Please note the Annual Registration for Scouting is Due by November 12th. Registration for each boy is $50. Please contact your Den Leader with any questions.
November brings us the crispness in the air and an opportunity to share our time, talents and treasures with our community. On Saturday November 7th, the pack will pickup the donation bags as part of the scouting for food program, remember many hands make light work. All food donated goes directly to the Whitman Food Pantry, and is desparately needed this year. Please check with your son's den leader for the time your den will be involved.
As part of our November service, each den will also be putting together a Thanksgiving Food Basket for donation. We ask that every boy and their family contribute one item to the food basket effort. Food donation sheets will be handed out at the November 5th Den Meeting and we would like to have all donations in by November 12th so the baskets can be assembled. Mike Cook and Joan Martell are heading up the Food Basket Effort.
On November 11th, we will be participating in the Veterans Day Parade in Abington Center. All scouts should be in their Class A uniforms and at Abington Center by 8:15 AM (check with your den leader for meeting location on the 5th).
Our Pack Meeting this month will feature Al Kirby a World War II re-enactor. The Pack meeting will be on Saturday November 21st at 6:30 PM.
As a reminder, all boys are invited to participate in the Boys Life Reading contest for 2009. Write a one-page report titled The Best Book I Read This Year and enter it in the Boys Life 2009 Say Yes to Reading contest. The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the report has to be in your own words, 500 words tops. Enter in one of these three age categories:
8 years old and younger
9 and 10 years old
11 years old and older
First-place winners in each age category will receive a $100 gift certificate good for any product in the Boy Scouts official retail catalog. Second-place winners will receive a $75 gift certificate and third-place winners a $50 certificate. Everyone who enters will get a free patch like the one shown above. (And, yes, the patch is a temporary insignia, so it can be worn on your Cub Scout or Boy Scout uniform shirt, on the right pocket. Proudly display it there or anywhere!) In coming years, you'll have the opportunity to earn different patches. The contest is open to all Boys Life readers. Be sure to include your name, address, age and grade in school on the entry. Send your report, along with a business-size, self-addressed, stamped envelope, to:
Boys Life Reading Contest
S306
P.O. Box 152079
Irving, TX 75015-2079
Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2009 and must include entry information and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
For more details go to www.boyslife.org
Cub Scouts - Pack 22 
