This past Saturday, 2/29/2020, the cub scout families of Grafton Pack 107 celebrated Leap Day by going snow tubing at Ski Ward, in Shrewsbury, MA. The weather was perfect with a mix of sun and mild overcast skies, and temperatures near the freezing/melting mark. The conditions on the slopes were perfect with a 36 inch snow pack!
The cub scouts put their knowledge of winter weather safety to practice with Mr. Rob Lane, AOL den leader, giving a quick review of the 3 Ws of winter weather preparedness: wicking, warm, and wind protection. He spoke about the need for keeping on top of hydration, and making sure to keep inner layers dry. The cub scouts also listened to the safety rules and instructions presentation given by the Ski Ward staff.
The snow tubing event was a two hour event, and we were provided with a toasty warm cabana to use for check in, rest breaks, and recharge with hot cocoa.
The two hours went by quickly, and very few people took breaks, as they tried to make any many runs on the slopes as possible, and just have fun!!
A big thank you goes out to Mr. Larry Drew, our assistant den leader of the Bears den , for suggesting and organizing this fun filled event our pack!
A special thank you also goes out to Mr. Chris Nichols, for sharing his time and talent with the pack, by taking and sharing these incredible photos at this event.
If you are interested in finding out more about scouting with Pack 107, please feel free to reach out and contact us.
On Friday 2/21/2020, Pack 107 experienced a fun filled night immersed in all things related to marine biology and marine life. There were 2 other cub scout packs at the event, one from Rhode Island, and another from Connecticut.
The cub scouts and their families were split into smaller groups and spent the evening rotating through 4 different learning stations.
At the Beluga Whale class, the cub scouts learned about the Beluga whale’s special adaptation of echolocation, the Beluga’s anatomy, habitat, and their preditors.
At the Invertebrates class, the cub scouts learned about the sea creatures which have different exoskeletons. They had the opportunity to touch and feel a live sea urchin, spider crab, sea star, green crabs, and horseshoe crab to name a few. They also had the opportunity to explore different exoskeletons and shells.
At the penguin class, the cub scouts learned characteristics about the penguins that make them part of the bird family. They learned that penguins are only found in continents south of the equator. Some penguins live in warmer climates, while others live in the cold Antarctic.
The most memorable and exciting part of the overnight experience was the class that talked about mollusks, and why a squid is considered a mollusk. Mollusks are invertebrates that have a soft body and a hard exoskeleton. The cub scouts were grouped in buddy pairs and they got to be marine biologists performing squid dissections. They learned the inner and out anatomy of the squid, which has a hard cartilage beak and a clear sliver of cartilage called the cuttle that is found inside the body of the squid. This is why a squid is classified as a mollusk.
After the learning sessions, the group returned to the main aquarium building to prepare their sleeping space near all the aquarium displays. Lights out at 11pm.
The next morning, wake up call was at 6:30 am when we had to pack up, and go for a morning tour of the outdoor exhibits, which included the Beluga whales, the seals, sea lions and African penguins.
After the outdoor tour, we were treated to a hot breakfast buffet of eggs, bacon, sausage,potatoes, pastries, juice, coffee and tea.
After breakfast, we had a final clean up, and group photo moment. We all visited the Mystic Aquarium gift shop and waited for the opening to the public at 9am to visit all the exhibits.
There was so much to see and a lot of the cun scouts and their families returned to the indoor and outdoor exhibits to watch the animal feedings and to go to the touch tanks to touch sharks and stingrays. They also caught the sea lion live show, and visited the dinosaur and frog exhibits before heading home.
A big thank you goes out to Mr. John Bubriski, den leader of the Wolves and our pack IT chairperson, for making this event happen, for all the behind the scenes organization and communications in the last few months. This event was a huge success, and special memories were made for years to come.
If this is something you would like to do in the future and want to find out more about scouting with Pack 107, please feel to reach out to us for more information.
The Pinewood Derby is one of the most anticipated events in the scouting year for Pack 107. Today the Pinewood Derby finally arrived and was held at St. James Parish in South Grafton. The cubscouts and their families get to exercise their creativity and imagination in creating an unpowered and unmanned race car from a block of pine wood. At the derby, they get to have fun testing out their cars’ performance, while showcasing their creative designs, engineering skills, sportsmanship and camaraderie. This year’s derby does not disappoint. The scope and range of the car designs are outstanding.
