Happy Holidays Everyone!

The theme for December is Celebrations Around the World and the Holiday Party and Pack Meeting, on December 17th, will use that theme. Ideas for Den Leaders may be found in Baloo's Bugle and in the Cub Scout Helps booklet (available at the Scout Shop). Den leaders should start planning now for their den presentations and award ceremonies. Class 'B' uniforms (T-shirts) will be distributed, as will the kits for the Pinewood Derby cars!

Every Holiday season, Pack 6 traditionally helps The Comprehensive Community Action Program (CCAP), a private nonprofit community action agency that is one of Rhode Island's largest organizations dedicated solely to helping poverty-stricken families, by obtaining gifts for a family (or two) in need. Tags will be handed out at our upcoming den meetings. Please help by choosing a tag and making a gift for someone in our community. Details will be made available on Monday night, December 3rd. Gifts will be collected at the Holiday Party.

Parents, The Pack 6 leadership team is in the process of creating seminars to communicate what we do and how we do it. Please watch this space for details about what we can do to help you help your sons progress through the scouting program.

The next few weeks look like this:

• December 3: Den Meeting
• December 10: Den Meeting
• December 17: Pack Meeting/Holiday Party
• After that? TBD!

Bob Dosdourian
Cubmaster, Pack 6

Thanks to everyone for coming out for the St. David's Cleanup and the Cookoff. We got a lot done and we had a blast at the cookoff! Great work everyone!

Our next meeting, after the St. David's Cleanup and Cookoff, will be a Pack Meeting on Monday, 26 November at 6:30PM. All dens are asked to prepare skits, songs, and more in the theme of American Indian Heritage Month.

Every fall we give back a little to St. David's for hosting our pack by taking care of their leaves. We will meet at the Church at 9AM on Saturday and rake until we're done. St. David's provides the leaf bags. We bring the rakes, leaf blowers, and anything else we need to get the job done. Then we head over to the Pastor's house (nearby) and take care of her yard as well.

Afterwards at noon, we will meet at the parking lot of Cranston West High School on the north side of Meshanticut Lake and "hike" all of our supplies for our cook-off to the south side of the lake where the firepit is. It's den against den here.

We have updated the Pack Calendar (printable pdf version) as follows:

1. The next Committee Meeting (Den and Pack leaders meeting, all parents are invited as well) is November 14 at 6:30 at St. David's
2. The November 26th Den Meeting has been converted to a Pack Meeting. The theme is Native American Heritage.

The old stone fireplace at Meshanticut Lake has been reduced to a pile of rubble! The leadership team of Pack 6 Cranston is in the process of renovating the old structure because it was in such a bad state. This volunteer program was begun because we traditionally use this area for fishing and for our Den Cookoff the weekend after Thanksgiving. If you have some time to spare this Saturday, November 10th, please consider taking a few minutes to swing by (at noon) and lend us a hand with the cleanup and rebuilding project! The new design will accomodate fires made by small parties and large ones.

This project will help not only the members of Pack 6 Cranston, but the community as a whole! Come and see what it's about! We're just getting started!

Bob Dosdourian
Cubmaster, Pack 6 Cranston

Attention Tigers!

Since there is no Den Meeting on the 12th, it's a great day to squeeze in a Go See It to fulfill the Tiger 1G requirement!!

The Tigers will be meeting at the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Roger Williams Park at 10 AM on November 12th (Monday) for a tour of the museum and to complete a Native American Scavenger hunt!

It should last about an hour. I hope you all can attend!

Please respond via phone or email to Hollie. Her contact information is on the Leaders page and in the email she sent out to everyone.

While we have no official Den Meetings on Monday the 12th due to the Holiday, Cubmaster Bob will be doing a workshop on campfire cooking. This is an excellent way to prepare for our annual cookout at Lake Meshanticut on the 24th!

Hi all. It's your friendly pack webmaster here with some site updates you should know about.

First off, I have created "categories" that all postings on this page go into. This will let you find past site content easier than you previously could. For example, if you want to read one of the Cubmaster's earlier emails to the Pack, you simply look for "Cubmaster's Corner" down in the sidebar on the right and you'll be taken to a page with all of them. If you want to view past issues of the Akela's Corner newsletter, you look for "Akela's Corner (Newsletter)" in the same place. Same goes for events and general pack notices and more.

Second, Pictures are now up! If you have taken any pictures, email them to me at aaffleck [at] gmail [dot] com.

Finally, make sure to check out the Resources section of the site. There's a lot of neat stuff there for Den Leaders and parents. And, as always, remember that the Calendar on this website supersedes any printed calendar you have received. When in doubt, it is the final word.

Thanks everyone!

Andy Affleck
Assistant Cubmaster & Webmaster, Pack 6

On Saturday, 3 November at 9AM, all dens will meet at the pre-determined locations (whatever you agreed to last week, contact your Den Leader if you don't know where) to pick up the donated food in the food bags. Each den will go through the same neighborhood as last week picking up the bags full of food. After retrieving all bags, they should be brought to the Sockanosset Cross Road fire station where Boy Scouts will unload the bags from the car(s). This is one of our big community service events of the year so please make every effort to attend.

UPDATE: Despite the rain, we are still on for Saturday at 9AM. Do not bother with uniforms. Dress your scout for the weather.

To all members of Pack 6, Cranston,

The old stone fireplace at Meshanticut Lake has been reduced to a pile of rubble!

The leadership team of Pack 6 Cranston is in the process of renovating the old structure because it was in such a bad state. This project was begun because we traditionally use this area for fishing and for the Den Cookoff the weekend after Thanksgiving.

If you have some time to spare this (UPDATED) Sunday, November 4th, please consider taking a few minutes to swing by (at noon) and lend us a hand with the cleanup! The old rubble will be discarded and some of the old stones will be separated and used with new ones to build a new structure. The new design will be round, providing access points from sereral directions at once in order to accomodate fires small and large.

This project will help not only the members of Pack 6 Cranston, but the community as a whole! Come and see what it's about! We're just getting started!

Bob Dosdourian
Cubmaster, Pack 6 Cranston