Clermont Pack 20

Father and Son Cake Contest2013

Or other significant male figure and Cub Scout… exceptions always made

  The theme this year is “The Future”

  Each father and scout team will bake a cake WITHOUT the help of the female members of the household!

Use the categories listed below, or just enter your cake and hope for the best

The rules are simple and as follows:

1.    The primary/largest portion of the cake must be cake/brownie/cookie or other home-baked good. You may use a cake mix, or make one from scratch. The primary piece(s) of the cake must be homemade, not purchased.

2.    All decorations or special effects on the cake must be edible. Please watch for choking hazards.      Do not embed hard items like candy inside the cake. Small edible items are OK as long as they are visible.

3.    Absolutely no female or family baking expert may help with the cake. This also includes answering questions. The cake must be baked and decorated by the scout and his male helper (this may be a Father, Grandfather, other relative, family friend, neighbor or mentor… or even the scout by himself!).

4.    The scout team must do all the shopping, preparation, baking and decorating by themselves.

5.    EVERY SCOUT TEAM MUST ALSO CLEAN THE KITCHEN WHEN THEY’RE DONE!

6.  This year there will be 15 cake categories.  Each cake will be judged to determine if the cake meets any of the award categories.  The categories for this year’s competition are show on the following page.

This years cake categories are as follows:

Judge’s Choice

Best Space Ship Cake

Best Cub Scout Theme Cake

Best Future Cake

Best Time Travel Cake

Best use of Technology Cake

Best Use of Decorations Cake

Best Use of Chocolate Cake

Most Extravagant Cake

Prettiest Icing

Longest Cake

Flattest Cake

Simplest Cake

Smallest Cake

Wackiest Cake

Note: PLEASE bring your own servicing utensil clearly marked with your name for serving your cake!

Pig On The Pond is coming up March 8-9, 2013. As you hopefully know already, the pack has a booth at the event this year and we are hoping it will prove to be a new annual fundraiser to cover our awards and scholarship expenses. To that end, we need to ask for help from as many parents as we can to insure it is a great success. Please take a look at the details and let us know if you can help us get it done.

The pack is running a fun carnival game called “Feed The Pig”. It is a simple game where the player uses a toy catapult to launch a ping pong ball into the mouths of three hungry pigs on the back wall. Those that win will receive a coupon for free lemonade. So, the game is easy to explain, run, and maintain. This is a great event for you and your son to work together.

Please see Nathan to sign up to help.

Our next camping trip is this weekend. I am looking forward to a great time enjoying the events and company. If you are joining us for the trip, please make sure you email Nathan of Felix so that we can hold enough space to fit everyone. Also, if you are going and have not signed up for the group meals, you need to do that by this Wednesday. The group meals are not required but include all 5 meals and campfire desserts for just $20.00. You cannot beat that! Hope to see many of you there and have a Happy New Year.

 

Tuesday December 11th is our annual Christmas Party. Make sure you are able to attend this fun evening. Things to know:

• Bring food to share (look for an email from your leader to know what). We are doing a pot luck evening.
• We are starting to stuff stockings about 6:15pm, join us early if you are able.
• The gifts we are stuffing cost just over $450. We are hoping to collect donations from the families to help offset this expense. Please help if you can.
• Santa has sent in his RSVP! He will be there to give each of the boys a Thank You gift for their generous work and will take the stocking with him.
• Finally, we will all enjoy some fun and food as we celebrate this wonderful time of year.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to reach out to Felix, Kevin, or Nathan. See you soon!

Nathan Focht

Pack Committee Chair

Parents,
The parade is nearly here.  The parade staging area is at the Clermont Boat Ramp Area off of Minneola Drive.  The entrance to the boat ramp is located just west of the intersection of Minneola Drive and West Avenue.  We ask that you use the drop off locations noted on the “Light Up Clermont 2012 Drop Off Pick Up 2012.pdf” and have your son on site by 12PM.  Please have your son wear his Class A Uniform.  The parade will start moving at 12:30PM for a start by 1PM.  Our float number is 53 and you can find us by looking for the Rudolf Jeep and a large stack of presents. You will pick up your son in the same place at the boat ramp following the parade.  Parking is available at several locations near the parade route.  We are looking for the following from parents: bags of candy for kids to hand out and parents to walk in the parade to help supervise children and help pass out candy.  If you can help out in anyway please let Nathan, Felix, or Kevin know.

Light Up Clermont 2012 Drop Off Pick Up 2012