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Pack Campout - Roosevelt Forest
May 17/18th, 2008
This event will be chaired by Kevin Newcomb. This is our annual pack campout.
Pack 172 Family Campout *** May 17-18, 2008 *** Roosevelt Forest, Stratford
Come join us for a weekend of family camping. All scouts are welcome to attend the day's activities, but only Wolves, Bears and Webelos can sleep over (sorry Tigers, it's BSA rules). All scouts must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Scouts must bring their own tents, sleeping bags and personal camping gear. The pack will provide cooking equipment and gear for group activities.
EVENT SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, MAY 17
Arrive: 12 noon on Saturday -- eat before you come, or bring a bag lunch.
Afternoon activities: We will have several learning stations, including map & compass, knot-tying, camp cooking, fire building and safety, knife safety, first aid, and more. Scouts and parents can also participate in a Map & Compass Treasure Hunt.
Evening activities: Dinner will be prepared by Cubmaster Rich.
A campfire program will include songs, skits and lots of fun.
SUNDAY, MAY 18
A camp breakfast will be prepared by Cubmaster Rich. We'll break camp and clean up by mid-morning.
DEN LEADERS
* Please ask the scouts in your den if they will be attending, and send a headcount to Kevin Newcomb (knewcomb@gmail.com or 378-5111) by Monday, May 12.
* We'd like at least one adult (den leader or parent) from each den attending to man an activity station on Saturday afternoon. If you are able to help out, please contact Kevin.
SCOUTS
* Wear your Class B uniforms (Pack T-shirts) on Saturday, and wear comfortable shoes, since we'll be doing some hiking. Bring your Class A uniforms to wear Sunday morning.
* Bring your compass, if you have one.
For more information: Contact Kevin Newcomb at knewcomb@gmail.com or 378-5111.

Memorial Day Parade - Academy Hill
Monday, May 26, 2008
We will meet under the old oak tree on Academy Hill between 1:30pm and 1:45pm. At 1:45pm we will walk to our designated location. All scouts should be in Class A uniform, hat, shirt, neckerchief, slide and belt. Please decide whether shorts or pants are appropriate based on the weather of the day. All scouts should bring a water bottle that they can carry, Mrs. Kovach will have lanyards for regular sized water bottles. The parade kicks off at 2:15pm and proceeds to Paradise Green. Parents who wish to, may march behind our scouts. All other parents should be prepared to meet us at the gazebo directly following the parade. All dens will have at least one adult familiar with the children march so that no one wanders off. Arrange this within your den and if you have any questions or problems contact Mrs. Kovach.
We will end our day as always with a Pack picture at the gazebo. A drink and small snack will be provided to all of our scouts and marching parents.
****For those wishing to attend the memorial at Academy Hill it begins at 1:00pm.****

Pack Picnic
Sunday June 8, 2008 12noon - 4pm Rain or Shine!
Short Beach Pavilion 1(the big pavilion next to the boardwalk)
Come ONE! COME ALL! to PACK 172 Family Picnic. All scouts and immediate family welcome. Let's all join together for good food, good fun, games and prizes. Bring beach chairs, towels or blankets and plenty of sunscreen! RSVP to your Den Leaders by Wednesday, May 28. Each den is asked to bring a side dish or dessert. Check with your Den Leader for assigned dishes. Thank you to all who participate. Let's have a GREAT DAY AT THE BEACH! This event is being chaired by Helen Levine and Darlene DeRosa - Den 2. Please call with any questions or concerns.

Scout Night @ Bluefish - June 14,2008 - Council Sponsored Event Ballpark at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport
Brian Kelly will be chairing this event. He will be handing out registration forms for this event at the April Pack Meeting. Space fills up fast for this overnighter, so our Pack will be getting our group registration in early, (May 7th will be the pack deadline) prior to the council deadline so that all scouts that wish to may attend. All scouts, siblings and their families may attend. All Cubs (and campers) must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The cost is $15 per person and includes game admisssion, fireworks, campout, movie and patch. Full payment is due at the time of registration and tickets will be received and distributed by the chairman roughly two weeks in advance.

