BSA Pack 48 – Berlin, NJ

December Pack Meeting! BIG thank you all of our families for helping with the stockings for the boys at the YES Children’s Home. The children there are living there temporarily while waiting for foster placement.

Thank you to everyone in Berlin who donated today and to everyone who helped out! We have a few more donations coming in, but we’ve already collected more than 2,000 items for our second biggest collection ever for the GIFT Food Pantry!

Scouts also helped hand out turkeys with the food pantry.

Everyone had a great time at Cub Fun Day. Archery, BB guns, monkey bridge, pumpkin painting, Gaga ball, wood burning demonstrations, catapults, s’mores (and later s’more brownies)… what a weekend!

Lots of Cubs camped out last night at Cub Field too! Thank you everyone who came out and everyone who helped out.

Next overnight will be Adventure Aquarium sometime this Winter (waiting on dates to be released) and then we’ll have more camping this Spring and Summer!

PLEASE VOTE!

The scarecrow the cubs helped stuff at the pack meeting last week is now part of a Scarecrow Contest at Smithville Park. The three scarecrows with the most votes win cash, which would be useful for future pack events. So please vote for Scarecrow number 2 “Mrs. Leeds’ 13th Child” by Pack 48 at this link:

https://burlingtoncountynj.formstack.com/forms/scarecrow_contest_voting

Share the link and ask friends and family to vote too-pics of the scarecrow are below. You can also vote on-site by using the QR code next to the scarecrow at Smithville if you visit the scarecrows in person.

Thanks!!

These are our fun Pack activities for the year! The dens will hold 1-4 meetings each month as well.

Thurs, Oct 6 – Pack Meeting – Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Sat to Sun, Oct 15 to 16 – Cub Fun Day and Fall Campout

Thurs, Oct 20 – Campfire Hay Ride

Sat to Sun, Oct 22 to 23 – Webelos & AOL Campout with Troop 48 – Goshen Pond Campground

Thurs, Nov 3 – Pack Meeting – Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Sun, Nov 13 – Food Drive Door Hanger distribution

Sat, Nov 19 – Food Drive Collection & Sorting

Thurs, Dec 1 – Pack Meeting and AOL Crossover at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Thurs, Jan 5 – Pack Meeting at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

January/Feb/March TBA – Adventure Aquarium Overnight

Thurs, Feb 2 – Blue & Gold – Happy Birthday to Scouting! at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Sat, Feb 11 – Pinewood Derby at Berlin VFW @ TBA morning *waiting date confirmation*

Sun, Feb 12 – Troop and Pack 48 Day at the Philadelphia Flyers @ 1 pm

Thurs, Mar 2 – Pack Meeting at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Thurs, Mar 30 – Pack Meeting at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

Thurs, May 4 – Pack Meeting at Berlin VFW @ 7 pm

May TBA – Spring Campout

Sat, May 27 – Memorial Day Flag Placement at Berlin Cemetery and Flag Retirement at Berlin VFW

Thurs, June 1 – End of Year Ceremony!

June TBA – Summer Kickoff Campout

Summer o’ Fun with events all Summer long!

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the car wash this month!

Have another great year coming up! Four campouts, a camp-in, Pinewood Derby, Blue & Gold, hiking, and lots of fun!

For boys and girls in Grades K to 5, anytime is a good time to join!

Come visit us and see if Cub Scouts is right for your family! Contact Cubmaster Mike McCormick at michaelmccormick26@gmail.com or 856-287-2155!

While we don’t regularly update the website, you can see what fun we are up to on our Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/Pack48Berlin/

While this website seems to have taken a COVID nap, Pack 48 kept on Scouting through the pandemic and is gearing up for a great 2021-2022 year!

Our next activity is Thursday, September 2 at the Berlin VFW (34 Chestnut Ave, Berlin, NJ) from 7 PM to 8 PM! If you interested in coming out, please reach out to Cubmaster Mike McCormick – michaelmccormick26@gmail.com (856) 287-2155

If you have Facebook, we do a better job at keeping that up to date –
https://www.facebook.com/Pack48Berlin/

GREAT Pinewood Derby on Saturday!  A HUGE thank you to Paul and Ken for organizing our Pinewood Derby today, to Kevin Agnew for making our plaques, to our Boy Scouts for the help, and to all our families!

Congrats to our winners, hope everyone had a great time!

Some brave Arrow of Light Scouts joining with Troop 48 – Berlin, NJ for the very rainy Klondike today!  Great job guys!