Scouting – Texas Style

It’s back to school time! Grab your skates and catch up with your friends at Playland Skate before school starts. While you are at it, see if you can knock out the Skating Belt Loop requirements. This event coincides with the Gullett PTA Back to School Skate so you will get to see all of your Gullett friends. Den 10′ers: make sure that you show up too! Again, no organized activities but take a look at the link for the Roller Skating Belt Loop and Pin and work with your Scout to knock those out.

When: August 19 @ 6pm
Where: Playland Skate Center

Ringleader: Glenna Smith, 762-8063, glenna@smitty.net
Web: http://www.usscouts.org/advance/cubscout/sports/roller-skating.asp
Wear: Pack 55 t-shirt

We have the “Scouting for Food” drive to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank coming up right after the Chili Pepper campout. Our Pack, with the help of Boy Scout Troop 1, is distributing flyers 6-7:30 pm Tuesday, July 27th, (and Wednesday, July 28th, if necessary to finish the flyer distribution). The following Saturday morning, July 31, we will pick up the food donations from the doorsteps where we distributed the flyers.

** It is very important that we have good Pack 55 participation. ** “Many hands make light work.” Last year we had too few Scouts doing too much work. We want to make this as easy as possible, but that can only happen if we have a good turnout. This counts as a Summer activity and Community Service. Plus, it’s just a nice thing to do for our community.

Here’s the plan:

Tuesday (7/27) 6:00 pm – 7:30? (and Wednesday 7/28 if not finished Tuesday) We’ll meet in front of Gullett Elementary. Small groups of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will take different sections of the neighborhood (maps of sections provided) and attach flyers with rubber bands to the residence doors in their assigned section. Parents are welcome to accompany the groups, but we’re encouraging them to let the Scouts do the door hanging.

Saturday (7/31) 9:30 am – ??

Meet in front of Gullett Elementary. Parents with cars/trucks/vans will accompany small groups of Scouts who will pick up the food donations from the doorsteps of the houses and bring them to the vehicles. The food from each section will be brought back to Gullett, weighed, and loaded into one vehicle for delivery to the nearest Scouting for Food pickup point. It’s important that we get a good measure of the pounds of food and a good count of participants – parents, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, siblings, Girl Scouts, Brownies, etc.

Please, Please, Please come and participate in order to make this light work for everyone involved. We’ll send out reminders when it gets closer to the dates.