****BELOW IS OUR YEAR IN REVIEW****

Roundup and Registration Night ~ Wednesday
September 26, 2007 7pm - 8pm
Second Hill Lane School was a great success!
Lots of new faces and many returning scouts as well.
Don't Forget: The sale dates for our Yankee Candle Fundraiser are 9/26/07 thru 10/17/07 (Turn in at our Oct Pack Meeting) - Delivery Date of Items: 11/27/07.

First Pack Meeting October 17, 2007
Uniform Inspection
Thank you for joining us Down on the Farm! Den 6 began our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance followed by "Farmer Brown", boy what a bunch of jokers those Webelos 1's are! Cubmaster Rich introduced all of our returning and new leadership for this scouting year. Our new Assistant Cubmaster is Bill Lobdell. Officer Roger Miller came to talk to our scouts about Safe Halloweening, and Boy Scouts from Troop 71 & Troop 68 performed Uniform Inspections for all of our Scouts. Thank you Richie, Josh and Tommy. Then we all had some MUMMY FUN! After Cubmaster Rich updated us on upcoming events we all enjoyed cider and munchkins ! YUM!
We all picked up our wreath fundraiser tonight. Please remember cubs "DO YOUR BEST" to "help the pack go".

Webelos visit Boy Scout Troop 71
WOW Weekend @ Camp Sequassen
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Our Webelos attended WOW weekend and were hosted by Troop 71. Due to weather our Cubmaster and Troop 71's Scoutmaster decided to begin our weekend on Saturday morning with a caravan with Troop 71 at 6:30am. The storms had cleared out and we were all ready for a great weekend. Our Webelos in attendance were Chris, Billy, Adam, Thaddeus, Alec, Dylan, Reece, Jack, Tom, Sean, Joey and Anthony. Our scouts earned their Outdoorsman, Readyman and Forester. The weather Saturday and Sunday was clear and cool and made for a great evening campfire. Our leaders got in some training and enjoyed the menu offerings of Troop 71.
Thank you Scoutmaster Mr. Connor and Troop 71 for hosting an unforgettable weekend.

Annual fall cleanup ~ Sunday
November 11th 12:30pm - 4:00pm
Second Hill Lane School
We had a great turnout for our annual service project. A total of 43 scouts came and "Did Their Best" and picked up a total of 102 bags of leaves. Thank you goes out to Walmart and Shaws who donated the bags, hot cocoa and cookies. Thanks to our hard working scouts, Chris, Thomas, Jack, Calum, Tom, Jack, Matthew, Anthony A, Jacob K, Anthony, Matthew, Gabriel, Justin, Christian, Zach, Jon-Michael, Tyler H, Giovanni, Billy, Jason, Tyler L, Tommy K, Theodore, Logan, Morgen, Anthony S, Adam, Thaddeus, Wyatt, Eli, Eric,Alec, Sean, C.J., Jason, Ken, Daniel, Anthony L, Jacob R, Michael, Ryan, Shane and Seth.

Pack Meeting ~ Wednesday
November 14, 2007 6:45pm - 8pm
Second Hill Lane School Gym
Thank you Den 9 for hosting our meeting. Great job on Opening Ceremony and "Seven Virtues of Life". We all learned a lot from Officer Craig and his partner Hunter. Our scouts are really fast as we saw during our Turkey Feather Relay. Pack 172 wishes all of our Scouting Families a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Scouts were required to pick up their wreath orders from Rich Craven's house during a designated time frame. Saturday 11-17-07 10am - 4pm Rich Craven's house. If you did not get your wreaths that day please contact the Cravens.

Wreath Sale Weekend ~Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Nov 23,24 &25th
Eli Whitney School - Huntington Road
Shortly before 12noon on Friday we sold out of wreaths! Therefore the rest of the wreath sale for
the weekend is cancelled. Thank you to all of our scouts who worked so hard selling wreaths to HELP THE PACK GO.

