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Our Website Has Moved
If you're reading this
notice, you have an out-of-date bookmark.
While we have had the TompkinsCortlandScouts.org domain name for many
years, we never really had a place to put the website. The domain was
actually just an alias for some other website. So, every time you
accessed TompkinsCortlandScouts.org, some other address appeared in your
browser's address bar - mostly, home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/,
which is the space my cable company gave me, but sometimes www.bpmlegal.com,
my office website - and if you bookmarked the site, you wound up
bookmarking the actual address, not TompkinsCortlandScouts.org. Worse,
htva.net only gave me 20MB of storage space, total, so we were very
limited in how much we could post on that site.
Thanks to Mark Travis of Pack 197 and Good News Computing, the
Taughannock District Website now has a real home, and oodles of space to
live in (one "oodle" = several gigabytes). And, thanks to a
suggestion from Oliver Habich of Troop 4, we also have a shorter,
easier-to-type domain - TCScouts.org
- two names, the same website.
What this means to you is:
- Old Bookmarks won't be right:
If you have any bookmarks in your browser for any of the pages in
the Taughannock District Website, they probably point to the actual
site of the old page, not the new site. So, you'll need to...
- Change your Bookmarks: At least in Firefox or IE, that means
right-clicking on the bookmark, click on "Properties" and
change the part of the address which says "home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/"
or "www.bpmlegal.com"
to --www.TCScouts.org-- or --www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org--
(either will work, if you're lazy like me, use the shorter one). The
rest of the address remains the same.
So, "http://home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/announce.htm"
becomes --http://www.TCScouts.org/announce.htm --
- Or, save new bookmarks:
If you don't want to edit your old bookmark, you can always follow
one of these links http://www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org
or http://www.TCScouts.org
, find the page you want, and save a new bookmark.
- The old website will be taken down
after January 1st, and all of the pages will be set to redirect to
the new server. So if you don't update your bookmarks now, now you
can always follow the forwarding link and save a new bookmark later
on.
Click
Here to Access the New Web Site
Yrs.
in Scouting,
Mike Brown
District Commissioner
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Cub Scouting is for boys in the
first through fifth grades, or 7 to 10 years of age. Boys who are older
than 10, or who have completed the fifth grade, can no longer join Cub
Scouting, but they may be eligible to join the Boy Scouting or Venturing
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| Since 1930, the Boy Scouts of America has helped younger boys through Cub Scouting. It is a year-round family program designed for boys who are in the first grade through fifth grade (or 7, 8, 9, and 10 years of age). Parents, leaders, and organizations work together to achieve the purposes of Cub Scouting. |
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Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys.
Dens of Tiger Cubs (first-graders), Wolf Cub Scouts (second-graders), Bear Cub Scouts (third-graders), and Webelos Scouts (fourth- and fifth-graders)
usually meet weekly to do crafts and projects and work on their
advancement through Cub ranks and Academics and Sports belt
loops and pins.
For information on Cub Advancement, see our Advancement
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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.
At Pack meetings, Cubs receive the advancement awards they've
earned since the last meeting, and take part in ceremonies,
activities and games.
The Pinewood Derby is a favorite activity
for Cub Scouts
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Cubs build and race their own Pinewood Derby cars
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Cubs can also build and race boats in the Raingutter Regatta
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| Cub Scouts can attend a variety of camps and weekend events,
usually with an adult partner. There are several Cub Adventure
Weekends each year, in which the Cubs take part in games and
activities on a fun theme. Every summer there are Cub Day Camps
at a number of locations around the District and Council, and
also overnight Resident Camps at Camp Barton on Cayuga Lake and
Camp Tuscarora in Deposit.
See our District Scrapbook page
to see pictures of the fun our Cubs had at Cub Weekends and
Camps over the last few years.
If you are interested in starting a new Pack, Troop or Crew
in your area, please contact the Taughannock District Executive
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For more information on Cub Scouting, see:
www.joincubscouting.org
Cub Leaders - are you using the New Delivery Method
yet? Check out our Training Page for
details.
There's a Cub Pack Near You!
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Packs in Cortland County
and contact information
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Packs in Tompkins County
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City of
Ithaca
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Pack 4 - Robin
Stedinger, 257-8016
robin@clarityconnect.com
Pack meets once a month at 1st Congregational Church, Sat, 4-6 pm
- dens meet weekly or bi-weekly at various locations
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Pack 7 - Chuck
Donovan 607-273-5734
Dunnieboy42@gmail.com
Pack and dens meet different times and locations -
contact pack for information
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Pack 55 -
Ellis Hollow Community Center
Pack meetings: Last Tuesday of each month
- Dawn Thornton, 277-1051 Neiko1999@aol.com
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Pack 67 -
LDS Church
William Elmer - 801-910-4530
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Dryden - Pack 24
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Jim Graney 347-4302
jgraney@twcny.rr.com
VFW, Rt 13, 7 pm, day varies
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Enfield -
Pack 22- Cassie Lovelace 607-272-0163 dlovelace@aol.com
meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at the Enfield Elementary School
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Freeville - Pack 46
Tom Sorensen 898-4773
sorensens@juno.com
Methodist Church, Thu, 6:30 pm
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Groton
- Pack 10 - Gina Bastian 351-5189
Groton
Elementary, Tue, 6:30 pm
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Lansing
– Pack
48 - Glen Dowell 229-5729
gwd39@cornell.edu
All Saint’s Church, last Tue, 6:45 pm
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Newfield - Pack 34
Robert Doner 564-7604 rjdoner192@twcny.rr.com
Baptist Church, Mondays, 6 pm
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Trumansburg - Pack 3
- Mike Organ - (607) 387-4096, mikeorgan1@aol.com
American Legion - contact pack
for pack meeting time.
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