Cub Scout Pack 141

September 1, 2024

VIDEO ON MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS – UPDATED 8/29/2024
Here is a YouTube video that will take you step by step through the renewal process.
The part that you need to watch is about 9 minutes long and it is at the beginning of the video.
Click HERE to see the video.

CUB SCOUT PROGRAM UPDATES ANNOUNCED - 9/9/2023
For more information, click HERE.

CUB SCOUT PROGRAM UPDATES FAQ - 1/3/2024
For more information, click HERE.

BSA MEMBERSHIP FEE INCREASE DETAILS – UPDATED 4/1/2024
For more information, click HERE.

SCOUT SHOP SUPPLIES – UPDATED 6/21/2021
There are several options available:

The BRMC has partnered with the Virginia Headwaters Council in Waynesboro, VA for your advancement and uniform needs. Order online at https://www.vahcbsa.org. or call (540) 943-6675.

Outdoor Trails is now the official retailer for BSA items. 2 locations: Lynchburg (434) 384-4302 or Daleville (540) 992-5850. Discounts available for BSA Members!

And you can still find all of your Scouting needs at the BSA Scout Shop.

IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATES: We will list our most important Pack news updates in this section. So please check back often for new notices, new information about upcoming events, or even reminders about upcoming events. Council and District events and links are listed further down on this page.

LABOR DAY – September 2

KROGER SHOW AND SELL POPCORN SALES – September 7

ANNUAL PACK ICE CREAM SOCIAL – September 7

KROGER SHOW AND SELL POPCORN SALES – September 14

KROGER SHOW AND SELL POPCORN SALES – September 21

JOINT ACTIVITY: PACK MEETING – September 26

KROGER SHOW AND SELL POPCORN SALES – September 28

JOINT ACTIVITY: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OPEN HOUSE (BLACKSBURG) – October 5

JOINT ACTIVITY: CHRISTIANSBURG FALL FESTIVAL – October 5

PACK MEETING:
Our first Pack meeting is scheduled for September 26 at CPC Youth Center located just behind the Playground on the CPC property. We have an exciting guest speaker scheduled for that night and plan to give out some important information about the upcoming events from Scouting America, the Blue Ridge Mountains Council, and from our very own CS Pack and FG Troop Committees. Our theme for this meeting is “Cruising Around The Course.” So, mark your calendars and get ready for night of information and great fun.

GREETINGS AND WELCOME:
We trust everyone has settled in with school and has gotten use to that routine again. It seems like it has been a short summer and school is now back in full swing. For us, this means that we get to start another exciting year of Scouting and Frontiering. We would like to welcome all of you back for another awesome year as well as welcoming our newest members to our Family of Scouting program. Our CS Pack and FG Troop Committees have worked extra hard planning out all the fun-filled events and activities for the upcoming year. Make sure to check out our Pack Calendar, located on the “Calendar” page under the “Schedules” tab on the main menu bar.

We are so thrilled to get the opportunity to aid in the character development, spiritual growth, and good citizenship of all our Cub Scouts and Frontiers Girls. This responsibility that has been entrusted to us is not one that we take lightly. Plus, we have a year of awesome activities planned, coupled with some great guest speakers that should pique the interest of both adults and children. We are just a week or so away from the start of another exciting scouting year. So, get ready, tighten up your seat belts, and enjoy the ride. We wanted to give you a list of some events that will take place before our first Pack meeting.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL:
On September 7, we plan to have an Ice Cream Social outside of the CPC Youth Center located just behind the Playground on the CPC property. This event is just an opportunity for our entire Pack family to get together, meet and greet each other and to have a little ice cream in the process. Our leadership will be available to answer any questions that parents may have. Please bring your own folding chairs to this event. We are looking forward to having an “ices---creaming good time.”