Scout Night @ the Soundtigers ~ Friday
November 23rd - 7:30pm
What a fun night! Our scouts had a great time cheering on the Sound Tigers even though in the end they were defeated 3 to 5 with Hartford winning in the end. The Sound Tigers fought valiently throughout the game first with a score of 0 to 1 then 0 to 2 then 1 to 2 then 2 to 3 then 2 to 4 then 3 to 5. We all had a great time and were very proud of scouts who represented Pack 172 well.

Holiday Caroling @ Lord Chamberlain
Sunday, December 16, 2007
3:00pm - 4:00pm
This event, chaired by Helen Levine was a wonderful success. We had a total of 30 people attend, including scouts, siblings, and parents. The residents of Lord Chamberlain and it's staff joined in as we went caroling down the halls and into the recreation rooms. Our scouts, dressed in class A uniform and wearing Santa hats were joined by the residents and staff in a rousing chorus of Holiday carols. Thank you to all of our scouting families who turned out, even though the weather was a little "frightful" and shared their Holiday joy and spirit with Lord Chamberlain. Thank you also to Helen for another successful event.

Pack Meeting ~ Wednesday
Second Hill Lane School Gym
December 19, 2007 6:45pm - 8pm
"Celebrations Around The World" This pack meeting was hosted by Den 3.
All of our scouts learned about the reason to give to such charities as the food banks, not every one is as fortunate as we are. We had a large quantity of food donated which will be transported to the food bank by Den 3. Our scouts also had a visit during closing circle by a jolly man in a red suit. Our scouts picked up their incentives from the wreath sale, and we closed out the year with our Cubmaster wishing everyone a happy and healthy Holiday! See you all in January!

Pack Meeting ~ Wednesday
January 16, 2008 6:45pm - 8pm
Second Hill Lane School Gym
"Cub Scout Car Show"
This pack meeting was hosted by Dens 5 & 11.
Our scouts watched dens 5 & 11 perform their skit "The New Car" and had quite a good chuckle. Then after our awards we were visited by Scoutmaster Randy DeBiase and his son Randy Jr who talked to us about stock car racing! We actually got to see the car that Randy Jr races in, in the parking lot! We all had so much fun in the Automobile Relay! In our closing circle our Cubmaster reminded us to be strong when life puts us to the test and remember the Cub Scout Promise and what it means. We were updated on upcoming events and received our Fishing Derby Flyers, our invitation to the Blue and Gold Dinner and were able to sign up for Movie Night Tickets. Great meeting dens 5 & 11 !

Movie Night
Friday, January 25th
Doors opened promptly at 6:00pm as about 95 scouts, siblings and adults joined us for the showing of Shrek 3 and National Treasure. Our scouts enjoyed their pizza from Tony's and Popcorn courtesy of Bow Tie Cinnemas of Trumbull. After the night was through we had gone through 15 gallons of "bug juice", and quite a bit of candy at .25/piece it was hard to pass up! Sleeping bags and pillows galore! Thank you Den 6 parents and scouts for chairing this event. Chris, Adam, Thaddeus, Dylan and Jon-Michael worked hard and had lot's of fun too! Thank you also to the Levine and Poison families who came out to help as well. At 10:20 our movies were over and weary eyed we all "left no trace" as we cleaned up before we went home for a good night's sleep. Thanks go out to those who stayed and helped clean up after all the sleeping bags and blankets were picked up, we always appreciate the helping hands.

Family Games Night
February 13 - Second Hill Lane School Gym
WOW! What a great FUN night! All of our dens brought out fabulous games for our scouts to play. They all won tickets and turned them in for prizes and goodies. It was heard that one scout said, "I never knew Cub Scouts was so much fun!" Many thanks go out to the leaders and parents of Dens 2 and 4 who hosted our Games Night. The prizes were out of this world. Thank you to all of our scouts who remembered to bring a non perishable item for Sterling House Food Bank. Also, Michele Appleby collected all of the Blue and Gold reservation forms, which were due by tonight.

