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Members List:

Charter Organization:
Flag Springs United Methodist Church
Chartered Organization Representitive:
William Thomas
Committee Chair:
Drew Maerz
Cub Master:
Debbie Davis
Members:
Seeking a Volunteer
Wolf Den Leader:
Julie New
Asst Wolf Den Leader:
Jeff Hill
Asst. Wolf Den Leader:
Alicia Lones
Bear Den Leader:
Jessie Newell
Webelos 1 Leader:
Aundrea & Chris Azelton
Webelo 2 Den Leader:
Don Yarborough
Treasurer:
Aundrea Azelton
Pack Committee:
Jason Kroeger
Bryan Lones
Marty New
Mike Baker
Todd Callahan
Yvonne Goins
Webmaster:
Drew Maerz

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 OLD NORTH STATE COUNCIL

 BOY SCOUT TROOP 513 WEBSITE

 WOODFIELD SCOUT RESERVATION

 SCOUT HUNT-N-FISH DAY

 SPORTS AND ACADEMIC BELT LOOP PROGRAM

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Why Scouting?

For almost 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Today, these values are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives.

The Boy Scouts of America provides youth with programs and activities that allow them to

    * Try new things.
    * Provide service to others.
    * Build self-confidence.
    * Reinforce ethical standards.

While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages youth to achieve a deeper appreciation for service to others in their community.

Scouting provides youth with a sense that they are important as individuals. It is communicated to them that those in the Scouting family care about what happens to them, regardless of whether a game is won or lost.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Scouting promotes activities that lead to personal responsibility and high self-esteem. As a result, when hard decisions have to be made, peer pressure can be resisted and the right choices can be made.


Cub Scouts is a Family Program

Family involvement is essential to Cub Scouting's success. When we talk about "family" in Cub Scouting, we're sensitive to the realities of present-day families. Many Cub Scouts do not come from traditional two-parent homes. Some boys live with a single parent or with other relatives or guardians. Cub Scouting considers a boy's family to be the people with whom he lives.

Family Activities

As a program for the entire family, Cub Scouting can help families teach their children a wholesome system of values and beliefs while building and strengthening relationships among family members.

Your Role as a Parent/Adult Guide

Cub Scouting helps parents and sons grow closer, and your involvement as a parent of a Cub Scout is vital.

Becoming a Leader

Volunteer leaders support Cub Scouting by serving in many roles, and often find great satisfaction in lending their support to youth and the community. The BSA Family Award

The BSA Family Award program offers activities to help strengthen all families—whether two-parent, single-parent, or nontraditional.


Cub Scouting's 12 Core Values

    1. Citizenship: Contributing service and showing responsibility to local, state, and national communities.

    2. Compassion: Being kind and considerate, and showing concern for the well-being of others.

    3. Cooperation: Being helpful and working together with others toward a common goal.

    4. Courage: Being brave and doing what is right regardless of our fears, the difficulties, or the consequences.

    5. Faith: Having inner strength and confidence based on our trust in God.

    6. Health and Fitness: Being personally committed to keeping our minds and bodies clean and fit.

    7. Honesty: Telling the truth and being worthy of trust.

    8. Perseverance: Sticking with something and not giving up, even if it is difficult.

    9. Positive Attitude: Being cheerful and setting our minds to look for and find the best in all situations.

    10. Resourcefulness: Using human and other resources to their fullest.

    11. Respect: Showing regard for the worth of something or someone.

    12. Responsibility: Fulfilling our duty to God, country, other people, and ourselves.


    What is Cub Scouting?

    If you are a boy in first grade through fifth grade—or you're 7 to 10 years old—then Cub Scouting is for you. It's for your family, too. This is the first and the biggest of the three Scouting programs (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing) from the Boy Scouts of America.


    Cub Scouts Belong to Pack and Den

    Every Cub Scout is a member of a Cub Scout pack. A pack is a large group of boys.

    The pack is divided into smaller groups called dens. Each den has about six to eight boys. All of the Cub Scouts in a den are about the same age and live in the same neighborhood.

    The Cub Scout pack belongs to a church, a school, or some other group of people in your community or neighborhood. This group makes sure your pack has good adult leaders, a place to meet, and exciting things to do. The group gets help from the Boy Scouts of America, which is part of Scouting around the world.

    Cub Scouts Do Things and Go Places

    Cub Scouting means "doing." You have lots to do as a Cub Scout—crafts, games, sports, songs, stories, and puzzles, to name a few things. Much of the fun happens right in the den and pack. The den usually meets every week, and the pack meets once a month all year long. At den meetings and pack meetings, Cub Scouts do different things for fun and learning.

    Cub Scouts also go to events like the annual blue and gold banquet, field contests, and derbies such as the pinewood derby. They go on field trips. They go camping and have other kinds of outdoor adventures. They take part in community events. Cub Scouts do all sorts of exciting stuff! Whatever it is that you enjoy, you'll have a chance to do it in Cub Scouting.

    Cub Scouts Earn Awards

    While you're having fun, you'll also be earning badges and awards. You'll work on projects with your parents or other adults in your family, and all of you will feel good about the things you accomplish. When you have earned a badge, you and an adult member of your family take part in a ceremony. The badge is given to the adult, and he or she then gives it to you in front of the whole pack. This is a way of saying "thank you" to your family for their help in earning your award.

    The most popular awards for Cub Scouts are the advancement awards. Boys do requirements to advance and earn their badges of rank: Tiger Cub, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and the Arrow of Light Award. The Arrow of Light is the highest award in Cub Scouting. Webelos Scouts also earn activity badges.

    The Cub Scout Academics and Sports program is popular, too. Cub Scouts get to learn about favorite subjects such as art, math, science, and citizenship. Or they play individual and team sports such as archery, gymnastics, skating, or soccer. You don't need to be a star athlete to play Cub Scout Sports. You're a winner when you do your best.

    Cub Scouts can earn many other awards and medals too, sometimes by themselves and sometimes as members of their pack. They can earn or help their pack earn Quality Unit awards, religious emblems, the Emergency Preparedness Award, the Outdoor Activity Award, or the World Conservation Award.

    When you earn an award in Cub Scouting, you learn new skills. You also get to use your new skills and your new knowledge in projects and demonstrations. You show what you know. People get to see what you've learned as a Cub Scout.

    Cub Scouting Has a Purpose

    There is a reason for everything boys do in Cub Scouting. Apart from the fun and excitement, the aim of Cub Scouting is to help boys grow into good citizens who are strong in character and personally fit. This is why we say that Cub Scouting is fun with a purpose.


    Things Cub Scouts Do

    Some of the best things about Cub Scouting are the activities you get to do: camping, hiking, racing model cars, going on field trips, or doing projects that help your hometown and the people who live there. Cub Scouting means "doing."

    Blue and Gold Banquets

    In February, when Scouting celebrates its "birthday," packs across the country hold blue and gold banquets. In nearly all packs, the banquet is a very special event.

    Cub Scout Hiking & Camping

    Learn to live in the outdoors. Camping takes you on exciting adventures into the natural world.

    Cub Scout Derbies

    Racing in a Cub Scout derby is great fun. You'll get to design your racing vehicle, work with a parent to build it, and see it perform on race day!

    Outings and Field Trips

    "Outings" are a big part of Scouting. Cub Scouts get out and about with many kinds of outdoor fun, such as field trips, hikes, nature and conservation.

    Service Projects

    Doing service projects together is one way that Cub Scouts keep their promise "to help other people." While a Scout should do his best to help other.


 
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