Float Decorating

Hello Everyone!!! The Parade of Lights is quickly approaching and it is time to get serious about our float. We will be meeting this Saturday, November 28th at 10:00, at the "old" Whitewater gravel pit in Whitewater. If you don't know where that is, take Hwy 50 to Whitewater, then head south on Hwy 141, go across the railroad tracks and Gunnison River, take the first right. Please bring a sack lunch and any supplies you think we might need.

Whitewater Building Materials has donated a huge flat bed for us, and the theme this year is "Toyland". So we will be making it look like a Main Street with street lights, railings, and turning our boys into toys. So we hope to make things like blocks, lego's, yo-yos, army men, etc. So any ideas to help along this line would be greatly appreciated.

Hope to see everyone there on Saturday, and if you have any questions, please give your den leader a call.

Flag Retirement Activity

The flag retirement activity is Saturday, Nov 14th, at 3:00. We will meet at Dederick's house (169 Whiting Rd), and head down to a fire circle on Kannah Creek. Ask friends and family if they have any flags that need to be retired and bring them along.

Directions to my house are south on Hwy 50, travel 7 miles past Whitewater. Turn left on to Kannah Creek Rd, and go 2.5 miles. Turn right onto Whiting Rd, we are the third house on the right, grey log home with a blue metal roof.

After we retire the flags we will drink some hot chocolate and eat cookies!!!

Current Events

We have the the Veteran's Day Parade on Saturday November 7th, we need the scouts to wear thier uniforms and meet at 8th & Main St. between 1:00 and 1:30.

We also have a flag retirement ceremony activity on November 14th, this will be out at Dederick's house 169 Whiting Rd, up Kannah Creek. The time is 3:00. We will go over how to properly dispose of a worn out American flag. Directions to here are to take Hwy 50 south (heading to Delta). Go approximately 7 miles past Whitewater, turn left onto Kannah Creek Rd. Continue up Kannah Creek Rd 2.5 miles to Whiting Rd on the right. Dederick's is the third house on the right.

Once again Whitewater Building Materials have offered to let us use their shop and a truck for our Parade Of Lights float. It is so nice to have a warm, dry spot to work on our float. The theme this year is Toy Land. So we would like all the boys to dress up as toys, such as Lego's, blocks, yo-yo's, Jack-in-the Box, etc. All the parents and siblings that will be walking with the truck can dress as elves, reindeer, etc. So if please start thinking of costume ideas for the scouts.

Cubmobile Race

The cubmobile race is THIS SATURDAY!!!!!! Directions are: Take US Hwy 50 South toward Delta, 7 miles past Whitewater turn LEFT onto Kannah Creek Rd (this is also Lands End access to Grand Mesa). Continue up Kannah Creek Rd 1.5 miles, we will be on the driveway on the righthand side of the road.

Den Meetings

Den meetings start Tuesday at Mesa View Elementary. Wolves at 6 and everyone else at 6:30. See you there!!!

Directions for Saturday

The cubmobile building workshop will be this Saturday, we will start around 10:00, but will be here all day. Take Hwy 50 south (towards Delta) go approximately 7 miles past Whitewater, to Kannah Creek Rd, (this is also Land End to go up to the Grand Mesa). You will turn right onto Kannah Creek Rd and go 2.5 miles to Whiting Rd (on the right). We are the third house on the right. If you have any questions, give me a call.

Cub Mobile Parts List

Here is the parts list for the basic cubmobile, remember if you have any recycled parts we can make modifications to make them work!! The workday is September 26th at The Dederick's house on Whiting Rd.

2: 8ft 2x4

1: 1/2" sheet plywood

6ft: heavy rope

20: 1" wood screws

8: 1 1/2" wood screws

14: 3" wood screws

2: 36" 5/8" axels (rolled steel, cheapest we found was Bonner Steel)

12: 5/8" washers

4: tires with 5/8" bore (cheapest we found was at Harbor Freight Tools)

4: 3/8" cotter pins

2: 1/4" or 3/8"x 4" carriage bolts with corresponding nuts

1: 1/4" or 3/8" x 7" carriage bolt with coresponding nuts

Finally:

4: 5/8" or 3/4" eye 1/4" or 3/8" bolt 4" thread (J bolt)

4: corresponding 1/4" or 3/8" nut

OR

4: 5/8" or 3/4" U 1/4" or 3/8" bolt 4" thread (U bolt with plate)

8: corresponding 1/4" or 3/8" nut

Hope this helps, there are a bunch of designs on the internet with other materials list, if you prefer one of those, that is great, we would be happy to help. If you have any questions, please give me a call.

Cubmobile's

Last year the Bear Den made cubmobiles and had so much fun they wanted to do a race. So we have signed up to host a district Cubmobile Race on October 10th. We are still searching for that perfect hill, so if you know where it is, please let us know. A couple of workdays have been scheduled on September 5th & September 26th for anyone needing help. Scott will be at our shop at 169 Whiting Rd, if anyone would like some help. You will need your own supplies, but we have all the saws, drills etc. I have posted a list of the supplies we used, but feel free to come up with your own design and remember recycled parts work great!

Popcorn

We are in the middle of our Show & Sell Popcorn right now. Popcorn is the only fundraiser we do, and there are two parts: Show & Sell and Take Order. We sold popcorn at Walmart & Sportsman's Warehouse on August 29th, and did OK. Now we are going to try the OM Bowling alley on a couple of league nights, September 9th & September 19th. We would really like to have a lot of boys there, so if you can make it we would really appreciate it. We try to just do this one fundraiser and then coast the rest of the year.

New Blog

Hello, Cub Scouters. Well, I thought we could try this to help get information out to all our Scouters. Hopefully this will be a spot to help with questions and get resource information.