Cub Scout Pack 700

Pack 700 is hosting the Quicksilver District in this year’s Annual 4th of July Parade in Morgan Hill.  Any scouts in the Quicksilver District are welcome to come and join us!  Please be in uniform.  And bring your unit and den flags.  We will only have one American flag at the front (We will bring ours).  If your Pack or Troop wishes to participate, please email cubmaster at pack700 dot net.  We do not have our line up details from the parade commitee yet.  As soon as they are emailed to us we will pass along the information.

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Come join Pack 700 in Paradise Park on Sunday, June 7th at 1-4PM for our 1st Annual Water Rocket Derby!  This is an open event.  If you are interested in Cub Scouting for your son in grades 1-6, come by and construct your own water rocket to launch.   And you get to keep the rocket!  While your son is building and launching his rocket, you can speak with one of our leaders about Cub Scouting.

We have the launch pads, rocket bodies, pre-cut fins, nose cones, packing tape, launch control system, and water supply.  You supply an empty 16-20oz plastic soda bottle. Regular bottled water bottles are too thin and will burst, so they are not allowed.

Pack 700 is currently recruiting Tigers (Entering 1st Grade in the Fall).  We are also always looking for adults that may be interested in starting a den at the other ranks too. (Bear, Wolf, and Webelos)  All of our other ranks are full at this time.  If you would like to come check us out or talk to someone in our leadership about starting a Den at one of the other grade levels (2-6) we would love to speak with you!

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Pack 700 participated in the Santa Clara County Council Scout-O-Rama held in History Park in San Jose. Our popular marshmellow shooter booth was back and busy as ever! A huge thank you to all the volunteers that came to take a turn at running the booth. The whole event was well attended again this year. A sample of activities: BB guns, archery, hatchet throwing, snake handling (including a 65lb. python), rope bridges, water rockets, and a good old fashioned game of marbles!

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42 scouts from all over the Quicksilver district showed up ready to race at the LDS church on Bernal this past Saturday.  Pack 700 provided the track, timing grear, and crew to run the district races this year.  With the awesome help of Debi and Jorge Porras from the Scout Store in San Jose, our Comittee Executive, Alan Young, and our MC, Dave Holstrom, we had a great day of racing.  The Porras’ hand made all the awards!  There were great looking cars, a fast track, Scouts, brothers, sisters, and even some dads, with thier race face on.  There were several racers from Pack 700 and our very own Alex H. took 1st place in the Open Class and Christopher D. took home a 2nd place trophy in the Tiger’s race!  Congratulations!  Want to see the race results?  Here ya go: 2009 Quicksilver District Pinewood Derby Results.  We had so much fun, Pack 700 plans on doing it again next year! - Ray

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Pack 700 will be helping with the Quicksilver District Pinewood Derby this year!  We will be taking our track, timing system, and all our other PWD ”goodies” and head up to the LDS Church on Bernal in San Jose on Saturday March 14.  Registration opens at 9AM.  See the links below for the rules, and a flyer.  Hope to see you all there!

Official Rules —  Race Flyer

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Pack 700 just completed the running of our 2009 Pinewood Derby!  Yeah!  We had our fastest cars ever this year with 4 cars posting sub-2.5 second runs!  We had over 90% participation with 75 cub cars running.  It was an awesome day of racing.  We also had a record 18 cars for our Family race, and 4 entries in our new “Is your car faster than a 5th graders?” Open Class.  There were cars in the shape of a banana, box of crayons, jeep, ipod, TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle), a couple of bat mobiles, and all manner and flavors of race cars.  All the cars looked fantastic!  A huge thank you to all that helped out!

Check out the race results and stats here!

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We held our annual Cub Mobile races this past weekend in the parking lot of Jackson Elementary. As you can see from the photos, we had a great turn out! 9 dens, 9 cub mobiles, and about 50 cubs mixed it up on a perfect Sunday afternoon. We had a couple of spectacular crashes, some amazing pit-crew heroics, and even got to enjoy a tri-tip sandwich. It was a great day of racing. The cars all looked amazing! Although, at the end of the racing, some paint jobs were not quite in the same condition as when they arrived. But you know what they say… rubbing is racing! Big kudos to all the leaders and parents that helped out with the ramp, running the race, the audio and sound effects, hot dogs, sandwiches, and of course, building all those incredible cub mobiles.

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It has been about a month since our last post. The summer has wizzed by this year and most of the cubs are back in school. Pack 700 had a great summer of events:

• The Morgan Hill Aquatic Center
• Cub and Webelos Camp
• 4th of July Parade
• San Jose Giants Game
• Cub Day In The Park
• Pack 700 Family Camp

Here are some images from the Giants Game and Family Camp…

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Pack 700 sponsored the Quicksilver District’s participation in the Morgan Hill 4th of July parade which is presented each year by Morgan Hill, Independance Day, Inc.  We had great participation from Packs all over the area.  This year’s theme was “Rolling to Cubscouting.”  We had an armada of skateboards, scooters, and cub mobiles.  Several of our newest Tiger Scouts joined us for their first official Scouting event.  It was a perfect morning in Morgan Hill for the Parade.  The light breeze provided just enough wind to keep the flags moving and keep us cool.

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What happens when you mix 110 Webelos, 70 parents and scout leaders, and clouds, and clouds of dust and dirt?  You get Camp Chesebrough Webelos Overnight Camp!  Pack 700, as usual, made their presence known with 10 boys and 7 leaders and parents.  We also made some new friends in Pack 780 with 3 of their Webelos who tagged along with us.  It was incredibly boring.  We only did BB guns, archery, rock climbing, built and raced off-road cub mobiles, learned geocaching, found banana slugs, built camp fires, learned about Indian culture, and earned our Readyman and Outdoorsman Webelos Activity badges.

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