Camp Josepho Cub Parent Weekend

Cub Parent Weekend

October 20-22 2017

At Cub Parent Weekend at Camp Josepho, we create two opportunities for parents to teach the values of the Cub Scout program, and for Cub Scouts to learn more about their parent’s values and believes, all while sharing in outdoor activities and memories that will last a lifetime. We have noticed that dedicating time to your child one-on-one brings the best out of parent and child.

Registration

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All registered Cub Scouts can attend. Cub Scouts must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. This is a one-on-one weekend that provides a unique and special bonding experience between a Cub Scout and a parent or legal guardian. 


Fun-filled Activities! All registered Cub Scouts can attend. Cub Scouts must be accompanied by a parent(s) or legal guardian(s). Siblings and other family members can only attend the Family Camp Weekend at Camp Whitsett and Camp Emerald Bay. Each season has a different program with different crafts and events. Common to all seasons are the B.B.’s and archery events, which are a favorite among the boys. Boys participating in these events can earn the B.B.’s and archery belt loops, only available through programs such as this.

Activities Include:

• Program Activities 
• Campfire Programs
• Disco Dance Party
• Assorted Crafts
• Archery
• B.B. Shooting
• Cooking
• Field Sports
• Much, much more!

Cool 4-segment Patch!

This cool four-segment patch is earned by attending all three seasons!

• Cub-Parent Weekends Section: You earn this for attending any session.
• Spring Fling Section: You earn this for attending any spring season Cub/Parent Weekend at Camp Josepho.
• Autumn Event Section: You earn this for attending any fall season Cub/Parent Weekend at Camp Josepho.
• Summer Sizzle: You can earn this section for attending Family Camp at Camp Whitsett.

Easy Camping!

This is an easy way to do camping. All you bring is your tent, sleeping bag and toiletries. All of your food is provided at the Lodge!

Complete Camping Experience for One Low Price!

The weekend includes all food from Saturday breakfast to Sunday breakfast, all craft supplies, patch and camping fees. T-shirts are available for pre-order on the registration page.

Weekend Camping Fees

• Cost is $110 for one Cub and one adult together.
• NO REFUNDS

Details

• Deadline for registration is the Friday one week before camp starts, or 300 people.
• Register early to secure a space.
• Family Camp opportunities are available at Camp Emerald Bay and Camp Whitsett.

Required Forms

• Medical Form – Annual Health and Medical Record Form is Required for All Campers (Youth& Adult). If you filled this out for our Pack's Fall Camp out, I can provide you with the medical forms so you don't have to fill them out again.  
• Cub Parent Release – Firearm, Josepho Road, and Photo Releases – one per family.

For additional information contact the Camping Department at (818)933-0130/camping@bsa-la.org or Sunday Moore at cubparentcamp@yahoo.com.  

PARENTS WANTED!!!  PLEASE ATTEND TUESDAY'S COMMITTEE MEETING TO HELP THE PACK MAKE PLANS AND DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR SON'S SCOUT ACTIVITIES.

 

This meeting will focus on the following topics:

1. Fall Camp Out review. talk about what worked and what didn't work for our latest campout
2. Upcoming events.  We have camp Josepho, The Santa Monica Mountain Clean up, Police Station Tour, and Zoo Camp out to discus and plan.

This meeting is on Tuesday September 26th,  at 6:30 pm at the West Valley Christian Church in the Connecting place (the big room where we have pack meetings).A Cub Scout pack committee is essentially the board of directors for a Cub Scout pack. This committee is a group of at least three people who assist with supervision and management of a the unit. They provide resources and support to the Cubmaster and Den Leaders so they can provide the program in accordance with Boy Scout policies and regulations.

We invite all Interested Scout parents who would like to take a more active role in the activities of our pack to attend these meetings, where typically the Pack Chairperson, cubmaster, and den leaders attend. This is were we plan and formulate our events and calendar for the year. We also discuss new directions and programs to integrate into the existing program. These meetings are held at least quarterly or monthly depending upon upcoming events.

Fall Community Service

This fall we are going to head out to the Santa Monica Mountains and help with the Potrero Creek Restoration on October 14th, from 9:00 am - Noon.

Please Join Pack 777 and the Mountains Restoration Trust to help maintain our restoration site on National Park Service land in Newbury Park. You’ll be helping to maintain the land by removing invasive plants, mulching, and watering. We are working to return this critical habitat back to the oak woodland it once was after years of ranching and farming. The natives you will be maintaining include Coast Live Oak, Valley Oak, Western Sycamore, and supporting vegetation in a riparian flood plain, alongside Potrero Creek.

We have a couple of special awards that require a service project or a conservation project.  This event will satisfy either of the following special awards service requirements. 

• Since it is a project in a national park, it can be used towards a special National Park Service/Boy Scouts of America award, Scout Ranger.  To become a Scout Ranger, they require one service project in a park as well as some additional park ranger classes.    

• We also have a world conservation award that this project could be used towards.  

Please visit our signup genius to sign up.  

Solar Eclipse Patch

A total solar eclipse is a rare event. A total solar eclipse whose path crosses right over the heart of the United States? Even rarer.

On Aug. 21, 2017, the solar system serves up a special treat. Aug. 21 is a Monday, but those Scouts and Venturers who are still on summer break should plan a big celebration. Like all the best celebrations, this one comes with its own patch.

THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OVER THE UNITED STATES UNTIL 2024. AFTER THAT, YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL 2045. IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN AUG. 21 ARRIVES, MAKE SURE YOU’RE READY.

How to earn the BSA 2017 Solar Eclipse patch

1. Locate a site suitable for viewing the eclipse. Search Google for “eclipse viewing” and the name of your city or town to find events near you.
   • See the exact path and precise timings at this NASA site.
2. Describe how to safely view the eclipse. (Completed at the August Pack Meeting)
   • Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look directly at these tips from NASA on how to view the eclipse safely.
3. Discuss with your group what you saw and felt during the eclipse.
   • Post your comments and eclipse photos on social media using the hashtag #BSAEclipse2017.
4. Do the following: (Completed at the August Pack Meeting)
   • Discuss what a solar eclipse is with your leaders.
5. Ask your unit leader to buy the 2017 Solar Eclipse patch.
• It can be ordered through your local council service center.

When Day turns into Night

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse will be visible (weather permitting) across all of North America. The whole continent will experience a partial eclipse lasting 2 to 3 hours. Halfway through the event, anyone within a roughly 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina will experience a brief total eclipse, when the moon completely blocks the sun’s bright face for up to 2 minutes 40 seconds, turning day into night and making visible the otherwise hidden solar corona — the sun’s outer atmosphere — one of nature’s most awesome sights. Bright stars and planets will become visible as well.

Only View with Proper Eye Protection

During an eclipse, eye safety is very important.  The Sun can be viewed safely with the naked eye only during the few brief seconds or minutes of a total solar eclipse. Partial eclipses, annular eclipses, and the partial phases of total eclipses are never safe to watch without taking special precautions. Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining crescent is intensely bright and cannot be viewed safely without eye protection.   

Avoid Eye Damage

Looking directly at the Sun (the bright disk of the Sun itself), even for just a few seconds, can cause permanent damage to the retina of the eye, because of the intense visible and invisible radiation that the sun emits. This damage can result in impairment of vision, up to and including blindness. The retina has no sensitivity to pain, and the effects of retinal damage may not appear for hours, so there is no warning that injury is occurring.

Irreversible Eye Damage within a Fraction of a Second

Under normal conditions, the Sun is so bright that it is difficult to stare at it directly. However, during an eclipse, with so much of the Sun covered, it is easier and more tempting to stare at it. Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is as dangerous as looking at it outside an eclipse, except during the brief period of totality, when the Sun's disk is completely covered (totality occurs only during a total eclipse and only very briefly; it does not occur during a partial or annular eclipse). Viewing the Sun's disk through any kind of optical aid (binoculars, a telescope, or even an optical camera viewfinder) is extremely hazardous and can cause irreversible eye damage within a fraction of a second

Annual Planning Meeting

ALL HANDS ON DECK!  LEADERS AND PARENTS WANTED!!!  PLEASE ATTEND OUR ANNUAL PLANNING MEETING TO HELP THE PACK MAKE PLANS AND DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR SON'S NEXT YEAR OF SCOUT ACTIVITIES.

The Pack Committee helps ensure that our Cub Scouts are offered fun-filled and meaningful events through the year. 

Parents please attend and help enrich and strengthen our Pack. Topics include upcoming pack meeting plans, pack leadership roles,  and upcoming large-scale activities.  The committee meets every month but this one is the MACK DADDY OF THEM ALL -- our annual planning meeting!  

We have a few leadership roles we need to have filled and just by coming to these meetings -- you could help the Pack tremendously!  You can RSVP on Scoutbook or just show up!  The meeting agenda link will be posted in the Comments field below the event on the ScoutBook calendar.  We ask that you please print your own (no wasted paper).

The meeting is at 6:30 pm at the West Valley Christian Church on Tuesday, May 23.   (They usually start at 7, but since this one tends to run a little long, we are starting at 6:30pm) We will be finalizing the calendar for the 2017-2018 Pack year, reviewing the dues structure, budget, setting dates for the entire calendar, as well as finalizing summer activities.  Please come join us!

Blue & Gold Banquet

Our end of the year Blue and Gold banquet is coming up on May 9th (the next pack meeting). At our Blue and Gold, we celebrate the birth of Scouting in America, as well as celebrate our scouts achievements with our end of the year awards and bridging. When scouts bridge they move on to the next rank and for those boys who are second year webelos, they bridge all the way over to the boy scout troop. 

Dinner will be provided and served by the Boy Scouts this year. We will have a potluck dessert, so please bring a tasty treat to share with the group. 

Everyone is welcome, Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, Cousins, Friends, Neighbors...

Below is the link to the evite so you can sign up and let us know how many people to expect. The Boy Scouts need a head count ASAP so they can start planing and purchasing food. 

https://www.evite.com/event/016APHVMJ6XDGMIY6EPHFIOHEFGJGA/activity

Class B T-Shirt Sign Up

Class B T-Shirt Orders

The voting is complete and the winner for this year's class B t-shirt design is.....

Please use this online ordering form to order your t-shirts.  We will also have a sign-up sheet at the May Den meeting and the Blue and Gold Banquet (May's Pack meeting).

Online T-Shirt Order Form

The shirt cost will vary depending on how many orders we receive. Below is the price breakdown based the the quantity we order.

Number of Shirts	Cost per shirt
10-19	$16.91
20-29	$11.72
30-39	$10.23
40+	$8.97