2012 Blue & Gold Dinner

This is a slideshow of photos and videos from the Blue & Gold dinner and show.  The Blue & Gold Dinner is a birthday celebration of the Scouting.  Pack 380 has traditionally held its dinner in February and has in recent years included entertainment.  After all, isn't scouting all about fun?  This year our entertainment was provided by Magician Gerald Joseph making return visit to our annual dinner.

Scouting's history goes back to the turn of the 20th century to a British Army officer, Mr. Baden-Powell.  He organized and led patrols of English boys that played games, went on hikes, and learned stalking and pioneering.  In 1908, he published his book Scouting for Boys and scouting began to grow.  At about the same time, a similar concept of scouting was taking place in America amongst some boys groups.  However, Boys Scouts as we know it today did not come about until an American businessman and publisher named william D. Boyce got lost in the fog during a business trip in England.  A young aided Boyce to his destination through the fog.  This boy refused the tip Boyce offered him and courteously explained that he was a scout and could not accept payment for a good turn.  Intrigued, the publisher questioned the boy about scouting and later visited Baden-Powell as well.  Upon his return to America Boyce incorporated the Boys Scouts of America on February 8, 1910.  The Cub Scouts was organized 20 years later in 1930.

If you have photos that you want to share and have added to this slideshow, please go check out this Picasa album for the photos and videos that are in this slideshow.  Enjoy the slideshow!

Pack 380 Blue & Gold Banquet

Pack 380's Blue & Gold Dinner is this Friday, February 10 at 6pm at the Woodside Elementary Multi-Purpose Room.

Schedule

Opening Blue & Gold Ceremony

Friends of Scouting - Kent Campbell

Den 5 - Wolves Presentation

Awards

Announcements

Dinner

Raffle Drawing (throughout the evening)

Entertainment by Magician Gerald Joseph

Closing Ceremony - Baden Powell Poem

Pack Meeting - December 8, 2011 at 7pm

What: December Pack Meeting
When: December 8, 2011 at 7pm to about 8pm
Where: Woodside Multi-Use Room
Who: All Pack 380 Scouts and Families Welcome!

Here's what we have planned for our Pack meeting. The focus will be on fun and games!

Opening Flag Ceremony [Wolf Cubs]

Announcements/Awards [Cubmaster]

Games, including one with a holiday theme [All Scouts]

Special Activity [Cubmaster]

Raffle [Webelos]

Closing Flag Ceremony [Tiger Cubs]

Hope to see you all at the meeting!

Sibley Park Hike

A terrific time was had by all! Highlights included a long steep climb (okay, maybe this part was not too kind to some of us), a rock maze where we found placed mementos, great views of Mt. Diablo and the San Francisco Bay, cows and frisbee-like cow pies, snacking at a picnic table, a salamander that the kids found and returned to its place in the bay leaf tree stand, geologic formations, geocaching (although we struck out on finding caches), Round Top (the highest point in the park at 1763 feet which we scaled), and a welcome cake pop treat at the end of the hike. It was a great day for hiking!

Pack Hike at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve

Interested in working off that Turkey Day feast?

Pack 380 has just the cure for you!

We have scheduled a pack hike at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

The plan is meet at a parking lot at the end of Old Tunnel Road on Sunday, November 27, at 1pm.

No worries; there probably won't be any volcanic activity.

The plan is to meet at the parking lot at the end of Old Tunnel Road.  To get to the parking lot:

Take Highway 24 toward Oakland from Concord.
Take the Fish Ranch Road exit just before the Caldecott Tunnel.
Take the exit to Fish Ranch Road and turn left onto Fish Ranch Road.
Take Fish Ranch Road a short distance and turn right onto Old Tunnel Road.
Take Old Tunnel Road where it ends at the parking lot where we plan on meeting.

See this link for a map for the park.

Hope to see you on Sunday!

Scouting for Food Week

We started the Scouting for Food week on a great note this past Saturday.  Under partly sunny skies, we gathered at Woodside Elementary for some donuts, bagels, juice and coffee before heading out to place door hangers in the neighborhood around the school.  Den Leader James Lang provided direction to the scouts, siblings and parents before sending them off to cover the area.

Scouting for Food 2011

Scouting for Food is almost upon us!

In a previous post about Pack 380's visit to the County's food bank this year, we wrote about how important Scouting for Food is for the food bank.  Last year, Scouting for Food turned in about 165,000 pounds of food.  Way to go scouts!

This year we will be meeting on Saturday, November 12, at Woodside Elementary at 9am to distribute door hangers in the neighborhood around Woodside  Elementary.  Based on past years' experience, we should be able to cover the area in about two hours depending on the turn out of scouts and families.  Please make sure that the scouts wear their uniforms.

We will follow this up on Saturday, November 19, to pick up any food left curbside.  Again, we will meet at Woodside Elementary at 9am to do this collection.

In addition, during the week of November 14, Pack 380 will lead a food drive at Woodside Elementary. We will place a food bin near the school office to collect food donations that will also be delivered as part of Scouting for Food.  We would like to get a few scouts on at least two or three days during the week of November 14 to staff the food bin after school to encourage food donations.