State Representative David Muradian, stopped the Pinewood Derby to show his support to Pack 107. He even entered a car for the adult and sibling race! Thank you, Mr. Muradian for your support as always.
Before the Pinewood Derby got started, the Bear Den organized an entertaining and fun carnival for all the cubscouts to enjoy. The Bears did a great job creating clever and innovative games as part of their ” Grin and Bear It” adventure. The games were enjoyed by all, and the cubscsouts were entertained until Derby time, as well as during lunch break. The cub scouts couldn’t wait to resume the carnival games. Great job Bears on a successful carnival!
The cub scouts and sibling were able to get a prize after playing each of the carnival games, collecting all 6 color marks. Thank you, Mrs. Christine Gaspar, for working the prize table.
The derby opened with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by Reverend Dr. Barbara Therese, from the Congregational Church of Grafton, giving a beautiful and inspiring invocation prayer. We thank you, Rev. Barbara Therese for coming to support the pack.
There was a lot of excitement, cheering, and support front everyone in the room! The AOL den did a great job handling the race cars and helping at the race track.We thank the pack families for your generosity in bring in all the snack and sides. The pack treated everyone to a lunch of pizza. Thank you Chris Lefrancois, John and Tiffany Bubriski for you help in serving lunch.
Awards for speed were awarded to the Pack’s top 3 winners. Congratulations to 1st place winner, Gabriel F, 2nd place winner, Ailsa G., and 3rd place winner, Nick S. A special award called ” Draggin’ In” Safe Driver award, for the slowest speed, was awarded to Kaleb L. Congratulations winners!
Congratulations Gabriel F. on your 1st place finish!Congratulations Ailsa on your 2nd place finish!Congratulations Nick S. on your 3rd place finish!Congratulations Kaleb for “Draggin It In as a Safe Driver”!!
Winners of special design categories were awarded next. These winners were chosen based on scores given by special impartial guest judges from our local community.
Congratulations Aaron B. for the Most Originsl Design Award!Congratulations Lucas N. for Best Race Car Theme Award!Congratulations Nick. S. for the Best Paint Job Award!Congratulations Colin S. for Best Sports Theme Award!Congratulations Steven L. for Best Scout Theme Award!Congratulations Kaleb L. for the Most Likely Built By A Scout Theme Award!Congratulations Josh N. for the Most Patriotic Theme Award!Thank you to the guest judges for coming out the wve of the Derby to judge the design categories. Thank you David Muradian, Peter Carlson, Ed King, Lweis Alderton, Greg Marr, and Scott Zajkowski.
These 12 cub scouts will represent Pack 107 at the Milltown District Pinewood Derby on March 28 2020. They represent the winners of the top 2 fastest cars in each of the cub scout ranks.
The adult and sibling race followed and the excitement continued to fill the room. Congratulations to the winners of the top 3 fastest cars.
Congratulations Jeremy on 1st place. Congratulations to his daughter, Alison won 2nd place.Congratulations Chris Nichols on your 3rd place finish!
A big thank you goes out to Mr. Chris Tedford, cubmaster of Pack 106, for spending the day with us to help us run the Pinewood Derby, and to Pack 106 for lending us the derby track.
Last and most importantly, a special thank you goes out to Mr. Chris Nichols, who volunteered to take on the huge task of chairing and organizing this event. Thank you also, for a wonderful job and spark you added in being Master of Ceremony for this event. Mr. Nichols, we appreciate all the behind the scenes organization that made this memorable event such a great success!
This past Friday, December 6, 2019, Cub Scout Pack 107 had a festive, fun-filled Holiday Pack Meeting. The pack collected donations to support Veterans Inc., and the Charlton Food Pantry. In doing so, our cub scouts learn that a scout is friendly, kind, and helpful. Great job Pack 107. The tote for Veterans Inc. weighed in at over 37.5 lbs. Thank you for your generosity. Great job, Pack 107 families!!
The Bears den did a great job performing the Flag Ceremony to start the meeting.
We had new 2 Webelos scouts who earned their Bobcat Award, and the the Bobcat ceremony was assisted by their fellow den scouts.
Congratulations to Jackson and Nathaniel, on achieving your first rank as a cub scout.
The AOLs did a great job giving a presentation about the World Friendship Fund. The World Friendship Fund was developed during the closing days of World War II. At that time, there was a great need to rebuild those nations that had been wrecked by war and were just emerging fromt he shadows of totalitarianism.
