If you want to earn a pizza party for your den, then come on out to the Raingutter Regatta on Saturday, June 2. Provided your den meets the guidelines, the den with the best overall ranking will win a summer time pizza party!!! Pizza & Juice will be brought to your den meeting by one of the Cubmasters!!!
Cubs, Siblings, Parents, and Leaders are encouraged to bring recyclables materials to race in in our Recycle Regatta. The same boat can be used by multiple people, but in true cub scout spirt, each member should try to bring their own boat!
A Cubmaster Challenge was issued with the following criteria:
Dens must have at least %60 participation to qualify for the pizza party
1 den leader must participate along with their den
3 additional den members (siblings, parents) must also race
Join us on Saturday, June 2 for the Pack Jamboree at Claude Moore Park! There will be many events offered throughout the day! Loudon County is having there National Trail Day from 8am - 1pm. During this event there will be vendors, food, and the chance to walk the trails as a family.
For the fishermen in our pack, bring your Fishing poles and participate in the Claude Moore Fishing Derby.
Pack Events will start up at 3pm and run through 7:45pm with our end of year campfire.
3:00pm - Opening Ceremonies
3:15pm - 3:45pm - 1st Session
3:45pm - 4:15pm - 2nd Session
4:15pm - 4:45pm - 3rd Session
4:45pm - 5:15pm - 4th Session
5:30- 6:00pm - Supper\Dessert Station
6:00pm - 7:00pm - Pop Bottle Rockets\Raingutter Regatta Races
7:00pm - Flag Ceremony
7:15pm - 7:45pm - End of Year Campfire
What’s a recycle regatta? It’s the sailing equivalent of the pinewood derby—except boys make their boats from recycled materials instead of wood kits!
Pack 1666’s Recycle Rain Gutter Regatta will be held on June 2nd during the end of year Jamboree.
Den Families need to bring all items to build boats for every member of the den. (Parents & Siblings are also included.)
The following is a list of the best materials to use:
Hulls: juice boxes, slabs of foam insulation, 8-ounce water bottles, 20-ounce soda bottles, Capri Sun pouches, Popsicle sticks (to create a raft design)
Masts: straws, skewers, small dowels, pencils
Sails: construction paper, index cards, cut-up cereal boxes, small chip bags, Capri Sun pouches
So start collecting and remember to be creative so we can have a fun and exciting Recycle Rain Gutter Regatta!
Troop 1666 will also be hosting a Pop Bottle Rocket Launch. Each person who wants to launch a rocket will need to bring a 2 liter pop bottle. Each den is responsible for collecting enough 2 liter bottles for their den and the materials needed to decorate the rockets!
We are saddened to learn of the death of one of our valuable members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing created a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. For many years, someone did far more than a normal person’s work.
Whenever they needed a chairperson, people looked to this wonderful person for inspiration as well as results: “Someone Else can work on that committee.” Whenever there was a job to do or a meeting to attend, one name was on everybody’s list: “Let Someone Else do it.”
It was common knowledge that Someone Else was among our hardest working members. Whenever there was a need, everyone just assumed that Someone Else would do it. Someone Else was a wonderful person-often appearing superhuman-but a person can only do so much.
Were the truth to be know, everybody expected too much of Someone Else. Now, Someone Else is gone. We wonder what we are going to do? Someone Else left a wonderful legacy to follow, but who is going to follow it? We can’t depend on Someone Else.
With all the events the pack committee has planned for this year we need help in the planning and organization and running of the group. Not to mention that many of the existing parents who volunteer their time as Cubmaster, or Assistant Cubmasters are preparing to depart the unit as their boys are all Webelos. In addition, we need support within the Committee in simple jobs such as taking meeting minutes, running once a month to the scout store, and other jobs that often go unseen by many, but are very important to the successful running of the troop.
Den Leaders - please invite the Cubmasters and/or Assistant Cubmasters to your next meetings so we can come and talk with your family members.
There are some great courses that will be available to us. Covering a wide range of topics for each of our leaders. Please llok at this and consider what would be good for you. Remember the Pack is going through a bit of a change over the next year, and we will need more leaders to take these courses.
Here are potentially 2 of the biggest as some of the other leaders are moving on in the next year. I have also attached the full list for anyone that is interested. Remember in the end the training is for our youth, to ensure a safe and realiable program that will engage them to stay.
For those of you who could not attend our Summer Camp Parents meeting, I'm attaching the information below. I hope you find some camping experience to participate in this summer.
Pack Events will start up at 3pm and run through 7:45pm with our end of year campfire. 
Troop 1666 will also be hosting a Pop Bottle Rocket Launch. Each person who wants to launch a rocket will need to bring a 2 liter pop bottle. Each den is responsible for collecting enough 2 liter bottles for their den and the materials needed to decorate the rockets!