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(Pottsville, Pennsylvania)
 
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Scouting as a family!





Every parent understands the value of spending personal time with his or her children. Yet in our demanding,fast-paced society, we often find ourselves looking back at missed opportunities.

More than any other youth program available today, Cub Scouting supports parent and son relationships in ways that result in memories of time well spent together.

The Cub Scout program is uniquely designed to meet the needs of young boys and their parents. Cub Scouting meets these needs through offering fun and challenging experiences that boys and parents do together.  Such experiences range from learning how to cook, swim,properly care for animals, or use hand tools to complete small projects.

These experiences are truly time well spent. If such interactions are not made to be priorities, valuable avenues for a parent to demonstrate love and commitment are lost. A father says, “Scouting gives my son and me a lot of time to talk and share stories about my childhood.” Young boys recognize that the priorities of parents are expressed in how parents spend their time.

Perhaps as important, Cub Scouts learn skills in an environment that includes other boys their age. The boys work together, play together, challenge one another, and encourage one another.

Benefits like these cause one Cub Scout mother to summarize Cub Scouting this way: “Scouting helps build self-esteem. It teaches boys about respect for themselves, their community and each other.”

While every parent wants his or her son to have fun experiences in their childhood, fun alone is not enough.  Young boys need safe environments and activities that promote strong values and character.

Who We Are


    


Pack 615 is based in Pottsville, PA and is chartered by the Church of St.Patrick.                                                                        
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:00pm-8:00pm at the new Scout Lodge at Calvary Cemetery, 885 Cressona road Pottsville Pa. 

What Is Cub Scouting



Cub Scout Program Facts

What is Cub Scouting?

In 1930 the Boy Scouts of America launched a home- and neighborhood-centered program for boys 9 to 11 years of age. A key element of the program is an emphasis on caring, nurturing relationships between boys and their parents, adult leaders, and friends. Currently, Cub Scouting is the largest of the BSA's three membership divisions. (The others are Boy Scouting and Venturing.)

The Purposes of Cub Scouting

Cub Scouting has nine purposes: to

  • Positively influence character development and encourage spiritual growth
  • Help boys develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship
  • Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body
  • Improve understanding within the family
  • Strengthen boys' ability to get along with other boys and respect other people
  • Foster a sense of personal achievement by helping boys develop new interests and skills
  • Show how to be helpful and do one's best
  • Provide fun and exciting new things to do
  • Prepare boys to become Boy Scouts

Membership

Cub Scouting has program components for boys in Kindergarten through fifth grades (or ages 5,6,7, 8, 9, or 10). Members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys.Kindergarten(Lion cubs) First-grade boys (Tiger Cubs), Wolf Cub Scouts (second graders), Bear Cub Scouts (third graders), and Webelos Scouts (fourth and fifth graders) we all meet weekly.

Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. The committee includes parents of boys in the pack and members of the chartered organization.

Volunteer Leadership

Thousands of volunteer leaders, both men and women, are involved in the Cub Scout program. They serve in a variety of positions, as everything from unit leaders to pack committee chairmen, committee members, den leader coaches, and chartered organization representatives.

Like other phases of the Scouting program, Cub Scouting is made available to groups having similar interests and goals, including professional organizations, government bodies, and religious, educational, civic, fraternal, business, labor, and citizens' groups. These "sponsors" are called chartered organizations. Each organization appoints one of its members as a chartered organization representative. The organization, through the pack committee, is responsible for providing leadership, the meeting place, and support materials for pack activities.

Who Pays for It?

Groups responsible for supporting Cub Scouting are the boys and their parents, the pack, the chartered organization, and the community. The boy is encouraged to pay his own way by contributing dues each week. Packs also obtain income by working on approved money-earning projects. The community, including parents, supports Cub Scouting through the United Way, Friends of Scouting enrollment, bequests, and special contributions to the BSA local council. This financial support provides leadership training, outdoor programs, council service centers and other facilities, and professional service for units.

Advancement Plan

Recognition is important to young boys. The Cub Scout advancement plan provides fun for the boys, gives them a sense of personal achievement as they earn badges, and strengthens family understanding as adult family members work with boys on advancement projects.

