Boy have we gotten a lot of snow this year. All this snow presents a good opportunity for all of us to be good neighbors and help out where we can. If you see a neighbor needing help (especially some of our elderly neighbors that are less capable of helping themselves) - please show the scout spirit and offer to help out. A big thank you to the Tredway's for arranging the Tour of Nationwide Arena. Our tour guide had lots of interesting little known facts about the arena. Planning is underway for the Spring Campout at Camp Willson and the Blue and Gold Banquet. We already have our leaders for both but help is always appreciated. If you are willing to help please talk to your den leaders to see how you can chip in.

Thanks to all the scouts and parents that turned out for carolling at Arlington Court Nursing Home. As a scouting organization I feel we owe this to our communities to perform these types of community service events - plus [who knows] maybe we'll find a future "American Idol" in the process. Thank you to Mr. Boyer for his musical accompaniment.

Once again our thanks to all the scouts and scout parents that worked hard at selling popcorn and contributed to our fund-raising. For the second year in a row - PACK 17 lead all Buckeye District units (Packs and Troops) in sales. Give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. This year, we still had scouts that fell short of the individual sales goal or had no sales at all. For those scouts - please think of ways to improve your sales strategy for next year and let's make a better attempt next year. Thank you.

The entire Pack 17 Leadership group thanks the effort put forth by the scouts and the scout parents during this year's popcorn sale fund-raiser. The hard work will ensure we can fund exciting and interesting events for the pack. Now with the hard work behind us - we get to jump right into one of the most exciting parts of the scouting year - the Pinewood Derby Event. November's Pack meeting will highlight the Pinewood Derby with a recap from last year PLUS instruction / demonstration and need to know information for this years race.

The months of Sept / Oct are typically the start of our scouting year and the time we get to know our new scouts and kick off of activities. We did so much together over the summer that I doubted we could make a big splash to start things off. I couldn't have been more wrong!

Pack 17's scouting summer activities are wrapping up and what a summer it was. In August we had a great rocket day event and second of two Summer surprises - ice cream party at Miller Park.