Through the World Friendship Fund, voluntary contributions of Scouts and leaders are transformed into cooperative projects that help Scouting associations in other countries to strengthen and extend their Scouting programs. The World Friendship Fund gives members of the Boy Scouts of America an good turn opportunity to help fellow Scouts who are in need of their support. It teaches Scouts that Scouting is global. From now until February 1st, the pack will be collecting donations for the World Friendship Fund.
The festivities followed as each den got to experience a fun activity rotating through the different stations that included writing cards to the veterans and to those in need of caring, a craft station making bead candy canes, a game of the Human Knot, snack station of sweet oranges and rice crispy snow balls, and meeting “Santa Tidd”. We were told Santa was too busy this year to stop by, but left gifts and asked Mr. Shawn Tidd to help him pass them out to the cub scouts.
A big thank you goes out to Mr. Shawn Tidd for helping Santa deliver gifts to our cub scouts, and to Mr. Chris Nichols for sharing his time and talent to help take photos of the scouts meeting “Santa Tidd”!
We celebrated the one cub scout with a December birthday: Tennyson! Happy birthday Tennyson!
We have pack rock climbing event this coming Saturday 12/14/2019 4-6pm at Central Rock Gym.
Pinewood Derby season is fast approaching and Mr. Chris Nichols is heading the subcommittee for this event. He announced the Pinewood Derby is Saturday, 2/1/2020. The pack will host a build day on Saturday 1/4/2020. More information to come! This year we will be adding a parents/ adult race!! Aside from awards for speed, th here will be design categories as well: Best paint job, Most likely built by a scout, Best Patriotic, Best Sports theme, and much more. It’s time to start thinking of and planning the design of your Pinewood Derby car!
Pack 107 Committee and leaders wish you and your family “Season’s greetings”, and may you enjoy a wonderful holiday season!!
This past Friday, 11/15/2019, Pack 107 had to planned a field trip to the Massachusetts Wildlife Center in Westborough but was postponed last minute due to family emergency. The pack had an eventful and fun pack meeting nonetheless. The meeting opened with the Webelos leading the Color Guard Ceremony.
New Scouts were recognized and recieved their neckerchief from their den leaders. Congratulations and welcome to our Pack 107 family.
We thank all the cub scouts who recruited new scouts to join our pack and they were recognized with the BSA Recruiter patch. Great job in sharing the fun and adventure of scouting with your friends!
We recognized all the scouts who earned hiking miles milestones! 5, 10, 30, 40, and 50 miles!! Great job!!
Recognition was given to cubscouts for their popcorn sales achievements.
Most improved sales!
Most sold by cub Scout family.
We have 6 cub scouts who sold more than $1000 and they had the honor and opportunity to throw a cream pie in the face of our fun-loving cubmaster, Tabitha! What a great sport! Our highest seller, Steven, got to douse whip cream all over Cubmaster Tabitha!
Thank you to all the cub scout and family for your hard work in fundraising for our pack activities. Online sales still count toward total sales and we are only $300 away from earning a second overnight! Together we can make this happen!
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The cub scouts enjoyed a fun game of Scout Jeopardy. It is an awesome and fun way for our cub scouts to review all their scouting knowledge, and to learn new information!! Parents learned a lot as well!
Mr. Chris Nichols got the cub scouts excited when he started talking about the one of the most exciting events of the scouting year- the Pack Pinewood Derby take place tentatively Saturday, February 1st, 2020. The pack will host a build day in December. More information to come. Start thinking of themes and designs with your scout!
Mr. Clay McDonald gave us an update about our pack hosting a rock climbing event at Central Rock Climbing Gym in Worcester, on Saturday, December 14.
Mr. Dan Gaspar had the pleasure of announcing our next pack Norcross Park clean up on Saturday, November 30. Our pack adopted Norcross Park where we have made a commitment to clean up once a month during the non snowy months of the year. Bring gloves, rakes, leaf blowers if you have any.
Our next Pack meeting will be Friday, December 6th at 7pm, at the Congregational Church. It will be a fun one, not to be missed. Please feel free to invite friends who might be interested to know more about cub scouts or who want to join. It’s not too late!
In December, our pack will be collecting white goods for donation to the Charlton Food Pantry. Please bring white goods, such as paper towels, paper plates, plastic utensils. The pack will also collect new socks for a local veteran organization.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next pack meeting!
Grafton Cub Scout Pack 107 