2025 PACK EVENT DATES AT A GLANCE
Sunday, January 19, 2025 - Hospitality Sunday https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084DAEA822ABFBC16-54360816-hospitality
Friday, January 24, 2025 - Raingutter Regatta
Sunday, February 23, 2025 - Blue and Gold Dinner
Friday, April 4, 2025 - Pinewood Derby
Friday, May 2, 2025 - Pack Meeting
Friday, June 6, 2025* - Advancement Ceremony. *Date subject to change
Sunday, July 27 - Wednesday July 30, 2025 - Cub Scout Camp at Owasippe
JANUARY EVENTS
HOSPITALITY SUNDAY (Sunday, January 19, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.)
A Scout is Helpful. Every year our Pack is asked to help out at the January Hospitality Sunday at St. Edward Church. For those that don't know, Hospitality Sunday is where, after each of the masses, parishioners are invited to the church basement to enjoy food and congregate.
This year, we are hosting the event along with the St. Edward Green Team. You can learn more about the Green Team here: Green Team - St. Edward - Chicago, IL
Our Pack will be running the cereal bar. We need volunteers to bring different cereals, milk, and fruit, and volunteers to spend time at the event. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084DAEA822ABFBC16-54360816-hospitality
We have slots for 10 different types of cereal, 5 gallons of milk, and 8 types of fruit (ok if multiple people bring the same type of fruit, but I'd like to have a variety of at least strawberries, blueberries, and bananas).
If you are volunteering your time, please sign up your scout for a 1hr and 15 minute time slot.
The Pack will be supplying biodegradable bowls and spoons.
JANUARY PACK NIGHT - RAINGUTTER REGATTA (Friday, January 24, 2025, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.)
The Raingutter Regatta is probably our second biggest event of the year behind the Pinewood Derby. Each scout gets to build and decorate their own Regatta and race it on water against other scouts. If you did not yet receive a Regatta kit, please email your den leader and cc me on the email.
Scouts will be divided up by age and will race against scouts in their age groups. Lions, Tigers, and Wolves will be in one group and Bears, Webelos, and AOL will be in the other group.
FUTURE EVENTS
BLUE AND GOLD BANQUET (Sunday, February 23, 2025, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.)
Our annual Blue and Gold Banquet, which is a celebration of scouting's anniversary, will be held on Sunday, February 23, 2025. This is a potluck lunch and is usually where the Arrow of Light scouts "cross over" into the Scouts BSA Troop.
PINEWOOD DERBY (Friday, April 4, 2025, 7:00 to 9:00)
Cub Scouts' biggest and most famous event. Kits will be handed out starting at the B&G dinner.
We usually hold this event in March, but because of the timing of Spring Break, we will be pushing into the first week of April
MAY PACK MEETING (Friday, May 2, 2025 7:00 to 9:00)
Our last Pack Meeting before the advancement ceremony. The last couple of years we did a Home Depot build, so we may do that or have another craft or build for the scouts to do.
ADVANCEMENT CEREMONY (Friday, June 6, 2025*)
Our final pack night of the year. This one is held outdoors. We hand out rank advancements and celebrate with S'mores. *The date is subject to change, depending on availability of scouts at that time.
CUB SCOUT CAMP AT OWASIPPE (Sunday, July 27 - Wednesday July 30, 2025)
This is an amazing opportunity for scouts to take what they've learned throughout the year and put it into use on a 3 night campout at historic Owasippe Scout Camp in Wisconsin. Our Pack went the last two years and everyone had such a great time. This is available for any members of the Pack this year from Lion Scouts up to Webelos. The AOL scouts will be crossing over into Scouts BSA and will go to camp with our affiliate Troop 904. More information to come, but if you'd like to look into it right now, please check out these links:
https://pathwaytoadventure.org/cubscoutresidentcamp/
https://scoutingevent.com/456-92314
PACK WEBSITE
Pack 3904 has a website thanks to Assistant Cubmaster, Kurt Paradis! Please check it out here: Pack 3904 - Chicago IL
PACK MEETING CALENDAR
Please subscribe to the Pack 3904 Google Calendar to stay updated on all upcoming meetings and scout events for the year. All the den leaders will have permission to modify this calendar so they can add Den Meetings and any other outings to it. There are two ways to subscribe to the calendar:
If you have gmail, just click this link and it will take you to your gmail calendar and will ask if you want to add this one: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=c3QuZWRzLnBhY2suMzkwNEBnbWFpbC5jb20
If you do not have gmail, you need to open your e-calendar and choose “add calendar.” You then need to choose the option that says “subscribe from web” or “follow calendar” or something of that nature. Then paste this link there and click “import” or “add” or “save”: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/st.eds.pack.3904%40gmail.com/private-e66d948a8c1975af83bdfdc5c6f36c6c/basic.ics
FACEBOOK PAGE
Here is our Pack 3904 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cubscoutden3904/
If you have Facebook, please join the group.
SURVEY
Please fill out this brief survey to let us know if you prefer having Pack nights on Friday nights and share any feedback (good or bad) with us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtTcns80qghXInx6xl3C4PRmlYodQU2OfkZNBKTodqQdQR4g/viewform