Today, the  cubscouts and families of the Arrow of Light Dens of Pack 107, spent the afternoon raking a lot of leaves and picking up garbage off the grounds of Norcross Park, on North Street. It was a chilly day, but rain-free! Their camaraderie and scout spirit kept them warm and created fun memories.

Since Pack 107’s adoption of Norcross Park, 2 years ago,  the Pack and its dens have taken turns doing monthly community service, during the non-snowy months. This includes picking up garbage around the playground, parking lot, and baseball field, weeding, mulching, spring and fall clean ups.

It’s  so wonderful to see these future leaders in the making, as they learn the value of caring for their community, and how their actions are making the Grafton community a better place in which to live.

Pack 107 was approached by a member of the Grafton community and Grafton Garden Club, to help make the landscape of the Welcome to Grafton sign, located on Rte 140, entering from Shrewbury,  beautiful once again. Our Tiger dens took charge of the project under the leadership of Mr. Andy Gauthier, one of our Tiger Den leaders. What a great job they have done!  These cubscouts are learning that they can make a difference in the community they live in, even at such a young age!  Look at the before and after shots!!

Today the Webelos dens completed their Webelos Walkabout Adventure, hiking 3.7 miles along Harrington Trail to the summit of Mount Wachusett. Despite being wet and muddy, it was a great hike. On the way up, we stopped to admire the giant windmills and one of the lookouts. The fall scenery was absolutely beautiful. At the summit, we looked all around at the vast distances that we could see. We could even see the windmills that were once towering over us. In the distance, we were able to see Mount Monadnock- our next hiking adventure with the Pack. We even checked out the ski lift before heading back down. Overall, it was a great day to be on the trail and exploring all that nature has to offer.

We had our October Pack meeting on Friday October 5th, at the Congregational Church. It started with a fun slime making pre-meeting activity. Great job running the event,Sophie and Nikolas. The pack meeting was a busy night of acknowledgment of all the various achievements made by our cunscouts over the summer and in the month of September. We had a Bobcat ceremony for 3 of our new cubscouts,  Summer Camp awards, Summertime Scout awards, Beaver Day patch awards, New Scout awards, Recruiter patch awards, highest popcorn seller prize for the month of September, den adventure achievement awards, and the  new hiking program  awards.  We had 2 cubscouts who each received a walking stick for accruing over 20 miles of hiking in their time as cubscouts. We also welcomed our new den chief, Nikolas, who is a boy scout from Troop 107. Congratulations to all the scouts on all your achievements, and keep up the great work!

Our top popcorn seller, Ben, was given a task of putting all the squeezed out toothpaste back into its tube. Our cubmaster,  Mr. Shawn Tidd,  used this example to illustrate what it means when we say “a scout is trustworthy.”

“What we say and do is like the toothpaste. Once it is out there, it can not be taken back.” One must keep their word, and do the right thing.

Upcoming pack events in October include our next popcorn  Show and Sell at the Grafton Stop and Shop on Saturday, October 13, 9am-2pm, and a day outing for pack hike at Mount Monadnok, NH, on  Saturday, October 20. Our last popcorn Show and Sell at the Grafton Stop and Shop will be Saturday, October 27th,  9am-2pm.

Pack 107 had a fun filled start to the new scouting season. We had our recruitment night on Friday, September 7th, followed by the first pack meeting of the school year on Friday, September 14th. Throughout the month cubscouts were busy fundraising by selling popcorn to help support our pack activities. On September 15th, our pack went on a popcorn blitz at various neighborhoods where scout got to pair up and sell popcorn.  It was a great learning experience for those new to scout fundraising.

We had a Beaver Day camping weekend, September 21-23 at Treasure Valley Scout Reservation, in Rutland. It was the pack’s first camping event of the season. We had a great turn out on Beaver Day Saturday where our cubscouts and their families were involved in a half day of community service work, where we laid down mulch along the sides of the main road of the reservation. It was a lot of hard work, but fun memories were made in the process. We enjoyed a generous lunch provided by Treasure Valley to fuel us for a 3 mile hike in the afternoon, followed by den meetings. In this weekend alone, the cubscouts were able to complete all the requirements to earn upto 2 adventure awards.

On Saturday, September 29, our pack had their first popcorn show and sell of the season at Stop and Shop.

More fun events to come….Check out our calendar!