Blue and Gold Dinner
Sunday February 24, 2008 Oronoque Country Club
About 175 scouts, siblings and parents came out to celebrate the Birthday of Scouting. This year's Blue and Gold Dinner was once again held at Oronoque Country Club from 2pm - 6pm. We began our afternoon with our Webelos ll dens performing our opening ceremony. The theme this year was Swashbuckling Pirates and den leaders made their scouts "skullies" or doo rags and a "den flag" as well as thought of a name for their den's pirate ship.The den's flags were displayed around the dining room and the stage had an actual pirate ship built by Rich Craven. The tables had a treasure chest full of goodies for our scouts and balloons welcomed each family to their table. Our Cubscouts earned many awards that they have been working hard on. Cody the Pirate came and entertained our scouts with a treasure hunt and then relay races. We all enjoyed a wonderful child as well as adult friendly meal, and had birthday cake and ice cream. Our leaders were awarded with their service year pins as well as some "funny" awards from our Cubmaster, letting both our scouts and our leaders know that they are appreciated. Our leaders performed a skit "The Pirates of Pack 172" and our scouts got quite a chuckle out of seeing our leaders perform a skit, rather than themselves for a change. After our Cubmaster closing the afternoon with a ceremony reminding us all that the time we have to shape our boys into responsible young men is limited, our scouts were presented with a gift of a Pack t-shirt (which is also considered our class B uniform)
Pinewood Derby cars were distributed at the dinner as well.
This event was chaired by Michele Appleby and Evelyn Lesko and they did a wonderful job!

Pack Meeting - Second Hill Lane School Gym
March 19,2008 6:45pm - 8:00pm
"What's Up Tonight?"
This Pack Meeting was hosted by Den 7.
Thank you Den 7 for a well planned out and very fun and interesting Pack Meeting. We began our night with our scouts dropping off their Pinewood Derby cars for their initial weigh in. After our opening ceremony Den 7 treated us to a skit "To the Sun". We loved their costumes! Our guest speaker Mr. Heiden presented us with a power point presentation showing us many costellations and showed us how to find them in the night skies. We all had a lot of fun playing "Meteor Shower" planned and run by our Den 7 parents. Job well done Den 7.
We remind all of our scouts that they may bring a non perishable food item to our Pack Meetings. The items donated this month will be delivered to Mertin House by our hosting den.

Pinewood Derby - Second Hill Lane School Gym
Saturday March 29, 2008 10AM - 6PM
59 Racers showed up with cars of many variations to compete. After scouts registered with Michele and Evelyn they had their photo taken with their car. They moved into the racing area and were greeted by our racing officials to complete their registration, thanks Keith Ferrara and all of your assistants.Our Pinewood Derby chairman Bill Lobdell got racing got underway around 1:20pm and after a couple of minor computer gliches we were into a fun filled afternoon of competition. With 8 heats for each car, they were able to race each of the four tracks twice. We had a great DJ for the day, one of our den chiefs Richie Kovach, thanks Richie, with the assistance of Mark Rudzinski. Thank you to all of our Pack's Den Chiefs who showed up to help out, Freddie Kaesman, Tommy Valus, Johnny Valus and Robbie Kimball. Our announcer for the day was our very own Cubmaster Rich Kovach. Our scouts filled their bellies with pizza, bug juice and many wonderful treats provided by our scouting families. Thanks go out to all of our scouting parents who helped at this event, making it a wonderful experience for all of our scouts.
We congratulate our top winners:
First Place ***Christian Loucks
Second Place ***Jacob Rainey
Third Place ***Daniel Witkowski
These top 3 winners qualify for the The District 2008 Pinewood Derby Saturday, May 3, 2008 . Hosted by Cub Scout Pack 99 at Riverfield School in Fairfield. Each Pack may enter 3 cars.
You may find the 2008 Pinewood Derby Final Standings as well as the Best in class by accessing the Pinewood Derby link on the left side of this page.

Fishing Derby
April 5, 2008
Deer Lake, Killingworth
What began as a forecast of a rainy weekend turned into a clear day for fishing on Saturday. Only a few of our scouts participated in this year's Fishing Derby. We did not hear of anything caught other than a good case of POISON IVY! Well, April is the kind of month that you just never know when it comes to the weather in New England. You know what they say, If you want to know the weather, look out the window!