DEN MEETINGS:
All den meetings will officially start the week of September 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the Scout Room. Our Scout Room is located in the basement of the Literacy Volunteers Of America building across the street from the Dollar General Market in downtown Christiansburg at the corner of West Main and Dunkley Streets. If you park in the rear parking lot of the Christiansburg Presbyterian Church (the one across from the Dollar General Market) and walk as if you were going to Burger King, you will walk right pass our Scout Room. Look on our “Meetings” page under the under the “Schedules” tab on the main menu bar for more information about our den meeting scheduled days and times. So, mark your calendars and get ready for a year of fun activities.

POPCORN FUNDRAISER:
We have started our annual Boy Scout Popcorn fundraiser. Our sales goal for this year is $8,500.00. We know this sounds like a lot of money, but we know it is a goal that we, by working together, can achieve. In an effort to reduce the cost of Scouting to our parents, we participate in this Scouting America sanctioned fundraiser. We do this to ensure that every Scout has the opportunity to participate in all the activities that our Pack provides with little to no additional cost to you as a parent. We use money from our popcorn fundraiser as the main source to fund our Pack activities, to pay for awards, beltloops and pins, and to pay for any equipment and supplies that we may need.

This year the Blue Ridge Mountain Council has decided to go with Pecatonica River Popcorn Company for our popcorn needs. Pecatonica River Popcorn offers a variety of popcorn products. But here is the biggest announcement and one of the most exciting things this company offers. You can sell on-line and the product is delivered FREE to the door of the customer. What a deal. FREE SHIPPING with all on-line sale orders. We are promoting on-line sales this year as a way to reach customers not in our local area.

If you are interested in selling on-line, let the Cubmaster know and he will get you set up for on-lines sales with your own custom profile. Click this link PR Popcorn Helpful Tips to get more information about the products being offered. Please know that not all products listed on the Pecatonica River Popcorn Company website are available in our Council's Popcorn Order Form.

If you would like to take orders for popcorn, we have included a link to a Google Drive folder that contains everything you will need to get started. To access the folder, click HERE. We also have the regular forms and will have them available at an upcoming Scouting event, should you need one. Know that the take-order products are different than the on-line product combinations because of the free delivery. Expect delivery on November 2, 2024.

Let us make this one of our best fundraising efforts in the history of our Pack. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Cubmaster.

FUNDRAISER SHOW AND SELL:
On Saturday, September 7, from 9-1pm, we will be selling popcorn at Kroger. For those of you who do not know about this traditional part of our sales program, we stand in front of the storefront and sell popcorn to the general public. Credit for all sales is evenly divided amongst the Scouts who participate in portion of our sales program. This is voluntary and is available to anyone who wants to come, hang out, and sell popcorn. We will be setting up to sell again at Kroger most of the following Saturdays from 9:1 p.m. until October 12. If you are interested, please plan to come out and help with our sales effort.

PACK DUES:
This year, for the very first time, Scouting America National and Council Membership dues and fees will be collected online from you. You will receive notification as your son's membership nears the expiration date. Please make sure to renew his membership so that your son can continued to participate in Pack 141 activities. Please note that National and Council dues have slightly changed. A link to a YouTube video that will take you step by step through the renewal process can be found near the top of this “Announcements” page. As a reminder, we will still be collecting Pack dues, which are the same as last year. Watch for more information coming soon.

FAMILY OF SCOUTING PROGAM:
In case you did not know, Christiansburg Presbyterian Church (CPC) offers a Family of Scouting program that consist of Boy Scout Troop 141 (11-18 years old), Cub Scout Pack 141 (5-10 years old), and Frontier Girls Troop 377 (3-18 years old and mothers can play too). Most of you are aware of the BSA scouting programs, but what is Frontier Girls? Our Frontier Girls Troop 377 was started in January 2016 as an alternative scouting-type program for the highly active and spirited young girls who wanted to experience a program that mirrored one that many of their brothers, who had joined the BSA scouting program experienced. Because the “Frontier Girls” program itself permits a seamless integration with the local BSA programs, the program is the perfect complement to the existing BSA scouting programs already sponsored by CPC, but one that would cater specifically to the young girls in the community. If you have family members or friends that you think would be interested in any of our Family of Scouting programs, please share this information with them. We each have websites as well as Facebook pages. Should they have any questions, they can always contact us.