Activities

Cub Scouting means "doing." Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting - citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness.

Many of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the weekly den meetings and the monthly pack meetings.

Cub Scout Sports and Academics

The Cub Scout Sports and Academics program provides the opportunity for boys to learn new techniques, develop sportsmanship, increase scholarship skills, and have fun. Participation in the program allows boys to be recognized for physical fitness and talent-building activities.

Camping

Age-appropriate camping programs are packed with theme-oriented action that brings Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts into the world of imagination. Day camping comes to the boy in neighborhoods across the country; resident camping is at least a three-day experience in which Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts camp within a developed theme of adventure and excitement. "Cub Scout Worlds" are used by many councils to carry the world of imagination into reality with actual theme structures of castles, forts, ships, etc. Cub Scout pack members enjoy camping in local council camps and council-approved national, state, county, or city parks. Camping programs combine fun and excitement with doing one's best, getting along with others, and developing an appreciation for ecology and the world of the outdoors.

Publications

Volunteers are informed of national news and events through Scouting magazine (circulation 900,000). Boys may subscribe to Boys' Life magazine (circulation 1.3 million). Both are published by the Boy Scouts of America. Also available are a number of Cub Scout and leader publications, including the Wolf Cub Scout Book, Bear Cub Scout Book, Webelos Scout Book, Cub Scout Leader Book, Cub Scout Program Helps, and Webelos Leader Guide.

Learn More...

To learn more about Cub Scouting, or to find out how to start, join, or support a pack, contact the Council Service Center or the local unit in your area.

Hawk Mountain Council



About the Hawk Mountain Council and Black Rock District

The Hawk Mountain Council is chartered by the Boy Scouts of America to serve Berks County, Schuylkill County, and part of Carbon County [Panther Valley School District] from the Beaver Family Service Center at 5027 Pottsville Pike, Reading, PA 19605, and serves nearly 6,000 youth members and over 4,000 adult leaders.

The Council is divided into 4 districts, each served by a District Executive, District Committee, and District Commissioner staff. To find out in which district you are located visit our District page.

Hawk Mountain Council maintains a year around camp, Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation, 700 acres of forest, lake and streams, dedicated to offering Scouts the chance to experience the beauty of the out-of-doors. These facilities are for use by Scouts and Scouters from the Hawk Mountain Council and visiting units from outside our Council. Non-Scouting groups are also welcome to utilize our facilities.

In addition to year-round camping, the camp is the center for training adult leaders in the programs of Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing and Commissioner Service.


The History of Hawk Mountain Council

Hawk Mountain Council came into being in 1970, the result of the merger of the Daniel Boone Council (serving Berks County) and the Appalachian Trails Council (Serving Schuylkill and parts of Carbon County). The merger also encompassed two Order of the Arrow Lodges, Minsi Lodge 5 in Daniel Boone Council, and Memeu Lodge 125 in Appalachian Trails Council. When the two lodges merged in 1971, they kept the lower lodge number (as was customary then) and took on a new name, Kittatinny Lodge 5.

Previous to the merger, the Daniel Boone Council operated Camp Shikellamy on the south side of Blue Mountain and the Appalachian Trails Council operated Blue Mountain Camp on the north side. For two years after the merger, long-term camping was conducted at both locations. After that, to cut costs, all long-term camping was moved to Camp Shikellamy, but the council retained both properties. By 1977, Camp Shikellamy was closed and sold. All long-term camping moved back to Blue Mountain Camp, which was renamed and became the present day Hawk Mountain Scout Reservationn


Black Rock District

The Black Rock District serves Scouting units in the following school districts in Schuylkill and Carbon Counties: Blue Mountain, Mahanoy Area, Marian Catholic, Minersville Area, Nativity BVM, North Schuylkill, Panther Valley, Pine Grove Area, Pottsville Area, Saint Clair Area, Schuylkill Haven, Shenandoah Valley, Tamaqua Area, Tri-Valley, Williams Valley.

The Black Rock District is named after the black rock that is found in the area, anthracite coal.  Coal mining in the area has been a way of life for many, many years.