• All forms will be put in a binder, separated by family.  Each families forms will go in a plastic insert.
• Forms will only be pulled out in the event of an emergency.
• The notebook will be kept up by one of our Pack Committee members.
• Prior to an event, that committee member will hand the notebook over to the designated leader for that event.  After the event is over, that leader will return the notebook to the designated committee member.
• We will keep this notebook up until the end of May.  At the May Rank Advancement Ceremony, we will return any forms as requested.  The remaining forms will be shredded.
• Separate health forms will be needed for the following activities:  SciWorks (they have their own health form), Resident Camp, and District Day Camp.

If you have any questions, please email me (michael.nebinger@gmail.com) and I will answer them the best that I can.

This Saturday we have our annual Pack Bike Ride. We will meet at the Muddy Creek Greenway behind Meadowlark Middle/Elementary Schools at 10:00. Helmets are required. This is a family event, so siblings are invited. Please send Chad Nolan an email if you will be attending so that no one is left behind. His email address is cdnolan@wakehealth.edu.

Thanks. Let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you to everyone who registered.  Our Pack will have 51 scouts attending the Camporee, along with 51 adults.

As soon as I get our campsite assignment, I will post it here.

In the meantime, here’s some more information for you:
1. Every attendee (scouts and parents) will need to have a health form filled out, Parts A & B.  A fillable PDF can be found here.Health Forms.
2. Here is a schedule of activities.Parent Son Schedule.
3. Something new this year. Any scouts wishing to do shooting sports (for us that means BB guns & Archery), you will need to print out this release and sign it. Bring it with you to camp. Shooting Sport Permission.

If you couldn’t get to the meeting last night and still want to sign up, please email me michael.nebinger@gmail.com for instructions.

It’s not too late to sign-up for the Parent-Son Camporee, but tonight is the deadline. We will be having our Leader Meeting tonight from 7-8pm in the large downstairs room. Come by during that time. We’ll have sign up forms there at that time.

This website is the Pack’s main form of communication. Each time an update is made to the front page, the website automatically sends out an email to everyone who is subscribed. For our new members, the email address you provided on your son’s application was entered for these emailed updates.

You are not limited to just one email address. If you would like to get an email at your work and home, of if both parents would like an email, it’s easy to add it. From our website, just click Subscribe in the menu bar above. Enter the email address you’d like to add and click the subscribe button.

If your email address changes, or say for example your boss says you aren’t allowed to get personal email at your work address, follow the same steps above. Enter the address you want to remove and click unsubscribe.

We also put our calendar on the website. You can subscribe to the calendar also and have those dates added to your google calendar or your smart phone calendar.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, it’s rare that we remove content from the website, so feel free to read about things we’ve done in the past.