WE NEED YOUR HELP:
It is “Not Too Late For Scouting” and we could use your help spreading the word. If you know of a young boy who would benefit from the Scouting program, please invite the entire family to your next Den meeting or to our next Pack meeting.

This would a great way for them to see firsthand what the Scouting program and our Pack are all about. Please share this information with your family and friends because they may know someone who could benefit from these great programs. If they have any questions before the meeting, please have them to contact our Cubmaster. Once again, we thank you for your help.

WEBSITE UPDATES:
It has been a few years since our new website rolled out and became live. Since that time, our website team has been diligently working to build a more user-friendly website that will grant access to information about our Pack as well as updates and news from our Pack. Most websites have what is referred to as “a site map,” which is very similar to the “table of content” one finds at the beginning of a book. This table of content lists the pages of the particular website with active links. This map is designed to help visitors to easily navigate through the website and help visitors easily find the exact content they are looking for on the website. While our site continues to be a “work-in-progress,” we believe this addition will be beneficial to all who visit. You can find our “Site Map” under under the “About” tab on the main menu bar.

EVENTS FROM THE COUNCIL:
For information or information about online registration, go to the Blue Ridge Mountains Council website and look under the Activities & Training on the main menu bar.

No Upcoming Events

EVENTS FROM THE REGION:
For information on pack friendly events happening in the region.

NRV Macaroni Kid

GETTING PACK ACTIVITY INFORMATION:
We have several means by which you can keep track of all the upcoming events in our Pack. Every month we will send out our Monthly News Update via email, highlighting the upcoming events for the month. We will post much of the same information on our website on our “Announcements” page under the “News” tab on the main menu bar. And we will post events weekly on our Facebook Page. We also have our Pack calendar on our website on our “Calendar” page under the “Schedules” tab on the main menu bar. And you can always see our latest, “Cub News Newsletter” on our “Newsletter” page under the “News” tab on the main menu bar.

Should you ever have a question, do not hesitate to contact any of the Den leadership. We want you to be informed and we use these tools to keep you informed with the latest Pack information, events, and announcements. So, if you ever need information, we have several places available where you can find what you need. And if you cannot find it anywhere else, you can always contact our Scout Leadership or our Cubmaster.

EMAIL LIST UPDATE:
If you have a new email address or another address that you would like to add to our distribution list, please email the Cubmaster the information and it will be forwarded to the appropriate Den Leaders. Please include the name to whom the address belongs and the scout’s name that the address is to be connected to.

PACK IMAGES, PHOTOS, AND/OR PICTURES:
Images, photos, and/or pictures of our activities, which may include our scouts and members of their family, are posted on our official Facebook Page. Please know that we do not practice “tagging” in the images, photos, and/or pictures that we post to any of our social media sites and we strongly discourage the practice for privacy reasons as well as an overall general security standpoint. Every effort has been made to completely disable this feature on the social media sites that we use so that others cannot “tag” anyone in any of our images, photos, and/or pictures, however we make no guarantees, either expressly or implied. If you, as a parent or guardian would like to “opt out” of having images, photos, and/or pictures of your son or any members of your family published/posted on either of social media sites, please submit a signed and dated written request to the Cubmaster stating,

“I do not grant Pack 141 or any of the organization’s registered leaders permission to publish/post any images, photos, and/or pictures on any Pack 141 social media sites that can clearly identify my son or any members of my family to the general public.”

PERSONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL FORM:
Every Scout in the pack is required to have a Personal Health And Medical form for 2024 - 2025 on file. Please make sure that you get one to your Den Leaders. For a copy of the form, click HERE.

Blue Ridge Mountains Council

September 1, 2024