Archery Weekend
April 11 - 13, 2008
Troop 72 BSA SUMC ~ For Webelos 1 & 2
Boy Scout Troop 72 had invited our Webelos Scouts for Archery weekend. There was Camping, Archery, Cooking, Canoeing skills, Knife Safety, Outdoorsman and Games and more. We had 11 Webelos scouts that attended this event and once again what began as a forecast of a rainy weekend cleared out just in time for the beginning of a wonderful program of events hosted by Troop 72. Our thanks go out to Cubmaster Randy and all of his "crew" for inviting our scouts for a look into Boy Scouting!

Pack Meeting - Second Hill Lane School Gym
April 23,2008 6:45pm - 8:00pm
"Cub Scout Magic"
This Pack Meeting was hosted by Dens 1 and 10.
After our Tigers presented the colors they led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Cub Scout Promise. The skit performed by our Tigers, "Bear Droppings" left us all saying "eeewwwwww". Great job Tigers! Our guest speaker tonight was a magician Mr.Bungles, courtesy of our Tiger parents. Mr. Bungles entertained our scouts with comedy and magic. We all had a great time playing Coin Relay, and our Cubmaster Rich wound up the evening reminding us that the magic lies within, and asked all of our scouts to try to go out and perform a magical act by doing a good deed for someone without their knowledge of who might have done it.
The non perishable food items donated this month will be delivered to Sterling House by our hosting dens.

Mystic Sleepover
April 25,26, 2008
This was our annual BIG EVENT. This event was chaired by our Assistant Cubmaster Bill. This year our "Big Event" was the Mystic Aquarium Overnighter that was organized by the Connecticut Yankee Council. 22 scouts with chaperones met in front of Mystic at 6:45pm. We registered, were escorted to the area to put our gear down and had a snack. After a short orientation meeting we were split into groups by Packs. Being the largest Pack represented it took 2 groups to accomodate our scouts. The scouts went to several stations where they learned about the Aquarium and the residents of the Aquarium. One of these station was SQUID DISECTION...eewwww! We turned in for the night near the shark tank. As we dozed off we saw shadows pass over our heads. (JAWS!) Upon waking we packed up our gear and had a short outdoor tour to visit the beluga whales and the sea lions. We all enjoyed a scrumptious breakfast! Some of our scouts decided to stay at Mystic for the day, while others called a day after a visit to the gift shop. All in all, the scouts had a great time, learned a lot along the way and were a wonderful representation of what scouting is all about.

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Stratford Connecticut

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Registration Night
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Second Hill Lane Gym

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Proud Of Our Scouts
2002 FIRST PLACE CUBOREE CHAMPIONS

We are registered members of the Connecticut Yankee Council Pomperaug District. Our charter is held by Second Hill Lane School PTA. We have an active Pack including all the ranks of Tiger, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Webelos I & II.

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The Purpose of Cub Scouting

Cub Souting is the phase of the program offered by the Boy Scouts of America for first- through fifth-grade boys. The purpose of Cub Scouting is to help parents and community organizations help boys by:

• Positively influencing character development.
• Encouraging spiritual growth.
• Developing habits and attitudes of good citizenship.
• Encouraging good sportsmanship and pride.
• Growing strong in mind and body.
• Providing fun and exciting new things to do.
• Preparing boys to become Boy Scouts.

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Cool Things We Do

• Battleship Cove Massachusetts ~ Limerock Racing
• Town Hall Pack Meeting ~ Holiday Caroling
• Movie Night Sleepover ~ Family Picnic
• Pinewood Derby ~ Scouting For Food
• Blue & Gold Dinner ~ Games Night
• Memorial Day Parade ~ WOW Weekend
• Fishing and Camping at Deer Lake ~ CUBOREE
• Hockey Night ~ Skit Night ~ Fishing Derby
• Our Cubmaster likes it when we sing and do skits.
• Pack 172 - Where too much fun is never enough